Colin Jost Appears Shocked As 'SNL' Crowd Cheers For Luigi Mangione
The alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has become a heartthrob on social media.
NYPD arrests migrant who allegedly set woman on fire on subway train, watched her burn to death
NYPD arrests migrant who allegedly set woman on fire on subway train, watched her burn to death
A migrant from Guatemala allegedly lit a woman on fire on a New York City subway train and stuck around to watch her burn to death just three days before Christmas.Greg Wehner (Fox News)
postmarketOS v24.12: The One With Androids & Cameras, But It's Mainline Linux
v24.12: The One With Androids & Cameras, But It's Mainline Linux
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
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It always puzzles me why they chose the one distro without systemd to base this on and are now trying to add it themselves.
Also I have thoughts about this:
Move sudo to community
At present, sudo is in the main repository, which requires us to provide security support for 2 years. Upstream sudo does not provide an "LTS" lifecycle, so this requires either performing security upgrades during the maintenance lifecycle, or backporting security fixes by hand.
Benefit to Alpine
Prior to the creation of the security team, there was an unofficial preference to push doas as the preferred pivot tool for Alpine. This reinforces that messaging.
Additionally, we do not have to support sudo for a 2 year lifecycle, since there are no LTS branches for it.
How often does sudo have security vulnerabilities that it's worth moving to a lesser used tool whose vulnerabilities are less likely to be discovered against your security team's wishes? What do all the other distros do?
Matt Gaetz ethics report says his drug use and sex with a minor violated state laws
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What The West Misunderstands About Power In China
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Often overlooked in portrayals of China, provincial & local officials have the greatest impact on day-to-day governance, & their actions shape national politics.NOEMA
An Extraordinary Time-Lapse Captures the Microscopic Development of a Single Cell into a Newt
An Extraordinary Time-Lapse Captures the Microscopic Development of a Single Cell into a Newt — Colossal
In Becoming, a time-lapse film by Jan van IJken (previously), a single cell splits. Then it splits again, and again, and again, morphing and quivering as new quadrants continually appear and divide.Kate Sierzputowski (Colossal)
The brain controls body weight and obesity by regulating intestinal fat absorption
The brain controls body weight and obesity by regulating intestinal fat absorption
A new study in the journal ‘Nature’ suggests the brain plays a key role in this processIgnacio Morgado Bernal (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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their belief that they can’t lose weight.
For a lot of people it's a poverty and lack of healthcare thing...
Even just annual checkups are a huge help because weight is being tracked and someone gets early and continuous warnings their health is being impacted.
They have as much control as someone trying to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
If they can't escape poverty and gain access to healthcare... They're less likely to maintain a healthy weight.
Yeah, that's bullshit.
Poverty isn't exactly helping, but there are more than enough people with enough resources and excessive body weight.
In the US, ¾ of the population is overweight, are you suggesting ¾ of the population is poor?
I used to be fat. It's not a monetary issue. In fact, I lost weight when I moved out and had very little money.
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These drugs already exist. But they have a bunch of side effects.
Rebound effects from thinking you can eat more because of the drugs and fat stool are the most obvious ones.
How is a list of seven(!) different analyzed potential factors reduced by you with a "wtf" to one of those?
And then followed by an anecdote, a correlated studies off topic to the study described and a bit of conspiracy theory (note: one of the few I even support myself, but i's out of scope of this article!).
You're actively harming the points you want to make by jumping onto the wrong targets.
You should see my '89 year book. Almost no one was even slightly overweight except for the biggest jocks. I see people every day that would have shocked us in the 80s and 90s.
My friend across the street is grossly obese. His best friend just calls him "chubby", but really fat. Told him the guy would have been the fattest kid in my senior class (excepting the jocks).
My theory is this: People keep seeing people bigger than themselves and saying, "I might be fat, but at least I'm not that fat!" Rinse and repeat.
Dude, go talk to a bariatric specialist. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
You ever even look into the advances in bariatric medicine the last decade? Ever help treat a bariatric patient? 99% behaviorial is utter bullshit, and does not match currer best information.
Genetics didn't likely change, but epigenetics is how our systems respond to conditions in and around us. And that absolutely can and has changed in the last fifty years, and was changing before that.
How our food is process impacts the entire endocrine system, our microbiota in not only the gut, but the entire body. We've got massive increases in environmental contamination over the same kind of timeline, which can not only directly effect systemic function, it can change epigenetics in the womb, and the actual genes themselves.
99% behaviorial my hairy ass.
Even that part is influenced by how food is processed, since there's enough shit in anything you grow, even when you're growing it yourself to play a factor. Actual processed foods are literally designed to trigger our brains and kick off addictions to the added fats and sugars.
That kind of bullshit is the same kind of brainless thing that leads to people thinking vaccines cause autism. There's a metric buttload of data pointing to both weight gain and difficulty in weight loss being heavily influenced by external factors, but you're in here like "nuh-uh, my data set of two fat kids in school says no"
I think they’re just saying that they found another link to obesity causing things. On the flip side of this my family can eat literally anything we want and not a single one of us is more than 130 pounds(all somewhere between 5’7 and 6’). I mean I’ve watched my brother slam 4 eggs, two slices of cheesecake, and half a gallon of milk for breakfast. He also tried to gain weight for two months by upping his calorie intake to somewhere around 6K calories a day. He gained like a pound and dropped it cause it was expensive…
We can only gain weight by adding muscle. My other brother was in the military and heaviest he ever weighed was after training. It’s been a few decades since then and he’s right back to his earlier weight.
I’ve been told by many that oh as you age that metabolism is gonna slow and you’ll start putting on the pounds. There is some truth to that but not as extreme as others.
My 70+ year old mother is 103 pounds. She might gain a few pounds if she has 2-3 shakes in a week(this also means she’s just on a sweets binge in general). All that’s required to lose it? Not have shakes the next week. Mind you this is someone who had 4 children and left the hospital after pregnancy within a few pounds of their pre-pregnancy weight.
So genetics is absolutely a factor and I’m all for them uncovering what that link is and researching it. The more we understand things the better.
I’d like to put on some weight…even fat. Cause I’m literally low single digit fat percentage right now which isn’t healthy either. Mind you I have a desk job. Not like I’m the epitome of active people.
For a lot of people
What about that phrase made you interpret it as "everyone"?
In fact, I lost weight when I moved out and had very little money
This makes it sound like your young and still had the metabolism of a teenager... Losing that is what makes most people gain weight. While some people can be overweight with it, it's still literally the easiest time in your life to lose weight.
It would have been much harder if you were fully grown.
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Might explain why I can barely gain weight, once had a camp week where me and a friend had the exact same food intake and exercise but he gained 2kg while I lost 3kg.
Sofar doctors have thought I just had a fast metabolism but seems like there could be more at play.
For you, yeah.
For most people even, sure.
But not everyone, there's an absolute shit ton of natural human variation on top of conditions/diseases that effect that.
Like, some people react to a normal diet by their body drastically cutting energy expenditure to try and maintain fat reserves.
Billions of years of evolution says carrying around as much fat as possible is the optimal choice, and different people have different traits to maintain those energy reserves which used to be the most important part of physical fitness.
Like, of any possible addiction, an addiction to a high calorie diet should make the most sense to people.
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Former fatty. It was 100% behavioral. CICO. Physics. Some people need help, no denying that. But rigorously limiting and counting my intake, and estimating my output from added activity with fitness trackers, while also altering my diet to include more volume, less caloric density to stop feeling so hungry, 100% worked. And I learned to be hungry and that the world wasn't going to end if I was hungry for a little while until it was meal time. I had plenty of caloric surplus and my body was being a little bitch.
Anyhow, anecdata of one that supports the control what goes in your facehole camp.
I know that while pregnant, the digestion slows down, to try to wring more nutrition from what you eat. I also know that I eat about the same as my ex and my husband and both managed to get fat. Also I drop weight when stressed and maintain a normal BMI when not so stressed, but others I know gain when stressed.
It all is very interesting to me, but so strange that it's broken for so many people, and most all in the direction of overweight.
Former porkchop here as well. It's all behavioral.
Yes there are external factors that can influence behavior, but at the end of the day it can't be reduced further than that.
I am exhausted by the collective delusion and endless disavowing of any form of personal responsibility for one's own dietary intake. Focus on the external factors, always, never look at choices because then it becomes a "they" problem not a "me" problem.
Dude, you don't get it at all.
You can scream until you're blue in the face, but it doesn't contradict massive amounts of data and research done by people that have actual training in human physiology.
You, as one person, are just one data point. And that's not how science works. It isn't, and never will be.
IDGAF what you believe, you can believe your farts are magic and grant wishes for all that. But it doesn't matter when it comes to reproducible data. And it is reproducible. The research on it all has been covered in multiple ways by multiple studies.
So, yay for you! You got fat by stuffing your giant mouth in an attempt to fill the hole in your brain, and lost the weight. Congratulations. It still has nothing to do with the current state of understanding of human metabolism.
My point is that all these factors are real, and they do tip the scale, but at the end of the day, how much you eat determines whether you gain or lose weight.
I'm not saying other factors can't make a significant difference. (genetics and epigenetics play a role.)
I'm also not saying that it's easy. (food, especially fast food can light up people's brains in a way that mirrors drug addiction.)
But if you eat less while burning the same number of calories, you WILL lose weight. That's not an opinion, it's a law of physics.
So, the real elephant in the room is that for the average worker, they are more productive (ie, working much harder) and under much, much more financial stress... which effects epigenetics
and... people are having children later in life, leading to children with more genetic defects (the average person has about 7 genetic defects, some people have more, some fewer)
in the 1950s, a man could work at a factory with a high school diploma, own a house, support a family, and have a wife as a full-time assistant at home
now both parents have to work, if there even are children, there may or may not be a house, and many are just single. people are under huge amounts of stress, and all of it effects epigenetics including via weaker bonds within families
bodies interpret stress as either "uh oh, i'm going to get kicked out of my tribe and will have to forage and hunt on my own and may die" or "there may be a famine soon"
the fact that the vitamin levels of food has gone down is a real thing, bodies remember things like that, and can be aware of the decrease, and start to prepare for famines
TLDR captialism without proper government regulation of externalities is making people fat along with higher populations and decreased vitamin levels in food due to over-farming
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Only if they have German descent.
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Do you know how many dicks I've sucked?
I'm asking because I don't know... because it's so many that I've lost count of how many.
It's a lot of dicks.
Yes, you could read what I wrote about genetic defects and think "He could be referring to a typical genetic defect as an enzyme having a slightly different shape due to a random base substitution error, slowing down the rate of a cellular reaction necessary for lysosomes to function well..." but instead you were like... "I bet it's because he's into Hitler."
And it's true. Not only have I sucked lots and lots of dicks, and am a dude, and would have been gassed many times over by my great savior, who is in fact strangely and paradoxically Hitler, but I am also clearly into Hitler based on the fact that I categorize some genetic mutations which result in a loss of function as genetic defects, instead of a beautiful cornucopia of changes which may one day prove to be adaptive.
You are a very clever sleuth!
TLDR: capitalism bad
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One? lol, no way.... I stopped counting after it got into the double digits, but it's a lot. I used to say I had sucked fewer than 20 dicks, now I say it's less than an infinite number of dicks.
Also you are also misinterpreting my post as anger... but really my response was sexual arousal because I have a fetish for morons.
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riddle me this, ye illitirate one, how can i even be racist given the number of dicks I've sucked? it's impossible.
I'll prove to you how not racist and experienced I am with sucking dicks... if you'll let me...
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A comment on lemmy. Never need to read it, it will always have the same conclusion "capitalism bad". No matter the topic.
TL;DR of lemmy: capitalism bad, now you don't need to open the app at all.
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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
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The White Christian Nationals are about to ascend in a few weeks. And the first thing they are trying to do is deport a bunch of people who are predominantly non white, depending on how scientificly hispanics are regarded.
And they seem to be following that up with some facist policies to favor the oliigarchs.
So if things play out according to their published playbook....
No one gives a fuck about "the points", when are you people going to figure that out? You are the ones harming people by trying to dismiss necessary behavioral changes and real advice because there are technically other factors that you can back up with OODLES OF PEER-REVIEWED STUDIES, HOW CAN YOU INSULT MY INTELLIGENCE LIKE THIS???? No one cares what you studied while knocking out gen ed requirements, get over yourself.
You're not in high school debate class anymore, you're among people seeking and sharing knowledge that can be of actual use to them. If you're gonna pretend you're in someone's corner and shield them from a false sense of blame, and then REFUSE to discuss actual, meaningful solutions, you are utterly worthless in spaces like this.
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I'm going to be mildly annoyed if the fat acceptance latches on to this as yet another study validating their belief that they can't lose weight.
Latches on to what exactly?
But the most novel and surprising thing that researchers have observed is that when a certain group of neurons in that same nucleus is deactivated, specifically those that project to the jejunum, a part of the small intestine, the length of the microvilli in the intestinal wall is shortened, which reduces its surface area and thus the place in whose blood capillaries fat absorption occurs. The brain thus regulates this absorption by controlling the length and surface area of the intestinal spaces in which it takes place.
Huh, so your intestines can stretch to control absorption rate, cool!
That's a lot of words to say "my beliefs trump basic science".
Peer review reproduction is a bit of a shambles tbh, so not the silver bullet people make it out to be in some fields, agreed.
So let's leave the science aside for now and focus on what you are proposing.
"Just eat less" is about as productive as "Just don't be sad" or "Just stop drinking alcohol", technically correct but woefully inadequate as a practical solution for most people.
edit: before you get even more angry i'm not saying that eating less and exercising more doesn't work, actually read the statement.
Aside from anecdotes and "trust me bro", what knowledge have you shared so far, what solutions ?
I'm legitimately willing to listen to something you can even halfway prove.
To be clear, i'm asking a very specific question about a very specific statement.
when you say :
So, yay for you! You got fat by stuffing your giant mouth in an attempt to fill the hole in your brain, and lost the weight. Congratulations. It still has nothing to do with the current state of understanding of human metabolism.
Are you claiming that basic CICO, which is peer reviewed science has "nothing to do with the current state of understanding of human metabolism."
or was that just poor phrasing ?
I hate to agree with southsamurai, they downvote nearly every post i make, but... they have some truth here.
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If you want to lose 1 lb in a month, or gain 1 lb, you need to consume or burn 3,500 calories. Or 116 calories a day. Or 38 calories per meal… Easy right? … In the US, calorie estimates are allowed to be off by as much as 25%, and that’s just packaged food, forget any restaurant or line cook being exactly precise with portions… So for 2,500 average daily diet, over three meals, the margin of error is 208 calories. Your target is 38 calories. You’re trying to do something within the margin of error of all of your estimates. Calorie counting is a very difficult game to do! The deck is stacked against you. This is why it’s important to allow the homeostasis machinery in your body to handle all of this through satiation. It’s going to do the right thing if you let it
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Nah, I get it. Not screaming or whatever either. You are correct that human physiology is complicated. There are indeed many factors that go into nutrient absorbsion, etc. However, no one that has stopped eating for a significant amount of time stays fat. Not eating isn't comfortable. The constant dopamine hit of always putting something into your mouth and having your taste buds light up your brain is super addicting. Feeling hunger is uncomfortable. No one denies any of this. But ultimately, it is up to you, what you choose to put into your mouth and what level of activity to perform to expend energy. If you need psychological help and coaching (think life style changes, CBT, etc), I'm 100% in support. But the responsibility for being fat is on the person for the vast majority of the cases. Modern, car-focused society is not very supportive of fitness endeavors. Weaponized food science (high calorie, low nutrient shit designed to addict you) and weaponized psychology (I bet you can sing at least three jingles for some company if you live in the US) is not supportive of healthy diets.
The research and me are both correct. You can have metabolism issues and still be responsible for your fatness. Thermodynamics ultimately decides your fatness. Without a source of surplus calories, you will lose weight, period. If you don't, it is a measurement error or some adjustment in metabolic output estimation needs to be made. And if you've somehow magically measured, perfect, all of your input and output and are still not losing weight, get yourself a Nobel for perpetual motion. You just broke physics.
This is not in support at all. In fact, it further supports moonlight's and others' position. You cannot escape physics. That the numbers on the back of cereal box lie to you is not a get-out-responsibility card. You adjust your intake until you start losing. It is stupid simple. You body is a PID controller. And you need you learn how to operate it.
Does it make it more difficult to accomplish goal? Yep. Does it prevent you from actually doing it? Nah.
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Everyone can lose weight though, and we all know what works to do it. You simply eat less food.
The hard part for everyone is manifesting the willpower to resist hunger. Often it takes a life-threatening health scare to manifest that willpower for people, and then they diet and lose weight to avoid dying.
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Describe "real" rationality ?
I genuinely can't infer what you mean from that statement.
You probably want to keep to DM's if you don't want conversation on a public message board.
Though I suppose a demonstrated lack of understanding of how public message boards work gives me my answer so, thanks.
I guess the idea that some people are fat for reasons outside of their control? When it comes to fat people, people don't like to hear "excuses," regardless if it's "I don't have enough time to work out" or "my body is unable to do xyz effeciently and causes weight gain." Fat is seen as a character flaw. And because for a lot of people, it is a simple "calorie in vs calorie out," the idea of it not working for someone is seen as a failure of character. So this "belief" is making it easier for... Fat people to be fat I guess.
Weird that this didn't trigger concerns of anorexics latching onto this study validating their belief that they can't eat/eat certain foods because their body absorbs more than others. But, like they say, you can never be too rich or too thin. 👍🏾
Wait, seriously....no..that can't possibly be true...
You do understand that the word trump exists outside of the name.... Right?
Oh my, im glad you didn't read the rest of it, so many complicated words.
Good luck, you are absolutely going to need it
are you suggesting ¾ of the population is poor?
Completely unrelated to the weight loss issue, yeah absolutely. Depends on your definition of "poor" a bit, for example federal statistics list the official poverty cutoff at around $15k a year in income which is stupendously low, and even with that being so much lower than what's realistically survivable in most places they still report 11% of people being in that bracket. Less than half of Americans have more than $1000 in savings. Most of America is extremely broke as fuck.
Fair enough, i could probably also do with being a bit less sarcastic to things that might just be honest mistakes.
As a genuine question, what point are you maintaining, I've lost the thread and don't know which one you mean?
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What Happened in Syria is Shocking & No One’s Allowed To Talk About It
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(BBC) A man's suicide leads to clamour around India's dowry law
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The law was introduced in 1983 after a spate of dowry deaths in Delhi and elsewhere in the country. There were daily reports of brides being burnt to death by their husbands and in-laws and the murders were often passed off as "kitchen accidents". Angry protests by female MPs and activists forced parliament to bring in the law.
Whatever adjustment needs to be made it clearly shouldn’t involve repealing these protections. Litigious bullying surely doesn’t surpass burning women because they didn’t give your family enough money when you married them.
‘Missing’ GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home
‘Missing’ GOP Congresswoman Not Seen For Six Months Finally Found Living at Dementia Care Home - WCBM TALKRADIO AM 680
In a startling revelation, Rep. Kay Granger, missing for six months, has been found living in a dementia care home. Discover the details behind her sudden disappearance and the implications for her political legacy.WCBM of Maryland inc.
Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity
Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity
Advocates say it is discrimination and are arguing for "insurance fairness" on the grounds that people who have joints surgically replaced typically don't face the same kinds of coverage challenges.CBS News
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‘Abysmal’ comic book film [Kraven] makes box office history – for a very bad reason
While Sony gave the film a promotional push in recent weeks, it seems the film’s dreadful reviews – including a one-star pan from The Independent, who called it “abysmal” – affected cinemagoers’ desire to watch it: Kraven the Hunter had the worst opening weekend of any Sony-produced Marvel film.The film pulled in just $11m (£8.7m) in the US and $15m (£11.8m) globally, earning it overall takings of $26m (£20.5m) – an even more meagre amount when considering it cost between $110-$150m (£86.9m-£118.5m). As of 22 December, the film had made just $30.2m (£24m).
These global takings sit behind the equally-as-maligned Morbius, starring Jared Leto, which took $39m. Madame Web was another Spider-Man spin-off released by Sony and, while despised by the critics, it amassed half of its budget back in the opening weekend alone, with takings of $49.1m.
Sony did enjoy big success with the Venom franchise, which became a sleeper hit when it launched in 2018.
The first Venom made $856.1m (£676.2m) with 2021 sequel Venom: Let There Be Carnage amassing $506.8m (£400.3m).
Meanwhile, the third and final entry in the series, Venom: The Last Dance, has made $475.5m (£375.6m) since being released earlier this year. At the time of writing, this makes it the ninth highest-grossing film of the year.
Kraven the Hunter sets unwanted movie record as Moana dominates Christmas box office
Sony’s Marvel spin-off has set an unwanted cinema recordJacob Stolworthy (The Independent)
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in reply to Amoxtli • • •SeanBrently
in reply to Amoxtli • • •OK, now let's compare: over the last 12 months, how many American citizens murdered somebody? And how many illegals?
And yet we seem to mostly hear about it when immigrants do it, rather than the constant stream of good old American my country tis of thee murders, God bless 'em.
We should realize that leftists and liberals and conservatives are all victims of the propaganda machine.
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in reply to SeanBrently • • •Eh. When it comes to New York a lot of the crime we hear about is from citizens. The guy Daniel Penny had to subdue for example was a citizen.
For all the types of violent crimes you'll hear about illegals committing, they don't usually happen in the New York subway. I'm still surprised this was an illegal rather than a citizen.
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in reply to Sgt_choke_n_stroke • • •Oh, Ffs, an illegal alien set a woman on fire and burnt her alive, and you're going to use this kind of bullshit argument?
Get out of here.
Fox is the only marginally not full-on leftist propaganda, and even they aren't an actually conservative news outlet.
While you and your ilk just blindly downvote this community because you're so ideologically possessed, even when the exact same story will get hundreds of upvotes in a different community.
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in reply to BearOfaTime • • •And yet, you all continually post things about how a migrant did a bad thing. I wonder why that might be...
Its blatantly obvious this is just bog-standard fear mongering. Did someone do a bad thing? Yes. It isn't any different from any other terrible thing done by a human being. Your disingenuous faux pearl-clutching just makes you look bad
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in reply to boywar3 • • •boywar3
in reply to SeanBrently • • •People don't feel secure because they have been told not to by the right wing media. The numbers show that immigrants commit far fewer violent crimes than US citizens, with every single metric pointing towards a decline of ALL crime. We are in the most peaceful and safe time in history by most every metric, but we are also in the time with the easiest access to information, so people think things are crazy and violent because they have access to news that talks about it worldwide.
I'm the 1850s you'd hear about this awful happening across the country a week after the fact in the paper - today you can practically see it in real time. It warps our perception of how safe/unsafe we are and is used as a way to create an "other" to demonize in order to gain power. Just as the Nazis made their "other" the Jews, so too have conservatives made their "other" immigrants and trans people. The sooner people realize that, the sooner they can realize they've been had for years by grifters.
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in reply to boywar3 • • •Generally speaking the places that can't stop migrant crime also don't stop citizen crime. Deporting illegal immigrants is an easy way to decrease some crime so I think the inaction on that front makes people frustrated. But at the same time you're right about citizen crime being a bigger problem than migrant crime, and additionally the rarer a thing is the more likely instances of it are to go viral since they're sensational and dramatic.
To be fair, violent crime is rising, so while yes America is extremely safe and one of the safest places in the world, it also is getting more dangerous.
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boywar3
in reply to realcaseyrollins • • •A slight uptick in violent crime today compared to the numbers we had in the 70s (19th or 20th Century, take your pick) is drastically lower still.
As to the point of deportations, no, it isn't an "easy way" to reduce crime. The logistical strain of such an action and disruption to our economy is staggering to even think about. In a morbid way, the handful of crimes committed by illegal immigrants are acceptable casualties on the altar of economic stability: if people won't stand for expensive eggs (thanks bird flu), they sure as shit won't stand for EVERYTHING that uses migrant labor going up dramatically either.
realcaseyrollins
in reply to boywar3 • • •Firstly, it's a bit odd that you're comparing our crime stats to the 70s, as that's completely irrelevant. Nobody on the right is comparing current crime rates to the crime rates of the 70s.
Secondly, you're completely right that mass deportations aren't "easy", I should I have said simple. It's like, "oh, a bunch of these people are causing crimes, let's get rid of them and we'll have less crime". Even if you pull that off, you'll still have crime from the citizens that's not being dealt with, which I believe is something we agree on.
Thirdly, I don't think depriving workers of rights is worth cheaper eggs. On that front, you sound pretty hyper-capitalistic, to an absurd degree.