A Businesskid On A Cloud

This is what happens when the government allows its obligations to be contracted out to private corporations. Fortunately, there’s constitutional grounds to combat this on that even private organizations must follow.

While I don’t question that the U.S. has a tendency to hand out exaggerated prison sentences to portray a “tough on crime” image, Mr. Haberman in this article has picked and argued the worst example of this. Ex-NYPD Officer Pena may not have murdered anyone, but the fact that he raped someone while invested with the trust of the City of New York to protect and serve, warrants a heavier than normal sentence. Mr. Pena not only was fully aware of what law he was breaking, and what harm he was causing, but he’s actually the person we look to to enforce those same laws! And to protect people from the same harm he’s causing! Notably, Mr. Haberman in this article makes no mention of the infamously egregious sentences given for crack dealing from the 90s till now. I also doubt he’s written any article arguing why those should be reduced in the face of social systems encouraging and profiting off systemic poverty. But why do that when you can write about how a rape-cop might be getting too heavy a punishment?

See this is one of my biggest problems: when grown adults act like they have the mental capacity of babies. You know when you have kids in pre-school, and one kid may be mentally or physically challenged and therefore receives some sort of special care (a permanent caretaker or extra help in feeding) or tools (a wheelchair or special “safe” toys) and other kids, unaware of the true meaning of why these kids are getting the special attention they get or why that attention signifies a loss rather than a gain, want to get the same kind of special attention? That’s how ill informed people (read: normally conservatives) seem to act any time a certain race or special interest group gets some sort of specialized attention or slogan. This comes in many forms. Why people display behavior patterns similar to that of a baby saddens and baffles me. I have a friend who didn’t understand why on Facebook I highlight articles particularly about minority victimization rather than victimization in general (read: white people, since that seemed to be the only group he was concerned was left out). Trying to explain to him that highlighting these articles gives more validation to how sad the necessity for this is (in comparison to mainstream groups that will always get highlighted) rather than the gain of positive attention was only so successful. Unaware of the fact that the need for this attention or slogan signifies a macro-level loss rather than gain, many people try to almost jealously create or get their own “special highlight.” Clearly Rush Limbaugh doesn’t understand the difference between a phrase highlighting the minimization of Black life in America (which also got proven when an ex-friend of mine seemed particularly more obsessed with how violated his life had once been by a Black man rather than the larger macro problems of stereotyping all Black men as criminals - excuse my tangent) and re-appropriation of that same phrase to defend against non-violent criticism of political agendas. C’mon world, we need to do better.

Our world far underestimates women, especially when assuming their roles in political movements amounts to little more than being a cum rag. Neo Nazis are apparnetly using women to inconspicuously infiltrate organizations and early-educate kids.

Perhaps. He’s certainly a statistical management nightmare. Apparently this man compressed a longitudinal study into evidence that Black Women were genetically more unattractive than other races.

Just the tip of the iceberg, since this dude has apparently also tried to publish studies suggesting that racism in the United States is a myth. Someone’s trying to start a race war….