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Maybe we should help them immigrate in a truely developed and free country, build a tech hub over there and start building up the counter-power that will take o
by tajen 10y ago
Maybe we should help them immigrate in a truely developed and free country, build a tech hub over there and start building up the counter-power that will take over the world's regulations in the XXIst century. I'm being sarcastic against the situation, but at one point we need to recognize the US law enforcement has been a huge failure for the last 30 years, with programs as crazy as the TSA, the no-fly list, the NSA, the Civil Asset Forfeiture, with results as crazy as 1% people in jail, a sustained failure to integrate black people (with 6% of them in jail), a ratio of 95% in jail on plea deal (which means they haven't been proven guilty), people being tagged as secual predators for life for peeing against a tree, SWAT teams using military gear to attack video game players or kill puppies.
And that's just on the law enforcement side on US soil. Let's not name drones doing executions without due trial or outright lying about WMD in Irak ar the UN.
Without denying that the remaining 90% of USA is awesome, USA being that way is not new, we've known for years that we don't know how to democratically react to that, but it's now the pace of those decisions which is accelerating.
Maybe we need to create a new ideal of where we want to go, and start drafting a type of constitution that the XXII century will aspire to: A democracy which would be resilient to terrorism and militarization of state.