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[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first…." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\"." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point.", ">\n\nMaybe. And stick with me here. Maybe the solution to crime isn’t to give idiots with anger issues military grade weapons. Just positing that theory in response to decades of failure." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point.", ">\n\nMaybe. And stick with me here. Maybe the solution to crime isn’t to give idiots with anger issues military grade weapons. Just positing that theory in response to decades of failure.", ">\n\nThis video was hard to watch. I want to know which cop it was (saw it on the video, but his back was to the pole camera) who wound up and kicked Mr. Nichols in the head so hard, he was probably the one who broke Mr. Nichols' neck. They BROKE HIS NECK.\nI will never understand this." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point.", ">\n\nMaybe. And stick with me here. Maybe the solution to crime isn’t to give idiots with anger issues military grade weapons. Just positing that theory in response to decades of failure.", ">\n\nThis video was hard to watch. I want to know which cop it was (saw it on the video, but his back was to the pole camera) who wound up and kicked Mr. Nichols in the head so hard, he was probably the one who broke Mr. Nichols' neck. They BROKE HIS NECK.\nI will never understand this.", ">\n\nAnd what praytell causes soaring crime?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point.", ">\n\nMaybe. And stick with me here. Maybe the solution to crime isn’t to give idiots with anger issues military grade weapons. Just positing that theory in response to decades of failure.", ">\n\nThis video was hard to watch. I want to know which cop it was (saw it on the video, but his back was to the pole camera) who wound up and kicked Mr. Nichols in the head so hard, he was probably the one who broke Mr. Nichols' neck. They BROKE HIS NECK.\nI will never understand this.", ">\n\nAnd what praytell causes soaring crime?", ">\n\nHow could the bar be any lower? We need James Cameron." ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point.", ">\n\nMaybe. And stick with me here. Maybe the solution to crime isn’t to give idiots with anger issues military grade weapons. Just positing that theory in response to decades of failure.", ">\n\nThis video was hard to watch. I want to know which cop it was (saw it on the video, but his back was to the pole camera) who wound up and kicked Mr. Nichols in the head so hard, he was probably the one who broke Mr. Nichols' neck. They BROKE HIS NECK.\nI will never understand this.", ">\n\nAnd what praytell causes soaring crime?", ">\n\nHow could the bar be any lower? We need James Cameron.", ">\n\nWhat could possibly go wrong?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point.", ">\n\nMaybe. And stick with me here. Maybe the solution to crime isn’t to give idiots with anger issues military grade weapons. Just positing that theory in response to decades of failure.", ">\n\nThis video was hard to watch. I want to know which cop it was (saw it on the video, but his back was to the pole camera) who wound up and kicked Mr. Nichols in the head so hard, he was probably the one who broke Mr. Nichols' neck. They BROKE HIS NECK.\nI will never understand this.", ">\n\nAnd what praytell causes soaring crime?", ">\n\nHow could the bar be any lower? We need James Cameron.", ">\n\nWhat could possibly go wrong?", ">\n\nLower bar? Is.. is that even possible?" ]

[ "no shit. that cop couldn't run a quarter block, yet somehow got on a special crime unit.", ">\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.", ">\n\n\nIt should be made clear that the officers who killed Tyre Nichols were hired before Memphis began lowering their requirements, and were not a product of that new hiring initiative.\n\nMost important facts of the story right here. Sounds like someone is trying to obfuscate the facts", ">\n\nComes off to me like they had to set an already low bar even lower.", ">\n\nLike it's become a limbo contest.", ">\n\nOh, good. We need more badly behaved people with power and guns on the street", ">\n\nWe don't exactly have a line of studs waiting kn the wings", ">\n\nYup. The answer is probably to increase taxes and pay cops a lot better, while also increasing the education requirements to become a cop. Make it a destination job.\nThe issue is that raising taxes doesn't lead to reelection and raising the minimum requirements to become a cop may well lead to the same race discrepancies that you see in other professional fields like attorneys and doctors.", ">\n\nMaybe they could try to address some of the issues that lead to crimes before they become issues that require so many police.", ">\n\nCertainly. I imagine there are a LOT of things that can be done to help the problem.", ">\n\nThis isn't a problem caused by a \"low bar\" because this isn't a problem of individuals. This is a problem with the culture of the department (and many departments throughout the country). There's no way the SCORPION unit was all peaches and cream up until that one night, and there's no way it got to that point in secret or isolation from the rest of the department. The fact that individuals who weren't part of SCORPION, like the EMTs, contributed as they did demonstrates that.", ">\n\nBingo. That kind of behaviour doesn’t just exist in a vacuum. How many incidents do we not know about?", ">\n\nExactly. In addition to that, how many more possible police recruits today know about the pervasive culture in most police departments of brutality and lawlessness that are endorsed and covered up by those departments, and feel like that's not the kind of career they want to have? You want to talk about what is contributing to lowered rates of hiring among police agencies, that's a big part of it right there.", ">\n\nMarty McFly: \"Hey, I've Seen This One!\"", ">\n\nah yes, this will definitely turn out well", ">\n\nGreat, Chicago wants to do the same fucking thing! We’re governed by a bunch of fucking idiots!", ">\n\nBecause police departments are notorious for ridiculously high hiring standards, like not scoring too high on the iq test", ">\n\nCops don't stop crime. Everyone in the city could be a cop and you would still have rising crime. Until you deal with systemic issues such as poverty, dwindling community centers, decrepit school systems, and an over-militarized and hostile police force; nothing will change. \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records. And the police academy even dropped timing requirements on physical fitness drills and removed running entirely because too many people were failing.\n\nThese are the major issues. You get people who can't chase down a suspect, you're gonna get more cops just shooting people because they can't run 100 feet.", ">\n\nHow do we get the crooks off the street?\nGive them badges.", ">\n\nSome people will assume you’re exaggerating, but that’s exactly what they did. From the article \n\nThe department also sought state waivers to hire applicants with criminal records", ">\n\nIs hedley lamarr doing the hiring", ">\n\nIt's a literal bar. If you can limbo under it, you're in!", ">\n\nIt's so low now you just need to trip over it.", ">\n\nThe police: A welfare program for sociopathic and/or authoritarian dirtbags.", ">\n\nI thought that was TSA", ">\n\nWe’re both right! 😊", ">\n\nCheap, fast or high quality. Pick one, maybe two if you're lucky, almost never three.", ">\n\nI can't get mad about it. \nI can't imagine someone with good job prospects seeking out that job unless they had ties to it through family or military background. You'd have to pay me 150k a year for me to consider it.", ">\n\nI think this is the issue that a lot of people on here don’t want to acknowledge. The majority of people would never even consider applying to be a cop, even if the pay was $150K. I’m guessing there are a lot of people on here who were raised and live in middle class areas and actively avoid spending time in the bad parts of town. Sure they might drive through those parts but they aren’t visiting parks, getting gas, buying food, or hanging out there. Then they wonder why there aren’t more people that share their world views and experiences applying to be police and have to not only patrol those bad parts but also respond to possibly dangerous situations there.", ">\n\nFox News was running around and saying the lower standards were due to \"defund the police\"\n\nthe scorpion unit existed because of additional funding\nNo one \"defunded\" their police deoartment\n\nconservatives are just insane", ">\n\nI see this shit on NextDoor all the time regarding my local police as well. People report minor crimes or mentally ill homeless people disturbing the peace and how the cops show up hours later or not at all. Someone always decides to post that’s because the police were de-funded which is so easily disproved. In fact the department has only gotten budget increaess but you can’t change an opinion with logic if logic wasn’t used to form the opinion in the first place.", ">\n\nand of course\nhousing the unhoused is also off the table for these people\nbecause that would be \"bad\" for some reason\neven though ti would objectively make their lives better as well as the unhoused persons\nit's truly brainwashing", ">\n\nThat they're causing and committing the crimes only made their recruitment easier.", ">\n\nIsn't the bar dragging on the ground by now?", ">\n\nWouldn't it be easier if they just committed to helping people and solving crimes with the resources they have?", ">\n\nCan't hire good people to be cops if you have a bunch of bad cops on the force. Like wants to be with like, so bad cops on the force only attracts bad people to be cops.", ">\n\nUnsurprising. Who in their right mind would want to be MPD, even before this?", ">\n\nThe bar has been lowered everywhere and for years. This is not new.", ">\n\ncan the media please stop with this fear mongering “soaring crime” narrative? yes, there has been a recent increase in crime and that should be looked into and addressed (probably has something to do with a pandemic & inflation decimating a lot of people’s livelihood) but it’s still lower than crime rates from just 10-15 years ago ffs. \nScreaming about “crime is out of control” helps the police because cities then increase police budgets, often with little oversight, rather than using that money to actually address the reasons crime is increasing to begin with.", ">\n\nThe bar is already on the goddamn floor.", ">\n\nBecause of course they did! They’re already getting maybe 20 weeks of police training before being out on patrol - it takes longer to learn to cut hair!!\n “WhAt CoULd PoSsIbLy Go WrOnG?!?!?”", ">\n\nWoof... I'm picturing the scene from Blazing Saddles. \n\"Qualifications?\"", ">\n\nPoverty is the mother of crime. Instead of fixing it though let’s just hire more criminals.", ">\n\nPoverty is not the mother of crime. Its the uncle. Inequality is the mother and father of crime. There are countries far, FAR poorer than even the poorest neighborhoods in the US with practically zero crime. Its because they are all in poverty equally. But when you have extreme poverty next to extreme wealth, crime originates.", ">\n\nI was quoting Marcus Aurelius.", ">\n\nIt's not like the bar was particularly high to begin with. Especially in a Red state.", ">\n\nWhen all you have is a chainsaw, everything looks like grass.", ">\n\nThere is an IQ cap… maybe the should get rid of that standard first….", ">\n\nBut they still won’t take anyone that gets better than 90% on the entrance exam.", ">\n\nI have a masters in criminal justice and couldn’t get hired anywhere I applied.", ">\n\nQuestion from across the pond:\nSo how long does a copper get training over there? Or does that vary from state to state?\nBonus question: is police training like 'federally standardized' across the States? Or is it more like your public schools, where the richer States/counties get the good stuff?", ">\n\nTypically 4 to 6 months of training. I'm pretty sure each state has its own legislature that oversees the training standards required. \nFederal laws over state laws, state laws over county laws and individual county bylaws. \nEasiest way to break down how most shit works in the US is, each state has its own state taxes for stuff like state police, state colleges, national gaurd etc. within each state you have separate counties. The higher the population and income in the county, the higher the funding collected through various taxes. That's how public schools get funding. you could have a high income county next to a low income county and they wouldn't share money for funding. You also have state and federal grants where tax money collected can be given if you meet the needed requirements to supplement lower income areas. In a nut shell with leaving stuff out for simplicity lol", ">\n\nBasically if you want to continue with crime, join the winning team", ">\n\nPushing the blame on the public. As usual.", ">\n\nThe bar was on the floor, what did they toss it in a ditch?", ">\n\nThis is worded to excuse the department aside from their hiring practices.\nIt's all bad. Everything they do. Not just \"how they hired due to recent circumstances\".", ">\n\nWhich lowers the bar for \"firing.\"", ">\n\nOnly solution is to cut federal tax rates and create an environment where states can tax more, the ones who actually pay for and provide the services that government is supposed to", ">\n\nLowered the bar? Isn’t that the problem?", ">\n\nBeing a cop means you’re going to be held to a higher standard than other people. If you can’t handle that, you shouldn’t be a cop.", ">\n\nWe already knew that, why is this news?", ">\n\nA few years ago they diminished health and other benefits for the police officers. Most transferred to other departments. Thus they lost a lot of experienced officers. Then they passed a law that all new employees must live in Memphis. \nThe hiring pool of new employees attracted less qualified applicants.", ">\n\nLower the bar? I did not know it was possible at this point.", ">\n\nMaybe. And stick with me here. Maybe the solution to crime isn’t to give idiots with anger issues military grade weapons. Just positing that theory in response to decades of failure.", ">\n\nThis video was hard to watch. I want to know which cop it was (saw it on the video, but his back was to the pole camera) who wound up and kicked Mr. Nichols in the head so hard, he was probably the one who broke Mr. Nichols' neck. They BROKE HIS NECK.\nI will never understand this.", ">\n\nAnd what praytell causes soaring crime?", ">\n\nHow could the bar be any lower? We need James Cameron.", ">\n\nWhat could possibly go wrong?", ">\n\nLower bar? Is.. is that even possible?", ">\n\nSo they dug a deeper ditch into which to lower the bar?" ]

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[ "This guys life must absolutely suck." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics.." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz.", ">\n\nHis voters want to make sure he's a vicious psychopath willing to shred desperate brown families lives apart before voting him in for president. How else will the KKK and neonazi's rise to power and make the US a Christian only nation where gays get gas chambered and women are property?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz.", ">\n\nHis voters want to make sure he's a vicious psychopath willing to shred desperate brown families lives apart before voting him in for president. How else will the KKK and neonazi's rise to power and make the US a Christian only nation where gays get gas chambered and women are property?", ">\n\nIt’d be hard without all that it’s true." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz.", ">\n\nHis voters want to make sure he's a vicious psychopath willing to shred desperate brown families lives apart before voting him in for president. How else will the KKK and neonazi's rise to power and make the US a Christian only nation where gays get gas chambered and women are property?", ">\n\nIt’d be hard without all that it’s true.", ">\n\nPost-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz.", ">\n\nHis voters want to make sure he's a vicious psychopath willing to shred desperate brown families lives apart before voting him in for president. How else will the KKK and neonazi's rise to power and make the US a Christian only nation where gays get gas chambered and women are property?", ">\n\nIt’d be hard without all that it’s true.", ">\n\nPost-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947", ">\n\nIt's starting to look more and more like governors are now kings with how the GOP dictates policy in their kingdowns." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz.", ">\n\nHis voters want to make sure he's a vicious psychopath willing to shred desperate brown families lives apart before voting him in for president. How else will the KKK and neonazi's rise to power and make the US a Christian only nation where gays get gas chambered and women are property?", ">\n\nIt’d be hard without all that it’s true.", ">\n\nPost-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947", ">\n\nIt's starting to look more and more like governors are now kings with how the GOP dictates policy in their kingdowns.", ">\n\nCan't he be busted for the last time he did this shit already? Now he's asking to do it more?" ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz.", ">\n\nHis voters want to make sure he's a vicious psychopath willing to shred desperate brown families lives apart before voting him in for president. How else will the KKK and neonazi's rise to power and make the US a Christian only nation where gays get gas chambered and women are property?", ">\n\nIt’d be hard without all that it’s true.", ">\n\nPost-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947", ">\n\nIt's starting to look more and more like governors are now kings with how the GOP dictates policy in their kingdowns.", ">\n\nCan't he be busted for the last time he did this shit already? Now he's asking to do it more?", ">\n\nAnd to think, Floridiots voted for this chump in record numbers. They must deserve him." ]

[ "This guys life must absolutely suck.", ">\n\nUnfortunately probably not, as soon as Desantis (and others like him) go into this hateful rhetoric method they find out that their checks grow zeros. So no, he is probably banking well on this hate train.", ">\n\nRich people are miserable too. No amount of zeros fills the hole and there is ultimately no game to win.\nEdit/relevant: It all goes back in the box", ">\n\nThe key difference is that, while your life may suck either way, it's much easier to address your issues if you've got the time/money to do so.", ">\n\nWasn't DeathSantis last migrant stunt already under federal investigation?", ">\n\nSpecial session started today to change things up -\nThe migrant bill filed by GOP legislators would immediately wipe out the budget language that authorized the program — and which has been a focus of a lawsuit by Democratic state Sen. Jason Pizzo. It would also shift the remaining money to a different agency and make it clear in the future that migrants could be transported from anywhere in the U.S., not just Florida.", ">\n\nSo the citizens of Florida are willing to spend $12,000,000 to send someone from Nevada to another state? Thank goodness all of Florida's problems are solved.", ">\n\nYes.\nThere is no joke or snappy comeback.\nThe cruelty is worth it to them.", ">\n\nFloridian here, fuck you guys. I didn't vote for this piece of shit and I'm certainly not ok with it.", ">\n\nExcellent bro, now talk some sense into some other Floridians lol things are getting a bit German where you are and remember what happened September 1st 1939.", ">\n\nGermany invaded Poland...\nWe going after Alabama and no one told me?", ">\n\nIf anyone is interested in studying how fascism takes over a country and how dictators come to power, just focus on what's happening in Florida with Desantis. You can watch it happening in real time.", ">\n\nThe fact that a state is openly participating in, and actively encouraging other states to participate in human trafficking shows that the Holocaust 2.0 is not impossible by any fucking means. Once a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like", ">\n\n\nOnce a group of humans are reduced to cargo it becomes possible to do anything to them you’d like\n\nWhen Greg Abbott pulled a similar stunt by dumping a busload of migrants outside of Kamala Harris' house on christmas eve, I had the same realisation when I kept reading his supporters cheering him on. The migrants had been successfully dehumanised. They were no longer seen as people, they were simply 'illegals' who clearly 'deserved it'.\nI wonder just how future historians are going to look back on the past decade, and I worry how they will look back on the next one.", ">\n\nThe good news is that, for the first time in recorded history, we actually have credible scientific evidence and theories to suggest that \"history\" is actually going to go away... because most of civilization is, followed, inevitably, by the human race. It might be a long, sad, horrible tail, but once this particular global civilization collapses, that's it. The environment will be too hostile and too depleted for us to successfully rebuild.", ">\n\nThe GOOD news?????", ">\n\nProsecute everyone involved (from bus driver to governor and everyone in between) for people trafficking just once and I guarantee it will stop.\nEdit: And seize any vehicle involved.", ">\n\nDOJ: Oh no, must not do anything rash.", ">\n\nMore like doj: oh this is political we can’t do anything until mainstream media and public outcry reaches an all time high.", ">\n\nTime to boycott any transportation companies that participate in Florida’s human trafficking campaign", ">\n\nWhy don’t we just boycott Florida?", ">\n\nBut hey, \"god made a fighter\"", ">\n\nReimbursement should come out of his personal pockets and he needs to be charged with abuse of power or abuse of authority, in the form of \"malfeasance in office\" or \"official abuse of power\", done in an official capacity.", ">\n\nHe needs to be charged with human trafficking.", ">\n\nRon's friends & family must own the migrant transport companies.", ">\n\nApparently, because this is an \"emergency\", he will be awarding closed contracts to the chosen companies.", ">\n\nFloridians funding his 2024 aspirations.", ">\n\nAnd some of them think he's the second coming with the \"yay Desantis\" \"don't New York my Florida\" bullshit but they don't realize he's just going to up and leave in a few months. He doesn't give a shit about Floridians, just his presidential aspirations.", ">\n\n“Don’t New York my Florida”?!?! As someone who was born in Florida and watched EVERY SINGLE asshole republican come down here from New York and turned a swing state into a red one, uhhh..\nThe FUCK?", ">\n\nHonestly I saw a yard sign in Lake County a couple of weeks ago... I totally agree with you though.", ">\n\n\"I want the taxpayers to pay for my 2024 presidential campaign stunts.\"", ">\n\nFirst rule of capitalism is never spend your own money", ">\n\nHard to know the worst part about this. Most of the 12 million is for legal defense for the state of Florida. It sends the message that anything is legal if you have enough money.", ">\n\nYou’re just learning this now because of the migrant flights? Not from any of the multitude past examples that based upon wealthy private citizens- not government officials? 🤨", ">\n\nWhat an absolute piece of garbage.", ">\n\nIs he throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks? This AH has another idiotic idea every hour.", ">\n\nI wonder how many could be fed, housed, and integrated as legal residents and tax payers for 12M", ">\n\nAssuming an average annual salary of $50K per person, it could provide for around 240 people.", ">\n\nI assume you intend to mean \"give 50k dollars to 240 immigrants \" instead of investing 12m into infrastructure that could recruit future Americans into quickly adjusting to residential status amd becoming contributing taxpayers\nAnd no 12m isn't enough, but I think it's a better start than \"round up the brown people and deport them from florida\"", ">\n\n$12 million is definitely a good start for investing in infrastructure to help these people find a legitimate path to citizenship and it’s a much better idea than rounding people up and shipping them elsewhere, especially since DeSantis has overlooked the one fatal flaw of his plan.\nIt won’t work.\nThe majority of Florida’s border is oceanfront and not even the Coast Guard can stop all the migrants who sail across the Gulf from Mexico or up the Atlantic from Cuba or Haiti or countless other countries. He could spend $12 million to round them up today but what’s he doing with tomorrow’s batch of new immigrants?\nI agree that we need to do better with immigration reform but people like DeSantis are asking all the wrong questions and trying to solve the problem with all the wrong answers.", ">\n\nDeSantis is a fascist.", ">\n\nRon Defacist!", ">\n\n\nThe claim about protecting Floridians also rested on shaky ground. The flights targeted migrants who weren't even in Florida to begin with. (DeSantis claimed that \"most of them [were] intending to come to Florida.\")\n\nDeSantis had trouble selling his fiction that the flights were to protect Florida from \"the evil immigrants.\" He could stop this behavior and move on to something else. Instead, he's just going to drop all pretense of this being to help Florida in any way.", ">\n\nMeanwhile, the Cubans in his state are fine.", ">\n\nThey’ll vote blue til they turn blue. It is what it is.", ">\n\nmost vote red.", ">\n\nCorrect, they vote republican.", ">\n\nCorrect… they vote red. so they won’t “vote blue til they turn blue” will they?", ">\n\nYeah, my original comment was a mistake. I thought that was clear.", ">\n\nThe absolute hypocrisy of this guy is that the Cuban migrants get the red carpet laid out for them. They don't get turned back.... They get released to their families and they get food stamps and check... In some cases they get housing...\nThis guy is that epitome of what's wrong in politics..", ">\n\nImagine if he becomes president he will probably sign a executive order that all immigrants must be relocated to Hollywood.", ">\n\nEvery state that gets a bus or plane load of migrants should confiscate the bus or plane under civil forfeiture as part of potential human trafficking. Once these companies start to lose their equipment, they may become reluctant to take jobs like this.", ">\n\nFellow Floridians, are we ready to riot yet? I’ve been down to get angry about shot for a while. What’s going to be our boiler-plate moment?", ">\n\nEveryone is using Twitter and Social Media as a Pressure Release Valve. They get pissed then head to twitter, post an indignant response to a DeSantis post he'll never see, maybe post a few funny memes slamming MAGA voters, and then they're indignation and outrage is sated until the next flare up.", ">\n\nThis is so fucking dumb and vile. They can make sure to have money for this but not to actually help people in Florida. That’s $12M right there that could stay “in the pockets.”\nThis is pure fascism and it needs to be addressed. I know we are watching this as voters and agree it’s fascism. But just don’t get how the entire government just sits back to let it be a state issue when the state actively engages to being mismanaged and hurting its residents.", ">\n\nPeople of Florida, you hired this guy and you can fire him.\nPeople of America, I don’t like this guy’s resume so let’s keep shopping around.", ">\n\nStunts work with his voters, they don’t care about actual plans and reality and all that jazz.", ">\n\nHis voters want to make sure he's a vicious psychopath willing to shred desperate brown families lives apart before voting him in for president. How else will the KKK and neonazi's rise to power and make the US a Christian only nation where gays get gas chambered and women are property?", ">\n\nIt’d be hard without all that it’s true.", ">\n\nPost-WW2 Anti-Fascist Educational Film | Don't Be a Sucker | 1947", ">\n\nIt's starting to look more and more like governors are now kings with how the GOP dictates policy in their kingdowns.", ">\n\nCan't he be busted for the last time he did this shit already? Now he's asking to do it more?", ">\n\nAnd to think, Floridiots voted for this chump in record numbers. They must deserve him.", ">\n\nCan our governors just be governors and not god damn celebrities." ]