MilagroB wrote: "Expect the likey button pushes to crash double digits."

That's when ya know you've finally made it.

MilagroB wrote: "The cheap, derivative bastards once again display their predilections to be arbitrary cunts. If they ever stop claiming a much too obvious cover for an inability to feel and ape being semi-sentient, they might "contribute" their "poetic" masturbation fantasies somewhere."

Makes more sense than the average Trump speech. Not saying much, but still.

Regardless of the author, that's some entertaining writing. Dig it.
Brian

MilagroB wrote: "FUCK ALL THE BULLSHIT UNTIL THESE STUPID, VIOLENT MUFUGGAS ARE ENCLOSED SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY CAN KILL EACH OTHER OFF."

I take it you didn't bother reading to the end of the article:

"Crime is actually down in much of Seattle. According to statistics from the city, robbery was down 9% in 2019 compared to 2018 and aggravated assaults were down 4%. There were also fewer aggravated assaults and homicides (27 homicides in 2019 compared with 32 the previous year)."

MilagroB wrote: "Two 24 year olds with 65 arrests, at least one for gun possession, shouldn't be walking around with decent people."

I'd be more inclined to take a look at the society that produces such individuals in the first place, then see what could be done to help address that, as opposed to prescribing more incarceration as a solution.

MilagroB wrote: "I truly expected an indictment of society. No archaic notions of personal responsibility."

Personal responsibility is all well and good, but just look at every other developed country in the world where the citizenry is actually invested in, as opposed to "every man for himself" and "lock 'em up and throw away the key", and you simply do not see these kinds of problems, or at least not nearly on this scale. Surely you'd at least agree with the concept of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of the cure", and I can think of no better example than spending our tax dollars on things like education, the social safety net, and opportunities for the disadvantaged, etc, instead of just dumping more money on policing and prisons that do nothing to address the roots of these problems while quite possibly making them worse.

To put it another way, QUIT BEING SUCH A FUCKING MORON.

MilagroB wrote: "I'm not sure which country; one smaller one way south, elected a new head honcho a year or two ago. His main platform was that he had personally killed six of the scum, and he would make it legal for every good citizen to do the same."

So, vigilantism is your answer. Well, I don't know how many bullets you think it takes to kill problems like poverty giving rise to street crime in the first place, but good luck with that approach.

I'VE MET ROCKS THAT WERE LESS DENSE THAN YOU

MilagroB wrote: BLOW EM AWAY AND ASK QUESTIONS LATER"

Sez the guy who cried it was "presumptuous to conclude that I endorse vigilantism" in the same breath as "Ideally, I'd have a professional death squad".

BLOW ME AND GO TO HELL SOONER

MilagroB wrote: "And I mean like who is really going to give a fuck if they don't see any of these scumbags again? Only other scumbags."

Did it ever occur to you that there'd be fewer scumbags to contend with if they were given fewer incentives to become scumbags in the first place? I'm thinking more along the lines of adequate housing, education, and job opportunities, less so deterrence through violent retribution, which seems a bit backwards to me and also does not work.

MilagroB wrote: "Seriously, rehabilitation and affordable housing was tried in the 70's"

I'm not talking about 70's-style welfare, nitwit. I'm talking about the United States of America, the richest fucking country in the world, finally joining the other developed nations with 21st-Century social programs that greatly improve the health, happiness, and general well-being of those funding their governments through taxes. And you can hem and haw all you want about how "all economic systems produce some poverty" and how "criminality has been studied and studied" and "no solutions have been found" til you're blue in the goddamn face, but that doesn't change the fact that poverty plays a leading role in many of our most pervasive social problems, and it doesn't erase the evidence of how reducing/eliminating poverty strongly correlates with vastly lower levels of crime elsewhere in the world. Essentially, we can either start actually investing in our society, or we can sit back and watch it continue to get worse.

SO PUT THAT IN YER BABY BOOMER PIPE AND SMOKE IT

MilagroB wrote: "slob assholes who shoot up innocent people and ruin neighborhoods"

Nothing at all like the fat cats killing the rest of us and ruining the entire nation, to be sure.

MilagroB wrote: Killing? Killing? Produce one corpse. Stealing sure. But not even armed robbery."

Hey, at least the guy with the gun pointed at you is being honest about what he's doing. That's the only difference between them and the health insurance CEO, well, that and the fact that the latter kind of crook steals and kills a whole helluva lot more, albeit less directly and with a good PR firm on their side. Anyway, if your mental capacity is so enfeebled that you are not even able to grasp this basic reality, then I'm afraid you are soon to expire for lack of the brain transplant you so desperately need but cannot afford through your plan. Maybe next lifetime, you'll be lucky enough to be born in a country with universal health care, DICK.

MilagroB wrote: "ARTHUR, I GUESS THERE IS NO GOING BACK. IT IS APPARENT THAT YOU HAVE BEEN EFFECTIVELY LIBTARD BRAINWASHED [...] OR THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH "HEAD ISSUES." IN EITHER CASE YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE."

Don't you know that "Libtard" is not considered a very PC term these days?

MilagroB wrote: "The writer has deleted the cogent posts on this thread. What remains is convenient extrapolations taken by AG. We now are assured that AG is as happy as any Libby unaware of history."

YO MAMMA NAME IS LIBBY

TonyClifton wrote: "Hey lowlife. How's about you take your two dollar whores and get the fuck out of here."

My, how uncivil and uncouth!

TonyClifton wrote: "Hey lowlife. How's about you take your two dollar whores and get the fuck out of here."

Hey, Grandpa, I sure don’t like it when you talk about me that way.