This works really well if you don't have a sizeable drug / crime problem in your community. I can't imagine it's going to work in American cities where women are already being lit on fire and stabbed to death by their fellow commuters. But Iowa City? Sure why not.

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throwaway5465 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Please stop watching, andd being a pawn of, paid and party propoganda on tiktok et al.

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djohnston 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Watching Iryna Zarutska get stabbed in the neck and a bunch of people do fuck-all to help her wasn't anyone's propaganda. Though it was radicalising.

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trollbridge an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The woman who got gasoline poured on her and lit on fire in Chicago last week isn't helping either. It doesn't make people like my wife, for example, excited about the idea of going and riding public transportation alone.

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throwaway173738 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We did this in the seventies too. I get that it’s infuriating but I don’t get how the solution is to charge $3.00. I’ve seen guys on street corners get more in one handout. Meanwhile we’re letting one guy ruin it like Bin Laden did air travel.

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djohnston 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's all probability distributions. A bus driver will usually stop the bus and refuse to move if someone refuses to pay the fair. People who skip fairs are more likely to commit other crimes. If you put these together, you improve the probability that a subhuman doesn't get to commit acts of violence on public transit.

	▲	naikrovek 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		s/fair/fare/g;

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undeveloper 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Actually, it was, given that many right wingers who benefit from a sense of unease from existing in society boosted the video to make it seem like more than an a random act of crime, done by a schizophrenic man who wasn't treated properly.

> [The suspect's] mother told ABC News that [the suspect] was diagnosed with schizophrenia [...] and displayed violent behavior at home. His mother said that she had sought involuntary commitment, but that it was denied.

> Elon Musk criticized judges and district attorneys for allowing "criminals to roam free".

> U.S. President Donald Trump called the attacker a "madman" and "lunatic", and said that "when you have horrible killings, you have to take horrible actions. And the actions that we take are nothing", before blaming local officials in places like Chicago for failing to stop crime and denounced cashless bail.

> On the same day, the White House released a statement criticizing "North Carolina's Democrat politicians, prosecutors, and judges" for "prioritizing woke agendas that fail to protect their citizens".

> On September 9, the White House released a video in which Trump said that Zarutska was "slaughtered by a deranged monster".

> On September 24, U.S. Vice President JD Vance discussed the killing in a visit to Concord, North Carolina, blaming it on "soft-on-crime policies" and stating he was "open" to deploying the North Carolina National Guard to Charlotte if requested by Governor Stein and Mayor Lyles.

> The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary held a field hearing in Charlotte on September 29 on safety in public transit systems and the treatment of repeat offenders.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iryna_Zarutska#Reac...

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gdulli 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can tell who actually lives in cities because they're the ones who see through this and go about their lives unafraid of city violence fanfic.

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shitlord 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There’s a big difference between someone who happens to live in a city and someone who is reliant on public transit.

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gdulli 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There's also a big difference between anecdotes/instances of crime and a statistical reason to live in fear.

	▲	shitlord an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but fear has little basis in statistics. People still worry about plane crashes and instead opt to drive.

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djohnston 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure thing buddy

- Sent from my corn field

	▲	canyp an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Bring some corn when you come and visit.

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bsenftner 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh, they've got drugs there, don't worry about that...

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djohnston 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah there's a difference between psychotic dread-heads with knives and college kids on a shroom trip.

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tclancy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Skin color?

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	▲	djohnston an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You know black people go to college, too, right? Yikes - liberals really do embrace the racism of low expectations. Do better. Dread-head = low-life degenerate whose greatest contribution to society is killing each other off over silly beefs. Like the guy we are talking about ITT.

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TrukeTime 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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tclancy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Which ones are those?

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djohnston 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You know which ones :)

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naikrovek 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> You know which ones :)

This is straight up racism right here. Not even trying to hide it.

	▲	djohnston 40 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Interesting. I would have thought a black man stabbing a white woman in the neck three times and proclaiming 'I GOT that white girl" would be racist. But no, no, you're right. Pointing out that leftist DAs in these cities are endangering the public - that's the real racism. Thanks for keeping me honest you absolute fucking clown. Next time I hope it's someone you love.
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TrukeTime 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why are white nationalists like you always Mexcrements from the southern border?

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djohnston 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Saying that there are cities with endemic violence and anti-social behavior tolerated by left-leaning DAs, which inevitably leads to someone with dozens of priors committing heinous acts of violence, now qualifies as white nationalism? For real???

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defrost 2 hours ago | parent [-]

There are alternatives to dealing with violence and anti-social behavior aside from the boot of quasi-military police on those that struggle.

Some people and places consistently appeal to greater and greater draconian use of force, other places and people resort first to social policy to take tempretures down and to not regard schizophrenics as "subhumans".

	▲	djohnston 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> regard schizophrenics as "subhumans". I hope you aren't insinuating this is my position? That man is a subhuman. He is lesser than a rat. I wish him nothing but unending torment and fear for many years to come. In no way is my contempt for him universally applicable to all schizophrenics. I judge the man by his actions not his condition.
	▲	trollbridge an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have a close relative who is a schizophrenic. I also work with one. Neither of them have been arrested 72 times nor convicted 15 times. Neither of them have set a random woman on a train on fire, either. I consider someone who does that subhuman, yeah. Schizophrenics can and do experience empathy and go out of their way not to hurt others.