Oceans of Wisdom

this is not correcting structural racism

this type of stuff is maddening

one guy has been arrested 500 times or something

so you have this ridiculous situation where some absolutely tiny number of people are some material % of the shoplifting in NYC

where you literally can't keep shoplifters in jail

now you have a situation (imposed by Albany)

huge huge benefits to the city

even by cracking down on little stupid things

so by analogy NYC did incredible things for decades improving the quality of life

I have been near or in NYC almost my whole life

"not all stakeholders are being listened to"

and it seems very clear to me that they need to cool it, both because I substantively believe it (they are above their social absorption capacity) and also process wise because they are trying to protect multiculturism or whatever they think they are doing but they will ultimately destroy it this way

incredible. this is like one of the most dramatic murder stories in recent years in USA

Europe/UK bit off more than it could chew

migration mostly

you see them they can't keep up

overton window is shifting faster than the narrative control mechanisms can handle

similar thing is happening in europe

1/ huh, even with my early interest in Chomsky, this is alarming 2/ they have not realized overton window is moving 3/ this is going to play into the exact theories of the right that left is out to get them +/- 4/ even when it was clear story was coming out, they could not "thoughts and prayers" it 5/ it is probably impossible for elon to have enough security

and my feeling of unease is some combination of

and so I think they thought they would get away with it and 2 years ago they would have

which is what matters

elon says dumb shit all the time of course, but the important thing is he says different dumb shit than other people

in narrative control

is that elon has poked a material hole

so what we are seeing

yeah most people i know did not either

etc etc

a commitment in this case clearly against economic interest. type of story that would clearly get page views etc, media is famously known for "if it bleeds, it leads"

so this reflects a deeper commitment to narrative control than I imagined

but it was an end to end response NOT this across the whole mainstream media

it is obvious to a moron

it would have been forgotten in a week

if they just thoughts and prayers it

if they just thoughts and prayers it

very troubling

they could not even do it cynically

but they couldn't

all they had to say "this is fucking horrible, thoughts and prayers, etc"

I do not understand why that topic even comes up

it is (in principle) worst case narrative control for Democrats: 14 time catch release mentally ill black guy kills a 100 lb blonde Ukrainian refugee who volunteers at animal clinics and senior citizen homes for no reason BUT BUT BUT

it is very simple. they are not struggling. it breaks narrative control. if it was not for twitter you would have never heard of it

give me a break

"BUT CITIES ARE STATISTICALLY SAFE" "BUT WHAT ABOUT RACISM" "BUT WHY NO STRUCTURAL FUNDING" ETC ETC

and they could not find it in their narrative to just say "FUCK THAT SUCKS"

the single most blameless victim you could find killed for no good reason whatsoever

it is a literal gimme

the one in NC

literally all they had to say was "it was really shitty that poor little girl got killed" without all the "ifs", "buts" etc etc etc

i historically think of myself as left-wing/liberal but the last week the left has had the EQ of a bag of rocks