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The worst form of ignorant, arrogant European bullshit about America in case it's somehow still unclear: the premise of your original post is flawed. it is an almost useless question. it doesn't matter whether individual cops are bastards are not if the system in which they operates demand...

okay one more thing this is absolutely true in Chicago and I expect many major American cities with majority POC, due to 1) absolutely the economic incentives 2) the active efforts by police departments over the last few decades to, out of necessity (and sometimes legal mandate) diversify and...

one more personal anecdote and that'll be it from me many years I ago I used to train at this dojo in Oakland. it was the dojo that was notorious for being welcoming to women, trans people, etc as well as punks, which especially 20 years ago was pretty unusual because most jiujitsu spots were...

gods love you leo, and your heart is in the right place, but this just completely misses the point not because it's untrue, but for the reason gus and I said, i.e. it's not that cops are systemically bad, it's that the system in which cops operate is bad. their "normal job in a satisfactory...

not to continue quoting myself, but because it's illustrative - this report led to a consent decree, which is a list of specific actions and deadlines for police reform, overseen by an independent monitor assigned by a federal judge. i.e. the federal government, in the form of the DOJ, steps in...

let me be clear: not, or hardly ever, an issue for me, because I'm white and not a drug addict (the only white people on the west side of Chicago likely to get hassled by cops). but I live about a mile and a half from where the CPD had it's secret, illegal detention facility in Homan Square. I...

That, however, is a nonsense take. Even if I don't think it's a useful slogan or way to frame the problems with policing, it comes from completely legitimate places of rage and disenfranchisement. If someone was saying "slit all cop throats" then I would intervene, but compared to the ability...

I don't say ACAB. Not because I weep tears for the slander of cops who aren't bastards, but because it's simply not a very useful slogan or approach. For once I agree with gus - no matter what your intentions are, they inevitably become grist for the institution. That is the salient fact. The...

Mainly it's just hard to believe Ainge pulled that much out of a Wolves team who knew he was doing a fire sale, but that's why he's a trade wizard and the Wolves front office is the Wolves front office.

Afa Jazz/Wolves, come on. Four first-round picks for a guy who, while undeniably an all-time rim protector, is a non-shooter who has a long history of getting consistently run off the floor in the playoffs. And not just four first round picks, but one of the pieces the Jazz got back is already...

Another guy you could pursue is Caruso, great on-ball defender (and defensive quarterback type, always calling telling teammates where to go etc). Not the size or scoring of OG but significantly cheaper.

That seems like a reasonable glass half full take, basketball-wise. You're watching more Mavs basketball than me, so I'll take you at your word about Green >> DFS, but indisputably this is a trade that a bad defensive team worse on defense. And I agree that Kleber will help but come on - he's...

If they made a further trade for OG Anunoby (with what remaining assets tho?) as linebaugh suggested at least u could see a coherent basketball plan I guess, tho the everpresent threat of Kyrie nonsense would still loom just as large

If u wanted to convince Luka to stay in Dallas once his contract is up, this is not the way

Terrible deal, like possibly Gobert to Minnesota (a potentially all-time awful trade) level bad, possibly worse. Mavs didn't give up as much in future assets but 1) I think the of locker room cancers is often overrated but in Kyrie's case it is 100% justified - he's a franchise killer with an...

This is another one exists probably for lack of anyone coming up with a better term to describe something specific, as in a space created by and for some marginalized group to have free of [x marginalization]. Admittedly has probably been largely coopted ("recuperated" to use the fancy term) as...

Have to disagree here Problematic, as I general hear it used, doesn't just refer to a problem, but more specifically to problematic elements of a thing or person that should nominally be and/or otherwise is an ally. I.e. a classic example is RuPaul, for a long time one of the most visible...

Let me be clear about one more thing tho Violent crime and gangs obviously exist. Defunding - and even abolition - are not arguing that they don't. What they are arguing is that militarizing the police and treating crime as a war is 1) ineffective 2) costly, both in absolute terms and in the...

I'd be interested in more detailed research, but certainly in broad strokes it's interesting to see that the trend of wars abroad feeding into police militarization at home, which we think of as beginning with Iraq + Afghanistan, goes back much further.

It's almost as if they shouldn't have had such a unit at all in the first place