“Absurd” doesn’t begin to capture the horror of this. Those folks need to be fed into wood chippers - feet first.
It is really, really crazy and sad how instead of progressing we are regressing. Things that we all would think is COMMON SENSE to everyone is not.
According to @manch, so long as the weather is good and there are plenty of startups, such crimes should be tolerated.
I said no such things. People are incapable of understanding nuances.
Any place has positives and negatives. Up to each person whether the positives outweigh the negatives.
And just saw report saying Newsom is working behind the scenes to resurrect the issue. It’s not over yet. But then of course by the time this issue is resolved the nay sayers will have moved onto another rage inducing headline.
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That’s fast. Less than 24 hours. Where are all the doomers?
https://twitter.com/zavalaa/status/1679550181338140673?s=46&t=e2DAkaxaGRhpAWcndjTw-g
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Bonta and Ortega are our east bay reps. They voted no the first go around . Shame on them.
Are you guys recalling your DA? Sensing a lot of Chesa energy from her.
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It’s a shame to come to this level to get passed. Bill opposer’s argument looks too weak.
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It makes the Democrats look out of touch frankly. I understand they don’t want the mass incarceration from the war on drugs. But we need a basic, common sense level of lawfulness in society. The progressives’ extremist position is borderline anarchy. It makes the moderate Democrats look bad by association and serves as ammunition for the right.
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The problems go deeper than that. Anarchy - the governance of relationships by social contract rather than by a controlling central authority - actually works if you have good people. But when whites are encouraged to feel guilty, blacks are encouraged to feel hopeless and put down, success is a cause for jealousy and envy and not something to be celebrated and the cops are cast as evil you get a level of dysfunction that’s hard to control by force alone.
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So in other words, we are where we are supposed to be. This is new norm that balances the long-term life trajectories of the criminals and the safety needs of everyone else. We all make some sacrifices so that these people don’t go to jail.
This feels a little too easy. All we need to do is to tolerate these tiny inconveniences so that these criminals don’t end up in jails and can still remain as productive members of the society. Something tells me that it’s probably not that simple.
Now that we have clearly understood the tradeoffs we are making, we should embrace with open arms these shoplifting activities. They are for a good cause. We should probably encourage more of it.
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That’s an absolute no-no as it inflicts unnecessarily harsh punishment on these innocent individuals whose welfare are of the utmost importance.
The free lunch part is fine though.
But seriously, we are letting go of jail time so as not to tip them in the wrong direction. If community service has the same potential tendency to flip them in the wrong way as well, then all the sacrifices we are making will be for nothing and as a member of the general public I for one do not approve of that.
“As Ruy Texeira and John Judis write in their new book, Where Have All the Democrats Gone? Democrats are less and less the party of the working class, small farmers, and business owners and increasingly the voice of public employees, rent-seeking professionals, and the oligarchic class and their richly-funded non-profits. Rather than economic growth—widely viewed with suspicion by the greens—the new focus is on issues like climate, transgender “rights,” and racial retribution.”
That articulates it very well.
“Like aristocrats of the past, Newsom tries to play the masses, enhancing an already elaborate welfare state while offering huge raises to public employees and subsidies for companies engaged in the “energy transition.” This approach has fostered the California model for neo-feudal America, a place characterized by extreme wealth alongside the nation’s highest poverty rate, as well as the widest gap between middle- and upper-middle income earners of any state.”
Yeah, that sounds like utopia. Oh wait…
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