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Republicans endorse political violence when it’s targeted against their political opponents - the plot to kidnap and execute the Michigan governor was “just a j

Republicans endorse political violence when it’s targeted against their political opponents - the plot to kidnap and execute the Michigan governor was “just a joke” (the perpetrators have been convicted and are currently incarcerated).

Jensson 3y ago
And seems like Democrats endorse police overreach when it is targeted against their political opponents, since it is them who are all over this thread saying basically "nothing to hide, nothing to fear". I wonder where all of those are in the typical police threads? ACAB except when cops did something I like, then it is "trust the cops to interpret this correctly!"? Politics is tiring for that reason, most people lose their rational thinking ability when that gets involved, and to an outsider all of it just looks like insanity.
- pixl97 3y ago
  Maybe the real world is a complex place where you have bad actors that need stopped, and in some cases those bad actors are also the police. If you're trying to reduce any real world situation to a binary set of choices, you're almost always going to be incorrect. When I was a teenager I was working in a shop and a number of people around there had more radical views on the government. A few of them commonly got together and did what we'd consider LARPing now (this was 90s). One of them seems to have more a more violent anti-government take over the others. Wasn't long before the FBI was down there arresting him and he eventually served a healthy sentence over his actions. Unfortunately Google has become a memory hole on older news like this, and I can no longer remember his name to find any articles on this.
- sonotathrowaway 3y ago
  The “police overreach” you are protesting is that a paramilitary group was not allowed to kidnap and execute a governor. The overreach in question is that the police were allowed to arrest and prosecute those people in full accordance with the law.

Jensson 3y ago

And seems like Democrats endorse police overreach when it is targeted against their political opponents, since it is them who are all over this thread saying basically "nothing to hide, nothing to fear". I wonder where all of those are in the typical police threads? ACAB except when cops did something I like, then it is "trust the cops to interpret this correctly!"? Politics is tiring for that reason, most people lose their rational thinking ability when that gets involved, and to an outsider all of it just looks like insanity.

pixl97 3y ago
Maybe the real world is a complex place where you have bad actors that need stopped, and in some cases those bad actors are also the police. If you're trying to reduce any real world situation to a binary set of choices, you're almost always going to be incorrect. When I was a teenager I was working in a shop and a number of people around there had more radical views on the government. A few of them commonly got together and did what we'd consider LARPing now (this was 90s). One of them seems to have more a more violent anti-government take over the others. Wasn't long before the FBI was down there arresting him and he eventually served a healthy sentence over his actions. Unfortunately Google has become a memory hole on older news like this, and I can no longer remember his name to find any articles on this.
sonotathrowaway 3y ago
The “police overreach” you are protesting is that a paramilitary group was not allowed to kidnap and execute a governor. The overreach in question is that the police were allowed to arrest and prosecute those people in full accordance with the law.