Shot in the Dark

The Fix

A “high trust” society – the kind of society where you can leave your doors unlocked, or at least not keep all your property under constant surveillance at the very least – depends on trusting your neighbors, and the institutions by which we govern ourselves.

When that trust is broken, society becomes “low trust” – a society where people don’t trust their institutions, or each other, to do the right thing; reverting to the “Law of the Jungle” becomes expedient, initially – and, eventually prudent.

And when it’s the criminal justice system?

It never took a rocket scientist to believe the Chauvin trial was swayed by, not so much “public opinion” but by “potential mob rage”.

But it’s actually written down in black and white:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1714729290636415389

I’m not saying the DFL in this state is trying to create a low trust society.

I’m just at a loss for what they’d be doing different if they were.

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18 responses to “The Fix”

  1. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    the DFL in this state is trying to create a low trust society

    Of course, they are. Citizens in high trust societies are less dependent on government than in low trust societies. The import of incompetent ne’er-do-wells from low trust societies is all the proof you need: import Chicago/the third world, become Chicago/the third world.

    To speed things up, they also explicitly sabotage the few remedies that might hinder or even prevent the transition, like, say, getting criminals off the streets.

  2. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    We were in your forlorn state last week.

    We we were tasked to bring a few groceries for the celebration. There’s no way I was willing to stop anywhere in the TC Metro with my wife on board, so we stopped at a Walmart in Lakeville. My test for safe shopping is to look around the parking lot first…are there shopping buggies scattered everywhere? Empty Popeye’s chicken boxes laying around? Battered 1995 compact cars with smoke rolling out of the windows?

    Lakeville looked acceptable, so we stopped.

    Now, I’ve seen pictures of merchandise stacked behind locked plexiglass doors on the interwebs, lads, and wouldn’t have been a bit surprised to see them at a Twin Cities Walmart, or Lunds for that matter…but Lakeville? Then I noticed all the Somali nuns stacking shelves…aaand we gone. Didn’t stop until Pine City for our shopping.

    Understand, I wasn’t worried about getting jumped, I don’t go anywhere unarmed. It just made me feel dirty; don’t like being around 80IQ thieves and don’t ever want to be in the position of having to explain the concept of self defense to one of your crooked, leftist judges.

    I knew it was bad, but I had no idea what a shithole Minnesota has become.

  3. kinlaw Avatar
    kinlaw

    Think about all that occurred after this deplorable outcome. FBI and congress kneeling, team mascot name changes (yes, that’s why those happened). The burning, looting, and killing. People fired for saying “all lives matter”. All the money that went to B(urn) L(oot) M(urder) that went into that beotches houses, that could have gone to a good cause. Ouch.

    Out here in Cali we have some more:some law about prioritizing missing black kids over white. Affirmative action (of a sort) about suspending kids in schools, cuz guess who gets in trouble more?

    This is all about the soft bigotry of reduced expectations, and playing to the dhimmi base. You think the powerful in the dhimmi party live anywhere near this crap? Private schools, security buildings, gated communities, private security.

    Next time you are in a debate with a low information dhimmi just ask them about that: will the dem powerful live in the world they are making?

  4. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    Blade, it’s hateful and racist and just plain unfair that 80IQ savages must be warehoused in urban jungles in the inner city. That’s why every Democrat since Clinton has pushed federal money to move them to the burbs where everyone can enjoy the benefits of living with diversity.

  5. Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    JDM wrote:
    Of course, they are. Citizens in high trust societies are less dependent on government than in low trust societies.
    Of course, jdm. the idea is that every interaction between individuals will be passed through a state bureaucracy.
    This is why I cannot take Libertarians seriously. The only authorities will be the individual and the state, no mediating institutions like churches, religions, professional associations, etc., and this will result in GREATER individual freedom?

  6. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Well, looks like Chauvin may have another route for appeal, and if it succeeds, looks like a number of prosecutors and the AG will have a lot of splainin’ to do.

    Regarding the case, what strikes me is that if Minnesota had a robust law prohibiting excessive force by the police, the case against Chauvin would have been pretty much open and shut, and he would have gotten about the same sentence–felony conviction, no more police work, and a few years in the pokey. The most appalling thing to me in this case is lessons like this that were not learned.

    Other lessons not apparently learned;officers ought to be required to carry a dose or two of Narcan that might have saved Floyd, ambulance services ought to be well distributed to allow quick coverage, and more.

  7. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    “officers ought to be required to carry a dose or two of Narcan that might have saved Floyd”

    Lol…yeah, that’s a must going forward Mr. Bubble. Y’all cant afford to be losing your best and brightest.

    jfc…

  8. Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Maga Mammuthus Primigenesis

    I’ve heard a rumor that Chauvin was denied a change of venue because any change of venue outside of the Twin Cities would have granted Chauvin an all-white jury.
    So instead “justice” demanded a trial in Minneapolis, with jurors subjected to intimidation by social activists and protestors.
    No love for Chauvin here, seems like a typical “thumper” cop.
    But everyone deserves a fair trial.

  9. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    No surprise to anyone who has his eyes open that this went on. I’ve never gotten over my disappointment in Dr Baker for testifying directly opposite to his autopsy findings, even when the defense attorney asked him point blank. Of course, the jury would still have convicted Chauvin.

  10. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Kremlin Tom, I have the weird notion that even degenerates have a right to have their lives respected. Even ones who mindlessly parrot Kremlin propaganda, so you in particular ought to be pretty grateful.

  11. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Degenerate Lives Matter?? Lmao; you’re too much Bikebubble

    *Million dollar idea*

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  12. cosmicwxdude Avatar
    cosmicwxdude

    Leftism/marxism=DFLeftist run amok. I trust no DFLer. None. And only half- heartedly trust some of the R’s. Sucks. Bunch of arrogant mofos.

  13. cosmicwxdude Avatar
    cosmicwxdude

    re: ‘We we were tasked to bring a few groceries for the celebration. There’s no way I was willing to stop anywhere in the TC Metro with my wife on board, so we stopped at a Walmart in Lakeville. My test for safe shopping is to look around the parking lot first…are there shopping buggies scattered everywhere? Empty Popeye’s chicken boxes laying around? Battered 1995 compact cars with smoke rolling out of the windows?’

    Well, you’re a little over-the-top. I live in STP, have for all my life and currently in the W 7th area. I’ve had zero crime issues in the 7yrs I’ve lived here. The really like my neighborhood and neighbors. While some homeless and other less than desireable-types are in the area, I’ve never been bothered by any of them. Cool neighborhood, cool places to go in the area. I won’t live my life in fear like you do. No, I am not a head-in-the-sander but I live my life pretty much as I always have. Now if I lived over by the FLOYDS, um I would not be too excited about it and would move…quickly.

  14. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    Cosmic, everybody has their own level of tolerence. My wife and I lived on the East Side of Como Park, over towards Maternity of Mary Church, for 20 years until we were sitting on the backyard patio one evening when she looked at me to say “Those aren’t fireworks are they? Those are gunshots aren’t they?” and I had to admit she was right.

    We are too old and too white to enjoy vibrant diversity. We fled. To each his own.

  15. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    I hear what you’re saying cosmic. I lived on the East Side and West Side of St. Paul for many years. I was in an M/C with a clubhouse on the corner of 27th and Emerson N for 10 years. Been shot (in the calf) once and stabbed x2 (in the back and stomach) and neither were in areas you’d have thought it would happen.

    I don’t live in fear of anyone, or anything, but I’ve learned to avoid problems, and I don’t take chances with my wife or kids; especially in places where protecting us will automatically get me arrested. Why would I go to a store so full of thieving blacks they have to lock up everything but sunscreen when I know there is better choice on the way??

    The W. 7th area is nice. But I seem to recall a mass shooting there a couple years ago…you never know when it will happen. Have fun but be careful.

  16. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    BTW, Cosmic…I live in the South now. We have the highest concentration of blacks in the country, but my threat level rarely goes above yellow. Why?

    Because they know that 35% of the men and women they meet every day are armed. And they know the courts and cops won’t bat an eye if they get shot committing a violent crime, and they know they *will* get shot if they try. They don’t even need to be armed with anything more than themselves while committing a violent crime.

    The merchandise in the Walmart’s in the darkest neighborhoods near me are not locked behind plexiglass.

    Yeah, they mow one another down pretty good, like everywhere else, but they rarely try their shit with White people outside their areas. In fact, we get along down here 100% better than y’all do in the North, and that’s a fact.

  17. Blade Nzimande Avatar
    Blade Nzimande

    Bigman, I lived on the East Side on Case St. back in the very late 90’s (was working in 3M Engineering Bldg 42 at the time). I remember taking my son to Lake Como one day, and watching the Hmong catch fish…they kept every damn thing they caught, no matter what is was, or how small.

    lol

  18. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    We have the highest concentration of blacks in the country, but my threat level rarely goes above

    Now that was an interesting comment. My son was driving around SC last week and went through Denmark. Just south of Sweden and Norway and a few miles west of Bamberg (Nikki Haley’s hometown). 80%, 90% black, so I wondered. Interesting comment. Thanks.

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