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Tax payers don't care enough to force the congress critters to change the laws in <your home state>. Instead, you get human beings who are shielded by a thin p
by p_ing 2y ago
Tax payers don't care enough to force the congress critters to change the laws in <your home state>.
Instead, you get human beings who are shielded by a thin piece of paper who can summarily execute you, then say "whoops, my bad".
Police are nothing more than State-sponsored gang members.
- pstuart 2y agoMany of those tax payers are fine with them being gang members, but only against "others" -- that's a feature, not a bug.
- deepsun 2y agoState (any country, since the birth of monarchies) is the gang. It literally robs you ("taxes"), monopolized violence (only state is allowed to utilize it). But if it does a poor job at that, other states swoop in with their rules, no invitation needed.
- Retric 2y agoCops are sufficiently independent to be a separate entity here. Under civil asset forfeiture they are literally allowed to go out and rob people independent of what any taxes might be.
- duskwuff 2y ago> Police are nothing more than State-sponsored gang members. Sometimes very literally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Sheriff%27s_Department https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...