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n0noTAGAinnxw4Yn3wp7 OP t1_jbyf6cv wrote

Reply to comment by PCPToad83 in Vermonters join growing opposition to Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ by n0noTAGAinnxw4Yn3wp7

>Atlanta’s city council solicited public comment on the facility in September of [2021], and received more than seventeen hours of remarks—including a few minutes from Joe Santifer. “I said the location isn’t congruent with the neighborhood,” he told me. “It’s outsized for the number of officers that Atlanta has, and the process has been rushed.” Santifer said that he’d also listened to most of the other remarks, which were recorded, and that “about seventy per cent” were opposed to the development. (A crowdsourced tally reached the same conclusion.)

just to be clear, are you saying the people being discussed here don't exist, or aren't from atlanta?

edit: oh, i see.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jbz6kcs wrote

Is 70% of speakers during a single public comment session commensurate with the population? Or highly motivated people and activist types?

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n0noTAGAinnxw4Yn3wp7 OP t1_jbzcrr1 wrote

good question! i don't know. i highly doubt that most of those commenters weren't from atlanta, though—& i imagine the same is true of the other 30%.

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ThePecanRolls5225 t1_jc1jbjo wrote

Are highly motivated people and activists not part of the population? Do they not get to have an opinion?

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jc1k7up wrote

The point is if it's commensurate with the population. It isn't.

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ThePecanRolls5225 t1_jc1kjur wrote

Do you have a reliable study that says that? Or are you just assuming that the population is siding with you?

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jc1kowm wrote

Do I have a study to show that the few people that show up to a public comment event do not represent the rest of the population? No.

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ThePecanRolls5225 t1_jc1kr38 wrote

Cool. So you’re just talking out your ass then? Glad you’re admitting it

Edit: Bro is such a loser he had the suicide watch message sent me. He’s also transphobic and an anti-vaxer. So slay dude

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jc1mhke wrote

Do you perchance have a study for that? Or just talking out of your ass?

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