Agent Max Remington, At 🇺🇸's Service

During the first Trump administration I had to attend a corporate training seminar. 3 days of classes to get certified in whatever. Sat down at a table filled with people who work in different parts of the company. More or less perfect strangers. At lunch time one of the middle aged ladies sat next to me. We started talking and she immediately brought up how she was so proud of her daughter for protesting the “concentration camps” on our border. And how she’s worried about women’s right to abortion. I’ve never once had a conservative strike up a similar conversation in a professional setting like that.

One of my besties from HS did three years in the Peace Corps in Guinea. She is very type A. For three years she drew up business plans, (tried to teach) taught classes on how to make sellable, sustainable products that would absolutely lift families out of poverty and generate generational wealth. People didn’t show up, materials disappeared, equipment disappeared, there was general apathy and boredom while she was absolutely busting her ass. When she came home she seemed incredibly depressed and had a hard time re-acclimating. She made excuses “it’s the culture” “it’s not how they do things”. She made excuses for how the people she was trying to help basically shit on her efforts. To this day I don’t think wild horses could drag it out of her but I KNOW deep down she knows she wasted three years of her life and made ZERO difference to her village.

I used to review officer-involved shooting reports generated by a D.A. explaining the decision to exonerate officers, and recall often thinking “I mean, could that *really* be how it went down?” I suspected there may be some fog of war or selective memory or post-hoc justification to give the officer a rational justification and paint the victim in a negative, irrational light. But with the post-2020 adoption of body cams, I now believe it all. There is no behavior too insane for a huge number of suspects when confronted with literally any command by an officer requesting some form of compliance. Even I thought body cams would shine a light on some substantial percentage of clear officer abuse, but it’s clearly negligible, while dangerous and erratic behavior by suspects is widespread. It is impossible to overstate how wrong BLM and reform activists were on this count.

I fucking love body cams. I love them when they back up my client's story, and the cop is being a huge jerk, and the jury will never convict just because they hate the cop. And I love them when they wreck my client's story, and we enter a plea. Amazing tool.

There are 50 states in America, yet America refuses to give even one to the so-called American Negroes, who worked 310 years, 16 hours a day, without pay. Their forced labour helped build America into one of the richest nations on Earth. We believe our contribution to this land and the suffering white people inflicted upon us justify our demand. — Mohammed Ali

It just occurred to me that the average right winger believes Africa doesn't have agriculture or livestock

The net-benefit that our nation receives from Somali immigration is the knowledge that 200,000 people have been saved from famine and needless suffering. If you cannot understand why this is important, you’re missing an important source of meaning in life and deserve some pity

this is not a small group of people on the left anymore, but a large, dominant faction without whom democrats can’t win elections. and there is no debating them, because they aren’t interested in changing your mind. they just earnestly want you to die.

Most of the people Trump has deported under these third-country agreements have no criminal record whatsoever.

Because America ruined their country that’s why

Native American: “My ancestors lived on these lands long before all of you. All of you are immigrants to me. This is my land!”

By definition, per capita is a simple ratio: you take a total number and divide it by a total population. It answers one singular question: "What is the average density of this event across this entire group?" It does not—and cannot—measure the likelihood, probability, or risk.

As ever, all sexual crimes are a problem, and far more could and should be done to protect women. But MEN are the issue. Not Asian men, asylum-seeking men, Afghan men, Muslim men, foreign-born men or whatever other culture war angle is the hot topic of the day 23/

The fact is, there are so many variables and that makes comparisons very difficult Who self-declares as Afghan? And who self-declares as British? And who doesn't give a nationality? What population do you divide those by? Born somewhere, holds a passport, national identity? It's incredibly messy!

Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

Per capita measures how often men in a group get convicted, not a woman's risk. She isn't raped by a rate, she's raped by a man, which is why the absolute number is the correct variable to measure the risk a White British woman is facing from all the different groups of men.

Obama showed that it's possible to deport a lot of people under an approach much less cruel than the Trump approach, which is needlessly cruel and ought to shock the conscience of anyone with morality derived from Christian values.

Like 500 years ago a nigga could murder your family, burn down your village, rape 50 little girls then flee because there's no documentation or process to find him or general law of the land to hold him accountable. He's just gone, and could be under protection somewhere else