If every time you went home, and had to step over a half naked homeless guy holding a half broken glass bottle, sleeping on your porch, your mental health would go into the toilet. That’s how people feel riding the subway everyday.

Literally from the first page of the report you cite

“While we noted the surge in random violence against passengers in all countries, including but not limited to the United States, the structure of MTI’s database simply did not lend itself to proper analysis of the phenomenon And the sources of data were inadequate and unreliable. Fearing that partial reporting would result in incomplete and potentially misleading conclusions, in 2021 we decided to cease counting these events in our database while we explored new data sources and database configurations that would allow us to better capture, analyze, and portray the events. What this means is that the shift from terrorist to anit-social violence throughout the world, but particularly in the United States and perhaps some of the other economically advanced countries, is far greater than what we include in this report. which is why we call for a more robust accounting, and better strategies, for dealing with this problem.”

It states the opposite of what you think it states!!!

That is a correct read and more accurate. These are policies of the Democrats, not a guiding principle of the left.

Feeling uncomfortable is not irrational. Being anxious to take public transit, out of fear of encountering a mentally ill person that might act out violently, is actually a common fear. There is a stigma about talking about this. Careful about finding yourself in an echo chamber.

O please. Get a grip. You’ll get yourself shot. Or you’ll shot a cop, and give an excuse for even more violence and state repression. Individuals can’t fight their way out of repressive regimes.

Get a camera, set it to record to a remote location, preferable a data center in another country. What we really need are tech volunteers to start setting up these types of digital cameras in ethnic neighborhoods to document what is happening.

Yes, his is fascism and should not happen.

However…I do think that the left lives in a bubble sometimes, and fail to get tracking amongst the working class. Working class people really do want proper police protection, and deserve it.

Sure crime statistics are down, but everything has become very uncomfortable. Some homeless guy gets on the bus, drunk, with his stained clothing inside out, and maybe on drugs and now you have to worry if they are going to stab you.
Yes, police should not harass homeless people, but now you have 20 average people on the bus worried that they’ll be stabbed. This mild level of anxiety is constant.

The left has asked the working class to take on a disproportionate amount of burden, yes it’s better to have out treatment for addiction, and not arrest the unhoused, but the working and lower middle class do feel the pinch of this policy affecting them.

The working class, blue collar residents, see Trump make these proclamations and desperately hope something breaks in their favor. It won’t Trump is not a capable manager.

On November 23, 1933 The Nazi Party passed the Law against Dangerous and Habitual Criminals. This led to beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.

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Trump makes a bizarre statement -> the press publish it -> the Republican controlled government uses it as a footnote from a reliable news source to justify its random actions -> things go horribly wrong and the GOP blames the Democrats

There is also the knock-on effect, when AI goes belly up, the tech industry will be stagnant for some time. So many of the tech developments will be hampered.

Trump is trying to protect some industries with tariffs, not realizing that nationalism brings problems and people stay away, hurting tourism.

…and the crap that makes these people happy; loud obnoxious cars and boats, McMansions, guns, are all really detrimental to everyone else.

At what point does the U.S.A need to start amending the constitution? I’ll bet within in the next 20 years, they’ll have to be serious amendments. Soon as the Boomer generation starts to lose politically. The U.S.A. seems to be in a holding pattern at the moment.

If you do enough crime, it’s too hard to prosecute because no one knows where to start?

The popular vote went to Hillary. The current American ‘democracy’ is not very good and needs to be fixed with more democracy.

The type of people breed by suburbs; under-socialized and lonely.

I like coil top stoves, and hate computers in bedded in stoves.

It’s hard to find a simple coil top stove. Most now have computerized controls, those computers don’t last longer than 10 years before the capacitors in them wear out. Cost of repair is the the cost of a new stove.

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At the very minimum ranked ballots.