https://twitter.com/HoratioSkald/status/1421258025646632960
not sure BLM is still part of it at all, their 2022 midterm strategy is "we love the cops more than Republicans do"
The collective memory capacity of a dead goldfish
Half (49%) of Americans believe law and order is the most important thing to ensure, even if it means limiting peaceful protests, while 31% feel the right to protest is the most important thing to ensure. In June, in the midst of protests across the country, the American public was evenly split (45% preserve law and order vs. 44% right to protest).
Sixty-nine percent of Americans trust local police and law enforcement to promote justice and equal treatment for people of all races (up from 56%), and 52% feel the same about police unions (up from 40%).
At the same time, trust in Black Lives Matter has dropped 10 percentage points (now at 50%, down from 60%).
Dems chasing voter trends, what else is new
More and more I think polls are just meaningless sophistry meant to provide 'evidence' for a certain worldview. There's no way that 69% of Americans trust the cops; this poll does not reflect reality.
There’s no way that 69% of Americans trust the cops; this poll does not reflect reality.
This reeks of cope
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-dems-are-turning-defund-police-mantra-against-gop-n1272882
Yeah they're trying to say republicans are the ones defunding the police 🙄
"I'm as left-wing as they come, I supported Elizabeth Warren for President."
"I'm progressive up until the moment that being progressive would result in any material changes in my life. When that happens, I go full Chamber of Commerce reactionary."
They like either once volunteered on an establishment Democrat's campaign in 1986 or they briefly were at a hippie compound in 1969, but were indifferent to the Vietnam War.
I first saw it on a post from here but now I'm struggling to find it again. I don't remember the name just the context that the two dudes getting beat up are trying to extort the farmer.
I cheered when Clinton was chosen
My faith in the system reborn
I'll do anything to save our schools
If my taxes ain't too much more
And I love Blacks and Gays and Latinos
As long as they don't move next door
🎶So love me, love me, love me,
I'm a liberal 🎶
Socially liberal, fiscally conservative - I’m a pragmatist sweaty :obama-drone:
This reminds me of the condo in my neighborhood that put up a BLM sign in their window RIGHT FUCKING NEXT TO A "WE SUPPORT THE [MY CITY] POLICE DEPARTMENT" SIGN. GODDAMNIT WHAT THE FUCK
In my town, the state government is actually funding public housing and has plans to build multifamily low income homes in the area. Alllll of the upper middle class white homeowners are up in arms over it. It's really neat seeing the diversity-loving, BLM-supporting liberals quickly abandon all pretense and say they don't want crackheads and moms with a dozen kids moving into their neighborhood and driving down property values.
I think some major cities (Chicago?) are starting Single Family Home/Residence Re-Zoning to create more denser housing which is needed across the US in major cities to stifle major rental increases and to open up housing for those who can not afford it currently.
Rezoning for SFH/SFR plots to more multi-unit properties is one of THE major hurdles in solving rental/housing issues across the nation in regard to major cities.
Rezoning on it's own isn't going to do shit, honestly. There's already massive amounts of vacancies and artificial scarcity driving up pricing. (the build baby build neoliberals will purposefully omit this)
Without any state-driven public housing systems to go along with the necessary increase in density, there won't be major changes in pricing.
