The Real timschochet

Your New Year’s resolution should be to offer some coherent thought in this forum. So far you have not been very successful at this. Try harder.

The phrase refutes itself. It’s a contradiction. Marxism is a form of leftism which by definition rejects liberalism.

These laws, which have nothing to do with Marxism, are mostly designed to resolve very real inequities and unjust outcomes in our justice system, many which involve race. Other reforms are essentially stopgap or creative measures intended to make up for the lack of money and resources spent in our justice system creating unnecessary and highly burdensome delays which also leads often to unjust outcomes. As a result, predictably, some of these reforms are going to produce troublesome immediate outcomes. Some will improve the system. We won’t really know which is which until after many years and long analysis. But in the meantime, it will always be the knee jerk conservative reaction to oppose any and all reforms that appear in any way to make things easier for felons or anyone caught in our justice system. These sorts of complaints can safely be ignored by thoughtful people.

Using the word “Marxist” in this context makes it meaningless. It was originally supposed to mean a group of ideas, originated by Karl Marx, that led to the workers controlling the means of production. Eventually, after the rise of Communism, it came to mean being in favor of redistribution of wealth regardless of earning power. (And, among extremists, a state dictatorship in order to enforce that redistribution.) But among foolish people like this sheriff and those who support him here, it apparently has come to mean any liberal policy which conservatives don’t like. Which isn’t surprising but really inane and dumb.

A right wing sheriff who throws around the word “Marxist” is certainly an objective source of analysis.

Next time you should stay away.

I know you would.

Thats not evidence. Those numbers were always there, just more hidden.

Except for Taylor Swift. Her last 3 albums are tremendous. I also really like Olivia Rodrigo and Lana Del Rey. These are some good artists.

I don’t believe that gays and trannies can groom anyone who isn’t already a gay or wannabe tranny. I don’t believe anyone can be talked into it.

OK I guess. Honestly it’s like telling me I shouldn’t jaywalk. I know that but sometimes I do. And sometimes I drive over the speed limit.

I don’t think that transgender boys should be competing in girls sports. But it’s so exceedingly rare that to have bills passed prohibiting it is an absurd waste of taxpayer money. And again it’s promoted by people who are obsessed and fearful of the gay. So pathetic…

I don’t think you’re correct here. If the amount you pay an independent contractor exceeds $600 then you have to report it and prove that it’s a contractor, provide a W-9, etc. I do that with multitudes of contractors, But if it’s under $600 (or $300, it may have changed, doesn’t matter for me) you don’t have to report anything. You can even pay cash, which I do.

“Business model”, lol. 2-3 times a year some losers dump trash and old furniture at one of the shopping centers I manage and I have to find someone to haul it away. So I pay some day laborers to do it. It’s not easy to find people. The other day some homeless guy decided one of our centers was his personal bathroom. That I had to clean up myself, no day laborers for that. It’s a glamorous job.

I have no idea what you’re talking about. And no I don’t have attorneys on retainer. I do all right in business but not THAT good.

Let’s hope it doesn’t. But I know what the intent was.

Political discussions are for grownups. Go back to the kids table.

Of course I like to think I’m morally right. Don’t you? But I’m never sure about it, I’m always reconsidering my opinions. And I’m nothing like AOC.

I would never argue that conservatives don’t have reasonable concerns about this issue. Of course they do. But your solutions- especially since Trump came along- are completely unreasonable IMO. Mass deportation is never going to happen. Deporting anyone who is caught is never going to happen. Come up with something reasonable and Democrats will negotiate with you. Biden is willing. The leftists won’t like it but we can come up with a decent solution here.

OK thanks. I don’t regard your solution as workable or reasonable.

Even if I agreed with you we both know it’s never gonna happen. You’re talking about 10-15 million people.Enormous cost and you think the public is going to put up with rounding people up by the thousands and putting them on trains or other transports? Good luck with that.

I’m making an argument. This particular issue is not one in which “objective truth” applies. Still, it should be obvious to most people what the purpose of these laws are. If you could produce significant voter fraud then I might agree with you that these laws are about that and necessary. But since it’s been conclusively shown that voter fraud doesn’t really exist in the USA, the stated reasons of Republicans for enacting these rules is clearly fraudulent. My conclusions are based on that fact alone; the studies are only the logical result.

They were wrong then. It was a bad law and MLB was correct about the intent of the law. But they were wrong to move the game. Why punish the good people of Atlanta? They didn’t write the law. I’m not a big fan of boycotts in general. They almost never work.

You can’t really be this stupid right? But maybe you can.

They were correct about the intent of the law. Happily the intent failed.