tylersummers.bsky.social
Civil Litigator with training and interest in International Law. Great Pyr lover, foodie, wine enjoyer.
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So 24 hours to go with no breaks. At least someone is reading the US' Enabling Law.
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I think there too many cops that think that way. I also think that most don't, and as the older ones filter out things could change. I really think that they don't want "low risk work" in an environment when there is work that is otherwise psychically rewarding to do. Some may like all of us.
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I don't have a lot of interface with police, I've just known a few in my life. I think they would leap at this kind of change, and it would solve recruitment problems.
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Even pro-cop movies often focus on how much their job fucking sucks. They don't get to be detectives, their best chance at demonstrating skill is being in specialized units like SWAT. From the cops I know, they deal with the churn of humanity, and if they can not do that they will yearn for it.
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We have to give them an out, at least the ones that don't see what's possible at first glance. Part of that must be constricting the scope, even if "warrior" shouldn't be part of their ethos to begin with. Moving that needle requires constraining who the "enemy" is. Changing the ethos comes after.
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Part of creating the conditions for that purpose is making cops be cops and not putting them in a position to be mobile e-sport athletes carrying a gun and a badge.
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That is entirely possible. I just still happen to believe (and I think the social science literature backs this, but I don't know) that people want their jobs to have a broader purpose so they can find meaning in it. Mamdani's plan would also not create conditions for 300k per year subway surfers.
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When my job was helping rich people fight each other I didn't put my whole ass into it. Since its been helping people poisoned by corporations, I've worked twice as hard. People like good cops! By not making them respond to things that aren't real crimes we enable them to be that.
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I just think there is space for Mamdani (and other mayors) to say "you got into this job to find criminals and apprehend them, not to deal with noncriminal social ills. I'm going to let you do your jobs and not deal with that bullshit, your work will be focused and appreciated more."
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Maybe this is too reactionary, but I think telling cops their job is now *more serious* because they don't have to play candy crush on the subway and instead get to investigate real crimes is a way to get real buy in. If that newly limited mission lowers employment, i don't know.
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Probably the most moving thing I've seen recently is him being brought to tears over the death threats against him and his family. He needs to be protected.
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People have apparently been threatening to car bomb him even though he doesn't own a car, I would be taking a quiet moment to shit a brick if I was him. This is before the white rage he's going to unleash nationally. He needs a substantial security detail right now, is the NYPD going to do it?
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The only way to make housing affordable to everyone is to make it so the only limitations on its constructions are that it is safe and habitable, to make it so that it is like food and not gold. No thriving democracy can exist without each of us having our own space to thrive.
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There is nothing I dislike about public housing. What I dislike is a sea of thorns that makes it as expensive as the available stock to build, but deed restricted to only go to one class of people and not the other. It's trying to climb out of a hole by scraping the walls for an equally tall pile.
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This is what many of us YIMBYs have been saying for some time, or believed for some time. The barriers that prevent private and public housing are at times different but largely shared - whether you can or cannot build somewhere is not dependent on who's financing it, but whether you can at all.
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He has The Juice.
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It’s wrong, a few have been governor. Nothing recent though, la guardia was in congress before mayor.
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I think the joke is it’s Mayor of NYC.
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I’ve been waiting ten years for this since writing a paper in Urban Studies about zoning and land value vs construction costs. Private or publicly owned, more multifamily housing everywhere. I want more neighbors.
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I’m sorry lead yes absolutely, get to 50 no.
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Lead will most likely be enough that he will win in round 3/4 but not tonight. Hopefully I’m wrong.
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Probably not.
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Sincerely hoping for a Mia Threapleton oscar nom, she was fantastic (as was the rest of the cast). Michael Cera's swedish chef ass accent then becoming semi-suave was also great.
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wilford brimley lookin' guy, will find your missing cattle
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I was all of 10 years old, but it was the formative event in my mind politically. Every night, hearing my dad talk about this stupid fucking war we were about to start with this stupid fucking president.
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It was part of the miasma of non-WMD reasons, part of the broader "take revenge on those brown people".
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www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLI...
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No no no the point isn’t to make a good faith point on the issue in question, it’s to engage in bad faith criticism because people wanted her to conform to their politics and are convinced if she did she would’ve won, even though there is zero data demonstrating that.
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Less than 48 million people *live in California*
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This country wants my brother dead, and I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.
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I fell asleep at 8pm MST because I got four hours of sleep before waking up to try and canvas, not realizing stupidly it was just a form and people wouldnt be door knocking at 7am where im at. I woke up 90 minutes ago to a different world.
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I'm in Arizona right now for work, I can't go home until Friday. It sucks so much man. I don't know how to protect her. I don't know how to protect my brother.
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I wrote a whole paper about this in law school, about non-kinetic actions which might constitute an armed attack under international law. I may have missed this vector but tbh it counts.
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It's an exit poll. Not worth paying attention to.
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If VP Harris wins, we need these people to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. No deals, no generous pleas. Interfering with the democratic process is one of the few places we need to make sure people know you will spend your life, or a substantial portion of it, in prison.
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Just sent $$. Before we make long lines never happen again, we need to make sure people aren't too hungry or thirsty to not cast their vote.
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Imagining the Fox News hit of someone handing money to a poll worker in a swing state. We'll see that footage for 50 years (not a dig or attack, just laugh/crying at that prospect).
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The one true flavor.
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I am definitely missing something, but I assume that’s fair.
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Where’s the Venmo handle the people want to pay your tab (including me). Maybe in a post not in this thread.
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I will personally contribute to the Swin Bar Fund.
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Chris Hayes was seeing we can see it in the voter registration data (I’m sure some of us have it up on at least one screen)
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In Virginia
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Jake Tapper on CNN showing Trump up 18 with only 1500 votes in. Come on you ~*}*#*#+#*#*.
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If you're begging people who *haven't already voted* to not just *vote now* but *find five more people who also need to vote and will vote with you*, you are absolutely fucked,
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Only if you were friends with him on Battle Net, which is a two way street requiring you to know is ID. Someone out there is, depends on how fash they are to assist.
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I guarantee you he has a guy that makes his build for him and grinds, at least. I’ve heard rumors for years that the ultra wealthy do this, basically the ultimate cheat code in games where time is the main investment. What sense of accomplishment do you get from that? Who knows.
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Oops! All Bards!