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How many Signal-using techies have been asphyxiated by cops kneeling on their necks or gunned down simply for daring to walking around in public? Let's not equ
by wahern 6y ago
How many Signal-using techies have been asphyxiated by cops kneeling on their necks or gunned down simply for daring to walking around in public?
Let's not equivocate abuses. It's unnecessary. And moreover changing the way our most vulnerable citizens are treated will likely go a long way toward changing the way everybody else is treated.
- mschuster91 6y agoPeople in Afghanistan got killed by drone strikes or "exfiltrated" to Guantanamo or a load of "black sites". The "war on terror" is absolutely as murderous.
- wahern 6y agoThe War on Terror is an actual war waged using actual militaries. And non-American citizens don't have constitutional rights outside United States territory. Those facts in no way diminish the wrongness of what has happened, but we could just as well compare it to Global Warming and our complicity in the death of millions; the connection would be just as tenuous and unconstructive. That said, interestingly in 2016 ~1100 people were killed by police officers in the United States[1], while ~1600 people were killed by drone strikes in Afghanistan[2]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/... [2] https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/drone-war/data/get-the-data-a-list-of-us-air-and-drone-strikes-afghanistan-2016 https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/drone-war/data/get-the...
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- kansface 6y agoHow many people were killed in Mexico and Columbia?