to us may be within hearing distance, which may not fix anything for certain but surely couldnt hurt if they heard something new b4 its what everyone is talking about. But the deal with this op-ed is that 1)there is no tone in texts, on S.M., or in emails. So when ppl are discussing crime & someone
says "violent crime is down 30% in that area"...and ppl are very suspicious already, what they are likely to percieve is that you dont think crime in that area is a problem. Its great to provide facts, but imperative to also convey that bc violent crime is down 30% doesnt mean the one providing
the facts doesnt understand that violent crime can be down but also that a whole lot of crimes still take place. If nyt would publish such truths, a better way of stating the truth would have been something aling the lines of "its true that crime...30%
etc, however there are higher crime rates in other cities in the country and this one was likely chosen due to the large number of residents that are POC, and focusing on permitted police brutality to further this admins authoriatarian tactics to instill fear in unknowing voters.
But since our press would never publish such a thing bc its offensive to elected officials of course (they are cozy to say more on the democrats bc they arent afraid i guess, but they still dont give air to those who say things that are too offensive but true), so this is what we have. Its been that
way-ish for much of my lifetime & im old, but in the 90's (maybe late 80's) the democrats permitted the public sale of our free press & it became much worse. I guess bc almost all are corp owned & they dont need the same things from govt that The Ppl dp or that democracy does. we have serious
very serious problems with the state of our press/media, and with govt. More w/gop in recent yrs, but still healthy democracies are not good targets for authoritarians & it has taken decades of bad decisions, looking the other way & straight up corruption to get us here & that was just the before
times. If gop voters see the authoritarian moves...and some surely do, but will vote for gop anyway in near future elections its bc they believe the alternative will be worse. There are too many of us, on both political sides that believe some of the dumbest shit. 20 mins ago in nyt comments on
the whole gerrymandering thing that they think certain differences among the electorate matter such as how gop voters in TX think their parties cheating is acceptable where dem voters in CA cared more about fair elections. Im not saying its not true-ish...even tho suspicion pops up when ppl say
claim that a large number of ppl think the same thing, but if it is true one would think that instead of believing that democratic voters are somehow more moral ppl than gop voters are..which is what they seemed to think, that even just common sense would make ppl wonder why such a large number
are ok with their officials cheating. If it is true its bc believe for whatever reasons that the alternative is worse. Say violent crime is down but its also true that the rate of other crimes is still bad in the area. And that using military for domestic LE is a well known authoritarian tactic &