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I didn’t credit the AG for causing the reduction in crime. I also was not quoting statistics for any other crimes. Just pointing out that prosecuting serious crimes are not the responsibility of the AG. So crediting them for the reduction in murder numbers is illogical.

I didn’t post any crime statistics. The only ones I described were the homicide numbers going down/up. Homicide is a crime statistic that’s pretty immune from the usual forms of manipulation.

Who are you saying has a short term memory? I didn’t write the tweet that credited the AG that was elected in 202with reduction in crime. I am also not the one that reposted it here, that was scouts honor.

I do not get why you are struggling with this. Maybe it’s an issue with logic like I mentioned earlier maybe you do not understand what the word all means. I wrote “The criminal justice system isn’t the answer for all bad behavior.” yet you seem to interpret it as “The criminal justice system isn’t the answer for any bad behavior.” I am using all to mean the entire set of bad behavior. Supposing the set of bad behavior includes murder and lies of omission to a sexual partner. My statement would be true if the criminal justice system is the correct answer for murder but not the correct answer for lies of omission. For the second statement to be true the criminal justice system would have to be the correct tool to deal with both. Either you don’t understand logic or the meaning of what I wrote or you are choosing to misinterpret it to make a straw man.

The Bakersfield record book has D1 NCAA team placements listed for those years. I've attached a screenshot of the relevant part. They have placements but no team point totals for the D2 years (before 1987). Their best placement under Joe Seay was 5th. I don't know how they came up with the placements. I assume they would have just calculated team points they would have earned and where that would put them in the standings. I tried that for 1979-1982 and came up with slightly different results. Not sure why I'm different but best finish I came up with was also 5th. The main thing preventing them from cracking the top 5 is that they only ever had 2 AAs in a given season. Those 2 AA were always very high 1st-3rd, but it isn't enough.

The effective 0% chance of transmission is only for those taking antiretrovirals with a low viral load. The virus can still be spread either by people who aren’t taking ART. The time period is relevant to the law being repealed, however text you copied cites funding cuts affecting HIV preventions initiatives as a potential casual. It is unclear if repealing the law had any effect on the increase as I had pointed out no one had been charged under the law in 5 years. This time period would have felled under the years of decline.

4) The elected Attorney General for DC like all local elected DC politicians is a Democrat. Giving him credit for the drop in crime in DC is seemingly against the premise of this thread. Democrats lack common sense and are soft on crime yet the democrats in DC elected a Democrat as AG and he is getting credit for reducing crime/murders in the city? Maybe scouts Honor and the people he follows on twitter just don’t know what they are talking about.

It is unclear what effect the 2022 DC Attorney General election and subsequent change in AG had on murders in DC for a couple reasons. 1) The murder rate has fallen across the country since a peak in 2021. It has gone down each year. This includes red cities, blue cities, and cities that have not had a change in AG. 2) Murders in DC actually spiked in 2023 (the first year the new AG was in office) to the highest level in 25 years. This is the opposite of what was seen across the country where murders fell significantly from 2022. 3) The DC AG voted on by the residents of DC does not prosecute serious crimes. Felonies committed in DC are prosecuted by the US Attorney for the District of Columbia. This is not an elected position, but rather appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. So if the claim that the new AG was “more serious about prosecuting crime” that seriousness would have only been applicable to some misdemeanor offenses. It is less clear being tough on minor misdemeanors would significantly impact the murder rate. The US Attorney for DC did not change until January 2025 when President Trump took office.

Actually ISU has this information in Dressers bio. List of Coaches with a Top-4 NCAA Finish at Two Different Schools Bill Koll (Northern Iowa & Penn State) Bobby Douglas (Arizona State & Iowa State) Cael Sanderson (Iowa State & Penn State) Dave McCuskey (Northern Iowa & Iowa) Kevin Dresser (Virginia Tech & Iowa State) Ray Swartz (Central Oklahoma & Navy)

Certainly shows she was at the game. Looks like she is wearing a warm up in that pic. I am sure there is no box score to she how much she played in the game.

Yikes! You’re doing it again. Maybe the real underlying issue making the discussion/debate so difficult is that you don’t have a firm grasp of logic. I said the criminal justice system isn’t the answer for all bad behavior. This statement implies that the criminal justice system is the answer to some bad behavior. It also leaves open the possibility that there could be laws for all bad behavior just that some have civil but not criminal remedies. It would be illogical to conclude that I don’t think there should be laws for bad behavior based on that statement. The entire thread is a straw man. The IL law as written in 1989 made it a felony for an HIV positive person to have unprotected sex with a person without disclosing their HIV diagnosis with that person. Transmission was never required. A lot has changed since 1989. Today with modern treatment HIV is not the death sentence it was back then and unprotected sex carries an effective 0% chance of transmission. An HIV positive individual taking antiretrovirals today would have a lower chance of passing the disease to their partner than an infected person in 1989 using a condom, yet could have been charged with a felony as recently as when this law was repealed (2021 - 5 years ago). It might be poor form/bad behavior to not share an HIV diagnosis with a sexual partner, but if the act has an effective 0% chance of passing the disease I don’t see the state’s interest in regulating it. It shouldn’t be a crime. If you want to make some other kind of law against it like a religious law have at it.

Another UNI coach David McCuskey. UNI had 7 top 4 finishes under McCuskey from 1937-1952. McCuskey then went to coach at the University of Iowa where the Hawkeyes had 5 top 4 finishes under him.

1971 PSU Tied for 4th place with Koll as the coach and in 1953 UNI was 4th with Koll as coach. The 3rd place finish I mentioned earlier came in 1963 when UNI had moved down to D2. That was at the D2 tournament.

Bill Koll? I think he coached UNI to a 3rd place finish and PSU to a 4th place finish. Top 4 get trophies.

Did she actually play in the game in question? Is so that would make her answer all the more interesting. If she wasn’t expecting the question I think there is a good chance she doesn’t answer it.

Yikes. Nearly impossible to discuss this with all the strawmen in here. Instead of addressing what you thought I might say you could try and address something I actually said…

Post was about hardest path to the finals not to the championship. Cowcards post makes sense. Usually the finalist with the worst seed has the inside track to hardest path. No surprise Valencia is on top here.

I didn’t see this question in the story. I assume “AI” means you asked one of the widely available Artificial Intelligence chatbots and that was the answer? It’s disappointing they didn’t ask her that question. It would have be interesting to see her response.

The criminal justice system is not the answer for all bad behavior. I couldn’t find a state wide numbers for number of people charged and convicted under this, but I found some for Cook county. This is the county that contains nearly all of Chicago and roughly 40% of the population of the state. During the time the law was in force (1990-2021) ~80 people were charged under this law in Cook County with 20-30 convictions. About 15-20 of those charged were charged solely with this crime. That is to say they were charged with sexual assault, attempted murder, resisting arrest, etc. in addition to criminal transmission of HIV. That last one may seem unrelated but a handful or so of people were charged under this law for spitting at police officers and/or biting them whilst being arrested/detained for unrelated things. Some issues with the law are that actual transmission is not required. This leads to people with a very low chance of passing the virus, because they are taking modern antiretroviral drugs, being charged despite not actually infecting anyone and standing very little chance of doing so. Also it requires proving who knew/said what when and access to medical records. This can be difficult to ascertain as medical records are protected. Transmitting HIV to another person is not itself a crime. It’s not like if someone complains to the police that they were infected with HIV the state can go get the medical records of all the person’s past sexual partners to potentially substantiate a charge. The law requires the prosecutor to prove the individual has the specific intent to commit the offense. An offense would be knowing you had HIV and having sex without a condom without informing your partner of your HIV status. With modern antiretroviral drugs that make the probability of transmission near zero even when not using a condom it is unclear a case could be successfully prosecuted against someone using effective antiretrovirals and if it could would it be in the interest of justice to do so? The same number of individuals were prosecuted under the law in Cook County in the five years since it was repealed as the last five years it was in effect. The law was repealed in 2021 and Cook County had not attempted to prosecute anyone under it since 2016. In the 26 years they attempted to prosecute only 15-20 people with this as the sole charge. The other 60-65 cases included stacked charges implying that even after the law was repealed most of the conduct that was prosecuted under it remains illegal through other laws. The tweet Caviera posted was misleading and false. It made it sound like this was a recent thing - it happened 5 years ago. It implied the governor did it to shield illegal immigrants from prosecution under the law after a surge in HIV cases in the Latino community. It gave no evidence of this increase just mentions a “ recent spike” in city data. If it was recent then how did the governor see this coming 5 years ago? And even if he was prescient, why would he feel the need to protect illegal immigrants from a law that had not been enforced in 5 years?

Certainly murder rates go up and down. Take a down year. Take the most down year over the past 40 years. How many murders were there in Chicago in this extreme down year? ~400? Now compare that with the total number of people successfully prosecuted under this repealed HIV law in the entire state of Illinois over its entire history. Which number is larger? This is a pretty rare crime and/or it’s extremely difficult to prove/prosecute.

The thread started with you being astonished by the average Somali IQ, yet accepting it uncritically. Not much has changed by the end. You are now doing it with the video Caviera posted. It’s an outrageous video for someone receiving SNAP to make and post to the internet. Yet despite that and the fact that no one has been able to track down the guy in the video, you uncritically accept it at face value. The only real justification you gave to back up the IQ number was your own personal experience with and beliefs on Somalis and the welfare rate. Now you are using the same as justification that the video is real, well that and the “fact” that the average IQ is 68. The reality is that you would accept any low number for average IQ as true and any cartoonishly entitled rant video as legit because that fits how you view Somalis. You’ve set yourself up to be duped in this manner. This is like when Joe Rogan got duped by that fake video of Tim Walz dancing. The video is so absurd most people would immediately question its authenticity, but Rogan’s low opinion of Walz resulted in him accepting it without asking questions. It made him look very foolish. The same is happening here except with the ironic twist that you are being duped whilst calling Somalis low IQ. It is very funny.

I can only imagine the search terms you used to find a tweet that makes a bill signing from 5 years ago appear as a recent event to frame its passage as Governor Pritzker protecting illegal immigrants today in 2026.

You might have a point Texas decriminalized this in the 1990s when democrats controlled the house with a republican governor. Looking at the map Danny Deck posted lots of "red" states don't criminalize this.

You snag a lot of them and they are exceptionally weird. I assume you don't post every tweet you view. I can only imagine the cesspool of nonsense you must wade through to find the nuggets you find interesting enough to post here.

That whole tweet is bizarre. This isn’t news. Illinois decriminalized this five years ago. Why comment on it now as if it’s news and note the interesting timing? When you choose to bring something up 5 years later and note the timing that isn’t a coincidence. Then it ends with “This is the Democrat Party” seemingly blaming Democrats for getting this wrong. Illinois was not the first state to repeal a law making HIV a crime. That was Texas which is not controlled by the Democrat party. If both democrats and republicans are doing this then maybe it’s just a law and wasn't working. You spend a large amount of time in an exceptionally weird corner of twitter. Fake news is news as are 5 years old stories if it causes outrage.