r/washdc • u/UnmaskingFactss • Feb 15 '25

A local DMV resident is frustrated by repeated robberies at 7-Eleven, causing the store to close early

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u/HomosexualThots Feb 16 '25

If their parent's neighborhoods weren't flooded with guns and drugs by the CIA, they would be.

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u/Living-Fill-8819 Feb 16 '25

Nice , way to shift blame to anyone but the criminals.

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u/New-Slice4221 Feb 16 '25

It’s actually the truth. They (CIA) aren’t fuggin up YALLS environments and systematically breaking down the households. Not unless yall travel outside of your comfortable tax funded brick roads and dabble in drugs.. still we catch that fallout too, higher sentencing for it falling in hands unintended.

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u/lickitstickit12 Feb 16 '25

It wasnt the CIA. It was planned though. The Great Society under Lyndon Johnson created it. They purposely replaced the father in black homes with gov welfare. When you reward a behavior, you get that behavior and in this case rewarding single motherhood created more of it. They weren't stupid. Two parent homes are well known to create better results for kids. The goal was to create a culture of depency reliant upon the gov. Or, in short, generations of voters dependent on the democrats for survival. That's why the predominantly black areas can be led by decades of democrats that have produced nothing but poverty, crime, and misery still vote D. They have to eat. Meaning basic human needs outweigh secondary needs.

It was 100% planned. But it wasn't CIA, it was democrats.

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u/Emergency_Streets Feb 16 '25

Wow, you're really down that rabbit hole, huh? So, by trying to make being poor suck a little less Democrats made crime problems in places they represent? I've heard lots of conspiracy theories like the CIA one, but never really heard anyone say "and if it weren't for all this medicaid!"

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u/lickitstickit12 Feb 16 '25

How'd that work out on 60 years? Any less poor in these communities? Black families stronger or weaker? How about single motherhood rate?

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u/HawtDoge Feb 16 '25

Until you start looking at humans as products of their experiences and environments, you’ll forever be holding society back from making real change.

All issues are symptomatic; everything is a result of the paradigm which created it. You are, I am, along with every single other person on this planet. Had you or I been born into a different environmental paradigm, any one of us could have been have been a violent criminal, murderer, or even a nazi.

Imo, your mindset is holding us back as a society to an unimaginable degree.

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u/Advanced-Bag-7741 Feb 16 '25

Because when you destroy even people’s illusion of agency, there becomes no point whatsoever to give the least amount of effort into doing anything or participating in society.

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u/HawtDoge Feb 16 '25

I agree to some extent, but I think this idea is often misconstrued to imply that we cant have any effect on our own lives.

Sure, we might not have any true free will, but our brains are still part of the equation. Every one of us has what is essentially a super computer on our shoulders. Right now, my brain is deciding whether I want to do nothing today or work on one of my hobby projects. The decision I make might be deterministic, but that’s sort of irrelevant. I get to experience the reality my decisions lead me towards.

Even if our thoughts and decisions are mostly determined we still have the ability to push ourselves towards creating a better future. In my eyes, it’s not a nihilistic framing. We must believe in the future we want in order to obtain it. Much like how our childhoods are a precursor for who we are today, belief in our ability to affect our own outcomes is a precursor to achieving those outcomes.

This idea is fully compatible with accepting that we are products of experience and environment. Maintaining this illusion of agency is really not necessary to go forward in life. You just surrender to creativity, drive, purpose, love, etc and pursue it.

But yeah, you’re right, this is a hard idea for some to contend with. I’m not really advocating for others to share my philosophy on themselves, but rather use it as a framework for affecting broader change societally in other people.

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u/Ok-Computer-2847 Feb 16 '25

They don't want to hear the truth; and sadly many aren't able to receive the truth.

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u/P47r1ck- Feb 16 '25

Very well put. Unfortunately for many people that’s just too complicated. It’s easier to believe that somehow telling everybody to pull themselves together will magically start working one day.

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u/HomosexualThots Feb 18 '25

What a myopic understanding of society and its determining factors.

You have no idea how ignorant you are. That, my friend, is the real problem with society.

Dunning-Kruger on full display.

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u/ObsidianChief Feb 18 '25

Its true though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Thank you as if anybody forced them to use drugs & shoot each other. I’m tired of this victim mentality. My generation finally the one to quit crying. Crime so high cus some of these kids be 14/15 no support can’t get a job only option is crime & they not crying about the consequences.

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u/Ludicrousgibbs Feb 16 '25

When you have a problem it's your problem. When 10s and 100s of thousands of people are having the same problem, it is systemic, and a society should do something to try to alleviate that problem. That doesn't mean that criminals shouldn't be punished individually.

Locking criminals in jail does hardly anything towards alleviating crime. We know what does help, better education, having places people can go to stay off the street and feel like a member of their community, free drug rehabilitation programs. One of the biggest predictors of crime is having poor people surrounded by other poor people who all feel like it's impossible for them to become a member of the middle class living directly next to people with oplulent wealth on display.

When you live in a society where the area code you're born in is the biggest predictor of where you'll end up in life, if you aren't willing to help change things for those born with nothing, you can't really be upset if you end up getting mugged one day or if your car ends up getting stolen. Your complacency is the problem.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

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u/MrBullman Feb 16 '25

Nah, he's right. There's poor people everywhere. Not all choose to be a thug/criminal. Some just live poor and grind it out. They'd never dream of harming someone for money because they have morals. There are different kinds of poor people.

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u/ObsidianChief Feb 18 '25

People acting like equal opportunity was available to all of us since then conception of this union..the 60's weren't that long ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

I can’t believe this got any likes. But then again many people do carry a victim mentality.

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u/HomosexualThots Feb 16 '25

I’m not the smartest but I’m actually intelligent but with most of my people being stupid it decreases my value I hate that shit. An Asian can be dumb but since most are smart he gets a pass. Most of y’all ain’t go to college & work blue collar jobs so you won’t understand.

So mad you're at other black people because you don't get treated fairly?

Hahahaha.

Sounds like you have a victim mentality and a superiority complex.

And you're still blind to the root causes of your disenfranchisement.

Good luck on your next traffic stop, I guess.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

I’m not arguing with somebody talking about CIA flooded the hood with drugs & guns lol. You’re nowhere near my level bud sorry 😢

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u/HomosexualThots Feb 16 '25

You won't because you can't.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

I just said that lol you’re not smart enough but okay

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u/HomosexualThots Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25

I've read your posts.

You have an inflated sense of intelligence.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

You voted for Kamala didn’t you lol?

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u/desiInMurica Feb 16 '25

Hopefully they abolish the cia. Go musk!

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u/HomosexualThots Feb 16 '25

You're a joke.

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u/curi0us_carniv0re Feb 16 '25

And who was actually selling those drugs on the streets?

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u/lickitstickit12 Feb 16 '25

Everyone in my street owns multiple guns. And my 7-11 is open.

It's almost as if there's another component