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• A book worth reading is worth buying. – John Ruskin • A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back. – E. W. Howe • According to the Mayans, the world is supposed to end in the year 2012. Are you buying that? When’s the last time you even ran into a Mayan? – Jay Leno • Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today. – Victor Papanek • After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I’ll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits. – Robert Breault • All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder’s major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements. – Benjamin Graham • Americans aren’t buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they’ve been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad. These radicals are now travelling from country to country advocating for the persecution of LGBT people under the guise that they’re saving children. – Chad Griffin • An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn’t it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: “Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved,” etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values. – Warren Buffett • And if you’re not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you’re not getting a date with The Miz!- Alex Riley • Apple Stores Offer the Best Buying Experience and Customer Service On The Planet – Tim Cook • Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to “think outside the box.” Why? Because it is thought we all hate the box for being too dumb, too boring, and we want to escape it. If we do escape, by buying the advertised product, we usually find ourselves inside another dumb box populated by boring people just like us. It is clearly possible to live an extraordinary life inside a dumb box. Question: is it possible to lead an extraordinary life in anything other than a dumb box? – Lebbeus Woods • As an artist, you don’t stop making art because people are not buying it. – Damien Hirst • As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well. We don’t put other salespersons in jail for buying clients drinks and successfully transforming a “no” into a “maybe” into a “yes.” If the client makes a choice to drink too much and the “yes” turns out to be a bad decision, it is the client who gets fired, not the salesperson. – Warren Farrell • Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying. – Fran Lebowitz • Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets. – Tom Udall

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I like that. – Andy Warhol • Business is not financial science, it’s about trading.. buying and selling. It’s about creating a product or service so good that people will pay for it. – Anita Roddick • But I fail to see how that (not buying gifts) would bring back the essence of Christmas. And I don’t think it would affect retailers. Besides, that’s part of the joy of Christmas – to give someone a gift to show your appreciation for them. – Mathew Staver • Buy real records in real shops, or I’ll come round your house and scream at your mother. – Ian Gillan • Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn’t have to come in contact with it. – Susan Orlean • buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman’s arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open. – John D. Voelker • Buying a home wouldn’t make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife. – Mark Zandi • Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels. – Ines de La Fressange • Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company’s announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter. – Bill Keller • Buying and selling is essentially antisocial. – Edward Bellamy • Buying art is not understanding art. – Anselm Kiefer • Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer • Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It’s that simple. – Kyle Bass • Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available. – Li Ka-shing • Buying pollution credits is folly; it doesn’t help the environment. Instead of using tax dollars to buy credits overseas, we’ll use them at home. – Stephen Harper • Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy. – Marshall Field • Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service. – Ted Allen • by then I was getting a little work, doing some playing and getting paid for it, not very much, but enough for me to feel justified in buying a real instrument. I bought a Gretsch with a De-Armond pickup on it and a second-hand Gibson amplifier; it looked like the one Charlie Christian used. I guess it was the same, although there were several models coming out at that time – this would be in I939. – Tal Farlow • Can’t you see that everyone is buying station wagons? – Neal Stephenson • Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story. – Jim Ross • Christmas is the time for celebration, so I’m not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process. – Rick Warren • Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process. – Marc Ostrofsky • Do I have a problem with Larry Ellison buying Sun? No, that’s part of the capitalist system. As soon as we go public we’re for sale, that’s part of the deal. And do I have a problem with him exercising his intellectual property rights? No, I don’t have a problem with that. Would it be how we necessarily ran and operated? Obviously not. – Scott McNealy • Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity … we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance. – A. Edward Newton • Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.- Anderson Cooper • Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what’s going on in your life. – Pat Benatar • Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief. – Stevie Wonder • Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable. – Tony Visconti • First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for buying shares. That is what one calls intuition. – Alisher Usmanov • For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible? – Daniel Suarez • For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart. – Amanda Hocking • Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away. – Peter Schiff • Have you been working on Sunday? Have you been buying or selling without necessity in the course of this holy day? Give to the poor some alms which will exceed the profit you have made. – John Vianney • Having acquired an espresso machine as good as a solid e-61 and a very good grinder, your incremental dollars will be best spent on either buying truly badass coffee, or setting up a roasting setup yourself that with lots of effort will allow you to produce high end roasted coffee. – Ken Fox • Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me – I don’t now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it’s an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. – Jane Asher • He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do. He lies and cheats; he snubs the mandate and authority of international weapons inspectors; and he games the system to keep buying time against enforcement of the just and legitimate demands of the United Nations, the Security Council, the United States and our allies. Those are simply the facts. – Henry Waxman • Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy. – Charlaine Harris • Here’s another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he’s at work. Business says, ‘Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we’ll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.’ – Will Rogers • I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday’s prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom. – Victor Niederhoffer • I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work • I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time. – David Dreman • I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don’t want to fit in. And now people are buying into that. – Alexander McQueen • I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there’s one chance in a thousand that it’s really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they’re completely right. – Woody Allen • I didn’t want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It’s just not what I am. I’m a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I’m uncomfortable with buying an experience. – Alec Soth • I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I’ll buy whatever catches my attention. – Bruce Springsteen • I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don’t know if I can do that. I’d like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that’s about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can’t remember them. – Debbie Harry • I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don’t go to many ‘dos,’ so they just line up. I’m normally in my trainers. – Sheridan Smith • I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls. – Bob Hope • I don’t get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What’s the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football. – Maddox • I don’t really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I’m buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it. – Caroline Wozniacki • I don’t think humans are meant to be looked at when we’re buying pants. – Ricky Gervais • I don’t think they like the idea that the people who are buying the record get to choose what goes out, because it’s their job. The fans even pre-ordered stock to make sure that I had some sort of presence. – John Otway • I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant. – Esther Williams • I ended up buying business.com for $150,000 because I wanted to make it a magazine. It would have been a ‘Time’-type magazine: how to do business on the Internet. And I was offered a lot of money for that domain. I played two buyers against each other. – Marc Ostrofsky • I feel like if I’m going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you’re buying a book about him, I don’t want you to have to sit through stuff that’s not him. – Justin Halpern • I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children’s clothes online. – Samantha Bee • I got a job as soon as I could – 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I’d go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff. – Natasha Bedingfield • I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public. – Aldous Huxley • I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood … the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book. – Michel de Montaigne • I haven’t bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though. – Kesha • I kept buying bigger and bigger jeans, and once the size 14s got too tight, I thought: ‘That’s it. I’m not buying the next size’. – Valerie Bertinelli • I know real people, whose names I could tell you, people I know who have said “I’ve stopped buying the New York Times.” Why? Because their editorial position has filtered, has leached into the news pages. – Bernard Goldberg • I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance. – Wendy Cope • I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers. – Geoff Johns • I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money. – Andrew Motion • I looked at my family and I said, “I’ve got a spouse. I’ve got three kids. There’s no way I’m ever buying a music subscription service for the five of us. It’s just not going to happen.” So we wanted to do something really great for families… It wasn’t easy. We had to convince the labels it was in their best interests, too. – Eddy Cue • I love Cheetos, those hot, spicy kind. And chocolate. Every time I’m in the airport I’m buying Cheetos and eating them on the airplane. – Alessandra Ambrosio • I never buy a piece of art. I don’t see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually. – Karl Pilkington • I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold. – Big Sean • I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings. – Jared Kushner • I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote…. By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for…you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for. – Carla Howell • I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk. – Steven Sater • I started getting back into buying old analog gear while we were recording. Lots of old drum machines and synths. It wasn’t a conscious thing. I didn’t consider myself a collector, but boxes of vintage gear would turn up virtually every day. – Martin Gore • I tell young entrepreneurs to use the leader in their industry as a benchmark as they work to create their own brand. Dont look at what your competition is doing – if you emulate the leader in your industry, you will achieve a higher level of engagement with consumers and make their buying experience richer. – Steve Stoute • I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn’t want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that. – Dhani Harrison • I think that the thing you have to do is, people have to start being held accountable for their decisions. If somebody’s not buying insurance, then they’re going to have to be selling their car, or whatever it is to try to help cover that. – Todd Akin • I think the music business is probably not happy with what we’ve done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy. – John Otway • I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. – Robyn Hitchcock • I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve. – Tinie Tempah • I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life. – Anne Truitt • I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of genetically altered foods on the human body have not been thoroughly tested. Sugars are also sneaked into tons of different foods, especially foods marketed to kids. Again, study the labels carefully before buying. – Deirdre Imus • I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over. – Hayao Miyazaki • If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. – John Ruskin • If I see a movie star in the department store buying something, I’ll kind of sidle up and see what they’re saying, what they look like, how they sound. That’s an invasion of privacy. – Tom Lehrer • If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual. – Donald A. Norman • If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I’d go for the Pollock every time. – Damien Hirst • If we could just go back the last two or three years and do our buying a little more carefully, why… we would be O.K. – Will Rogers • If we’re talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I’m talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can’t in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy. – Muriel Siebert • If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa. – David Brooks • If you look at the economics of Nokia roughly half of the company, half of the business, half of how we think about the business is focused on those emerging markets and on those lower-priced devices. But, of course, people who are aspirational and buying those lower-priced devices today are looking at smart phones tomorrow, and so forth. – Stephen Elop • If you’re buying an album because of the face on it, you’re stupid. – Enrique Iglesias • If you’re buying tomatoes pick them up and smell them-they should have a lovely perfume. They need to be kept at fifty degrees or above, particularly during the growing season, because that’s when they develop their flavor. – Julia Child • I’m a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup. – Melanie Fiona • I’m a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. – Michael Symon • I’m a Virgo and I’m more – I don’t want to say ‘negative’ – but I’m the girl who thinks no one’s coming to my birthday party, no one’s buying my clothes, no one’s reading my book, no one’s watching my show – that’s just how I think. – Rachel Zoe • I’m a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you’re getting out. I’m also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write. – Sam Shepard • I’m as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles ‘all you need is love’, one of the most evocative singles of all time. – Jon Snow • I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things. – Yann Martel • I’m not buying a boat because of writing skits. – Jason Sudeikis • I’m not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present. – Christopher Owens • Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day. -Nicola Formichetti • Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don’t like being limited in that way. Therefore, I’m considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around. – Robert Downey, Jr. • I’m very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.- Ronnie Dunn – Art, Native American, Years • Immersing yourself in the environment of a real record store where music is celebrated and cherished adds real value to the experience of buying music. In some ways, that retail experience is as important as the music. – John Mellencamp • In China, you’ve got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you’ve got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world. – Angela Ahrendts • In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they’re really, really buying internationally. – Jim Balsillie • In the area we’re discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. – Norman Lear • In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991. – Peter Lynch • In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them. – John Wanamaker • Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets. – Maria Bartiromo • Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we’ve rolled almost everything back to the company. – Bill Gates • It doesn’t matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren’t supporting it and buying your music, it’s hard to make it. – Chris Daughtry • It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media. – Bill Mumy • It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc. – Ali Khamenei • It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I’ve known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine–that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. – Edwin Lefevre • It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars. – Phil Angelides • It wasn’t what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back. – Will Rogers • It’s about time we stopped buying things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like. – Adrian Rogers • It’s still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer’s buying habits could be huge. – Gary Vaynerchuk • I’ve come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I’ve also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime. – Daymond John • Journalists aren’t supposed to praise things. It’s a violation of work rules almost as serious as buying drinks with our own money or absolving the CIA of something. – P. J. O’Rourke • Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China – David Letterman • Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops. – Laura Mennell • Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction. – Stacy London • Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn’t say she’s got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she’s got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that. – Kara DioGuardi • Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. – Benjamin Franklin • Many of life’s decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There’s also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don’t get much practice making them. You’ve probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely. – Steven Levitt • Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That’s not management, that’s deal making. Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession. – Clayton Christensen • Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr Martin Freeman • Mentally imagine you are buying the business or applying for the job that will earn your fortune. Review each step you’d take, the obstacles you might meet, the difficulties you would meet. Continue imagining each step until you mentally reach your wealth goal. – Tyler Gregory Hicks • Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can’t find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn’t be tolerated. – Laura Mennell • Modern man’s happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments. – Erich Fromm • Money can be issued only in the act of buying, and can be backed only in the act of selling. Any buyer who is also a seller is qualified to be a money issuer. Government, because it is not and should not be a seller, is not qualified to be a money issuer. – E.C. Riegel • Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. – Richard DeVos • Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable. – Cory Trepanier • Music is so hard. It’s a struggle to get people to care. It’s hard to make an impact in today’s world because people aren’t buying records anymore. – Juliana Hatfield • My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip. – David Suzuki • My granddaddy on my momma’s side, he was a romantic. He loved love songs. Every Valentine’s Day, I remember him buying a red carnation for my grandmomma, my momma and my sister. That was something you could count on every year. – Josh Turner • My idea of rich is that you can buy every book you ever want without looking at the price and you’re never around assholes. That’s the two things to really fight for in life. – John Waters • My life had become an endless race against the clock. I was always in a hurry, scrambling to save a minute here, a few seconds there. My wake-up call came when I found myself toying with the idea of buying a collection of One-Minute Bedtime Stories Snow White in 60 seconds. Suddenly it hit me: my rushaholism has got so out of hand that I’m even willing to speed up those precious moments with my children at the end of the day. There has to be a better way, I thought, because living in fast forward is not really living at all. That’s why I began investigating the possibility of slowing down. – Carl Honore • My responsibility is simply being who I am and not buying into any projection as real. No projection is finally real, but projection does play a very important role. – Gangaji • My world. My rules. I would command everyone to do so many things! Be kind. Oh, I would command everyone to stop buying tabloids! – Jennifer Aniston • No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily – or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play. – Edwin Lefevre • Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality – leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last. – Doris Janzen Longacre • On the one hand, we’re constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It’s absolutely insane. We’ve been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We’re being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think. • Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents. – George Mikes • Once you turn pro and you’re making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club. – Bobby Orr • One market paradigm that I take exception to is: Buy low and sell high. I believe far more money is made by buying high and selling at even higher prices. – Richard Driehaus • One of my favorite patterns is the tendency for the markets to move from relative lows to relative highs and vice versa every two to four days. This pattern is a function of human behavior. It takes several days of a market rallying before it looks really good. That’s when everyone wants to buy it, and that’s the time when the professionals, like myself, are selling. Conversely, when the market has been down for a few days, and everyone is bearish, that’s the time I like to be buying. – Jack D. Schwager • One the one hand, our economists treat human beings as rational actors making choices to maximize their own economic benefit. On the other hand, the same companies that hire those economists also pay for advertising campaigns that use the raw materials of myth and magic to encourage people to act against their own best interests, whether it’s a matter of buying overpriced fizzy sugar water or the much more serious matter of continuing to support the unthinking pursuit of business as usual in the teeth of approaching disaster. – John Michael Greer • Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years. – Warren Buffett • Opportunity cost is a huge filter in life. If you’ve got two suitors who are really eager to have you and one is way the hell better than the other, you do not have to spend much time with the other. And that’s the way we filter out buying opportunities. – Charlie Munger • Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online. – Marc Ostrofsky • Over the long run, the price of gold approximates the total amount of money in circulation divided by the size of the gold stock. If the market price of gold moves a long way from this level, it may indicate a buying or selling opportunity. – Ray Dalio • People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. – Walt Mossberg • People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out – that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers. – Lawrence Bossidy • People who get to express their voice are paid by the people who make profit from it. So they’re going to make you believe you have to spend your money buying these products otherwise you won’t be happy. This is really wrong. Especially the implication it carries. – Michel Gondry • Recently I’ve been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn’t afford them. Now I can so I’ve been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they’ll be worth a lot of money. – Mackenzie Crook • Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards. – Bill Watterson • Since I was 13, I’ve been buying things because they are ridiculously cheap. – Ronald Burkle • Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians. – Milton Friedman • Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she’s still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition. – Frederick Lenz • Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I’m buying a new book to read, I’ll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I’ll think that one is meant to go home with me. I’ll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I’ll always go one behind. – Jennifer Carpenter • Stop paying or buying into the ideas that don’t resonate with the reality you prefer. Stop giving them credence. Appreciate, Appreciate your chosen vibration and allow the vibrations that are not aligned with you to de-preciate. – Darryl Anka • Suddenly, the world is realizing that gold is still a safe haven asset. We’ve seen pretty substantial losses in equity markets. I think this is genuine safe-haven buying. – James Moore • That so-called feminine ardor for clothes shopping had been flagging for some time. Between 1980 and 1986, at the same time that women were buying more houses, cars, restaurant dinners, and health care services, they were buying fewer pieces of clothing-from dresses to underwear. – Susan Faludi • That’s what I paint, I paint people. They’re portraits, but you won’t always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you’re buying it, and it’s of your kid! – Jemima Kirke • The chattering bloody classes, or what I call the liberal Guardian readers, they’re all buying SUVs to drive around London. I smile at these loons who drive their SUVs down to Sainsbury’s and buy kiwi fruit, flown in from New Zealand for Christ sakes. They’re the equivalent of environmental nuclear bombs! – Michael O’Leary • The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you. – Benjamin Graham • The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of ‘Drill, Baby, Drill. – Robert Greenwald • The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling, you might recall this instruction: change the way you see it and lean in. Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness, we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience, not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves. This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings. – Pema Chodron • The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money – generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies – buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the ‘community,’ identifying with the place in a familiar way. – Peter York • The only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want. – John Stossel • The people who are buying stocks because they’re going up and they don’t know what they do, deserve to lose money. – Jim Cramer • The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but “the true saint” goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment. – Abu-Sa’id Abul-Khayr • The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who’s selling it to him does not know. There’s no zero sum game in Wall Street. – Bernard Madoff • The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they’re going to want their apartments and homes. And that’s when you’ll start to see a recovery in home prices. – Jamie Dimon • The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They’re always buying something we can’t afford. – Sam Ewing • The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful. – Steve Jobs • The thing about Paris, it’s a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you’re Baudelaire. But it’s not a city where you can work. – Malcolm Mclaren • There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes. – Thomas Paine • There are countries that prefer to think that they’re buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don’t think that’s the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups. – Jose Maria Aznar • There are no bad days in the market. When the market is down, you’ve got bargains, and it’s lovely to think of what you are buying at low prices. When the market is up, the bargains have gone, but you’re rich. – Bruce Greenwald • There is a difference these days between who’s making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It’s become much more diverse. – El-P • There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. – Jean de la Bruyere • There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink. – Plato • There’s a character that I play onstage, and I can’t let him loose in the supermarket when I’m buying my beans on toast. – Alex Kapranos • There’s no credit buying on eternal things, none at all. Anything that is worthwhile has to be paid for in advance. – Boyd K. Packer • Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants. – Henry David Thoreau • To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can. – Natalie • To understand KKR, I always like to say, don’t congratulate us when we buy a company. Any fool can buy a company. Congratulate us when we sell it and when we’ve done something with it and created real value. – Henry Kravis • Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend. – Phoebe Cates • Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. – Will Rogers • Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall. – John H. Vandenberg • Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature’s gift and denies the poor of their human rights. – Vandana Shiva • We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets. – Conn Smythe • We can sell our time, but we can’t buy it back. – Paulo Coelho • We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don’t really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what’s gonna speak to you. – Charles Kelley • We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells something, he has got to have it sitting there in a bucket, or a bag, or a jug, or a cage, or a rat trap, or something, depending on what it is he is selling. We are continually buying something that we never get from a man that never had it. – Will Rogers • What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else’s definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you’ll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it’s a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again. – Sheryl Sandberg • When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. – P. J. O’Rourke • When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company? – Rene Rivkin • When even the analysts are bored, it’s time to start buying. – Peter Lynch • When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity. – David Bonderman • When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, “Wow, I really have come a long way.” Or buying the super expensive organic raw food for my dogs, and I remember when I had to buy the cheapest big bag of kibble. So I think for me it’s often in terms of comfort. – Kristin Bauer van Straten • When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I’m not fitting into it lately, but I still have it. – Nina Garcia • When I’m bearish and I sell a stock, each sale must be at a lower level than the previous sale. When I am buying, the reverse is true. I must buy on a rising scale. I don’t buy long stocks on a scale down, I buy on a scale up. – Jesse Lauriston Livermore • When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it – that was one of the worst feelings. – Tablo • When no one’s buying your records, it’s easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can’t really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music. – Patrick Carney • When the buying stops, the killing can too. – Yao Ming • When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, … This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it. – Liz Miller • Whether I’m doing music or I’m walking down the street or I’m in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I’m buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it’s the same me. – Glenn Danzig • Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. – Warren Buffett • Whether you’ve done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it’s just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it’s just fictional stories for entertainment. – Holly Valance • Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed. – Craig Reucassel • Why don’t somebody print the truth about our present economic situation? We spent six years of wild buying on credit – everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not – and now we are having to pay for ’em, and we are howling like a pet coon. – Will Rogers • With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I’ve come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the ‘greenest’ person I’ve ever known. – Joy Bryant • With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want… with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person. – Caprice Bourret • Women aren’t embarrassed when they buy men’s pajamas, but a man buying a nightgown acts as though he were dealing with a dope peddler. – Jimmy Cannon • You are still lucky – you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music – but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It’s risky to bounce around and change your type of music. – Randy Bachman • You can’t buy something which does not exist. In a way, let’s make things exist and then judge later. Don’t cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow. – Ross Lovegrove • You don’t change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of ‘Save the Earth’ bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster. – Alex Steffen • You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we’re in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging. – J. Robbins • You’re going to be buying your ticket with your heartache, you’re gonna be payin’ the man with your dues. You’re gonna be living alone when you hear that whistle moan, you’re gonna be learnin’ to live with the blues. – Don McLean

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You’re absolutely right. It’s not the encouragement or platforming of child drag, the rise of people pushing for kids as young as eight to label themselves as transgender, identity politics, MOGAI and neo-genders, and general fucking idiocy.

Also, “vilification of gays by anti-SJWs”? A lot of the most well-known anti-SJWs on this site are gay, bi, or trans. Just look at @gaylibertariansc. And if they’re not lgbt, most certainly support lgbt rights.

“The election of Donald Trump”? I mean other than the fucking trans military personnel ban, Trump is pretty libertarian regarding LGBT people. He’s not anti-gay in any way. Pence may be his veep and have shitty fundamentalist views but the guy can’t really fucking do anything about it, nor does he appear to want to—he acknowledges LGBT rights even though he may not agree with their “lifestyle”.

As for the rise of neo-fascism, I really don’t know what to tell you other than prove that it’s demonstrably rising in the population and positively correlated with decrease in lgbt acceptance.

Yeah, honestly, the community did this to itself. You’re only making matters worse by failing to acknowledge what’s happening.

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So, the video in the link is some special kind of hell. Or maybe idiocy. I'm not even sure. I came across this video in the FB feed of an old LGBT activist acquaintance of mine and the lack of common sense in this is so staggering that it fully and completely exhausts me. For those of you who don't want to watch the video, allow me to transcribe it and pick it apart because it's...it's some kind of special. I mean really this....this is...I don't know precisely what this is. "I think when people hear that we're anti-police they think it's going to be chaos. The new abolitionist movement is...it's about transformative justice. Non-prison, non-police based strategies for dealing with violence and crisis in our communities." Right, okay...not for the 'anti-police' thing but community strategies to try and target certain issues in the community have been one of those things that have worked in certain areas. In fact, many police are actually trained in community outreach programs already...but things like neighborhood watch and things like that have certainly done their part. You're not doing bad so far. "Who hasn't had a bad day? Who hasn't felt depressed or anxious? The question is, should anybody deserve to die because of it." Okay, no one deserves to die because of a bad day, or depression, or anxiety. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about crime, often violent crime. What's that line I see on here? "Cool motive, still murder"? People don't rape because they 'had a bad day'. A person may kill someone because they're depressed but guess what? Still murder. I can get behind communities coming together to help tackle crime but lets be clear, not all crime is the result of someone 'having a bad day'. And yes, many police are poorly trained on dealing with mental illness. This is something that should be addressed. But abolishing the police entirely because of this is a massive case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. "The police's sole responsibility isn't he manufacture of criminals." No, no of course. Without police, serial murderers wouldn't exist right? Serial rapists would just dissipate into thin air. People would no longer drive drunk, gangs would no longer kill each other, white collar criminals would no longer break laws.....because literally the only things that makes a person a criminal is the police. Not their own actions, or the law, or anything like that. *note sarcasm* "So here you have for-profit prisons. When you creat space, you create demand. That means that bodies have to fill those prisons. and we have seen that it's largely transgender people. It's black people. It's Native people. It's Latinx people." For-profit prisons have been a problem. There have been several cases of collusion between corrupt judges and for profit prisons (there was one, I believe, in Louisiana a few years ago). But for ever Louisiana prison example there are examples like Colorado. They made marijuana legal and now, I believe, they're having to shut down prisons because there aren't enough people to fill that. Kind of shoots the whole 'bodies to fill those prisons' idea in the foot huh? http://www.denverpost.com/2013/01/26/fewer-inmates-means-colorado-may-close-more-prisons/ Also, why this is more a federal case then local police, at least one level of police (the federal kind) are working on closing for profit prisons. So, once again, not quite on the nose with that https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/18/justice-department-says-it-will-end-use-of-private-prisons/ As for the demographics of those IN prison.....at least with race, it's both right and wrong: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp According to the federal bureau of prisons, the majority race of those incarcerated is white (58.7% as of 2/2017. This may include Latino people, not entirely sure.) followed by African American (37.7%). Now, white people are roughly on target because they make up about 60% of the population. So 58% is pretty close. But African American's make up about 13% of the population. So while more white people are incarcerated then black people (which is where you're sort of wrong) they are over represented (which is where you're sort of right). Proving that is because of racism, however, is a difficult thing. I'm not exactly sure why they include trans individuals here. Not because trans people don't deserve good treatment by the police and prisons but because I can't find a statistic showing their representation in prisons. I don't think the BOP or DOJ track that in perpetrators... Also, can we stop using latinx. I'm fairly sure there are quite a few Spanish speakers around the world that would appreciate non-Spanish/Hispanic speaking people not butchering their language for them. "When you have that demand then you also have to create incentives. That trickles down to police who also now have the incentive of creating criminals." Yes, so many incentives. Separating people during issues of domestic violence has so many incentives. Trying to catch a child murderer, seeing the pictures of the children they couldn't save, so many incentives. So many incentives to walking into situations where they could be shot. So many incentives watching friends, colleagues, and partners die in the line of duty. That (on average) $54,000 a year is just the best incentive for all of these things. "It's not about justice anymore. It's about profit." For fines? Maybe. Fines are a bitch and I think we've kind of gone over board on that. That is likely more for profit (which is why people joke about not speeding towards the end of the month. Quotas and all). But police don't write the laws, they don't even necessarily like all of them, but it's their job to enforce them. You don't like the punishment? Don't like where the fine money goes? Don't like where Prison money goes? Vote in people to make better laws. Vote in people who fund public prisons instead of private prisons. Don't blame the cops for doing their jobs because they have shit all to do with what government officials decide to do with prisons. "I think we start with the demilitarization of the police. Police don't need assault weapons to protect people." Yes and no. Given the true violence of certain drug cartels (seriously, look at Mexico, they are freaking frightening), given the violence of certain gangs, the idea of having specialized forces with specialized tactile training for truly dangerous situations is not a bad idea. That's what SWAT was supposed to be for. Now, we have gone overboard. Police militarization has been a huge problem and a lot of CRJ people will agree with that. Police are getting things (weapons and gear) that they are not properly trained to use and they are using them rather liberally. In some cases the uses make sense, in others they didn't (Ferguson, oddly enough, was an example of police militarization gone a bit off the bend. Not all of their use of force was unwarranted but some of it was....somewhat overkill.). I agree with lessening police militarization but that's a LONG way off from getting rid of police lock, stock, and barrel. "the second thing that we can do is really look at police budgets and create models and economies for that divestment from the institution of policing and the reinvestment in community models." Uh huh....investment in communities is good but...ahem.... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/us/after-deep-police-cuts-sacramento-sees-rise-in-crime.html So, in 2012, Sacramento cut their police force by a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Cut most of their tasks forces, cut patrols just...just gutted it and... "In 2011, Chief Braziel said, the cuts, in his opinion, went past the tipping point. While homicides have remained steady, shootings — a more reliable indicator of gun violence — are up 48 percent this year. Rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries and vehicle thefts have also increased, though in smaller increments. Complicating matters, the cutbacks have coincided with a flow of convicted offenders back into the city as California, heeding a Supreme Court ruling, has reduced its prison population. Once released, former inmates have less supervision — the county’s probation department also suffered cuts." So, cutting back the police force did not create warm fuzzies that made criminals not do crime. In fact, lack of a police presence seems to have made things generally worse for Sacramento. I wonder what would happen with no police, no prisons, no parole, no nothing except for community members with no real authority 'reinvesting in the community'. Now don't get me wrong, there ARE community measures that have helped to lessen gang violence. And they are good programs. But they take time and they are far from 100%. What are you going to do with criminals that don't take to this softer approach? People will always commit crimes, there will always be people that kill, and rape, and steal, and hurt because the benefits out way the consequences. And unless you have real consequences...or barring that, ways of containing people who just don't give a shit, then community reinvestment will never been enough to cut out the police entirely. "That means taking money out of police budgets and slowly phasing out police because we don't actually need them in our communities. They don't keep people safe." Really? They don't keep people safe? You can't think of one https://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/120351-Fla-officer-takes-10-rounds-to-save-children-her-own-life/ Single https://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/120351-Fla-officer-takes-10-rounds-to-save-children-her-own-life/ Time? http://people.com/celebrity/cops-save-woman-trapped-in-sinking-car-smash-window-with-rock/ THat's just three singular instances that popped up on the first page of google. There are so, so many more. But when police saved BLM protestors, putting their own lives at risk (And costing five officers lives), when someone opened fire you have absolutely no right to say anything. "You know, when you're looking at it from the lens of race in this country, it's absolutely easier to manufacture criminals around that. When people skin becomes weaponized, particularly black skin, a book becomes a gun, a cell phone becomes a gun, a bag of skittles becomes a gun." And when looking through the lens of race, it is also easier to think of extreme propositions because you're world view will not allow you to see beyond it. But go on. "We don't have some personal war with individual police officers." You just think they don't keep people save, they make criminals, and they're in it for profit. Can't imagine how individual cops could possibly be offended and upset by that. "What we do have is a deep concern and a fight against the institution of policing." Concern about it? Sure. Fight against it? That just speaks to me that you have the first idea about criminal justice, law, or any of it just that you can only see it through you own lens of race (to use your term.) "Undocumented communities know that they can't call the police in the even that crisis happens." Look, I'm all for making the path easier to get into this country. Not everyone who follows me agree with that but my family came over as poor immigrants with very little to offer the country; I can't blame others for wanting to. And the expense and abject difficulty to do it now is...well, lets put it this way, I don't think most Americans could become citizens the way things are now. That being said, undocumented communities are here ILLEGALLY. And police have to enforce the law. If you want to deal with the problem of immigration? Awesome. Start electing lawmakers who want to fix the process. don't blame cops who have about as much power in what becomes law as a cashier has about store policy. "A lot of black communities know that too." Uh huh, and we're just going to ignore what can happen to 'snitches' in the more crime ridden areas of the country? http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12419650 Can't imagine THAT has anything to do with why some communities (not just black communities, mind you) don't talk to police? "And so entire mosques, churches, communities--they have agreements where they won't call the police, should something happen. And in its place, we've seen such a wonderful and diverse response when it comes to intervention in our communities. We've seen people rise up with trainings around mental health crisis, intimate partner violence crisis. We've seen rapid response-justice teams and I think that's what we need to be building." If you suffer a serious violent crime (rape, armed robbery, murder, arson, assault) and don't call the cops to get the perpetrator of the street you are a moron. I'm sorry, but some people cannot be talked into behaving themselves. They are dangerous to others and not having them taken out of that situation puts people at risk. It's great that you're seeing benefits in their communities. Community programs can be excellent tools, there is no doubt about that, but that does not mean police will suddenly not be needed. "Revolution isn't just about the ending of something. It's the beginning of something new." New does not always mean good. And sometimes revolution just shits on everyone.

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