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Shit like this infuriates me. My family was the target of this nonsense when I was growing up. And I always felt like it was more a mechanism for connected pe

Shit like this infuriates me. My family was the target of this nonsense when I was growing up. And I always felt like it was more a mechanism for connected people to bully those they didn't like. For example, our family house didn't have enough parking, so I would park a bit down the road in some public parking spots for a park. I was usually only home from like 10p to 10a, so it's not like it ever impacted anyone. Plus, the "park" was pretty lame, anyone going through the trouble of driving to a park would go to the nice one a mile up the road. One day, I woke up to a "no parking" sign and ticket. These were very clearly parking spots and the "no parking" wasn't conditional (not like, no parking dawn to dusk). Since i was the only person who ever used the spot, it was targeted at me for sure. Drive by today and the sign is gone and lots of people park in those spots. Turns out, the people who moved in across the street got elected to the city and did all kinds of corrupt shit (ex, the dude's band got paid $600 a week to play at a park). I only found out about it because I became friends with the mayor's son, who recognized my last name from our neighbors. And of course, said neighbors were always full of smiles and hellos. My dad was cited for "parking a commercial vehicle" in the drive way. My dad is a tradesman and said "commercial" vehicle was one of a white econoline van, or an F150. Do you think the city had any issues with other vans or pickup trucks in driveways? He ended up removing the vinyl company decal from the side and replacing it with a big magnet that he'd take off when he got home. So yeah, I think we need a serious rethinking of how laws like this are enforced. Including, a right to meet the accuser, anti-harassment provisions that prevent people from constantly complaining about somebody they don't like, a right to have a state official come out instead of a local one. I'd also like to see enforcers be punished for bad reports, but that's a stretch.

sharpentheaxe 4y ago
The only reason these scum get away with their continuous, ongoing villainy is because they have absolutely nothing to fear from the system of psychopathy, which supports and encourages them to victimize their next victim; nor from their victims, who are usually too weak and cowardly to protect themselves in any meaningful way; nor from the crowds of equally cowardly and narcissistic well-to-do onlookers who read articles like this, at best say "oh, how terrible", then go about their business. So this problem, and many other problems like it ultimately emanating from the same origin--psychopaths and narcissists and the governments they create to enforce their evil on the rest of us while gaslighting us to believe it's for our own good--only gets solved permanently when these code Nazis start getting flaxed alive and slowly tortured to death, on video, with many copies of said video then being distributed widely "to whom it may concern", with the Nazi's head on a pike then being well placed on some politician's front lawn, along with a great big sign saying "YOU'RE NEXT, ASSHOLE." That's how you change things in a hurry.
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sharpentheaxe 4y ago

The only reason these scum get away with their continuous, ongoing villainy is because they have absolutely nothing to fear from the system of psychopathy, which supports and encourages them to victimize their next victim; nor from their victims, who are usually too weak and cowardly to protect themselves in any meaningful way; nor from the crowds of equally cowardly and narcissistic well-to-do onlookers who read articles like this, at best say "oh, how terrible", then go about their business. So this problem, and many other problems like it ultimately emanating from the same origin--psychopaths and narcissists and the governments they create to enforce their evil on the rest of us while gaslighting us to believe it's for our own good--only gets solved permanently when these code Nazis start getting flaxed alive and slowly tortured to death, on video, with many copies of said video then being distributed widely "to whom it may concern", with the Nazi's head on a pike then being well placed on some politician's front lawn, along with a great big sign saying "YOU'RE NEXT, ASSHOLE." That's how you change things in a hurry.

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