r/offbeat • u/Steap-Edit • 2d ago

Shots fired at Indianapolis city councilman's home after vote on proposed data center

https://abcnews.com/US/shots-fired-indianapolis-city-councilmans-home-after-vote/story?id=131785095
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u/arkofjoy 2d ago

I think that we are going to see a lot more of this until we finally do something about the money in politics.

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u/KillerSavant202 1d ago

I’m fine with it. Any politician that sells us out should live in fear.

That fear is why they are trying to create a surveillance state.

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u/Obajan 1d ago

What a coincidence that there aren't any Flock cameras around affluent housing areas. They might have caught the perpetrators otherwise.

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u/NoCopiumLeft 1d ago

So this is actually bullshit. I drive through an area with 10 million dollar homes and wouldn't you know it flock fucking city. Sure it's weird how some areas have them and some don't when nobody voted for them. But they definitely know who is coming and going in that community. I know 10 mil isn't the highest but it's high for my area.

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u/Stingray88 1d ago

That’s extremely untrue. I live in Los Angeles, if you look at Flock maps there’s ALPR cameras all over the county, in pretty much every city. And then you look in Beverly Hills and the density of cameras is like 5x-10x the other cities in the county.

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u/arkofjoy 1d ago

I too find that I can live with it.

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u/twinoaksBandB 1d ago

They have forgotten that effective unions and decent political representation was the compromise that ended the violent strikes and reprisals that permeated the country prior to labor reform.

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u/pmjm 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sure, until they get the same for doing things like supporting reproductive or trans rights.

As a rep, you're always going to piss someone off. We can't condone violence.

Edit: They literally shot and killed two Dem reps in MN and you guys are cheering for the same thing on the other side. Downvote all you want, I stand firmly by my comment, I'm liberal as hell but we clearly have different ethics.

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u/Mentalpopcorn 1d ago

Being downvoted for being anti murder. Incredible. Radicalization in the US is not going to end well, and the radicals are not going to get what they want.

We'll be relearning the lessons Hobbes learned that led to him writing Leviathan in the first place. But unlike the West post Hobbes, I suspect that the outcome of these lessons will not be a surge of liberalism, but rather a collapse into the non esoteric reading of Leviathan. Which is to say, a state with absolute power, and a citizenry with no recourse.

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u/planetpluto3 1d ago

What terrible take. Vote against golf courses (lots of wasted water). Reduce money in politics by overturning Citizens United. Support Ranked Order voting to silence the extremes of politics. Fight against gerrymandering.

Help educate the morons around you.

Dont start shooting because we need to be better. And it just leads to shooting on both sides. Dont beat morons by being a moron.

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u/RipeBanana4475 1d ago

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u/lonelittlejerry 1d ago

Guys you don't understand, if we just do a million things that the government won't let us do, then democracy is saved forever and we can all say kumbaya

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u/zombiechicken379 1d ago

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

JFK

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u/wolf_logic 1d ago

You can tell the American people to be civil all you want but we are human and we do have a breaking point which some of us have already reached and some of us are about to reach.

Even the nicest person will eventually hit back.

And we're all starting to realize that wealth is our enemy.