• @blazera
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    3521 days ago

    Heres my argument against hitting kids. Mississippi loves it, cant get enough of it. Every ailment of society is caused by kids not getting hit enough, and they wear their past of childhood violence as their biggest badge of honor. Hitting kids is how you get Mississippians.

    • @[email protected]
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      621 days ago

      "Mississippi ranks 39th in violent crime among all states and has the third-lowest violent crime rate in the South. "

      Is it … working?

      • socsa
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        1120 days ago

        Violent crime in rural areas is dramatically underreported because cops don’t even take reports for domestic violence unless it requires an ambulance ride.

      • cheesepotatoes
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        820 days ago

        Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with a poverty rate of 18.7%, followed by Louisiana as the second poorest state, with a poverty rate of 17.8%, and New Mexico, as the third poorest state in the US, at a poverty rate of 16.8%.

        I don’t know, is it?

      • @pingveno
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        420 days ago

        Or they ain’t so gud at countin’.

        • @pingveno
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          520 days ago

          So I started actually looking up numbers and they indeed look good from certain sources, but I’m still giving them the side eye. For instance, the CDC shows Mississippi as having the #1 murder rate among the states in 2022.

      • Flying Squid
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        219 days ago

        Is the point of hitting children to reduce violent crime? I have a feeling there are better ways. Maybe we should work on getting rid of microplastics.