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The injury to their ego is tremendous. The ones that allow their authority to become their identity cannot mentally separate a challenge to this authority from
by bitexploder 7mo ago
The injury to their ego is tremendous. The ones that allow their authority to become their identity cannot mentally separate a challenge to this authority from a direct attack on themselves. To them it is quite literally the same thing and it is incredibly dangerous. It is how the authoritarian mind works, because to them it feels like survival.
- collabs 7mo agoEspecially in the city of New York, I sincerely believe a police officer butting a reflective vest on the front dashboard of their illegally parked car is enough grounds for immediate dismissal/firing from the job and all retirement seized with no recourse. I don't know how we would make it legal but this is the kind of visible, petty corruption that makes people lose their respect for the system.
- ifh-hn 7mo agoThat seems a little over the top of a parking infraction... Maybe they should be summarily shot too.
- etchalon 7mo agoHow you went from "losing your government job and benefits due to corrupt behavior" and "well, may as well kill them!" is certainly interesting.
- awakeasleep 7mo agoIts a perfect demonstration of the topic in the thread: loss of privilege is equivalent to ending their life itself
- ifh-hn 7mo agoYou have clearly missed the point of my comment, I assume on purpose given the first sentence. The second sentence was clearly not serious, and was sarcasm, not some confirmation of "privilege mentality".
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- ifh-hn 7mo agoIt's not interesting it's over the top ridiculous just like the comment I was replying to.
- rcxdude 7mo agoI think the point is it's not the parking infraction: it's the attempt to get out of it by signaling that they are a police officer. I agree that kind of thing should be taken more seriously than the small offense it's trying to avoid (though maybe not quite so severely).
- ifh-hn 7mo agoI don't know, it depends on context and intent, like nearly all things. But this is put aside because most on HN immediately go: police == bad. If the cop is illegally parked to get lunch, sure ticket them, and/or report them for discipline. If the cop is attending an incident and that is the only place to park within a reasonable distance, then that's fine. However the suggestion that irrespective of context and intent, and even for the first contrived example, the cop should lose their job and pension... Ridiculous.
- tdeck 7mo agoFolks should Google "PBA card". I was shocked when I read about that practice.