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the G-man said:

If you want to pretend now that the political climate in Eugene is not left (when we all know you believe it to be), simply to be oppositional-defiant, go ahead. And if you want to pretend that liberals don't, as a general rule, have attitudes towards crime and homelessness that differ from conservatives, again, go ahead.

It won't change the possible, if not likely, result of your plan, but at least you will get arrested a happy man, knowing you called someone on a message board an asshole before that arrest.




You sound like a doctinaire Marxist-Leninist. Every action is political as are the reaction that follow.

His bike was stolen and he's pissed off! I dare you to find a city where crimes against property are a police priority. They have too much stuff that bleeds to deal with.

BTW I had a bike stolen from my garage in a white middle class suburb in Orange County CA, one of the most conservative places in the country. The cops expressed sympathy and I never heard from them again.


"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.