So you’re going to be respectful and stop being so incredibly emotionally reactive so we can have an actual conversation?

you’d want police to defuse a tense situation

At no point did I say that, defusing a tense situation does not resolve the tension and can easily be counterproductive.

yelling is a reasonable way to stop the cops from getting angry.

Again I did not say that. Their anger is their emotions and nobody else can control that. Yelling can be a very useful tool to disrupt, distract or be confrontational in order protect others, redirect that anger, or aggressively educate.

You’re getting mad and arguing with an imaginary Boogeyman.

Your turn to deal with what I’ve written.

What does “dealing with what I wrote” look like to you?

Weird how electing Jim Crow Joe only made the problem worse.

You’re missing the point of the metaphor and isn’t saying the exact same thing over and over again what your original complaint is?

You’re not wrong that screaming isn’t going to directly repair/replace your phone, but it’s not about “feeling good” or “doing anything useful” it’s about preventing further damage.

I get annoyed by people who post about a problem but haven’t done anything to understand it or come up with a rational solution.

If I take, for example, your phone and smash it to a million tiny pieces do you need to understand, in depth, how a phone works to the point of creating a complete and rational blueprint of a replacement before you can say “smashing someone else’s things is a dick move”?

Postponed, supressed or relocated potentially but not prevented and when crimes are postponed or supressed as such the desperation increases resulting in more violent and destructive crimes.

The only way to prevent crime is to deal with the conditions that cause it.

Base 16 is used all the time in computer science. The symbols for 9+ aren’t arcane or unrecognizable it’s 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F. It’s often written with an 0X in front to indicate hexadecimal or something like 'h for hex and 'd for decimal.

Examples:

• 'h7 = 'd7
• 'hC = 'd12
• 'hF = 'd15
• 'h7CF = 'd(7 × 16²) + (12 × 16¹) + (15 × 16⁰) = 'd1792 + 'd192 + 'd15 = 'd1999

And doubling down on that false premise does what exactly?

He’s highlighting the “absurdity” that people in “suits and ties and congressional pins” are stealing when we all know it’s really the “folks with tattoos and hoodies” who are supposed to be thieves.

You’re not wrong that it’s very clear and not much of a dog whistle, but it’s still apparently subtle enough that it goes over the head of most of this thread.

Try 106 years ago

It’s a good thing that separation of corp and state is an inherent part of wage slavery.

Could you imagine if you thought you were making an honest living parasitising some poor business owner with your wages only to find out you were actually living off the state the whole time?

Embarrassing.

the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies

Just gonna gloss over the dog whistles there are we?

It also needs to be said that the major assumption in the NISVS data is that individuals identifying as lesbian at the time of the study always identified as such and so the perpetrator being referenced couldn’t be a man.

Nobody’s acting like “nobody supported her”. Plenty of people supported her, but she didn’t support them and so they should be called by their proper name:

fools

Oof that sucks I’m sorry to hear that. Thank you for explaining that, I was trying to understand where the disagreement was and was getting really confused. Good luck on the recovery!

In every way

You seem to be replying to someone else entirely.

I am saying plainclothes officers are absolutely a form of secret police, and regular police are arguably a form of secret police. I didn’t think that before but you and Enkrod have unintentionally made a very strong argument that is the case.

You are correct it’s all just word games, but it’s a game that seems to have you pretty riled up. Why?

Depends on the patent.

Not how that works, stop talking out of your ass (Gottschalk v. Benson)

It’s not “my definition of theft”, it’s “theft”.

You keep switching between moral and legal arguments. They are not the same.

It’s like these capitalists of today saying that OSHA needs to go because they’re losing profits to it

Deflection

You strike me as

Strawman

you decided to call me an idiot

Literally mirroring your words back at you