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Body cams can be removed at light speed but somehow the process of rescheduling marijuana moves at the speed of molasses.
by ty6853 1y ago
Body cams can be removed at light speed but somehow the process of rescheduling marijuana moves at the speed of molasses.
- vjulian 1y ago[flagged]
- delichon 1y agoIt incarcerates around 1.9 million people and has another 3.6 million on probation or parole. It seizes and consumes more than a third of all production. It demands compliance with about 120 million words of federal rules. It's the greatest military power on earth. It's unserious to not to take that kind of power over our lives seriously.
- mullingitover 1y ago> For another it consumes more than a third of all production This is often a positive. In times of financial panic, which free markets always come around to, the government is a spender of last resort that helps to kickstart production and demand when the free market is in absolute shambles, stashing gold in holes in its backyard. Furthermore, when it's functioning well, it gives the fattest of the industrialists a haircut and returns that money to the populace where the revenue can actually deliver value instead of sitting in a vault somewhere.
- yellowapple 1y ago> Furthermore, when it's functioning well, it gives the fattest of the industrialists a haircut and returns that money to the populace Rarely, and many orders of magnitude less than what we're owed.
- theoreticalmal 1y agoWhat makes you think you’re owed the money of another?
- itsanaccount 1y agoDon't owe it to me, set it on fire (its deflationary lol) but money is a proxy for power and we all are owed the right to be free from tyranny. And if that means making sure no single person or small group of people have too much power (money), then taking their money is what it takes. Maybe we arent even owed, as its a responsibility shared by all.
- jodrellblank 1y agoWhat makes you think the wealthy are owed all of a country's money and resources, simply because they took it by hook and crook?
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoI think the reason we ought to be making a society at all is to make the lives of those within it better, and moving resources from some to others within that society is, if done right, able to push things in that direction.
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- yellowapple 1y agoAt the very least, I am owed dividends (or equivalent public services) due to my ownership of far less than my equal share of my country's total land value, as is every other person in said situation. The owners of that land did not create it; it existed for billions of years before them and (barring a literal Earth-shattering catastrophe) will exist for billions of years after them. It is therefore a natural resource to which every sapient being on Earth is equally entitled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockean_proviso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockean_proviso
- IG_Semmelweiss 1y ago>>> For another it consumes more than a third of all production >This is often a positive. >In times of financial panic Do you mean, for example, the credit crisis of 2008 ? That crisis that was actively encouraged by the US govt, that poured the gasoline with govt loan guarantees, insane macroeconomic policy and low interest rates ? Are we saying we want to pay for arsonists, to work as firefighters ?
- mullingitover 1y agoI just finished reading Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. It didn't even get to the 2008 GFC, but it covered many other bubbles. The market almost always uses the government to inflate their bubbles by giving stock to officials and other various schemes. The answer isn't to not have a government, it's even tighter regulation (which, since that requires the existing batch of officials to make less money on speculation themselves, is difficult to pull off).
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- eth0up 1y agoI thoroughly sympathize with even more callously cynical views, but what all good people should remember, daily if able, are the unsung work horses that have ploughed through endless, self healing bureaucratic rot mires and festering heaps of wriggling legalese to preserve the creaking vestiges of liberty and dignity that we take for granted. If not for those who take such initiative and toils, we'd be in an alternate reality. A terrible one. Maintaining a semblance of justice and fairness is an overtime job. The ravenous hovering ghouls of corruption make alpha vultures seem blind and sessile.
- yellowapple 1y agoProbably because the removal of thousands of dollars from my paychecks over the course of every year is a serious matter, as are many of the functions which those involuntarily-paid dollars support.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoIt's voluntary as you choose to remain in the country.
- ty6853 1y agoThe US has worldwide, actually interplanetary taxation. Even if you leave you'll be under US tax net. If you renounce, again, that doesn't stop it because renouncing also costs a tax of ~$2000 and possibly an exit tax. But this in any case all presumes not leaving = consent, which is flimsy on even a superficial inspection, and has some harrowing downstream deductions.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoWhat are the "harrowing downstream deductions"? You are voluntarily remaining in-country because you are permitted to repatriate to a country that has no taxation. The existence of taxes in the US is not a secret, it's not a surprise bill every year. You also don't have to leave! You can simply declare yourself sovereign and let the foreign country engulfing your independent domain decide how it wants to conduct foreign policy with you.
- ty6853 1y agoYou were caught in a lie about being able to leave to end your forward tax obligations to the US, and now you are doubling down. Or you still don't understand -- the US still taxes you after you leave the country, for income earned outside the country, completely independently of anything involving the USA.
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- SlightlyLeftPad 1y agoSo while we’re talking about government overspending, this money was already spent. What is going to happen with these cameras that are now going to be unused?
- rolph 1y agonow they can be carried at option rather than at mandate, thus self serving functions for cams now on the table.
- SlightlyLeftPad 1y agoCool, so since government accountability is now optional, I suspect we’ll get a few camps. At the very least, these two: honest officers who relish constant supervision and scrutiny, dishonest officers who relish violence and brutality above all else.
- collingreen 1y agoHow would your honest officer group operate alongside the other group, hypothetically? It seems like the kind of thing that group 2 would stamp out pretty quickly and group 1 wouldn't be able to stop.
- qingcharles 1y agoAren't a lot of these bodycams provided for free, and in exchange you have to use their cloud to store all the footage until the end of time? (give the razor, sell the blades...)
- buggerme 1y ago[flagged]
- spauldo 1y agoWe don't have treaties with half the world mandating body cams. (I want weed legalized too, but it's a thorny issue.)