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Twitter was fun in 2017. This is just a bunch of dreary self righteous scolds.
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Yes. Also 2019 now feels like it was 10 years ago and 2021 feels like it was last week. Everything that has happened since the COVID reopening feels like it was a single month.
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I also think there should be no tolerance for crime inside prisons and prisons should be more humane, important to make people comfortable with long sentences for criminals.
There’s a high correlation between going to the hospital and dying, hospitals are bad for your health. I’m very smart.
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I support all those things along with putting criminals in prison for a long time. Education et al won’t move the needle on crime until after a decade plus.
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Both backsolving to the desired conclusion. I don’t know or care if prison is a deterrent, just that criminals are incapacitated to do crime while in jail. More people should be in prison and for longer.
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Look, a person can’t commit crime against innocents while incarcerated. All this shows is prison sentences aren’t long enough. As long as they’re in prison they’re not going crime.
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The best solution is just putting criminals in prison for a good while. Physically impossible to commit crime vs innocents while in prison. Reincide after release? Go back to prison now for a much longer time.
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Crime is definitely down since the 1990s. It declined from the mid 90s to the mid 2010s, spiked in 2020 and then declined somewhat. Thats what murder rate tells us and that’s the best proxy for overall crime.
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It all depends on people reporting crime. If there’s widespread belief that police doesn’t prosecute certain crimes those crimes will be underreported. That’s why murder rate and car theft are the only reliable crime statistics.
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This type of stories explain most of those swings.
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How does losing one airline help increase competition and reduce market concentration?
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Trump’s charisma makes a lot of things palatable that coming from other Reps just sound mean.
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AOC has been a household name for 6 years, everyone knows her and has an opinion on her. Most people didn’t know Obama in 2004, let alone 1998.
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For sure, although even politically it could well backfire: more college grads with expectations for white collar work the market isn’t asking for, who could be doing better becoming good at a blue collar trade.
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Sure, assuming people switch from 4 year to 3 year programs. But expanding 3 year programs as a way to address edu polarization, implies expanding the total size of college population, which might not be the most economically sensible thing to do for the new college attendees.
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Do you really think this would be positive for the additional people going to college considering the rising blue collar wages and declining college wage premium? Or are you just proposing it as a very expensive way to get Dem votes?