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The U.N. goes KPop (not a parody) during the General Assembly

By artappraiser on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 2:00am |

[POLICING ISSUES] Starting with the NYTimes on "Gang Takedowns"

By artappraiser on Sun, 08/29/2021 - 12:57am |

[Previous thread here: Policing Problems Redux, May 23 thru Aug 27]

Gang takedowns are good. Shooters are arrested. Shooters are people who shoot people. Gang takedowns are "disputed" by like a dozen people. And the New York Times found them all!

"As Shootings Increased, N.Y.C Returned to Disputed Tactic: Gang Takedowns" https://t.co/VioqYtJ0my

Struck me that on reason we can't have nice things in NYC

By artappraiser on Fri, 08/27/2021 - 2:57pm |

is the same as one of the reasons they couldn't have a nice military in Afghanistan:

lack of meritocracy or even anti-meritocracy

with jobs filled for personal, political or family ties (or now, racial preferences) instead

The Christ with a thousand faces

By artappraiser on Tue, 08/24/2021 - 4:59pm |

Me too, I want some of Bob Dylan's estate

By artappraiser on Tue, 08/17/2021 - 11:03am |

Sopranos prequel coming!

By artappraiser on Sat, 07/03/2021 - 7:28pm |

[Everybody else's history] Bad stuff happened, gets forgotten...

By artappraiser on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 3:01pm |

 sometimes later people called historians research it...

Ireland's Forgotten Sons Recovered Two Centuries Later https://t.co/B4W8MzpZuT

— J. W. (@wolfjon4) May 25, 2021

Racializing a policy issue is counterproductive in U.S. politics

By artappraiser on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 1:13pm |

Creating a narrative and promoting it for a political agenda

By artappraiser on Sat, 04/17/2021 - 3:16pm |

This is how everyone savvy is doing it, yes ALL SIDES now, not just alt-right. It's our new paradigm. How MSM outlets deal with it, whether they filter it and create balance, or end up feeding certain agendas by covering what the aglorithms rule are hot, that's the thing:

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