Cops Are The Worst

[Mickey]

I don't think education funding is trivial.

The school system in my county has a budget larger than the GDP of Bhutan, so for the 17th time today we agree.

This is what they call a factlet.

[verb_to_trust]

I don't think education funding is trivial.

We're definitely going to need ipads

[Norah]

I just can’t let a factoid about municipal governance go unstated

Factoid means fake fact.

Thank you! No one else seems to get this.

[bart]

Because it’s wrong

[Norah]

hey did you notice i stole your facebook post for the knee tunes thread?

[bart]

No but I consider all my posts a public good

[B]

This is from a recent budget by my town. I probably would tweak some stuff if I really looked at it, but it doesn't really bother me to spend 14% of the budget on policing.

I must be missing something but does your town have schools?

This is what my town looks like:

Expenditures Budget Percentage
General Government:
Admin & Finance $ 13,520,312 11.84%
Planning & Development 542,148 0.48%
Public Safety 7,512,090 6.58%
Public Works 6,531,154 5.72%
Public Health 520,048 0.46%
Social Services 980,191 0.86%
Cultural Services 2,059,320 1.80%
Leisure Services 986,856 0.86%
Contingency 125,000 0.11%
Debt Service 6,640,186 5.82%
Dept of Education 73,356,511 64.26%
Teacher Pension Assessment 284,061 0.25%
Cap. Non-Recurring 1,100,000 0.96%
Total $ 114,157,877 100.00%

Schools are mostly county and state money, but we do pay a bit into them so we don't have to have a county school system. I guess that's in general fund?

[bart]

Your local school district may get the tax dollars directly, which would be why it wouldn’t show up on that chart

[bart]

Boy I’m full of factoids today

[4/5]

All these factoids are giving me the fantods.

[Simple Torture]

All these factoids are giving me the fantods.

The howling fantods?

[4/5]

All these factoids are giving me the fantods.

The howling fantods?

Is there any other kind?

[96583UP]

This is from a recent budget by my town. I probably would tweak some stuff if I really looked at it, but it doesn't really bother me to spend 14% of the budget on policing.

3% on stormwater, eh?

looks like something paid by white envelope

[dimejinky99]

Ah the English.

They’re throwing Nazi salutes at the cenotaph (phallic war memorial in London where they claim they won World War Two singlehanded) and rioting at Churchill’s monument. In response to black lives matter.

They are waving Nazi flags and throwing Nazi salutes. The same country that insists they single handedly defeated Hitler.

It’s tragic and hilarious.

[Anders]

That doesn’t look or sound like nazi salutes.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[Bi_3]

Guess they’re still figuring this one out?

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opin ... e=Homepage

Activists have been perfectly clear on this for years. No cops, no jails, separate court system. People have been too busy projecting a non-existent nuance onto the argument to actually pay attention.

[verb_to_trust]

People are dumb as fuck

[elliseamos]

People are dumb as fuck

Would you say "They're the worst"?

[Mickey]

Okay but surely it's not all cops right?