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The United States is a country where we only pretend to have the rule of law and equal application of it. In practice, most laws simply don’t apply to the poli

by sneak 2y ago

The United States is a country where we only pretend to have the rule of law and equal application of it. In practice, most laws simply don’t apply to the police. The ownership class makes this concession to them in exchange for their unwavering fealty in service of the protection of capital’s fixed assets. The illusion of democratic and legal process governing their behavior paints the whole scheme as legitimate, but there is large scale graft and corruption in the law enforcement apparatus of every major city in the US. I remember explaining to a visiting Russian friend who had just won a poker tournament in Las Vegas that we couldn’t drive around with his $70k in cash my car because if we get pulled over the cops might steal it. He was astounded that this is how the USA works.

mcphage 2y ago
> where we only pretend to have the rule of law and equal application of it. We have definitely stopped pretending.
Jensen321 2y ago
USA lacks vigilante assasinations. In some countries in the east communities can dispatch assassins to get officers who are corrupted. The punishments extend to family members as well. This usually able to regulate a lot of corruptions and misconduct in the west. In essence the rule of law in the east are enforced by "social contract" or in American sense "by the people". In the west, these has been severely suppressed in place of laws that dont apply to them. Take China for example with their triads. There were few legendary cases where clans tracked down former corrupted leos and exterminated their grandchildren (water margin is one such "documented folklore). In the west you see this as "family feud like ninjas" but it occurs quite frequently if lived long enough there. The west is very fixated on a single possible tyrant but forgot day-to-day mini-tyrants. In the east the reverse is true. This is also one reason where most eastern asian countries adopted informally dictactorial system and perform way way better than American system.

by sneak 2y ago

mcphage 2y ago

> where we only pretend to have the rule of law and equal application of it. We have definitely stopped pretending.

Jensen321 2y ago

USA lacks vigilante assasinations. In some countries in the east communities can dispatch assassins to get officers who are corrupted. The punishments extend to family members as well. This usually able to regulate a lot of corruptions and misconduct in the west. In essence the rule of law in the east are enforced by "social contract" or in American sense "by the people". In the west, these has been severely suppressed in place of laws that dont apply to them. Take China for example with their triads. There were few legendary cases where clans tracked down former corrupted leos and exterminated their grandchildren (water margin is one such "documented folklore). In the west you see this as "family feud like ninjas" but it occurs quite frequently if lived long enough there. The west is very fixated on a single possible tyrant but forgot day-to-day mini-tyrants. In the east the reverse is true. This is also one reason where most eastern asian countries adopted informally dictactorial system and perform way way better than American system.