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cheesecracker
6y ago
Germany mandates by law that social networks like Facebook or Twitter censor people on government request. I have yet to see the global outrage over it.
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6y ago
Of course police officers who assault people should be charged with assault. I don't think anybody says otherwise. But then charge the individual officers, not "the police".
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6y ago
Not sure how to get from being gassed by the police to looting shops, though. I haven't seen that footage, but of course I have heard of cases of violence against protesters. Doesn't really prove a deliberate approach to me. Maybe
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6y ago
I'd like to see the proof of that. Maybe they are just confronted with armed, trigger happy criminals every day and therefore have to answer with guns, too. And what are you saying, without white people, there would be no need for poli
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6y ago
I'd rather look at such issues by data, rather than emotional responses to singular incidents. I'm not even saying that the police has no issues. But it certainly can't be inferred from that one incident, or even from, say, a
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6y ago
Why not make people nice to each other first, and then abolish or reduce the police? It seems like that would happen naturally anyway. If huge parts of the police force went idle most of the time for lack of anything to do, the force would
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6y ago
The triggering cause was the act of one policeman and his three colleagues who stood by (which might indicate the constriction was perhaps a kind of standard procedure that went wrong - or not. Personally I am waiting for an official verdic
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6y ago
So how do you make people be nicer to each other?
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6y ago
But here we are in the middle of ongoing riots discussing the role of the police. Maybe the comparison is not so inappropriate after all.
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6y ago
Is the military receiving its orders via Facebook now? That WOULD be newsworthy.
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6y ago
I wonder what future prospective employers think about his tendencies to publicly call out the company he works for? If eventually he quits his next job, what are the odds for him to be writing an inflammatory blog post about the company? I
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6y ago
What post is that about?