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13 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The guy had an extensive criminal background including mutilation of corpses.

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/traverse-city-stabbing-suspect-had-decades-long-mental-health-struggles-criminal-history
 

Recidivism is one of those things that is absolutely radicalizing.  A small amount of people account for an insane amount of overall crime.  For example, in NYC just over 300 people accounted for 1/3 of shoplifting arrests (over 6000) in 2023. 
 

“Three strikes laws” have gotten a fairly bad rap but we could implement like an 8 strike law and achieve a similar effect of a drop in crime. I would absolutely vote for a ballot initiative to incarcerate each of those 300 people for life if I was a New Yorker. We should focus on rehab and release only for people with 1-2 offenses. Different prisons, different interventions, everything. Over five should mean you’re gone forever. 

I could say some words about the utterly inadequate support structure that exists in the United States for mentally ill people, but if we implemented that, who would pay for all the bombs, eh?

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3 hours ago, choripan said:

I didn't say that the first time, but eyeroll at both of these posts. I live in Ann Arbor and haven't seen a confederate flag in years, except for a couple times when some yahoo with a lifted truck tries to make a point. And my ex-wife is black/kids mixed, it's something she/they or I would have noticed and talked about. Not but 3(?) in the 6 years I've lived here, and all of us are out and about quite a bit.

One hour after arrival in Ann Arbor.  Guess it was just bad timing.

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Posted
51 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

One hour after arrival in Ann Arbor.  Guess it was just bad timing.

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That would totally be one of the yahoos that comes in from the hinterlands just to be a dick. Perfect example.

Posted
3 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Ann arbor is the Austin of Michigan. My friend lived in Plymouth and Ypsilanti, parents lived there.   

Of course. I tried to use two paragraphs in my post to delineate, talking about the bubble of A2 in the first paragraph and the rest of the state in the second paragraph. Coulda been clearer, I suppose.

Posted
14 minutes ago, choripan said:

Of course. I tried to use two paragraphs in my post to delineate, talking about the bubble of A2 in the first paragraph and the rest of the state in the second paragraph. Coulda been clearer, I suppose.

Then what’s with the eye roll?  

Posted
8 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Then what’s with the eye roll?  

Because it's the second time it came up between your buddy and someone's kid. Believe me, I was married to a black woman for almost two decades, so she would definitely identify it. And I'm a big buzzcutted white dude who carries myself with a military bearing. Whities have no problem being open with me. Been recruited to militia-type organizations a shitload of times throughout Michigan. Snowmobiler bars, dives, bonfires, all kinds of places. Lots of conspiracy theories, lots of horseshit, not a ton of racism.

Posted
49 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:

It's amazing how well the bubbles we create for ourselves insulate us from reality. 

It goes the other way as well.  Being a bleeding heart, pinko, commie liberal stuck in Montgomery County I keep my head on a swivel.  I feel like someone stuck in enemy territory and probably overexaggerate the leanings of most of the locals here.  There are plenty of grade-A shitheads running around; but not everyone is like that.  But until I see contrary evidence, I'm lumping most people into the shithead category.

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26 minutes ago, choripan said:

Because it's the second time it came up between your buddy and someone's kid. Believe me, I was married to a black woman for almost two decades, so she would definitely identify it. And I'm a big buzzcutted white dude who carries myself with a military bearing. Whities have no problem being open with me. Been recruited to militia-type organizations a shitload of times throughout Michigan. Snowmobiler bars, dives, bonfires, all kinds of places. Lots of conspiracy theories, lots of horseshit, not a ton of racism.

Ok. So my friend isn’t totally off?  He said he was pretty shocked at how freely some of those people blamed blacks and three the N word around

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