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You know, politicians seem to love the pattern: Tragedy! - Something must be done! - This is something, therefor it must be done!
So if I was to say I think our current crop of politicians were making these tragedies more likely to occur by inflaming things... They would be all for having panels set up to investigate them and suggest how to rein in their extremist tendencies, right?
Yeah. Didn't think so. They're only in favor of nonsense when it's pointed by them at others.
Behaving sensibly sadly is about as likely as their pushing to improve mental health care, supporting community policing over antagonistic occupation policing (why yes, our local sheriff does indeed have an armored personnel carrier, not a van with ego issues but an actual APC complete with fifty-caliber machine gun), or put significant increases into basic science and engineering R&D.
So if I was to say I think our current crop of politicians were making these tragedies more likely to occur by inflaming things... They would be all for having panels set up to investigate them and suggest how to rein in their extremist tendencies, right?
Yeah. Didn't think so. They're only in favor of nonsense when it's pointed by them at others.
Behaving sensibly sadly is about as likely as their pushing to improve mental health care, supporting community policing over antagonistic occupation policing (why yes, our local sheriff does indeed have an armored personnel carrier, not a van with ego issues but an actual APC complete with fifty-caliber machine gun), or put significant increases into basic science and engineering R&D.
