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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Personally, I think that the biggest problem with libertarianism is the fact that, once a corporation hits critical mass, it has the power to undermine any potential competition, thus ruining the entire point of capitalism. Then libertarians point at anti-trust legislation, saying that is enough protection from just that, but I humbly disagree. If anything, the fact that those laws have become so difficult to enforce only proves just how much political power corporations have gained.
"That is not to say I think that the police as they currently exist are perfect, I think we need to move to a more Peelian model of policing and that the solution to problematic police responses to minority issues is more minority policemen. People who come from these minority communities and are still a part of them while also keeping the peace."
There's research
that indicates that minority cops are actually just as likely to brutalize minority suspects as their white peers
. The problem isn't a micro-level individual racism problem, but a macro-level institution problem.
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Whoops, my bad. Guess that just shifts the object of my sarcasm to all the state legislatures that are dominated by the GOP.
Edited by MarqFJA on Mar 16th 2019 at 1:50:03 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.The problem is the police in America are fearmongering bullies who think they have the right to bully people, and they react aggressively and violently in response to anyone challenging their authority. This creates a massive superiority complex, and anyone who doesn't obey gets shot because police believe that questioning their authority is the same as undermining their authority.
Make the job less attractive to people who would abuse their power by increasing the requirements to become a police officer,the idea of the police being about wielding authority and carrying a firearm needs to be stop being emphasised
Edited by Ultimatum on Mar 16th 2019 at 11:14:03 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverFrom what I've heard, police in some other countries don't act like this. In some other countries, police officers are just normal people whose job is to enforce the law, they're not due any more respect, diligence, or fear than anyone else.
Law enforcement is important, but the culture surrounding America's law enforcement is a huge problem that would need some incredible effort to fix.
Well. I guess we've found the reason for why that senator is trying to make it a legal requirement for everyone to own an AR-15. It's an attempt to get around their legal woes (which now includes being sued for marketing), and flips the bird to Sandy Hook in the process.
Edited by Wyldchyld on Mar 16th 2019 at 1:12:48 PM
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.The militarization of the police is a real phenomenon and not just in equipment but their relationship to the communities they police. They have for years gone further and further from the view of protectors to occupiers.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Law enforcement is important, but the culture surrounding America's law enforcement is a huge problem that would need some incredible effort to fix.
If there's one crime I can never forgive the big studio bosses in Hollywood for, it's the fact that American cop movies have, through cultural osmosis, led Dutch cops to go from what you just described to a more 'Respect mah autoritah' mindset (though they're not quite all the way to the US cop mentality).
No, wait, if there's only one crime I can never forgive, it's definitely the covering up of sexual abusers like Harvey Weinstein, but the above is also not a good thing.
Angry gets shit done.Every film industry has tried to ape Hollywood at some point, I think.
And it is not just Hollywood: every facet of the entertainment industry, from music to video game development to comic writing, has been covering up that kind of shit for ages, now.
Not that I think it excuses Hollywood, mind, but I feel the problem should ever be reduced to it alone, it's quite bigger than that.
Erhm, actually, we're kinda partly responsible for introducing the good old ultra-violence to Hollywood. Paul Verhoeven is Dutch, after all.
But what I actually meant is that our current generation of cops grew up watching US movies and TV shows (in retrospect I realize that TV shows aren't shot in Hollywood, but yeah) and this has planted the US idea of the police officer as an authority figure, rather than a civil servant in their heads.
Like, the Dutch TV and Film industry isn't that big so a proportionally large amount of our media comes directly from the US. And we pretty much all are at least conversant in English so it's not like we can hide those kinds of things in dubs, we subtitle everything.
Angry gets shit done.Washington Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns – Washington's state Senate passed a bill this week that would drop President Trump from the state's 2020 presidential ballot until he releases his tax returns.
States are in charge of their own elections, so I think they can set up whatever rules they want to determine who gets on the ballot unless it violates federal law.
That said, the Constitution does have explicit rules about the requirements for being president. One could argue that those are the only rules that apply and anything else is unlawful.

The US Senate doesn't pass state laws. Any kind of change to the way state prosecutors work would be handled on a state level, so the current composition of the Senate is irrelevant.