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by yareal 3y ago
They should but they do not have to because our systems reward cops for this. We need to fix systemic things before the cops will change.
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Other countries have heavily armed police. In some countries the military is the police. It's absolutely not a U.S. only phenomenon.
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by yareal 3y ago
Do you know what SWAT responses entail? It's kick down the door, assault rifles and body armor, shoot if you perceive a threat level response. Police shoot swatting targets sometimes because they have itchy trigger fingers.
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You are assuming cops are competent, incentivized to perform well, interested in self improvement and organizational improvement, and don't enjoy being deployed this way. In reality, cops are just another gang who have permission to do
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by yareal 3y ago
Wait, you forget theft via civil asset forfeiture!
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People are engaging in good faith, they are just emphatically disagreeing with the statement of the premise. "Good faith" doesn't require me to accept the thesis of the other person if it's a bad thesis. People are corre
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Police budgets are effectively infinite. The nypd has bases internationally, Seattle's police dept has a budget of like half a billion every year. Local governments will defund every service before reducing police budgets even fraction
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It's less dangerous than delivering pizza, and is basically free from accountability. Outside of being exposed to deeply tragic situations, I'm not so sure it's a "tough job."
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If they spent it on groceries, they were probably not getting enough money to adequately cover their food needs, and were spending time or health to cover that gap. You can eat more cheaply on dried beans, but they take time to make. You ca
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It doesn't just help, that would be "they are fed and housed". But it genuinely improves the quality of work they perform. They get better jobs as a result of this, which isn't exactly intuitive to most people.
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I'm an anarchist communist. (Wait, hear me out, I'm not an anarchist in "The Purge" sense.) It's interesting to see the hypothesis of authors like Kropotkin validated to some degree. Anarchist authors have long posi
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by yareal 3y ago
I disagree. Or agree, perhaps. The Darwinism is there, but collective behavior and social bonds are still the winning strategy.
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It's really not. The successful individual is an illusion, literally no one succeeds alone. The best strategy for individuals to get ahead is still social cohesion.
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There is this idea I see from jerks all the time, that being a jerk is about "the survival of the fittest", that their jerkiness is a strength that helps them succeed. But humans didn't evolve to be the fittest organism throu
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Anyone who has worked for Boeing over the past couple decades will regale you with stories of profit over plane. We're seeing that play out in tech right now. Google is extracting profit over innovation, Amazon is putting profit over q
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by yareal 3y ago
Many things are discussed in that article, from toys that are really fancy fleshlights to chat ai that poses as a sexualized minor. I find the sexualization of minors, even mock minors, to be reprehensible and we should consider shutting th
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by yareal 3y ago
Women, and especially feminist women, in my experience are pretty open to the idea that the need for sex exists and that sex toys are a delight. What they object to is the equating women to sex objects - treating women like sex tours rather
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by yareal 3y ago
Did it make you feel something to see this article? Frustration, interest, excitement, anything? It's art. How you interpret it is sort of the point. It's not science, it's someone trying to make you think, and it seems like
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by yareal 3y ago
The degree to which SpaceX/Elon musk's humor is ripped from 2012 and has made zero attempt to stay current tells a story. I'm not sure what that story is, maybe it's that millennials are hitting that age where they are c
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by yareal 3y ago
Do not confuse union members with "people who elected their unit to become union represented". You can join a workers union and not have it be recognized by the company. You have fewer legal powers if you go that route, but you ca
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by yareal 3y ago
We had a model s, the software crashed constantly. Or just locked up. Nothing like having your dashboard go black at 70 mph to instill confidence in your car.
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People say, "I hate <minority>" in America all the time ? I can't count how many times I've heard I hate the gays or I hate the Blacks/Indians/Mexicans or I hate women. It's truly staggering how com
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It's absolutely purely a monetary choice. Rumble isn't any more principled than any other free speech platform, they still moderate plenty of stuff that they find disagreeable. It's a very American sense of "free speech&