I have encountered a lot of confusion here in Chicago, as well, among newer folks who think "the cops are on our side" because they are often seemingly abiding by state law and not directly assisting ICE. So many people have asked if we can call the cops when ICE harms and abuses people. It's hard.

…he is doing that in business shoes and a suit better than I did in proper dress for practice.

Not only doing the side quests, but doing them WELL.

The thread is Mundane Halloween Costumes

I love this one because she nailed the theme, relatably

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The thing is, if you don't have artistic ability, AI will not magically make you one, and if you do, AI could have been a useful tool to support artistry if it hadn't instead been trained as a plagiarism machine :-)

when you appeal to empathy or decency they say, "we're making the hard choices,"; ie, we enjoy hurting people.

they experience the ability to oppress others as pleasure and as a guarantor of their own status.

this is why studies don't matter and can't affect their views. they don't really care if it's actually a problem to give people money because they personally enjoy harming poor people and crushing them beneath their feet.

hating poor people is fun. it's leisure entertainment. they love it.

like, it's not just that they don't want poor people to buy steak.

it's that they positively enjoy the sense of power it gives them to police what poeple are allowed to have; to judge others; to put in place harmful policies as punishment.

more, rich ppl feel like they're entitled to the sadistic pleasure of policing poor people.

people don't feel they need to police that stuff because the wealthy are supposed to be entitled to grotesque expenditure, while the poor (and esp. non white poor people) are entitled to nothing.