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General / Off-Topic Merica, wut?
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verminstar
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In a time where nations are collapsing, preparing for war even and entire world economies on the brink...and there crowds of yanks running round parking lots chasing after invisible pokemon. It's inspiring...and absolutely hilarious...sorry but it has to be said, the yanks are a constant source of amusement with some the antics they get upto.
Another way of looking at this could be that while they have their circus of an election and half the people are out chasing pokemon while stocking up fer WW3, there are some countries in the world not being bombed into oblivion in the name of "freedom". Basically, the more they tear themselves apart, the less likely they are to mess up some one elses's day. Their problems are off their own making but in the meantime, it brings some light relief having something to laugh at...while we here in the UK have had a few hiccups as regards playing a bad hand, it's good to remember that the yanks still have a trump card up their sleeves.
This will get much worse before it gets better and as usual, it will be the rest of the planet that has to deal with the fallout...so enjoy the relative peace and quiet because it probably won't last long.
Another way of looking at this could be that while they have their circus of an election and half the people are out chasing pokemon while stocking up fer WW3, there are some countries in the world not being bombed into oblivion in the name of "freedom". Basically, the more they tear themselves apart, the less likely they are to mess up some one elses's day. Their problems are off their own making but in the meantime, it brings some light relief having something to laugh at...while we here in the UK have had a few hiccups as regards playing a bad hand, it's good to remember that the yanks still have a trump card up their sleeves.
This will get much worse before it gets better and as usual, it will be the rest of the planet that has to deal with the fallout...so enjoy the relative peace and quiet because it probably won't last long.
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People want to make this into a bigger thing. People talking about stuff but have never lived it or even been near it.
Police shoot black people. That is it. It isn't a lack of coverage for other races.
It is the standard benefit of doubt that every white person gets in this country and they don't know it. It is the white privilege they enjoy but can't appreciate.
I've sat there and watched white people get preferential treatment. You know what happens when a white guy drives drunk through a black neighborhood and gets pulled over? Yeah, the cop drives them home and tells his wife to mind her husband <---True story of close friend
Meanwhile, in the same area, black kids are constantly detained for 'disturbances' aka playing in the street with friends. Or, black drivers are fined relentlessly for taillights or if a tire just touches a line on the road. At least a law was recently passed to curb the latter.
Walking the street with my black friends and I always notice how patrol cars slow down to check on this 'scary' group of young professionals going out to spend money. We don't have benefit of doubt, instead we get the assumption that we are up to something nefarious. That, because of the color of our skin, we should be monitored.
Please don't attempt to conflate the ills of the world with this very specific issue of race. To me, that just comes off as an attempt to deflect from dealing with race issues. It isn't new, and no amount of peaceful protest has changed anything. When I see cops getting shot, I truly feel terrible. Not just for those families but because I recognize that the black community is becoming radical. Thanks to centuries of oppression and abuse our fellow citizens are becoming radicalized. Every time a black man is shot in situations that didn't warrant it, another person somewhere else becomes enraged and might just hit the tipping point. It is desperation out of trying to do everything the "white man's way" but still getting the sharp end of the stick anyway.
You pretend you know, but you don't. Not until you've seen it with your own eyes, heard with your own ears and until you've felt the pain it brings to your home and community.
Police shoot black people. That is it. It isn't a lack of coverage for other races.
It is the standard benefit of doubt that every white person gets in this country and they don't know it. It is the white privilege they enjoy but can't appreciate.
I've sat there and watched white people get preferential treatment. You know what happens when a white guy drives drunk through a black neighborhood and gets pulled over? Yeah, the cop drives them home and tells his wife to mind her husband <---True story of close friend
Meanwhile, in the same area, black kids are constantly detained for 'disturbances' aka playing in the street with friends. Or, black drivers are fined relentlessly for taillights or if a tire just touches a line on the road. At least a law was recently passed to curb the latter.
Walking the street with my black friends and I always notice how patrol cars slow down to check on this 'scary' group of young professionals going out to spend money. We don't have benefit of doubt, instead we get the assumption that we are up to something nefarious. That, because of the color of our skin, we should be monitored.
Please don't attempt to conflate the ills of the world with this very specific issue of race. To me, that just comes off as an attempt to deflect from dealing with race issues. It isn't new, and no amount of peaceful protest has changed anything. When I see cops getting shot, I truly feel terrible. Not just for those families but because I recognize that the black community is becoming radical. Thanks to centuries of oppression and abuse our fellow citizens are becoming radicalized. Every time a black man is shot in situations that didn't warrant it, another person somewhere else becomes enraged and might just hit the tipping point. It is desperation out of trying to do everything the "white man's way" but still getting the sharp end of the stick anyway.
You pretend you know, but you don't. Not until you've seen it with your own eyes, heard with your own ears and until you've felt the pain it brings to your home and community.
The widespread easy availability of firearms in the US certainly doesn't help the situation. British police may be just as racist as their US counterparts, but the situations are so different
Apparently at the recent Republican convention various household items such as cans , lightbulbs and tennis balls were banned within a 1.7 mile perimeter of the convention centre but it was perfectly fine to carry a gun
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...d-morning-britain_uk_578dd49ce4b069bdac5d2d89
@FuzzySpider. If you've got the money you can buy a tank, it's even possible to legally drive it on the road. Of course the gun would have to be deactivated
http://www.gocompare.com/covered/20...the-perfect-vehicle-for-the-age-of-austerity/
If your tastes turned to fighter jets it gets a little more complicated. You could probably buy one to use as a static display/ gate guardian type of thing without any problem. Where you would run into problems is if you wanted something flyable. You'd be limited to vintage jets like the Hawker Hunter. A few years ago someone wanted an F4 Phantom but wasn't allowed to fly it because it was considerd to still be a bit too capable
Apparently at the recent Republican convention various household items such as cans , lightbulbs and tennis balls were banned within a 1.7 mile perimeter of the convention centre but it was perfectly fine to carry a gun
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...d-morning-britain_uk_578dd49ce4b069bdac5d2d89
@FuzzySpider. If you've got the money you can buy a tank, it's even possible to legally drive it on the road. Of course the gun would have to be deactivated
http://www.gocompare.com/covered/20...the-perfect-vehicle-for-the-age-of-austerity/
If your tastes turned to fighter jets it gets a little more complicated. You could probably buy one to use as a static display/ gate guardian type of thing without any problem. Where you would run into problems is if you wanted something flyable. You'd be limited to vintage jets like the Hawker Hunter. A few years ago someone wanted an F4 Phantom but wasn't allowed to fly it because it was considerd to still be a bit too capable
The US police and the US justice are really particular. Probably the past of cowboys and the Wild West
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You could hope for this. However: The use of the 2nd amendment as a reason to keep selling guns, makes some wonder, if they have really moved on.
Yes I find a big brutality in the police and the justice of the United States
What...how....but.....my brain I can't wrap my head around that logic, "can do damage?" a baseball? a lightbulb? sure 'damage' maybe get some tears of skin if bulb shatters and cuts skin, tennis ball? I don't know it can bruise?
To compare that to guns, and say people don't throw guns, no of course they don't..they use guns to throw bullets at people! wow...my head.
You DO realise racial discrimination isn't at the top of the discrimination pyramid? That in itself would be a racist assumption. Discrimination takes many MANY forms and effects people of ALL colours. I am currently being discriminated against by my own government because of my disability and there's NO-ONE in the UK who gives a rats crack about it. THAT is a worse discrimination...when no-one cares.
Cops have almost no decent training (what training they do receive makes them much more brutal) and get paid to enforce the law through situational escalation instead of being trained to properly deescalate. Even the SCOTUS itself has ruled that cops have the right to break the law to enforce it, and on top of that the U.S. court system in general has ruled that cops can enforce any law that pops out of their head.
This is nothing new in reality, however, as we have an algorithm that predicts cop brutality, and being a cop in the United States is one of the safest jobs EVER. In fact, it's safer to not have a police department.
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Unaccountable Police Unions Endanger Minorities and Everyone Else
Obama and conservatives need to stop beating around the bush and confront police unions squarely.
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Surely there is at least some truth to all of this. But there's another critical reform to America's criminal justice system that is little talked about, but very important: Hidebound police unions that block elementary transparency and public accountability at every level.
Minonian
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For my part how i see the police job?
Police exist, to make the life of criminals as miserable it can gets. If a criminal happy with how the police works? Than something is definitely off!
Criminals! And not ordinary people, or people simply in question.
Edit; After all, they are making criminals life miserable, for them. If they instead shooting and harassing ordinal people? Than they doing their job poorly...
Police exist, to make the life of criminals as miserable it can gets. If a criminal happy with how the police works? Than something is definitely off!
Criminals! And not ordinary people, or people simply in question.
Edit; After all, they are making criminals life miserable, for them. If they instead shooting and harassing ordinal people? Than they doing their job poorly...
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