Your crime on the subway isn't real angle seems eerily similar to the inflation isn't real angle that I read in the OT comments so often the past 3+ years.
Violent crime, petty crime, homelessness - all increased materially since 5 years ago. And if *you* ride the subway and have not been victimized, the number of people who know a victim or witnessed such a crime has also proportionately increased. Violence leaves its mark well beyond those on the direct receiving end.
What's funny to me is that this isn't a partisan issue in NYC. The city is as deep blue as can be. It's an acknowledgement of facts on the ground, both quantified in the aggregate and lived through personal experience and observation.
Do you really think hardened NYers who take the subway everyday are only responding to scare tactics created by the media?
Next thing you'll tell me is that the MTA doesn't have a crime problem, but a messaging problem.
When did noticing that crime in the subway is objectively worse than it was pre-pandemic become advocating a purge-style elimination of the mentally ill?
Also, how many assaults/murders would it take for you to concede that their might be a problem?
On NYC subway and mass transit, felony assaults were up 65% from 2019 to 2024, according to the MTA. In 2019, 374 felony assaults were reported, while in 2024, 579 were reported. 43 people have been murdered in the subway system since March 2020.
People notice that crime in the subway is far worse than it use to be because it is.
I understand how the Quarter works. My shock isn't that the terrorist was able to get his vehicle onto Bourbon Street. It's that he went through the front door (Canal/Bourbon) where they have the highest concentration of police complete with that semi-permanent mobile unit.
There are far softer access points to Bourbon, especially coming from the opposite side of the Quarter via Esplanade or from the NW side (Armstrong Park). With the bollards being down from St Anne to Canal, I guess he figured as long as he could get past that initial pocket of resistance, he'd have a clear run to St Anne. Thankfully he didn't get that far... Thankfully he did this at 3am and not around midnight.
Of all the ways for the NOLA terrorist to access Bourbon Street with his truck, to find out it was directly from Canal Street is shocking. What a spectacular failure by NOPD.
Perhaps it's because the current POTUS is somewhere hidden away and no one knows who is actually running the executive branch, but the world is reacting as if Trump took office the day after the election. It certainly does *feel* like he did.
Maybe recency bias, but I don't recall a transition quite like this one. We are in a very weird place.
Honestly, I find the whole "low-information" voter conversation tone-deaf and obnoxious. It always happens when Democrats lose an election. In fact, it only happens when Democrats lose. When they win, those swing voters are all upstanding, enlightened citizen heroes.
It's quite surreal to watch the party that so worries about the fragility of democracy so quickly blame the electorate for not voting they way they want because of their general stupidity.
I find it hard to believe that people so disengaged and clueless would suffer the inconvenience of voting. And if you think so many deeply ignorant people are actually voting, perhaps let's pump the brakes on the Get Out The Vote advocacy. I mean, the public is berated (shamed even) to go vote - and then when they do and the wrong candidate wins - you blame these morons who were just doing what they were told.
You can't have it both ways. It's a Democracy. If you want to win, run a better candidate. Blaming the public for your failure is not the path to self-improvement.
Unfortunately Google Trends doesn't reveal the actual search statistics. This is what they are measuring:
"Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term."
On Google Trends you are able to see the breakdown per region (state) - and apparently between Nov 3-9 this search term was only made in 17 states.
Now if you expand the "Interest Over Time" chart to the "past 12 months" instead of the "past 30 days", you see that the Election Day search spike was more of a blip when compared to July 21-27.
Refuse to answer the question.
Start a new adjacent conversation because you can't answer the question.
Become indignant about someone not letting you off the hook.
Happy Thanksgiving anyway. You must be a joy at the dinning room table.
It's amazing how 15 million people managed to enter the country illegally through that closed southern border. I can only imagine how many more would have crossed if it were left open! Thanks for clarifying. I have no idea how many people will actually be deported, certainly not 11 million, but simply securing it, stopping the inflow and deporting a material percentage of those who should absolutely not be here - will prove quite popular.
Speaking of noticing omissions, I'm very happy to hear that the stalemate in Ukraine/ lame-duck escalation w/ Russia nor the Israel-Palestine conflict do not count towards forever wars. Such a relief to know that the military industrial complex hasn't just moved off Afghanistan and on to other profit centers of death and misery. I'm sure neo-cons and the dems who love them will really hate peace in Ukraine, but I think most of America might actually like that to happen.
As for the federal bureaucracy, i can't think of anything on this earth more in need of major disruption. But breathless "what if" scenarios about losing x, y or z is the real vaporware.
I can't help but notice you've conflated a lot of Trump's promised policies with potential poor outcomes. This attempt to shift the discussion from " the broad unpopularity of the bulk of the GOP’s policy positions ” today to things that may be unpopular in the future is an admirable slight of hand. Hell, you may actually end up being correct! But unfortunately it does little to support your claim that Trump's policy positions are actually unpopular two months before he takes office.
This is not 3D, let alone 11th dimensional chess. It's basic negotiating. Strategic concession, anchoring, etc. Can we agree that this is something he is pretty well versed in after a life time in commercial real estate?
Regardless is it is intentional concession or not, Gaetz being withdrawn improves the path of other nominees. The guy everyone hated is out of the picture. It's a win for GOP senators. I doubt the other nominees will receive much resistance (unless some new bombshell drops on one of them of course)..
Oh, so you see what I did there.... Congratulations?
But at last ... finally, something worth discussing.
" the broad unpopularity of the bulk of the GOP’s policy positions "
What part of his mandate to close the border, end forever wars, cut federal bureaucracy and unwind DEI do you think is broadly unpopular? And if not one of those, which of his "fairly unpopular" policies would you remove from the platform?
Obviously how that mandate is executed - and the actual results they achieve will determine if Americans have buyers remorse. And like always, voters will have an opportunity to revoke that mandate with the midterms.
History suggests they will, and not necessarily because of these campaign promises.
Both parties know that the time to make hay is when the sun shines. And right now, the sun is shining on the GOP.
Not sure how it's helpful to a discussion to resort to name calling, but if you don't consider winning the Presidency and both chambers of congress a mandate to try and deliver on a party's platform, you're an unserious person.
A mandate is simply the authority given to democratically elected officials.
It has nothing to do with the margin of victory. If people are are conflating "landslide" with "mandate", they are mistaken. These words are not synonyms.
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Last of the Castros.
On “Re-Open the Asylums: A New Take”
As weak as your statistical analysis is, your reliance on one anecdotal data point as proof is far weaker.
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Your crime on the subway isn't real angle seems eerily similar to the inflation isn't real angle that I read in the OT comments so often the past 3+ years.
Violent crime, petty crime, homelessness - all increased materially since 5 years ago. And if *you* ride the subway and have not been victimized, the number of people who know a victim or witnessed such a crime has also proportionately increased. Violence leaves its mark well beyond those on the direct receiving end.
What's funny to me is that this isn't a partisan issue in NYC. The city is as deep blue as can be. It's an acknowledgement of facts on the ground, both quantified in the aggregate and lived through personal experience and observation.
Do you really think hardened NYers who take the subway everyday are only responding to scare tactics created by the media?
Next thing you'll tell me is that the MTA doesn't have a crime problem, but a messaging problem.
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When did noticing that crime in the subway is objectively worse than it was pre-pandemic become advocating a purge-style elimination of the mentally ill?
Also, how many assaults/murders would it take for you to concede that their might be a problem?
I don't get your angle.
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On NYC subway and mass transit, felony assaults were up 65% from 2019 to 2024, according to the MTA. In 2019, 374 felony assaults were reported, while in 2024, 579 were reported. 43 people have been murdered in the subway system since March 2020.
People notice that crime in the subway is far worse than it use to be because it is.
On “Two attacks on US soil and both involve a car rental app”
I understand how the Quarter works. My shock isn't that the terrorist was able to get his vehicle onto Bourbon Street. It's that he went through the front door (Canal/Bourbon) where they have the highest concentration of police complete with that semi-permanent mobile unit.
There are far softer access points to Bourbon, especially coming from the opposite side of the Quarter via Esplanade or from the NW side (Armstrong Park). With the bollards being down from St Anne to Canal, I guess he figured as long as he could get past that initial pocket of resistance, he'd have a clear run to St Anne. Thankfully he didn't get that far... Thankfully he did this at 3am and not around midnight.
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Of all the ways for the NOLA terrorist to access Bourbon Street with his truck, to find out it was directly from Canal Street is shocking. What a spectacular failure by NOPD.
On “From The Wall Street Journal: How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge”
So which career civil servant decided it was ok for Ukraine to expand military strikes into Russia?
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Can't wait for the article that finally informs us which individual(s) have actually been running the Executive Branch for the past 2+ years.
On “Are Republicans Waking Up?”
David conflates minor criticism with buyer's remorse. It's wishful thinking.
Trump voters will be remorseful when they have an actual reason to be.
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I have no idea.
Perhaps it's because the current POTUS is somewhere hidden away and no one knows who is actually running the executive branch, but the world is reacting as if Trump took office the day after the election. It certainly does *feel* like he did.
Maybe recency bias, but I don't recall a transition quite like this one. We are in a very weird place.
On “Panic! The Kind That Came From New Jersey”
This is the hurtful language of a Green Supremacist.
Be better.
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What if I told you that the aliens are anti-semitic Trump voters?
On “Huffpo reports that Harris internals *NEVER* had her ahead.”
Honestly, I find the whole "low-information" voter conversation tone-deaf and obnoxious. It always happens when Democrats lose an election. In fact, it only happens when Democrats lose. When they win, those swing voters are all upstanding, enlightened citizen heroes.
It's quite surreal to watch the party that so worries about the fragility of democracy so quickly blame the electorate for not voting they way they want because of their general stupidity.
I find it hard to believe that people so disengaged and clueless would suffer the inconvenience of voting. And if you think so many deeply ignorant people are actually voting, perhaps let's pump the brakes on the Get Out The Vote advocacy. I mean, the public is berated (shamed even) to go vote - and then when they do and the wrong candidate wins - you blame these morons who were just doing what they were told.
You can't have it both ways. It's a Democracy. If you want to win, run a better candidate. Blaming the public for your failure is not the path to self-improvement.
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Google Trends link:
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=did%20joe%20biden%20drop%20out&hl=en
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A lot of people? How many people?
Unfortunately Google Trends doesn't reveal the actual search statistics. This is what they are measuring:
"Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term."
On Google Trends you are able to see the breakdown per region (state) - and apparently between Nov 3-9 this search term was only made in 17 states.
Now if you expand the "Interest Over Time" chart to the "past 12 months" instead of the "past 30 days", you see that the Election Day search spike was more of a blip when compared to July 21-27.
Basically, this is a silly story about nothing.
On “The Mandate That Wasn’t”
So, you open with the "if you believe X, you're basically a Nazi" salvo. Really clever.
Then you proceed to attach some random opinions to me that I've never asserted here or on Twitter.
That clicking noise you hear is Ducky making stuff up.
I take back what I said about the other guy. You're the worst kind of troll.
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You're the worst kind of troll.
Refuse to answer the question.
Start a new adjacent conversation because you can't answer the question.
Become indignant about someone not letting you off the hook.
Happy Thanksgiving anyway. You must be a joy at the dinning room table.
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It's amazing how 15 million people managed to enter the country illegally through that closed southern border. I can only imagine how many more would have crossed if it were left open! Thanks for clarifying. I have no idea how many people will actually be deported, certainly not 11 million, but simply securing it, stopping the inflow and deporting a material percentage of those who should absolutely not be here - will prove quite popular.
Speaking of noticing omissions, I'm very happy to hear that the stalemate in Ukraine/ lame-duck escalation w/ Russia nor the Israel-Palestine conflict do not count towards forever wars. Such a relief to know that the military industrial complex hasn't just moved off Afghanistan and on to other profit centers of death and misery. I'm sure neo-cons and the dems who love them will really hate peace in Ukraine, but I think most of America might actually like that to happen.
As for the federal bureaucracy, i can't think of anything on this earth more in need of major disruption. But breathless "what if" scenarios about losing x, y or z is the real vaporware.
I can't help but notice you've conflated a lot of Trump's promised policies with potential poor outcomes. This attempt to shift the discussion from " the broad unpopularity of the bulk of the GOP’s policy positions ” today to things that may be unpopular in the future is an admirable slight of hand. Hell, you may actually end up being correct! But unfortunately it does little to support your claim that Trump's policy positions are actually unpopular two months before he takes office.
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This is not 3D, let alone 11th dimensional chess. It's basic negotiating. Strategic concession, anchoring, etc. Can we agree that this is something he is pretty well versed in after a life time in commercial real estate?
Regardless is it is intentional concession or not, Gaetz being withdrawn improves the path of other nominees. The guy everyone hated is out of the picture. It's a win for GOP senators. I doubt the other nominees will receive much resistance (unless some new bombshell drops on one of them of course)..
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Gaetz always seemed like a negotiating tactic to me. A ready-made concession to get other nominees like RFK and Tulsi over the line.
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Oh, so you see what I did there.... Congratulations?
But at last ... finally, something worth discussing.
" the broad unpopularity of the bulk of the GOP’s policy positions "
What part of his mandate to close the border, end forever wars, cut federal bureaucracy and unwind DEI do you think is broadly unpopular? And if not one of those, which of his "fairly unpopular" policies would you remove from the platform?
Obviously how that mandate is executed - and the actual results they achieve will determine if Americans have buyers remorse. And like always, voters will have an opportunity to revoke that mandate with the midterms.
History suggests they will, and not necessarily because of these campaign promises.
Both parties know that the time to make hay is when the sun shines. And right now, the sun is shining on the GOP.
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Not sure how it's helpful to a discussion to resort to name calling, but if you don't consider winning the Presidency and both chambers of congress a mandate to try and deliver on a party's platform, you're an unserious person.
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A mandate is simply the authority given to democratically elected officials.
It has nothing to do with the margin of victory. If people are are conflating "landslide" with "mandate", they are mistaken. These words are not synonyms.
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I'm old enough to remember when the definition of a recession had to be changed because of reasons.