loveyourmother

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by loveyourmother 8y ago
> rather than a narrow training to turn you into a worker on a production line (or at a computer). Skilled trades can be done anywhere in the world. You are not tied to a production line. I have seen all the options being discussed here.
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
>the workers with fake SSNs will never be able to collect their benefits on those wages, either - they end up in the IRS's suspense file. And some unfortunate American can't finish their taxes because they end up with an extra
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
> I visited your link and could not see a matching statistic. I was wrong. Police kill twice as many whites but I shouldn't have included the unarmed qualifier. > I then also had a quick look at the article for "Brett Luengo
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
The fact that people are downvoting you for just point out hypocrisy is sad.
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
>Then why do the police need guns? Shouldn't knives be sufficient? Sure, if your plan is to only deal with threats that are < 20ft away and can be handled with a knife. I never said the person with the knife would survive. They m
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
>The US is so fucked up that we cannot seem to stop shooting unarmed black men Twice as many white men are shot by police but I can't remember the last time I saw a national news story about one of them. Name one in recent years you
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
A person with a knife and intent is just a lethal as someone with a gun. It only takes a second or two for someone to cover 20ft and give you a deadly wound.
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
How many of those incidents could have been resolved by the offender just complying or not fleeing? Here is a link to show the breakdown of all police shootings. You can filter by race, if they had a weapon, mental illness, fleeing. In all
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
They also leave out the number of incidents and the breakdown of those. I am sure there are 10s of thousands of times the police do not overreact compared to times they do.
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
There were ~940 people killed by police last year in the US. ~46 Police were killed (by an attacker) in the line of duty. I wonder how these numbers compare to those countries you mention. If you are constantly facing a more violent threat
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
"shot the attacker (apparently only once too, unlike in the USA where they empty their magazine)." I am not sure if you have ever dealt with someone who is a lethal threat to you but it isn't like the movies. A wounded person
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by loveyourmother 8y ago
<I'm not even convinced that illegal immigration necessarily harms low-skilled domestic workers. These jobs used to pay a man enough to support a family. Where has the money gone? What happens if an illegal gets hurt? Do they get wo