I've always appreciated Joe Consorti's charts and presentation style in videos/podcasts. I need to add him back to my weekly mix. Clear, concise, competent.
Context matters. And I like the following two quotes:
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"Better, then, to arrest and incarcerate and simply ignore the intersection of race and crime whenever possible."
"The left needs to accept that a lot of those people are going to be black.
But I wish the right wouldn’t say so out loud."
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I watch all the Simply Originals with Rustin and Dante's Bitcoin Simply.
All are awesome, but some are particularly fun to share. Love the different charts in this one (especially the 2017 and 2025 comparison).
I agree that we've already gone too far with allowing the looting and violence and taking of property.
Make a few harsh examples - uphold those outcomes in court - and we go back to a civil society that always needs the deterrence of "violence" from those willing to protect themselves, their families, and their property.
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if you violate this contract by taking my things, you have shown that you are no longer bound. you are now outside the contract. as such, you are no longer protected. this includes from violence.
and sometimes violence (or its threat) is necessary.
a society in which things cannot be protected by violence is a society in which no one can really have things. someone can just come and take them and if you say "stop" and they do not, what then?
so "property" literally cannot exist without "defended by violence." it just becomes communal stuff that anyone could pick up and walk off with, your land becomes a community flophouse open to anyone who does not leave if you ask them.
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