‼️"Minority Report (w/ Michael Bloch & Benjamin White)‼️ "The left is engaged in a debate right now where some members of the left, particularly over at the Young Turks Media Network, Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian,...that part of why...there's been such a backlash or a back swing from 2020 is... precisely because we didn't pick our battles & that we weren't honest enough about people's legitimate fears & concerns [about crime]....I want you to respond as directly as you you you think you can to that kind of argument."show more

"The Democratic Party's actions had left many U.S. citizens feeling humiliated. Signs of a Trump victory were proclaimed well before Biden withdrew from the race. The voters had had enough." 📝 @KarinaLMariani

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite The so-called 'legitimate' fears and concerns are from folks who don't live there. The media will stick a mic in the face of people in those communities that 'seem' to say 'more police are needed,' when in actuality, jobs and investment are needed.

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite One side of town has no crime, one side they will say is a lawless hellhole that no should ever visit. One side has resources, excellent schools, programs to address poverty/mental health, the other side can't even get the streets cleaned. Guess which one gets all the police.

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite If you say that police are not needed in other communities because they don't act like folks in the hood, that means you believe that black folks are somehow prone to criminality, that it has nothing to do with the poverty and inequality that exists in those communities.

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite So we shifting the weight now? This is why most people are done with the left. Lets not talk about media talking points about crime, lets talk about the drivers of crime, which is poverty. You seem to be saying that we don't incarcerate ENOUGH people.

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite Crime of ALL types has been declining for decades. You ever wonder how WS race soldiers can go into black/poor communities and commit horrific crimes but there is never any of these dangerous criminals that the media insists are destroying these areas around?

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite Don’t tell Lee Fung! He wants thousands of police lining the streets with Uzis. And whenever I ask whether he thinks desirable communities include thousands of poorly trained armed cops standing around he never replies ! Fancy that !

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite Only snotty liberals are soft on crime. For 12 years I lived in a high-crime neighborhood in Los Angeles. People in high-crime neighborhoods want strict, safe schools and safe streets. And everyone wants jobs and tight labor markets (no illegal labor from the South).

@MichaelBloch15 @BenjaminDWhite I wish we could separate the Jordan Neely situation and take these all on a case by case basis. I see a big difference between what Penny did to stop someone threatening people on a subway car and cops beating a helpless handcuffed man to death

The Green Party in my state of Oregon is sunk into personal squabbles and back-biting. Yet, it's the only political party that has consistently opposed the American imperial project of constant warfare, engaged in order to maintain the Empire. Can't vote for either major party, since it's a vote for war. A vote for the Greens is a vote for immature poseurs. The antiwar movement is at a low ebb.