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Home Front: Politix
Chicago's progressive mayor Brandon Johnson claims REPARATIONS will help tackle 'the cycle of violence' amid a 17 per cent surge in crime
2023-12-29
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] “Quick! Throw lotsa money at ‘em — bread & circuses always worked before!”
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Translation of Johnson's comments: If you stop yelling about the invaders, we'll buy you more menthol cigs, malt liquor and weed.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-12-29 13:58  

#8  Squirrel 🐿️
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-12-29 12:24  

#7  reparation $$ from people who never owned slaves to people who were never slaves?
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-29 12:21  

#6  #4 more cultural. Urban utes far more so than rural ones from my observation. Some meme out there shows that if you eliminate 5 cities from the body count, America moves to like 187 out of 198 in gun deaths (excluding wars).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-29 08:49  

#5  

So, basically give them other people's money, using the Government as a LEGALIZED thief.

BUT!! Since TAX $$$$'s are being used, aren't they helping to pay for their own Reparation also?

Posted by: NN2N1   2023-12-29 07:36  

#4  ^Cultural or Genetic?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-29 07:20  

#3  /\......cultural in nature.

The most frequently denied phrase of the modern era.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-29 07:17  

#2  Reparations (on top of over a trillion dollars spent on Great Society programs since the '60s) are not going to change what is cultural in nature. History shows the spilling of a lot of blood does.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-29 06:53  

#1  We'll simply pay them to not kill one another.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-29 06:16  

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