TheCaptainDamnIt

TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jef9ruo wrote

It looks like it's rotating ads for other stories on the FOX45 site. It just so happens that FOX45 uses a ton of mugshots in their stories and loves to post stories of 'black people committing crimes' so they're bound to get this. But this one is coming up more than the others when I try other devices or IPs.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jef44go wrote

I for one look forward to this actual good news never being covered by FOX45.

EDIT: Holy fucking shit! I had to go look. The current lead story on FOX45s website right now is a three sentence 'story' about allotting funds to the Blacks in Wax Museum, that has an break in the middle of those three sentences to show a graphic for another story that's just pictures of black peoples mugshots! This is the most race baiting thing I've ever seen a 'legitimate' news org do.

It literally has the copy "It is the nation’s first wax museum presenting the history of great Black Americans." that is followed by black people mugshots. Fucking wow!

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jdsvc2f wrote

Oh look, a brand new 8 day troll account makes it to only their second post in this sub to announce they are both ignorant of what they talk about, and here just to spread hate and shit on things.

Only question left is it a 15yo wannabe edgelord or a terminally online hillbilly?

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jdjepv2 wrote

BPD actually busted 12 members of a gang that was running out of that Princess Plaza strip mall last summer. It wouldn't surprise me if that crew had destroyed any cameras that could watch them and it also wouldn't surprise me if BPD just went 'job done' and stopped caring about that corner right after the bust.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jd8aiim wrote

So what's the actually advantage of the off airport lots if you don't mind telling. Like I get off my plane, wait for a bus and go to my car either way right? Is the price that much better or something? I just don't see what they can 'offer' that differntiates something like parking lots.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jbemnic wrote

Not really, but the push for recalls like this is a relatively new tactic for the right-wing, so I'd guess we'll find out over time if it's as exploitable in other states as they push there.

One thing that did stand out to me was since this proposal is built off of language that's in Baltimores original charter it left a lot more room for exploitation from the minority party than if you'd build a recall system from the ground up (with the goal of being fair in the first place). But I think that's the point though.

And hey, sorry but I gotta drop out and get off reddit for the day. I do sometimes have a job...ha

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jbeiioy wrote

Yes that's why I said "really strongly motivated opposition", since once the minority gets the recall as long as they show up in strong numbers they have a better chance of 'winning' the recall then they did in the original election.

Let's say you have a minority party who's candidate get 30% of the vote and they lose to the 70% majority. That 30% will be able to force a recall election almost immediately, then the 70% that just voted originally for the winner will have to turn out again in almost the same numbers as for the first election to win (which they almost certainly won't).

They way it's setup basically allows the minority to force new elections until they get a low enough overall voter turnout to win. Like I said this allows for a dedicated minority to basically harass the rest of the electorate into perpetual campaigns and voting just to let the majority winner serve out the original terms even if they have majority support.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jbeg7b9 wrote

I don't have time today to go back and pull it all up but if I'm remembering correctly the exact wording of how the recall elections should happen would allow a very dedicated minority of voters to recall the majority winner of an election. So even if the mayor was popular, as long as you had a really strongly motivated opposition party, even if that party was much smaller, it would basically have a veto over the majority of voters. That's what they are going for with it.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jbcl4zd wrote

OK, you were partially right in that convo, but also wrong, just as you are here (accelerationism is a tactic that can be used by anyone, not an 'ideology' unto itself).

But it was your refusal to listen to others and your doubling down that this sub and it's users are part of some "democratic party media apparatus" and you were the victim of it and your instance to argue over the 'left' on a thread about nazis brought on your downvotes.

But more importantly, downvotes and disagreement are no reason to delete your post history. Shit I'm on a 10yo account, I have some massive downvotes on it but I don't care because reddit 'karma' is all just made up crap that means nothing and I stand by what I say. And that's the red flag I mentioned, deleting your comment history is a tactic used by certain people on reddit who do not stand by what they say and are being purposefully disingenuous. Now I'm not saying you are doing that, but maybe next time just take the L and move on rather than trying to hide the exchange.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jbb6e4a wrote

>A lot of you have seen me being pretty negative on here,

I mean I can remember you making some snark, but since you've seem to have deleted your entire post history most people won't know if that' true or not. Which I guess is the point of doing that, and that's why a deleted post history is always a red flag to not engage or believe an account.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jaez2k5 wrote

> I would have assumed that the bikes were stolen as well and I think that's a reasonable assumption to make as well.

No it's not.

>Needless to say that if they were white or hispanic the issue would still be the same.

No it isn't. I've been riding for 40 years, from dirt bikes to street bikes to cruisers. When I was a kid I did all the same things these kids are doing now on public streets. Hell I rode my dirt bike to elementary school. I've had many angry screaming people come out to yell at me in the street over that I was doing, and you know what none of them ever accused me of... stealing my bike. I did however see a kid who legitimately borrowed a friends bike get stoped by the school administrator who demanded he tell him 'where he got his bike from'. But that kid was darker than me.

I've been at bike nights showing off my bike and would get questions about wether or not I did my own build, while my ridding acquaintance sitting next to me got questions of 'where'd you get this'. You can guess the difference between to two of us.

I've run from the cops breaking up street races a couple of times. And each time cops waved me through the permitter they had set up, while the stopped the rest to check their paperwork. You can guess the difference once again.

I could go on and on with examples I've actually seen. But there is definitely a general assumption made that black riders steal their bikes and it is not the "same" and made for the rest of us.

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TheCaptainDamnIt t1_jaagekj wrote

If someone is going to say that "most" of a group of black people have stolen something without any proof, you're damn right I'm going to call that racist and that's not where the "division' is coming from.

Perhaps the "division" is the assumption black people only steal stuff in the first place.

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