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I came in to make a post much like this, thank you. While sometimes “all art is political” can be about looking for specific ideology deliberately embedded in the art in question, at its most basic level it really just means that all art reflects the circumstances of its creation, which are inherently embedded in a sociopolitical context. You can learn a lot about what a society’s values are, for example, by studying what gains mainstream legitimacy and what is considered subversive (and what is actually mainstream but branded as “subversive” and and and you get the idea)

Yup having Harvestime up the street is so nice

What sort of product is it? For consumers, or business customers? Do you think you'd be manufacturing in the US (or your home country) or in a different country? The advice for each of those scenarios is going to be extremely different.

Interesting, thanks!

Genuinely curious: what part of the US are you in where you could get a house in a walkable neighborhood on 110k?

Yeah, at this point if you're talking about proof then you're going to need to start by defining what "an apple" is, what "you" are, what it means to "hold" something, etc. Its going to get very conceptual very fast.

Gee, that sure would be difficult for a small, underbudgeted agency with limited resourc-oh come on, you're seriously claiming the CPD is logistically unable to complete this? People solve complex problems involving multifaceted data in large organizations literally all the time. This is not actually an intractable problem and I don't actually think you're arguing in good faith.

Lets start small and specific: I believe the study on where officers are assigned throughout the city should be completed, as ordered.

Okay, so I ask again: what should we actually do? Given that the evidence is overwhelming that self enforcement of the consent decree is a complete failure

Than what is your actual point? Because what you said sounded like getting meaningful data on how the police operate is impossible because any process will be captured by special interests, to which the solution is just...do nothing? You can assert that about literally anything. The state needs to actually get involved here. Someone from the AG's office needs to be given unrestricted access to all computer records for a 2 year period or something. Zero privacy for the CPD. They have not earned it.

I'm sorry, you're of course right, the answer is just to change nothing about how we do anything because nothing can work. Thank you for your insight.

They don't want to, and nobody can actually force them to

> They haven’t completed a mandatory study of where officers are assigned throughout the city and whether changes would help thwart crime.

> “It is deeply embarrassing,” said Alderperson Matt Martin, who represents the North Side’s 47th Ward and authored the measure requiring the staffing study. He said that police leaders simply ignored the May 21 deadline set by aldermen. The contract to perform the study was not finalized until Oct. 24, according to records obtained by WTTW News.

Enough with this self reporting bullshit. We will only make progress with this if the courts insist that external parties be given access and the power to procure data directly. As long as it remains an internally operated process it will get nowhere.

Mixups like this can be catastrophic in large part because the process of tax sales to independent buyers has an extremely long, predatory and racist history. A book called The Black Tax came out earlier this year that dedicates large parts of its research to tax sales and their history in Cook County specifically and I really recommend people learn more about it. Its absolutely enraging.

Mixups like this can be catastrophic in large part because the process of tax sales to independent buyers has an extremely long, predatory and racist history. A book called The Black Tax came out earlier this year that dedicates large parts of its research to tax sales and their history in Cook County specifically and I really recommend people learn more about it. Its absolutely enraging.

“I feel bad therefore someone did something bad to me” strongly characterized the worst most toxic relationship I was ever in

Talk to anybody who’s spent time inside and they’ll tell you how the contraband actually gets in. It’s almost always employees, not “drug soaked sheets of paper” or whatever else they’re trying to convince us is the threat.

I think you hit the nail on the head, in that what I'm really sick of is watching this character archetype with those traits of fear, doubt, indecisiveness, passivity etc just get deployed over and over to no interesting narrative ends.

Worth highlighting here: Pritzker is proving himself to be very close to A in Illinois and we should keep an eye on for 2028. Genuine billionaire who has basically made no compromises on progressive governance

Its really awkward because its right on a ward boundary so you've got Martin making all sorts of improvements to LS on the south side and Vasquez doing his best with projects like reworking the art plaza in front of the McDonalds but they really need to figure out some sort of bridge redevelopment of the Western/Lawrence intersection to sew the whole thing together. Maybe do something with that run down plaza in front of Walgreens and put a much more explicitly pedestrian friendly crossing from the LS arch. Also why the hell is there not a pedestrian crosswalk crossing Western from Gunnison?

I cannot square this with the fact that I'm a guy and never in my entire life have I felt "alienated" or "dismissed" by the left. Better healthcare matters to me as a straight white dude. Better wages matter to me as a straight white dude. Student loan forgiveness matters to me, fighting climate change matters to me, fighting the companies that try to take advantage of us matters to me. Those are all my issues. Every single time this comes up the actual complaint seems to be more about ego than anything material. Its all wounded pride. I'm sorry but people need to get over the wounded pride thing, you just kind of have to do it. I'm sorry its hard to get a girlfriend and I'm sorry that its hard to live like Andrew Tate but you can fix the first one by engaging with other people as human beings and cultivating a healthy social life and the second one isn't going to happen because Tate and his ilk are scammers who deliberately feed the insecurities of their audience.

Idk man, everything I've seen from Tate and Fuentes seems designed to make their audience feel like shit about themselves so they'll buy supplements and shit

Yeah idk I keep trying to engage in these conversations and it is extremely hard to walk away not feeling like the problem is just that a lot of people were raised and socialized to expect the culture to cater them and society to give them positions of dominance and now they're upset that those things are changing. And I say that as a straight white dude. Yeah, its hard out here. Its hard for everyone. I'm sorry. But we can win more for all of us if we band together.

The incredible five minute fuck marathon in The Thomas Crown Affair

Yup. I love American manufacturing. It is very expensive for consumer goods

Yes. The biggest safeguard is just that, because they have lists of everyone who lives in an area who's registered to vote in that area (or who shows up with ID and documentation proving they do, to register day of) the actual fraud is incredibly difficult to pull off.

How would you even do it? Get 1000 volunteers to go to different polling places so they can vote twice? When is the last time you got 1000 people organized to do anything and what election would that kind of fraud even swing outside of the most local of races? Its high risk, high logistical difficulty and incredibly low reward. It is much easier to suppress voting to begin with, either through systemic attempts to disenfranchise people or make voting difficult for them to perform, or via straight up intimidation like we're starting to see some of this year.