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I rather doubt the point of all this stuff is that kind of crime.
by emodendroket 5mo ago
I rather doubt the point of all this stuff is that kind of crime.
- bonoboTP 5mo agoThen which kind? If you mean political resistance, that's easier to surveil from phones and chat apps and gps, not cameras.
- titzer 5mo agoWhy not all of them?
- emodendroket 5mo agoIt would be easier not to build Prism but they did that didn't they
- victor9000 5mo agoIt was just a little baby GTA
- ProllyInfamous 5mo agoMy state recently passed a law (similar to Texas') which allows people to defend with lethal force certain property (beyond just their vehicle, which was already allowed). Tennessee-wide, it goes into effect July 1st – and is long-overdue. I live in a working-class neighborhood and we do whatever we can to keep the trouble elsewhere (i.e. not here). Wish guns didn't exist, but until they don't stay safe thugz.
- jeffbee 5mo agoWhat's your hypothesis on why Texas has a much higher auto theft rate than Tennessee, given that they long had the policy you seem to believe is a remedy?
- warumdarum 5mo agoEh, texas gets all that borderly goodness the liberal north dishes out so freely, but avoids for itself ?
- jeffbee 5mo agoI'm just wondering why this Wild West stuff seems to be neither effective, since Texas has auto theft rates well above national averages, nor necessary, considering that Florida lacks the statute and has auto theft rates well below national averages.
- emodendroket 5mo agoIt doesn't work but it does let people fantasize about being allowed to shoot someone to death legally.
- warumdarum 5mo agoWell there are working alternatives to that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_El_Salvador
- emodendroket 5mo agoYes, I suppose we could in fact do corrupt bargains with criminal groups and then throw a bunch of people in jail without worrying too much about whether they're guilty or not. Bukele isn't the first person in the world to think of that. Mussolini had a similar approach.
- ProllyInfamous 5mo agoI have actually killed, before. Given similar circumstances: would, again. I am a free man, walking among you; they let me carry a gun, still. Self defense ought'a be allowable, and is a deterrent (even if only "statistically" ... which it is). Recent enhancing legal protections represent the shifting tides as our economy wavers into "survival" mode – ¿perhaps a Depression 3.0? – certainly it's bleak here in the workingclasshood. Do you have any questions for your reality shaping, this morning?
- emodendroket 5mo agoYou can see how seriously stopping that crime is being taken by the anecdote I'm replying to, can't you?