Track_Shovel
Sanctus
cerement“To protect capital and serve the upper class.”
theareciboincidentImperceptible to someone completely ignoring history and the world around them, sure!
The concept of state sponsored police in the US originated in slave hunting gangs. The US never changed since the beginning.
To your point though there is an incredible amount of brainwashing. Your average North Korean is less brainwashed than Americans, at least they know what other countries have.
Americans think they are the last beacon of civilization and the developed world is in ruins when it’s literally the other way around lmao.
Rivenwww.snopes.com/…/north-korea-ban-skinny-jeans/
The amount of unconfirmed or secondhand propaganda we get out of north korea is pretty astounding, I wouldn’t at face believe, say, whatever a guardian article posts about them, for instance, and probably also not anything from radio free asia, or probably defectors with inconsistent stories that are funded by the south korean government, that sort of shit.
That’s fair enough, I did read recently on this site that they did blur jeans on a broadcast of a show. The site claims to be as unbiased as they can but I haven’t done deep research into them.
North Korean TV censors blue jeans while airing British gardening show | NK News
North Korean state television censored a pair of blue jeans when airing a British gardening show on Monday, a move that appears to reflect the regime’s efforts to restrict popular Western fashion and culture. In the episode of the BBC TV series “Garden Secrets,” the British broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh kneels in a garden bed while […]
Nah, this only a half truth. Europe is a fantastic place, free health care un most of the countries. But go to a poorer country like Mexico, and you’ll see people living in poorly constructed sheds.
When you see that kind of stuff, that’s when you realize how fucking rich and well off the U.S. actually is. The poorest of the poor in the U.S. (excluding homeless) are generally better off than the poor in other countries. Not discounting the struggles of the poor in the U.S. (I grew up dirt poor).
But the thing is, we had running water, toilets, and a place to wash our clothes. There are places that have none of that, and not even access to clean drinking water.
Does the U.S. police state blow ass, yes. But acting like we’re some backward ass country in the shitter is missing some perspective.
steboI may be being pedantic, but I wouldn’t call a 1 vs 376 situation an “even playing field”.
jordanlund
CruxifuxThey’re bullies.
Both the cowardice in the face of actual risk to themselves and the senseless use of violence when they feel safe against those who can or won’t resist in a way that endagers them, are core bully traits.
Liz
orca
SternNever forget that CA governor Ronald Reagan pushed for a law against folks exercising their second amendment rights to bear arms while patrolling and protecting their communities.
Those folks? The Black Panthers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Both Republicans and Democrats in California supported increased gun control, as did the National Rifle Association of America.
Anonymous
UnderpantsWeevil
AFaithfulNihilistI think it’s short for negligently discharged but it’s kind of stupid to shorten that. I can’t imagine what reason there is to not just write " negligently discharged".
Frankly I think calling it a “negligent discharge” is giving the officer too much credit. The gun shouldn’t even have been unholstered. Guns are used to shoot not threaten. If he was pulling the gun out then he intended to fire it and if he pulled the gun out without intending to fire it then it wasn’t a negligent discharge it was an incompetent booger hooking by a pants shitting coward.
“Negligent Discharge.”
It’s used in the firearms community instead of anything with the word “accident” because there’s almost never a reason for a gun to fire unintentionally that doesn’t involve a serious fuckup by the user.
Any ND that results in death or injury should also be treated as a felony. There are 4 basic rules to firearm safety that should be followed at all times. Any one of them should prevent injury, so you have to fuck up all 4 at once to hurt someone.
The only true accidents I know of regarding a gun being fired unintentionally involve faulty weapons firing on their own (more likely to win the lottery), but even then they shouldn’t hurt anyone because it should be pointed in a safe direction.
ThatWeirdGuy1001Precisely. Someone understands cultural context of words.
If you call a cop a “coward”, it means nothing. Because coward is a culturally dead word in an archaic sense. But if you call them a “pussy” then the meaning and cultural power behind the word changes. Medieval knights can be cowards. But cops are pussies.
Also I’m less likely to take political correctness lessons from a dude whose handle is TIMMAY…the retarded kid from South Park. Also a culturally dense word.
I mean sure but then we are absolutely asking for a massacre and internal war.
Guns only work if you are willing to use them. And once we are we are saying we don’t find police presence valid and the state comes crashing down upon you to end your pitiful existence for posing an internal threat.
We are a country with essentially a bad auto-immune disease that attacks whatever it deems as foreign.
The red hat morons had guns at all their protests and they were allowed to protest as long as they wanted, since police didn’t want to escalate.
Meanwhile peaceful, unarmed protesters get pounded into the ground
🤔
Most of them weren’t willing to use them and were left alone because the cops were in civilian clothes and busy… You know, doing something other than police work in the exact same area for some reason.
And again what’s seen as foreign.
Complaining about us stomping others by being a nuisance is against the people that just want us to shut up and get in line.
Complaining that we aren’t stomping hard enough and not enough people is just constructive criticism.
The current goal is to keep things exactly as they are or with more oppression as needed keep it static.
The left can bring guns but it won’t change anything other than maybe slightly more likely to die by a cop’s hand unless they are willing to use them and once that starts it’s will be a lot tougher because we are on the side of change, which must be crushed by the current system.
That’s how it is.
THCDenton
Holzkohlen
SimplyTadpoleThey are bullies. And bullies love punching down.
Hollywood spread police propaganda for decades about cops and detectives that are heroes, when in reality the majority are out of shape bullies.