aphlamingphoenix

I'm so glad you linked the Wolf Parade song and not She Drives Me Crazy.

Here's what's really fucked up, though: These cops charged their victim with three felonies (these articles don't say which ones) and later dropped them to two misdemeanors when the video came out, then dropped the charges entirely when it looked like they didn't have a case. None of the cops - including the one who left a domestic violence call to beat a man up for flipping him off as he passed - have been charged with anything. The only charges filed in this case have been bogus ones against the victim of police violence.

This whole thread needs to listen to Samaritans by Idles.

No American presidential candidate ever represents Americans' best interests. It is not possible to vote in your best interests here.

Lol, I've used a web service monitor platform called Wormly before.

And the other side of that token is that people shouldn't have to rely on churches for survival. I'm sure you do good work, and I generally have no grief with (f/ex) the unitarians who also do good community work, but churches (and secular aid orgs, etc.) do not make society on their own and should not take the fall or bear responsibility for the failings of capitalism.

You forgot outright refusal to engage with reality.

Tell that to my Catholic trumper parents.

My partner and I go to the basement and see who can do the best job of it. We have an underground wrap battle.

I mean, culture war bullshit and hate is ignoring the city's needs.

I'm not adopting the conspiracy here, but if they can't find the shooter with the whole country getting behind him, then they would want the optics of finding the shooter. Which could backfire, of course. It would be very telling, for example, if the cops got real confident about it and then the real shooter made some kind of public display with the false shooter in custody.

I think the general reception of this news shows that any successful prosecution would be seen as such an injustice, and likely to spark further acts of rebellion. I almost think it's in the ruling class's favor to let this one go.