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> The proper reaction to a criminal...is to boldly (but tactically) proceed forward against him until he is neutralized. This sentence contains no meaningful i
by ejdyksen 14y ago
> The proper reaction to a criminal...is to boldly (but tactically) proceed forward against him until he is neutralized.
This sentence contains no meaningful information.
The author spends his whole time describing how horrible the police presence was without actually describing what should have been done differently.
- sliverstorm 14y agoThe author doesn't actually have any better ideas from what I can tell. Snippets of "action items/takeaways": Become more resilient. Build more prosperity Oh, ok. I wasn't really doing those things before, because I don't actually like prosperity or resiliency, but I'll hop to it now. My main takeaway is that the author has a major axe to grind with the police.
- georgedonnelly 14y agoHow do the police normally catch fugitives? What is so different about this guy that required such a radically different response. Even an FBI historian in WashPo admitted that shutting down a US city was unprecedented.
- sliverstorm 14y agoshutting down a US city was unprecedented That doesn't mean it was wrong. It means it wasn't tried before. A lot of things haven't been done before- probably just as many good, as bad. un·prec·e·dent·ed: (Adjective) Never done or known before