It's a little different when much of that net worth is tied up in your house. You can leverage that for cash to an extent, but you can't simply subside on it for decades the way you could $800k in the bank.
But the larger point remains regardless of where exactly the line is drawn: "wealthy" in global terms includes people in developed countries who are not multimillionaires. These people have massively outsized carbon footprints, even if they aren't as damaging as people and organizations far wealthier than they are. It's fair to expect them to cut back on things like air travel and meat consumption.
Over/under on number of questions about Palestine is 0.5, I'm slamming that under
Except there is no AI teacher here, because AI doesn't exist yet. These kids are basically doing homework with a chatbot.
Giving a fake name isn’t illegal
Never said it was
Of course it’s a miscarriage of justice
Used that exact phrase to describe this in the original post
You are screaming at someone who agrees with you
Well fuck you too
Ok, I won't comment in the acab comm about whether the stories there are good agitprop.
Would have loved to have had this exchange instead of a bunch of people putting words in my mouth.
I didn’t say the cops handled this well. I said they can be criticized here and we should check their story.
My disagreement with you is solely limited to whether this is good agitprop.
I brought up how pretrial detention is used everywhere, including in AES states, because when we use stories like this to say things like "its not justification for keeping her in jail without trial nor hearing," we show our ass a bit. Lots of persuadable people out there would point out that there's a reason some people are held before trial; it's not some unique horror of the U.S. criminal legal system. We make the exact same argument when libs push "China bad because they exercise authority" articles.
This is you saying that they didn’t do such a bad job here
I've said a number of times that criticizing the cops is fair here, and that we should check their story. I'm saying this isn't a great one to spread as agitprop because people who are not as hostile to cops as us won't dismiss these facts the way we do.
but your response was just:
There it is
On a forum with multiple Jeffrey Epstein emojis, a "yeah that 13 year old really seemed like an adult" comment was inevitable. I wasn't really sure what you were getting at or if you were just making an oblique joke.
As for why the cops didn't think "this person isn't really 18" or why they didn't look through photos of missing people: again, criticizing the cops is fair here, and that we should check their story. I don't know how to say that more clearly.
I didn't say the cops handled this well. I said they can be criticized here and we should check their story.
“one big reason people give fake names upon arrest is that they know they are wanted for more serious crimes.” I don’t even know how that follows from or applies to this story?
And even if everything she told them was true its not justification for keeping her in jail without trial nor hearing.
Every country, including AES states, detains people before initial hearings in certain circumstances. One factor in deciding if they should be held in custody or out on bail is "do we even know who this person is?" You don't want a situation where you arrest someone wanted for a serious crime, they lie about their identity, and you let them go -- this is something we clown on cops for fucking up!
I'm not saying this girl was wanted for a serious crime. I'm saying if you were to share this as agitprop without reading the article, a lot of people you're trying to agitate will come back with observations like this, because "cops let serious criminal slip through their fingers due to laziness" is basically a cliché in popular crime stories.
Alright folks, let's hear all the things I didn't say.
Lmao what kind of loser trolls a month-old post to stand up for not reading
Touch grass and maybe read some Mao
They didn't read it.
Do you think "no investigation, no right to speak" is a good philosophy or not?
They know there’s no genocide going on in China. However, they need a narrative to justify sinophobia and anti-communism.
I think a lot of people heard "China is doing a genocide" five years ago, took it as fact, and have simply baked it into their worldview ever since.
Nah, tons of leftists right here on this site used to be libs. In the U.S. at least, I'd say most leftists went through a lib phase at some point.
I don't think calling libs fascists-in-waiting, moderate fascists, etc. moves many people in the right direction. People match spite with spite. It should be reserved for those we have no hope of bringing around, not us 10 years ago.
There is no harm reduction candidate, and Trump goes off script enough that he could easily be the worse option.
power always corrupts and that corruption usually looks like Fascism
I know this was kind of an offhand comment, but I think we want to be much more measured with our critiques of power, and avoid playing fast and loose with what we label fascism.
Tons of people are able to exercise power responsibly -- lots of good teachers and parents out there -- especially when they have resources, education, and there's even minimal accountability.
You can write a dismissive "here's why this sucks" post about anything.