Not at all. I’m saying that’s a thing we would expect to happen, if cops were just a normal profession that doesn’t have systems that encourage domestic violence. If the 40% figure from the 90s hasn’t decreased by much, stayed flat or gone up, then that’s pretty damning evidence of another thing that’s rotten in the…

Thanks for saying so. Though it always gets a little harder to order my thoughts, I find that makes it all the more important to do.

Yeah, especially in this instance, since if that number is still in the 40% ballpark that would say a lot about police culture. My hypothesis would be that the number should drop somewhat as Greatest, Silent, and Boomer generation cops, who were raised in a culture more tolerant of domestic violence, aged out. But, if…

I suppose I could be wrong then, if they’re based on recent information. Do you have a link?

I suppose I could be wrong then, if they’re based on recent information. Do you have a link?

Everybody knows the only aliens lame enough to visit Earth in 2020 are those dopes from Alpha Centauri A, who look exactly like Swedish tourists.

Those definitely sound like some plausible theories. Whatever the reason, I do kind of wonder why, with all these tidbits slinking out, Fox News hasn’t been blasting “ALIENS!!!” into the amygdala of every Boomer uncle. You’d think that would be a great message to support runaway military spending and xenophobia?

Hang in there! We just may yet beat these jokers.

Of course, citing your hallucinations as justification for policy has a long and storied tradition in Republican politics.

This. Very much this. If we’re organized and fortunate enough to win this November, we can’t do the usual “heal the divide/look forward not backward.” We’ll need some kind of commission to assess all the ways Republican Party has degraded our democracy and do what we must to correct them. And that includes prosecuting…

Oh yeah, I’m sure. But that is a very good point. I guess it should read 23% of cops are proud to admit to having a favorable view of white supremacists to pollsters. Now that’s a terrifying thought.  They’re feeling like they don’t even have to be closeted neo-nazis anymore.

Unfortunately, that statistic is really old. Though I strongly suspect the number will still prove disturbingly high, the study that produced it used resources from the early 90s. I wouldn’t rely on that for any other kind of crime rates. We really need some new data on that topic.

In related, but non-bullshit polling news, 23% of cops have a favorable view of white supremacists. It’s reprehensible, but not surprising, since we didn’t do anything when the FBI was sounding the alarm in 2006 that neo-nazis were infiltrating law enforcement (not that cops were champions of social progress before…

Yeah, I have a hard time imagining asking a question that would give you that result without it being a push poll.

Speaking of New York politics, anybody know if it’s been resolved whether the late ballots mailed before/on election day will be counted?

My personal theory, as someone who holds a modified version of solipsism and has a neurodegenerative disorder, is that reality is going to get weirder and scarier as my brain continues to melt. Sorry, if true.

Yeah, the capitalists pulled a neat trick at the start of the Cold War, where they convinced a majority of Americans that an economic system was synonymous with the totalitarian political system of our chief rival. Even so, the effects of socialism were still very popular through the 70s. Then St. Reagan came along…

Quite. Though I’d also add that our real competition fights with hacking, trade deals, research (especially AI research), and propaganda.

If they skipped the payroll tax bails outs and other shit for corporations and just have every american universal basic income for 3 months