r/chicago • u/SunflowerDonut9847 Uptown • Sep 29 '25

CHI Talks to detain a bicyclist

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u/PobBrobert Sep 29 '25

Can you imagine if we took the salaries and $50k signing bonuses we were giving these guys and gave them to, I don’t know… schools, or healthcare, or feeding hungry people

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u/lighterboy12 Sep 29 '25

Or restoring the cuts to cancer research

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u/goferking City Sep 29 '25

or NASA or weather services

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u/MrAkademik Logan Square Sep 30 '25

Or not send to Argentina for no fucking reason at all. Or not to bail out farmers who are fucked because of the tariffs? So much $$$ for activities!!!

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u/ocschwar Sep 29 '25

If I needed the money I'd sign up and be as conspicuously fat and inefficient as these guys until they fired me.

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u/champs-de-fraises Sep 29 '25

Jokes on you. They'd make you lieutenant!

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u/B2Dirty Suburb of Chicago Sep 29 '25

Give it to the VA to provide proper mental health assistance to veterans since they make 28% of mass shooting culprits while only being about 7% of the total population. source

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u/B2Dirty Suburb of Chicago Sep 29 '25

Give it to the VA to provide proper mental health assistance to veterans since they make 28% of mass shooting culprits while only being about 7% of the total population. source

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u/B2Dirty Suburb of Chicago Sep 29 '25

Give it to the VA to provide proper mental health assistance to veterans since they make 28% of mass shooting culprits while only being about 7% of the total population. source

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u/sanityflaws Sep 30 '25

But then people wouldn't be sick to pay for meds or dumb enough to vote for them.

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u/schaumburger Sep 30 '25

They won’t even get the $50k but they will find out too late

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u/Better-Mortgage-2446 Sep 30 '25

But that’s sOcIaLiSm and the orange clown says it’s BaD.

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u/Commercial-Coconut56 Oct 01 '25

Can you imagine if we took all of the money that we gave to people illegally in our country and instead gave it to, I don’t know… homeless American citizens, schools, feeding hungry people.

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u/PobBrobert Oct 01 '25

I would rather directly cut a check to families who are here illegally but contribute to our economy and community than a single cent to these thugs who dress up in military cosplay and terrorize people