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Taurifederation wrote:

I promise to build high rise panel buildings. I will fix the housing problem. Apartment for every family. Communist California!

honestly you could skip the first half of that, at least for los angeles. the city has more empty apartments then it has homeless folk. it's just most of it is purposely built overluxurious and marketed for ridiculous prices which can only be afforded by folk who don't want or need apartments. you could legit solve the homeless/housing issue without building jack squat, just by regulating/restructuring real estate and a bit of increased focus on outreach/placement/rehab programs.

Terminus station wrote:

Compared to global standards of policing, American cops are objectively some of the most undereducated and poorly screened in the world.

let's try this approach.
true.

Terminus station wrote:

You can't pretend there are good ones when they won't arrest or fire the bad ones.

Hyperbole and overly sensational language. saying this is basically erasing whatever point you make before it. your points on data are weakened because you keep choosing to die on a hyperbolic hill that is too hardline idealistic to be supported by actual percentage/data, which make your narrative untrustworthy due to you pulling made up numbers out of thin air to try and make your point instinctively rather than logically. regardless of the intrinsic/instinctive truth of the statement, if you can't stop reverting to a sensationalist soundbite, and keep making up overweighted "99%" figures to back up the hyperbole, the opponent has no reason to trust you aren't deluded by hyperbolic propaganda, no reason to trust the numbers/data points you provide, etc.
in short, whether true or not, the opponent is given reason and therefore free license to disregard you as bad faith.

if you want to argue the logical point, you have to maintain logical consistency or you'll lose footing.
i agree with you, just saying you need to polish your rhetoric.