Something Went Wrong In Baltimore

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It has been a bloody year in Baltimore, that much everyone knows, but as The Economist shows, something changed dramatically after Freddie Gray's death in April...

On November 14th the police department reported the city’s 300th homicide in 2015, a total not seen since 1999.

 

The surge in killings in the majority-black city of roughly 623,000 began after the death on April 19th of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was fatally injured while in police custody. Since Mr Gray’s death the city has recorded 244 homicides, a 78% increase over the same period in 2014, representing more than 100 additional deaths.

Criminologists and city officials disagree as to the causes:

  • Some say police have deliberately pulled back from poor, black neighbourhoods, a theory that the police disputes.
  • Others blame an influx of drugs from pharmacies looted during the April riots.
  • A third theory is that a decline in trust between the police and the policed has had deadly consequences: fewer residents talk to the police, which leads to fewer murders being solved, which - by lowering the odds of being caught - results in more murders.

Whatever the reason, the killing continues. Just hours after the 300th murder, police reported a shooting in the city’s Westport neighbourhood, the fourth homicide of the day. The total for the year now stands at 305.

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Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:54 | 6987839 FredFlintstone
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Forward! To the dark ages, follow Soros!

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:12 | 6987871 thatthingcanfly
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Behold the self-imposed delusion of liberalism. Eirik here seriously believes that he is an advanced and enlightened subspecies of the human race, and that those not of his ideological bent are of an inferior, even defective, subset of humanity, whose ideas are not worthy of consideration by him. As such, he has no need for any critical thinking skills at all. The ubiquitous use of argumentum ad hominem coupled with unabashed self-aggrandizement, celebrating how enlightened he is, shows extreme immaturity among him and his ilk. The results of years of immersion in leftist ideology are people who cannot reason, cannot assimilate new information, and are otherwise emotionally and intellectually stunted.

Ann Coulter was right: There really is no purpose in talking to liberals. Nothing good can come of it.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:41 | 6987935 Foul Harold
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+1

 

Behold the insights of a former social justice warrior.

 

https://archive.is/rd8cZ

 

My SJW tendencies were based mostly out of self loathing- I felt weird, like an outcast, had never had a girlfriend, hated myself, and thought that I was fixing myself by jumping deep into feminism. I armed myself with a lot of bad statistics (like the 1 in 4 rape stat) and felt smart because of it.

 

After a while it becomes second nature; you just sort of convince yourself that you're on the right side and see your opponent as a stereotype out of reflex. That can happen here too, but SJW's actively encourage it. You become utterly convinced that you're part of an elite, enlightened group fighting an aging generation of uneducated racists and sexists.

 

But eventually I started to realize that I had incomplete information. I lost a lot of arguments to people I'd stereotyped as being dumb. The people I called allies just jumped to ad hominem attacks and semantic arguments, and that made them secure in their beliefs. That's how they operate; when they lose, their mental gymnastics aren't supposed to convince you. It's to convince themselves, to justify not changing their sources or beliefs. And it's very effective at that. It worked for me for a while.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 11:40 | 6988052 City_Of_Champyinz
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A-fucking-men.  This guy is a piece of work for sure...

“Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference” –Mark Twain
Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:33 | 6987801 l8apex
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That article is one long globalist propaganda piece.  Nothing scientific whatsoever within.  Why are you even referencing it?  Please tell me that you can see the author's bias.  

 

Tell me something, since you seem to be for more free shit for our current free shit army (FSA) as well as allowing more of these low IQ economic immigrants to settle in the EU and USA, when will it be enough?  And why aren't Israel and the rich ME countries taking in their share?   Or China or Japan? 

 

Why is the burden all on "white" countries?  As for those minorities that are already here, how much welfare is enough?  As somebody in the middle class, it's pretty clear to see how I'm getting screwed by the 0.01% vis a vis their predatory tactics as well as the FSA from the other end.  Should I not be upset when my 'leaders' want to hand out more and take in more of this class of people?  Or do you not think that 'Syrian' refugees that don't speak English and don't have a university education are going to be a net benefit to my country?  Is there any peer-reviewed evidence that my country is better off by taking in individuals like this?

 

 

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:34 | 6987918 Oldwood
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It is our burden because our indoctrination tells us to surrender, to sacrifice our standing out of winners guilt. This is necessary because they cannot win through competition, through hard work and creativity. The world is as it is due to the differences in people, in cultures and races and genetics. We see this in everything....we practice discrimination BECAUSE of it. We have created reverse discrimination to counter it...yet it still exists. We can accept that genetics, breeding and the winnowing of long term cultural indoctrination can predefine the behaviors in all animals and plants, but for some reason not humans.

The denial of reality...any and all reality, is our greatest threat. A=A

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 08:40 | 6987729 wolfnipplechips
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According to FBI crime statistics, your argument just isn't supported by the facts. Just more superstitions and strawmen arguments. If you want the facts, then go here and take 30 min to understand them first.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8hyQDQPEsrs

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:34 | 6987919 Lorca's Novena
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Fuck off with your priveledged whites BS. Then you say this " I have grown militant/bellicose about making a stand against prejudice and generalization. "

 

You are delusional

 


Sat, 01/02/2016 - 07:05 | 6987621 aurum4040
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I am white and grew up just as poor as blacks in the ghetto, if not poorer because my family was too proud to get government assistance. Either way being poor is part of it sure but it all comes down to individual choices. No one makes one pull a trigger just like no one makes one a nigger but oneself. Fuck niggers ~ black or white 

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:35 | 6987923 Lorca's Novena
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+1000

 

Its the character of the man, not his race

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:01 | 6988107 snodgrass
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Actually it character plus IQ. Blacks have the lowest IQ of any race on the planet.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 16:30 | 6988788 SilverDOG
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Yes, but us whites is f-ing it all up and blaming ( enter race ).

Change unexpected.

I am disappointed.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:52 | 6987834 FredFlintstone
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You are a tool, plain and simple

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:17 | 6987194 TurnwiseWiddershins
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They don't ask the question because they're not allowed to ask it.

Political Correctness is not about being nice or respectful, it's about control; and not just the control of one's opposition, but control of one's supporters and sympathizers as well.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:54 | 6987211 Billy the Poet
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Why do the niggers nig even after 40+ years of (increasing) free shit and reverse .gov discrimination?"

You answered your own question. Dependency kills. It's worked so well with black folks that the safety net is being expanded for everyone. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 18:57 | 6989297 Government need...
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Billy the raghead, you fail to address the obvious:  niggers left to their own devices devolve their living space into Thunderdome.  No "learned dependence" required.  Niggers are feral by nature, and no amount of free shit, or learned dependence, or sympathy, or 'education' is going to fix that.  That's why the propaganda machine is doing everything it can to encourage miscegenation.  They think they can breed the savage out of the nigger.  Look @ mainstream porn and advertising and the increasing prevalence of the buck nigger/white woman pairing.  Every once in a while, they'll even try the white man/Wookie combo, but it just doesn't stick as easily . . .

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 01:24 | 6987357 TheFutureReset
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It's that free shit along with the drug war and the govt enforcement that has ruined black communities. How do you explain the crime rates and broken home rate of blacks changing over the years? They were lower than whites after wwii but now worse? Statistics spanning only a couple decades doesn't make it the truth.  

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 02:57 | 6987428 Four chan
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..or they are inherently violent and stupid. its time for race realism.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 04:22 | 6987491 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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"Race realism" = real Racism.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 06:28 | 6987577 847328_3527
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Yes of free stuff, priority admissions, affirmative action, moar and moar privileges without merit in many cases, and tons of gubmint welfare have results.

Contrast that culture with the Asian cultures where 'Hard Work" is considered golden.

 

If you have a chance, watch the moive, "Precious."

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:47 | 6987948 lincolnsteffens
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Aside from all the disproportionate injustice experienced by blacks, the continuous message that they are a lower class and can only be helped by others diminishes brain function. Diet, fear, media mind control, education under difficult conditions all contribute to poor self esteem and lower ability to make good decisions.

It isn't the memory of slavery that causes the greatest anger in the darker skinned people. It is the constant barrage of media and government mind control messages along with personal experience that creates the anger.  Whites are subjected to the same police brutality as blacks but rarely makes it into the news. Likewise the government and media never publicize people that have defended themselves from assault with fire arms. Only the facts that suit the agenda are publicized.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 19:03 | 6989313 Government need...
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OMG, what a lying Left spin this is.  There isnt much propaganda being spread around Africa, yet look at what an absolute wasteland for cultural achievement that continent (and its native population) is.  The problem is innate.  While they run fast and jump high, niggers dont think well compared to other ethnicities.  Asians know this, that's why they say 'No thank you' to ingesting large amounts of niggers.  That's why Israel puts the Wookies on mandatory birth control whilst they visit Israel.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 07:32 | 6987649 Monetas
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Eric, Erik, Eirik .... Errorick .... wash your dirty laundry at home .... we have important work going on here ?

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:20 | 6987883 Calmyourself
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Ewik, I only intend to be racist against collectivists and commies. I will not discriminate, promise..

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 06:26 | 6987579 God
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It's a very good point. Too, who started this? The Fed needed more consumers to prop the ponzi after 2008. So lets thank our joo masters.

Negros are savages who will never recognize that a life well lived requires refinement. Savages are incapable of refinement. Negros glorify ignorance within their culture. Ebonics is the perfect example.

Liberland anyone? Elect me President and Article I of our constitution will be "No negros allowed, and no fucking joos either".

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 04:16 | 6987485 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:33 | 6987800 Strelnikov
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Your best comment, ever.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 08:53 | 6987745 CaptOveur
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It's not race. It's that they're all Democrats. You don't see Blacks in Botswana acting like that. Whitey will be there, too, after a couple years of Bernie Sanders.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 11:52 | 6988082 oooBooo
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The free shit has been a decivilizing force, one of several deployed by the government.

 

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:27 | 6987778 Escrava Isaura
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Astounding. But not surprising….for me.

There are TWO critical issues at play here:

First Issue—the easiest one to grasp:

Some disenfranchised Baltimoreans are speaking out against police brutality and lack of jobs, very similar to what we would read at Zero Hedge, BUT, their message is totally distorted by racial propaganda, bigotry, and biases. And, by Zero Hedgers, GO FIGURE!

In any event, link below is a great look at it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xf7myMyOcM

 

Now, second issue. How we got here:

First: John Angelos: Working families of all backgrounds whose lives and dreams have been cut short by excessive violence, surveillance and other abuses of the Bill of Rights by government pay the true price, and ultimate price, one that far exceeds the importance of any kids' game played tonight, or ever, at Camden Yards.

The past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle-class and working-class jobs away from Baltimore and cities and towns around the U.S. to third-world dictatorships like China and others, plunged tens of millions of good, hard-working Americans into economic devastation, and then followed that action around the nation by diminishing every American's civil rights protections in order to control an unfairly impoverished population living under an ever-declining standard of living and suffering at the butt end of an ever-more militarized and aggressive surveillance state.

Key point:

Angelos, and 99.99% of Americans don’t dive deep enough into understanding that, the America Middleclass came into existence because of WW-2/Bretton Woods Monetary System followed by US military interventions/Petrodollar. US invasion of Vietnam scared the hell out of Saudis monarchy.

However, EVEN with all these US financial and military gymnastics, US middleclass is not sustainable. And no longer attainable.

By Null Hypothesis (Mark B Cunnington): Economic growth is required to provide more and more resources to the middle class, to prevent them from entering poverty. This economic growth requires ever greater consumption of natural resources, and this works as long as the global economy hasn’t hit resource limits. But now, with Peak Oil, it has hit those limits and it can’t grow any more. Therefore, the middle class is increasingly becoming impoverished. This is not what the Federal Reserve wants, since as you say, poverty and hunger lead to revolts etc. But that’s just the way it is because the world is running out of resources and no central bank can print resources into existence. This is why things are starting to fall apart now and this will only intensify as Peak Oil progresses.

http://markbc.net/doomer-economic-commentary/how-much-more-food-must-the-world-produce/

 

 

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:47 | 6987947 Oldwood
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Gee, and I thought it was all because of debt, of consuming our futures to the point that no future was left, or at least one that anyone would want. There is no doubt that our economy is built upon unsustainable consumption, but that consumption would never have reached the level of destruction it has without debt. And as far as elitists exporting our jobs, it is we hungry consumers who chose to buy imported goods, not the corporations. They simply saw greater profits in it, just as they saw greater profits in drilling for oil rather than rendering whales.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:23 | 6986965 tmosley
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I blame the lack of free one way tickets to Africa.

Not just for black people. That would be racist. But for anyone.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 00:51 | 6987326 Zero Point
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That idea would actually work. If you didn't check out warrants for those getting on flights. Just no questions asked, get on the plane? Most flights would be full.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 01:30 | 6987364 TheFutureReset
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No questions asked? Of course they'll have their US citizenship slave status. Let people get rid of their citizenship easily and wealth would fly outta the US along with anyone whose major productive years are ahead of them. The criminals would stay.  

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 01:52 | 6987389 Zero Point
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Lol, yeah that could work BOTH ways. But I dunno. Choosing 9 years in a cage over Africa? You could be right, but holy fuck I can't even imagine what kind of fuckin potato head could think that way.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 02:45 | 6987422 gg allin
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i don't think that worked out so well the first time....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:47 | 6988243 lincolnsteffens
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It seems like the majority here are either delusional or being sardonic.

Yeah there might be an exodus of some of the most illiterate and uneducated because they have no idea how fucked up most of Africa is. Many countries don't use English (most of N. Africa) or Ebonics. Most Countries don't have much in the way of social assistance. Wages are mostly much lower. The social norms are drastically different. 

Colonialism destroyed most of the African cultures and ways of living on the land. Just take a look at most of the cities and large towns.Even if there was no Colonialism and most of Africa was still in a pre-colonialism state, most people here of African descent would probably not survive unless they had some very valuable skills the local tribes needed.

Now, if you gave those willing to go a $100,000 stipend with no return allowed you might have a small but meaningful percentage leave.

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:58 | 6987253 Vlad the Inhaler
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What percentage are blacks of the poorest segment of Americans, and what percentage of the poorest white people are in jail?  You'll probably find out that poverty and not race is the more important factor for crime.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 02:16 | 6987405 DownWithYogaPants
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Give me a break.  Poverty is no excuse.  See 1930's.  

What you meant to say poor BLACKS 

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 04:05 | 6987479 sun tzu
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Why is there no epidemic if gangs, murders, and rapes in Kentucky and W Virginia? Plenty of drug use, but missing the extreme violence and mayhem.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 04:22 | 6987493 Moe Howard
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Louisville is trying very hard to up the stats.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:49 | 6988253 lincolnsteffens
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Smaller less ghettoized cities.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 05:41 | 6987545 danl62
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Well, give us the numbers. I would like to see the correlation.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:08 | 6987764 thatthingcanfly
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Vlad, that is false. See my lengthy post above.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 09:41 | 6987816 backwaterdogs
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we should not ask questions for which the answer is known and very embarrasing

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:52 | 6988261 Kirk2NCC1701
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I don't see where the 'problem' is.

I see Darwinism at work: many criminals are eliminating each other. Beyond that, the 'community folk' will have to do what all  communities do to become civilized -- they organize and bring about order.

Therefore, I see no reason to interfere with this evolutionary process. 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:23 | 6986966 Normalcy Bias
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Nigga, Please!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:30 | 6987094 toady
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All the reasons given sound reasonable to me, especially the first one. If they want to kill each other, let'em! Less strain on the judicial system and the welfare state. Win-win! 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:20 | 6987197 TurnwiseWiddershins
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A fair assessment, but of the  340+ blacks killed in Baltimore this year, how many more do you think were BORN?

Certainly more than replacement, that's for sure.  Whites need to start cranking those (non-mixed) babies out.  Make sure your daughters are aware of this.

And for those of you who may be black reading this: a strong White society & economy is good for you too.  What are you going to do when the Nigerian Warlords take over, regardless of city or county?

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 06:41 | 6987594 847328_3527
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There's lots of tax incentives and entitlement incentives to pop them out.

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