US Politics: Bike tricks

Temujin

Temujin

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quovadis said:
Seriously?
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Yes. With that single line, billions of people will no longer queue for booster no87 to save granny, they will stop wearing masks and will stop social distancing resulting in what can only be described as the extinction of humanity. This murderous monster is responsible for all these deaths. #thanksbiden
 
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quovadis

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Temujin said:
Yes. With that single line, billions of people will no longer queue for booster no87 to save granny, they will stop wearing masks and will stop social distancing resulting in what can only be described as the extinction of humanity. This murderous monster is responsible for all these deaths. #thanksbiden
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Wasn't it trump's vaccine and measures?
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit

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quovadis said:
Wasn't it trump's vaccine and measures?
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Nope. Governors, not federal government, set Covid-19 guidelines within their states. If only SA had such a system. Federal government can only apply Covid-19 measures related to transportation and federal premises, like government departments etc.
 
The_Right_Honourable_Brit

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Ah, reminders of the "glorious summer of 2020" when Dems were all about defunding the police - a completely untenable position.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1572178018193260544

But Minneapolis was not the only city to flirt with the idea. London Breed, mayor of San Francisco, pledged to shift $120m from the police department to projects for black people. Bill de Blasio, then mayor of New York, promised to cut the police department’s budget, albeit without going into detail. In left-leaning and liberal media, radicals of all stripes got plenty of airtime and column inches, even to make such extreme arguments as “In Defence Of Looting”.

It did not last. In November 2021 Mr Frey was re-elected in a landslide and, after a referendum, given powers more like mayors elsewhere, taking them away from councillors who had backed “defund”. A formal proposal from the council to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department and replace it with a new “department of public safety” was soundly defeated, with 56% of voters against. Perhaps most surprisingly, the revolt against the measure was strongest in Minneapolis’s black neighbourhoods, in the north and centre. Most votes in favour came from liberal, whiter districts, peaking in blocks around the University of Minnesota.

According to Jerry McAfee, a pastor and community organiser in north Minneapolis, activists pushing “defund” never understood black people’s concerns. “You had this great cry of defund the police at a time when people were being shot at alarming rates,” he says. “Even today, if you include St Paul, we’ve had over 1,000 people shot, 200 homicides, and there are no major marches, by city officials or by Black Lives Matter or any of the other groups who are supposed to care about us so much,” he complains. People in his neighbourhood do not want the police abolished, he says; they want them to do their jobs, arresting people who commit violent crimes, instead of roughing up the innocent.
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