Re: What the buck? NYPD finally nabs brute who attacked me two years ago, and DA Bragg asks for a lousy $1 bail

On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 16:36:50 -0000 (UTC), pothead
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2025-09-03, J D <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 03 Sep 2025, pothead <[email protected]> posted some
>> news:[email protected]: 
>>
>>> On 2025-09-03, chine.bleu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Governor Swill wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:20:17 -0700, "chine.bleu"
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Governor Swill wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Communisim doesn't work.
>>>>>>> Of course it doesn't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unless it does.
>>>>>
>>>>> I recall something very wise being posted here many years ago.
>>>>> "Communism only works when every member of the community knows every
>>>>> other member of the Community."
>>>>
>>>> If New York wants to try, they are the ones who have to live with the
>>>> decision.
>>>>
>>>>> Russia tried it.
>>>>> Cuba tried it.
>>>>> China tried it.
>>>>> Vietnam tried it.
>>>>> Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
>>>>> and Hungary all tried it.
>>>>>
>>>>> The operative word being "tried".
>>>>
>>>> So.......too Republican?
>>>>
>>> I agree.
>>> Let the voters decide and if it works, well then maybe it will help
>>> things. If not, move on to something else.
>>
>> Voters did that in California with Prop 36 and Democrats flat out
>> refused to fund it.  
>
>Yep.
>I remember that one. And similar can happen in NYC as well.

Wikipedia's digest of the contents seems quite reasonable to me.  I
can see why it passed overwhelmingly, up to 80/20 in some
jurisdictions.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_California_Proposition_36>

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