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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 11:18:48 JST Paul Cantrell

   Our police are terrible.

   https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/08/28/twin-cities-police-use-physical-force-at-rates-well-above-national-average/

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 11:20:58 JST Paul Cantrell

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     A question I have: How much of the slight recent decline in Mpls is due to Mayor Jacob Frey’s efforts to hide and obfuscate police conduct?

     Many of the most substantive changes he’s made to policing since the murder of George Floyd have been to make reports of misconduct more secret, handled internally by police.

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 13:26:02 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @inthehands What the hell has gone wrong? Aren’t we suppose to be better than Texas here?

     I genuinely don’t get why people vote these people in and why does DFL run them? Who gains from this?

     I’d expect this from the mob or a gang, but it seems like violence is their only way to resolve conflicts, which is the opposite of what they should be up to.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 13:26:02 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @breadbin
     Your mistake is thinking “the DFL” is a single entitle with a single mind.

     All of the viable mayoral candidates in Mpls are DFL, yet the mayoral fights are bitter, between bitterly opposed camps. Why?

     Well: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112958202683906743

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 13:52:04 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @breadbin
     Two things:

     - People really want to feel safe. People feel •entitled• to feeling safe. It makes them lose all reason.

     - Racism runs really, really deep in the waters everywhere here.

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 13:52:05 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @inthehands D/DFL truly feels like far too wide of a range. In a non two party situation they would have been several different parties.

     But even with that, even with that range, wanting the police to be a paramilitary force with no consequences feels out of character and straight out of GOP.

     American politics is just so crazy to me, even after 15 years here. I’m just happy to see Harris/Walz running. That actually makes sense to me.

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 02:18:17 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @inthehands Wish you weren’t right:(

     I get wanting to feel safe. So do I, more than most. Police violence and weapons have never made me feel safe though.

     Feels like almost everyone is racist these days:( Far too many seem to think their racism is ok, and everyone else’s is bad. Imho all racism is just bad. It’s energy we could use better, and racism makes me feel unsafe.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 02:18:17 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @breadbin
     I think something that’s helpful when mulling this over is to back off of focusing on •individual• racism (“Does this specific person have Bad Things in their heart?”) and look at systemic racism. How is racism baked into who owns what property, what generational wealth, what latitude, what assumptions, etc?

     When you recognize how systemic racism is entangled with things that affect the feeling of personal safety, individual racism is less baffling (but grosser).

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 10:34:14 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @breadbin
     Years ago, somebody said that racism is like an area attack that does damage to your own party too, just damages the other party more. I think about that a lot.

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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 10:34:15 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @inthehands Systemic racism has created chasms in socioeconomic standing and I swear that it benefits fewer than what they think.

     To make a giant tangent. Imho, and I’m just a random person on the internet with no clout or credentials, I think that UBI and guaranteed healthcare for everyone that won’t ruin people could have potentially the biggest impact.

     Systemic racism needs power to continue, and taking that power away would be a good thing. For all of us.