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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still don't understand how it is lost on people that crime will increase when crime at the very top of our society is not only not enforced but glorified and accepted and that anyone who follows the rules is somehow a cu%k.

The law is not being enforced on those at the top. There are no social norms any more. There is no culpability. There is glorification of getting over everyone else, avoiding taxes, skirting within the grey areas, trading state secrets, etc. Corporations are allowed to do what the he%k they want because they have power and money. The rhetoric surrounding the poor and minorities and immigrants is abysmal. Education is completely underfunded at the local level- not underfunded for admin/chromebook providers/ed tech companies (see corporations). 95% of local policing is a solution to problems that weren't handled by effective social policies. But I am sure that locking up even more kids and young adults will somehow have a better outcome and that those private prison corporations will make someone rich so they can do more "philanthropy" which as pointed out at the recent world economic forum, is just tax avoidance with a pretty bow on it. 
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We get it. Chill out. You vote for Bernie Sanders. That’s great. We know you don’t like “wealthy tax cheats” and all that hippie sht. We get they use tax havens and we get lobbying and how it helps the wealthy. That’s cool. It sucks. But at the same time those dudes are not the ones pushing all these violent criminals to actually go out and mug people. They are physically forcing them to do it. We need accountability.

Your little distraction story, and a broader implication of the ills of wealth inequality and blah blah is important. But to the topic at hand. We need to arrest violent criminals. That’s it. Stop your long winded diatribe about addressing the root cause of poverty first. No. Tell me the best way to immediately stop violent crime. You know it. I know it.

Now let’s [/quote]

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