Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Leaving California, Black Conservatives & American Socialists | Bryan Callen | COMEDY | Rubin Report" video.

  1. "Defund the police and put that money into social programs" basically means "Fire a bunch of working class guys and give the money to college grads with useless majors".
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  2.  @louiss.w1944  I think that power fantasies are the problem, whether you're a cop on the street, a petty bureaucrat keen to put his narrow interests above all others, a student in the grips of a fashionable (yet stupid) theory, or a protester with nothing better to do than wave around some cardboard on a stick. There's a reason that all this happened when it did. We've got an economic shutdown that has cost the livelihoods and the hopes of tens of millions of people in this country and billions around the world. THAT is driving the protests, more than anything -- the dashing of legitimate hopes that black lives would continue to improve as they were improving, which in reality were eroding and given time would finally eliminate disparate economic outcomes in a fully constructive way. What would I do? I would renounce the destructive power of the day -- I would end the government health mandates that have led directly to the economic suffering we're seeing now without improving health outcomes significantly. I would get the government out of the way of people's natural freedom, and leave people to go about their business according to their own sense of prudence. What is the role of the police? To maintain order to make this possible; so I would have them arrest and jail the destructive rioters and the looters. Getting people back to work would renew their hopes and improve their real prospects. This would wipe out short, medium, and long-term financial disasters that are fueling unrest. It would reduce the drug problem to manageable levels. (People who are busy with constructive life do not need drugs; and if your life really does suck, psychologists really can't help.) Looking at the numbers, we could talk with the police about their tendency to rough up black suspects, and get them to cool that down. There is no evidence that police disproportionately kill black suspects of a given crime, quite the contrary. The tendency to use lower levels of force too often probably feeds the misconception that black suspects are more at risk of death, where they are in reality only at more risk of what in any other situation would be called assault. The higher risk of assault is bad and should stop. So, that's my two cents. Fewer power fantasies, more letting people get back to their individual constructive lives.
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  3.  @alexcastro-bz7nl  I think the phrase you're looking for is "Defund the police unions". When I hear that phrase catching on, I'll believe you. Until then, I suspect you're just grasping at straws to defend a position that's really not defensible.
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  4.  @joshisajedi2461  That's not how it works out. The paychecks go to the college grads, and the "services" go to maintaining the dependent status of the underprivileged. It's worse than useless.
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  5.  @joshisajedi2461  Although to be fair, the college grads with the useless majors end up just as dependent (on those paychecks) as the underprivileged people these social programs end up enslaving -- which is why these programs are so tough to get rid of when it turns out they do more harm than good. Those college grads with the useless majors would miss out on their payday (and be forced to retrain for actual useful job skills, which would degrade their idea of their own brilliance) so they get together with their other cronies in government to make sure the toxic status quo maintains itself, no matter how many people are hurt by it.
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  6.  @getbuckets4252  Point to the inaccuracy.
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  7.  @getbuckets4252  None of it was inaccurate. Working class guys will be fired. People with degrees in questionable "sciences" (social science, etc) will be hired instead. Not one single word of what I said was inaccurate. If we have a place we can agree, it is that better economic opportunities decrease criminality. Anyone who supported the COVID lockdowns supported the circumstances that led George Floyd to try to pass fake money -- he was laid off from his "nonessential" job, and that led to his death. If you want to improve American lives -- if you're serious about reducing criminality -- you should oppose the lockdowns as a matter of principle. (Also, you should support getting fathers back into black homes by eliminating the incentives in our welfare system that destroy black marriages.)
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  8.  @getbuckets4252  You're not really engaging with my points, are you, just pushing the talking points you've got queued up. If you want to know the cause of the problems we're seeing, read the Moynihan Report.
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  9.  @jeremytine  Working class -- that's gotta be a come-down for the social workers with the majors ending in "studies" and six figures of student loan debt. I guess beggars can't be choosers.
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