Nate Cox

“I don’t even know who that is” clearly means “this person has been living rent free in the forefront of my mind for as long as I can remember”.

Again with the simple answer. No evidence, no supporting argument, just “nuh uh”.

The solution is social welfare programs and a focus on mental health, job placement, and relocation assistance. Give the vast majority of people health care, stable employment, and a safe place to live, and they will thrive.

The solution is not cramming people into prison labor and ripping their constitutional rights from them.

I really don’t understand how this isn’t obvious to everyone.

I can’t help but notice that you really like to cherry pick only the parts of comments you think you have a simple answer to.

How about responding to the meat of the argument rather than trying to just move the goalpost?

Did you miss the entire part of the article talking about how this effectively locks up the court system, deprives US citizens of their constitutional right to representation, and does effectively nothing to actually get people off drugs?

Tell me more about how you like punishing the poor for being poor, though.

Green, the DA, said he felt deflection was a better path to treatment than the criminal system, which can be a slow process, and that the fact that only some people were succeeding was a good sign: “We didn’t [make it] too easy or too hard. We really found that sweet spot.”

Oh fuck you. 70 or so people deflecting out of 1200 arrests is not success you pompous prick, it’s failure.

By finding him guilty but not punishing him, he will be made to feel guilty and the chance of him reoffending will be prevented, without socially impairing the man

What a load of horse shit. “Letting him get away with rape penalty free will ensure he doesn’t do it again” is some crazy fucking logic. Seems like knowing there are no consequences for your actions would make repeating the offense significantly more likely.

Why are you attacking me?

(God I hope the /s isn’t necessary)

GOP: “We only want to deport the illegals, if they want to be here they should do it legally”

Immigrants: “ok, we’ll come on this program specifically designed to allow a legal pathway to citizenship”

GOP: “No not like that!”

I think it would be really cool if it worked like they wanted us to believe it would. Like, it could be one of those “change the way we live our day to day lives” events to the like of of smartphones becoming mainstream.

This device was never going to live up to that or get anywhere close to it, but I can’t blame people for really wanting to believe.