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It is laughable that you cite "reality" while failing to address it or acknowledging that reality IS my argument.

Reality is that childish soft on crime leftist idealism reached it's apex precisely as crime rates peaked. Then the adults dealt with the leftist mess by adopting tough on crime policies and crime plummeted.

Crime fell so much that infantile morons forgot why we enacted tough on crime policies in the first place so childish soft on crime leftist idealism has regained traction and as night follows day, crime follows leftism. Blood on hands.

So much reality that you are blaming whole nationwide shifts in crime based on policy changes that you can't even name.

There are other possible correlating factors, though.

There's the abortion/crime hypothesis. Roe was 1973, which if it meant that people in lower socioeconomic classes (socioeconomic class being positively correlated with crime/violence, often concentrated in cities) weren't being born starting then, those non-births that wouldn't be reaching age 20 in the early 90s could explain a "sudden" drop in crime rates.

There's the lead/crime hypothesis, which states that as we moved from leaded to unleaded gasoline, which the particulates amassing in ground soil disproportionately were concentrated in urban environments because of population/vehicle density, diminished, it resulted in less cognitive impairment which often manifested as poor outcomes, violence, etc.

I don't want to wade into your mess here, but this may not be as clear as you'd think.

I do think some of the soft-on-crime policies post-Floyd did go bonkers. Especially here in CA where we basically just said "you want to shoplift? go for it!" And I think there is now a much-needed backlash against that. But again there are a lot of other correlated issues, such as depression / substance abuse / mental health issues that were brought on by isolation [and likely fear] during the pandemic that could be involved in what's happened since 2020... I feel like we've been seeing more and more anger in society as a whole, and I don't think that's due to depolicing policies.

That said, though, I think we went the wrong direction getting lax on policing, and I think it needs to reverse itself towards actually enforcing laws.

It's extremely unclear. I don't live in California. I don't know what their response to crime is as a state or in localities. But I know plenty about Ohio. There was no shift to letting shoplifters shoplift or anything similar. There was no real change in policy at all. But Ohio was subject to the same trends California has seen, so I am going to be pretty dubious about particular government responses (as I am with all government responses) being the cause of or solution to all our problems.

There was a nationwide rash of car thefts. Kia and Hyundai didn't include the technology on certain cars to make sure they wouldn't run without a key or key fob. People eventually figured this out and posted Youtube videos on how you could steal these cars with a phone charger. Teenagers went around looking for these cars so they could show how cool they are by being able to hotwire and steal cars. Now, politicians will chalk up "leftist policies" or whatever you want to show that this is the root reason for the increase in car thefts. I'm dubious teenagers pay a lot of attention to politics and this impacts their decision making.

He was pretty funny back when he was a comedian.

I haven't yet, but I'm looking forward to that just-released comedy special to see if he's still got it.

a) he's still a comedian.

b) he's never been funny...as a comedian. he's a always been a mostly mid to bad comedian.

c) he's never "had it" as a comedian. 

I liked him in Pineapple Express, and some of his other movies.

whatever happened to him? 

Seth Rogen went on a run of some truly fantastic comedy films. haven't seen anything from him in what seems like a decade.

a) he's still a comedian.

b) he's never been funny...as a comedian. he's a always been a mostly mid to bad comedian.

c) he's never "had it" as a comedian.

All of this.

You can agree or disagree with his takes, but he is a very talented interviewer.  Much like Howard Stern.  I think he can make just about any interviewee entertaining, and its a wide range of guests he has.

I really don't know much about the veep people, but hearing Walz speak, he meets the pro wrestling criteria for being good on the mic

I really don't know much about the veep people, but hearing Walz speak, he meets the pro wrestling criteria for being good on the mic

Of the 4 hes the only one on the ticket you can only grill on the issues.

Which is also sad.