One thing I particularly enjoy from academics, like the one mentioned in this article is the reduction of certain large-scale problems to one explanation - "systemic racism" - but other problems are just too complex to break down to simple explanations. As the academic in this article says, " “Anybody who thinks they can disentangle all of this probably doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” Yes, it is just so terribly difficult to even begin to untangle this mess. So complex. Let's see, it ballooned suddenly over the last month in our major cities, and our suburban and rural areas also had to deal with economic upheaval and unemplyment, and also COVID, yet are not seeing these sorts of spikes in crime. Hmmmm. This is kind of like how they deal with the precipitous drop in crime in the early-mid 90s. They search oout every answer except the most obvious one. I mean, there's no way that the efforts across the nation to insititute mandatory minimums, three strikes laws, and tougher drug sentences led to fewer crimes, right? Locking violent people up for longer periods of time until they reach the age where recidivism rates drop to zero couldn't possibly explain the overall drop, could they? It's all so difficult and nearly impossible to explain. But when it comes to "disparities," that's easy to explain. Yessir.
Link: https://apnews.com/f84604913630146a6e4d174e581ae615
So I am good, right?
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What or who the fuck is Aleppo?
I recall that the interviewer asked that without context, after they had been talking about prescription drugs or something. (And it sounds like a drug name: "Do not take Aleppo if you have heart disease or liver problems....") It was a weird gotcha question. The guy asking the question knew that a Libertarian would do nothing about Aleppo, and he was asking that question to make Johnson look bad...as if he doesn't care about people in other countries. So, when Johnson fucked up, they really made him look bad.
A more skilled politician would have asked a better question calculated to get information on the topic without exposing ignorance, but Gary was too open and honest, thinking he would be liked for that, which was very foolish.
And, if that had been Hillary saying "What is Aleppo," the interviewer wouldn't have said, "Your kidding." He would have simply said, "I'm asking about Syria, and especially about the violence that has been recently reported in the Syrian city of Aleppo." And she would have given her standard Middle Eastern answer, and we would never have seen the interview, much less be talking about it now.
But, since Johnson was a Libertarian, the reporter left him hanging and ridiculed him. Par for the course with a shit media.
Your post lacks the necessary drug usage however...
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And, of course more importantly, does it really matter if they don't?
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