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This isn’t a thread about Trump, but I for one have barely heard a word from him since his accounts were suspended. His multiple tweets per day are no longer driving news cycles. His lies are no longer cascading through the ether misinforming people who don’t actively pay attention to specifics. Surely this isn’t a good faith question? If it is, I can probably come up with 7 other ways the deplatforming of Trump has made it harder for him to get his message out... but this isn’t a thread about him (despite being peripherally related). Come to think of it, why is this thread in the suggestions, feedback, and support section??

Looks like the quote function of the forum software seems to have given you some trouble in that post. It happens to us all sometimes, but if you need/expect me to respond, then I'll need you to please try posting your response again.

I’m not here to defend Ron Johnson. I find his general approach here repugnant and detrimental, but none of these things you’ve said in the above quote are possible for you to know. You should stop making assertions regarding things impossible for you to know.

Perhaps a better question is, “how do I use google?”

Don’t worry. That’s par for the course with dimreepr

Because it’s inaccurate

Clearly your forces and vectors are off. Too much strange and not enough charm in your quarks

Lol. Actually think autocorrect bit me on that one

I would add the presence and overuse of qualified immunity over there next to your blue wall of silence. Also, in terms of reforming problematic police departments from a federal level (I believe there’s roughly 17,000 distinct departments all under local control and acting like little fiefdoms), the precious admins gagging of the use of Consent Decree has stood in the way. Fortunately, Attorney General Merrill Garland is taking steps to rescind those restrictions so the Justice Dept can again step in and mandate changes to local departments when issues are found. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/16/ag-merrick-garland-erases-trump-limits-on-consent-decrees-for-police.html

Cool. Cool. Don’t think they died last week tho

Sex. I took a sex ed class in college. Attractive professor asked for volunteers in her lab. She was researching a female equivalent to viagra. It was the first time I understood what science really meant (tho admittedly I was already predisposed to thinking critically and based on evidence thanks to my dad).

And I tend to agree with you that more training would lead to better results, especially martial arts type training. No doubt. Could be a high ROI investment. I’m just not ready to stipulate that bias and racism (implicit or otherwise) are not the bigger issues at play requiring a change in culture and general approach to policing. After all, nearly 60% of police killings occur when they’re responding to nonviolent issues (graph and source shared earlier this week in this thread), and whites behaving the same way after being apprehended for the same offenses aren’t being similarly murdered by law enforcement. Anyway, your view benefited from a hard sell in the above discussion. Many good points made.

Sam Harris released a podcast today where he interviewed Rener Gracie who’s been working with police departments to offer BJJ training to officers at a significantly discounted cost. I don’t agree with everything they discussed, but this is by far the strongest case I’ve heard for the position you advocated here. Is worth a listen given your interest and background and previous comments. Link below ✌️ Sam Harris: Waking Up podcast. Episode #246 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/246-police-training-police-misconduct/id733163012?i=1000517415557

Fair, but even with that clarity my point remains. If they can get a ship there, then technically speaking that ship could also have a human aboard. We likely just won’t let them do it due to safety concerns. And above I meant their, not they’re

Yes, especially since they're publicly shared plans state next year as their actual target date.

Different species of wood have different grain structures and orientations. If you could produce a few EXACT replicas of the body but using DIFFERENT species of wood, that might offer a way to validate / nullify your hypothesis.

Depends entirely on the criminal and the nature of the crime they’re considering... plus their motivations for considering it... but, in most cases, no. It would teach people to avoid getting caught, not to avoid the crime.

Nature is under no obligation to behave in ways intuitive to our feeble ape minds. Your personal incredulity isn’t relevant. In that case, you should spend more time asking questions and educating yourself from others who do understand those things than you spend on making stuff up.

No. Light doesn’t accelerate. It travels at constant speed.

Politics. More to the point, to appease a bunch of hysterical voters worried about the deteriorating “moral fabric” of the nation. That those old policies are changing and community support for doing so is rapidly advancing.

Perhaps more apropos: Shouldn't we ensure due process for every one of our citizens before we allow agents of the state to put them to death?

When we look only at the specific circumstances of individual situations, we sometimes miss the decades long trends they feed. When we focus on individual trees, we sometimes forget they exist in a much larger forest. This isn’t happening to white people, and that’s not because white people are less violent or committing fewer crimes. This isn’t happening in our military or in our fire departments or even in our libraries and grocery stores. This is happening with our police. Regularly. Recurrently. Ridiculously.

I see. Thanks for clarifying that you’re arguing against a strawman. I never claimed nor suggested that presidents can’t INFLUENCE legislation.

And?

Again, I feel the need to give commenters here a remedial civics lesson. Congress makes laws, not presidents. That's quite a claim, but really conspiracy theories have no place here. Please support or retract it. Hyperbole, much? You should consider looking into his history and past experience. It's not hard to understand "how such a person" can grasp and connect with the suffering of others.