Hmgeisler t1_iu2l42g wrote
Your last paragraph comes across as a bit of a dog whistle…
pangaea1972 t1_iu2n0ja wrote
Yeah. This is terrible, OP, but what point are you trying to make with your commentary?
Hmgeisler t1_iu2n2z4 wrote
I think we know
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2p5vw wrote
My point is that I have lived in Squirrel Hill my entire life, and the people who live in this neighborhood are kind and decent. The violent crime that's happening here is being caused by people from other neighborhoods. That is a fact. It is the truth.
Pencilveinyah t1_iu4cht4 wrote
I never understood the people who use the “these criminals don’t live here” response when crime happens in their neighborhood.
Who cares where they live? If you are getting robbed would you feel better if your neighbor was doing it? The red flag is where the crime is happening not where the criminal goes home to rest his head
It seems like you are really saying that you don’t want outsiders in your neighborhood which is a very privileged way of thinking. Maybe build a wall around squirrel hill?
DanielAlman OP t1_iu8333f wrote
I'm happy to have the 99.9% of visitors to Squirrel Hill who are law abiding. You do raise a good point.
Odd_Description_2295 t1_iu5yk5y wrote
Kind of elitist....but whatever.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu8379q wrote
It's not about money. I myself do not own a car or a smart phone, and I live in a one bedroom apartment.
Pencilveinyah t1_iu8wcjc wrote
Why do you keep volunteering all this personal information about yourself? Nobody cares.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2pit3 wrote
The scumbag who murdered 11 people at Tree of Life is white. So how is my comment like a dog whistle?
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Hmgeisler t1_iu2o88f wrote
Who has been saying that? I just keep hearing about how he’s a quack of a doctor, not a resident of PA, and shills for fake medical products. Oh, and he kills animals and has no experience in government. But maybe I’m not seeing it because I don’t watch fX news, oan, and the like.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2pd9y wrote
I'm a vegetarian and a libertarian. I'm not voting for Oz.
Hmgeisler t1_iu2pmef wrote
More of a Ron Paul guy. Got it.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2r2yx wrote
And here's a reason why I'm a libertarian. I really, really don't understand why most black people voted for this racist:
Joe Biden on Crime and Mass Incarceration
During the ’80s and ’90s, Mr. Biden helped shepherd a string of bills that transformed the criminal justice system — and, experts say, hurt America’s black communities.
June 27, 2019
As Joseph R. Biden Jr. makes his third run for the White House, he is being pressed to answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities.
During the 1980s and 1990s, when Mr. Biden was a senator from Delaware, he and other leaders of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee helped fashion a string of bills that overhauled the country’s crime laws.
Among the most significant were: the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984, which established mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses; the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act, which imposed harsher sentences for possession of crack than for possession of powder cocaine; and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which was essentially a catchall tough-on-crime bill.
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‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration
He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.
June 25, 2019
Now, more than 25 years later, as Mr. Biden makes his third run for the White House in a crowded field of Democrats – many calling for ambitious criminal justice reform — he must answer for his role in legislation that criminal justice experts and his critics say helped lay the groundwork for the mass incarceration that has devastated America’s black communities. That he worked with segregationists to write the bills — an issue that recently dominated the political news and seems likely to resurface in Mr. Biden’s first debate on Thursday – has only added to his challenge. So has the fact that black voters are such a crucial Democratic constituency.
uniquelabel t1_iu6khgr wrote
Which racist do you think black people should have voted for?
DanielAlman OP t1_iu86340 wrote
I have never understood why most black people vote for the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow, school segregation, redlining, Japanese internment, Robert Byrd, and Ralph Northam.
uniquelabel t1_iu9bbbd wrote
It’s an interesting question. Democrats were 100% the party of racism in the 1800s, while Republicans were the party of Lincoln and abolition and civil rights. So what changed? If you’re really curious, you can read about the Dixiecrats, and the “southern strategy”. It’s interesting history.
DanielAlman OP t1_iueeuqo wrote
I know about the southern strategy. But the fact remains that after Robert Byrd started his own KKK chapter and recruited 150 of his friends and family members to join, he later got elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. And if he hadn't died, he would still be in office as a Democrat. Hillary Clinton even referred to him as her good friend and mentor. Byrd never changed his party affiliation to Republican.
Democrat Ralph Northam said it was indeed him in a racist photograph from college, but he wasn't sure if he was the guy in the KKK outfit, or the guy in blackface. And he never changed his affiliation to Republican either.
Joe Biden never changed his affiliation to Republican after creating his racist crime bill.
Democrats are also the party that thinks black people are too stupid to get into college without special racial preferences, despite the fact that there are a lot of very intelligent, very bright black people who did very, very well in high school, and who are perfectly capable of getting into college based 100% on merit.
uniquelabel t1_iufdbiz wrote
I suspect, if you look around, you can also find an example or two of Republicans being racist.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2qqgl wrote
I actually wrote in Ron Paul for President in 2008 because I thought the official Libertarian Party candidate was not libertarian enough.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2p9xn wrote
I'm not voting for Oz. I'm a libertarian.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2ow12 wrote
It's a fact that the scumbag who murdered Karen Hurwitz, the guy who killed 11 people at Tree of Life, and the teens who recently assaulted a police officer at the bus stop near Starbucks on Murray Ave, were not from Squirrel Hill. What I said is 100% true. I don't understand why some people find that offensive. I happen to be interested in the truth. If some people find that offensive, that's on them, not me.
Hmgeisler t1_iu2pglk wrote
If a random person moved to sq hill a month ago, are they from sq hill? You’re using a zip code as a way of life or something.
DanielAlman OP t1_iu2qjht wrote
No, they are not from Squirrel Hill. But they do live in Squirrel Hill. Your point is valid. That being said, a lot of people who live here, have lived here for their entire life. Back when the Squirrel Hill Giant Eagle used to be open 24 hours, I liked to go grocery shopping at 3 A.M. And I don't drive. I've always felt perfectly safe, walking alone, even in the middle of the night. It's so calm and peaceful. This is generally a very, very safe neighborhood.
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