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rntaboy t1_jbnblzl wrote

'“Conventional wisdom for the past four decades has been that smaller group sizes tend to make better decisions and this is the largest council that we see,” said Republican Sen. Adam Lowe of Calhoun. ”... There’s a reason why we’re judged by 12 of our peers in a jury and there’s a reason, I think, why Christ walked with 12 of his disciples.”

First, lol.

Second, Dude is one of 33 state senators.

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dave024 t1_jbn32gl wrote

On Serial by Sara Koenig she talked about the Cleveland justice system in season 3. She talked about how people sued East Cleveland because of police incidents but the people couldn’t collect from the city because they had no money. They would then be offered settlements nowhere near what the jury award was.

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DontTazeMehBr0 t1_jbmzrnu wrote

Republicans: We want people to have freedom from big government and be able to exercise their rights

The people: reject trying to host the RNC, try to limit short term rentals (airbnb) profiteering in a housing crisis, try to decriminalize minor marijuana possession, manage their own stadiums and airports, have diverse and representative local governments

Republicans: No, not like that

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Spiritual_Wonder_609 t1_jbmxamf wrote

Those people usually pay for it just by the lives they live.

I remember one time I rode my friends bus to work on a project with her after school. The school stopped at a hood middle school on the way and picked up other kids.

I’m turned around talking to my home girl and all of a sudden I feel pain. I turn around and this little kid is beating me with his belt… while SOBBING tears. It was so bizarre, I could tell right away this kid wasn’t all there, so I didn’t fight back, just defended.

Wasn’t a huge deal, just weird. I laughed about it the next day at school. Somehow administration found out and asked me if I wanted to press charges. Now I’m not sure they knew he was “special”, but even at that age I thought it was kind of fucked up they were gonna treat it like a regular assault.

Only explanation I could come up with was that he had a crush on my home girl and me talking to her set him off.

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alexbeeee t1_jbmwtsp wrote

Absolutely awful, cop runs a guy over and says “he just struck my vehicle” not only that but the one who’s running the press conference admits there’s a “cancer” growing within police departments and says that they’re going after every “tentacle” but that just goes to show that they know there are way more cases like this in police departments and they’re not ready to let the public know about that yet

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Winchester85 t1_jbmrazx wrote

Trust me, I totally understand not everybody is fortunate enough to save for retirement. I was replying to the comment, saying “who cares about the stock market”

There’s no way me and my wife will be able to afford retirement in America the way inflation is going .

We are planing on retiring in Thailand or China .

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Bitter_Director1231 t1_jbmppvg wrote

Don't count on it.

The money you put in retirement is miniscule compared to cost of living when you retire. If you can retire.

Most Americans aren't so lucky. They live paycheck to paycheck and can't save for retirement. Those people do exist. Not everyone has a 401k and steady reliable employment.

No one alive today can't retire at 60. Unless you got a really good government job that has a pension. And that is very rare.

The stock market is volatile and change at any time due to global conditions.

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