• nek0d3r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Wait wait wait, you said it was a gay man that was stabbed? Sorry, my hands are tied. Playbook says gay guys can’t get stabbed.

  • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I used to drive thru Arizona several times a year. It was tradition for me and my dog, once we were in Arizona, to pull over and take the biggest, greasiest shit we could, on Arizona. Like it deserved.

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    Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has been a rolling human rights disaster for years. It needs to be torn the fuck down.

    Frankly sheriff’s offices in general need to be abolished. It’s a relic of the frontier colonial era and, surprise, they never gave up their power willingly. They often have the lowest training standards in the profession, and are the face of partisan politics in law enforcement, to the benefit of conservatives 99% of the time. A lot of the time I hear about some flagrant abuse of power from cops it’s from a sheriff’s deputy.

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      On one hand I like how the sheriff’s office decentralizes police power and gives the community a direct say. In the other hand that’s been a disaster

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      They often have the lowest training standards in the profession

      Law enforcement isn’t a “profession.” Practitioners of real “professions,” such as medicine, law, and engineering, have “professed an oath” (that’s where the word comes from) to act in the public interest (i.e. to protect the public) and abide by a code of ethics. That includes things like acting against their own interests and refusing orders from people with power over them, if necessary. In contrast, the courts have ruled in Warren v. District of Columbia that law enforcement officers explicitly have no such obligation.

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      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

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      Armed minorities are harder to oppress.

      Organized armed minorities make governments afraid.

      Make no mistake, this is yet another message, “we do not care about you or your struggles”. Listen when they tell you they won’t protect you.

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        thats probably the reason why they were so afraid of the civil rights movement, especially with communism so fresh people might want to illict help from soviets.

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    Times are going to get very hard for gay people soon. If history keeps rhyming the way it is, gay people have a tough road coming up and we need to be prepared for it.

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    Maricopa County Attorney rules there is enough evidence to lay charges on the victim. However the victim had not show up to their scheduled court date, allegedly detained by ICE in the lobby of the court, on the day of the hearing. /s

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    The left really needs to get over their weapon aversion. There’s no alternative anymore.

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        I am not American. And the overwhelming majority of those 500 million weapons are with people that think Trump’s fascist America is cool.

        Im broadly anti gun but i have reasoning and am not blind to their purpose.

        The reality right now is that those weapons aren’t going anywhere, everything is heating up and nobody (including, increasingly, law enforcement) can be arbitrarily trusted.

        So yes, as a last ditch hail mary attempt at self defense i’d recommend arming yourself because that is where the US is at.

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          If we recall 4 years ago, one got shot, and the rest fled. Resolve without critical thinking is a mirage.

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      You should probably look up Marx’s idea about workers arming themselves. The left has no issue with rming themselves, you’re thinking of liberals.

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          If you think 3% differently than I, you=evil

          Signed, -Lemmy

          braces for the flood of messages about how evil I am

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            liberals in the United States support genocide, the kinda immigration reform Donald Trump has been enacting, and laissez-faire capitalism.

            If it was only 3%, maybe. But American liberals are only 10% away from American conservatives, and are nowhere near the left.

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        Liberals are the left. You’re think of the far left. Essentially they are the left’s equivalent of the far right, just as obnoxious and every bit as easily conned by propaganda.

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        thinking of liberals

        The ones that enabled us into this mess.

        But at least they saved us from universal healthcare and economic equity. Dodged a real bullet there.

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          Neoliberalism ruined America. Stole everything we had and gave it all to the rich and corporations. And for what? Line go up? Fucking idiots.

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            Look at that! A .ml commenting something critical about neoliberalism! Imagine that. It’s not something one sees often in .world since according to them, the mods and admins here are such big meanies that they nuke everything that even so much as leans progressive.

            (the irony is that my comment here will probably get reported and removed, thus lending even more relevance to my point that the whiners at .ml are full of shit)

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        The left has no issue with rming themselves

        The last decade of the left withdrawing to their own spheres of niche ideology-sub-spectrums has resulted in nobody, even the left themselves, really knowing what “the left” is for or against anymore on a broad level. This is why there’s so much infighting and disagreement and confusion about who believes in what, and of course all the endless purity testing and tribalism that comes with it. Some of this is because of deliberate social sabotage by paid agents, some of this is because of sociology and the nature of our brains. Either way it needs to be identified and understood as an obstacle to unified action.

        I don’t give two shits what specific brand of marxism you believe in, or if you’re just a working liberal who wants things to go back to normal, or if you’re some deeply sheltered and naive pacifist who genuinely thinks we’re going to have some idealistic solarpunk future if we just did X, Y and Z. You all need to get armed and get prepared and probably do a lot of things you’re either emotionally or ideologically uncomfortable with. Such is the nature of conflict.

        • Get armed. If firearms really scare the everloving shit out of you, or if you’ve already painted yourself in a corner by preaching against guns around your peers your whole life, then get a fucking crossbow, I do NOT care, as long as you have means to put holes in someone from a distance. At the very least, you need pepper spray, tasers and other personal defense items and you need to practice how they’re used and be ready to deal with multiple people who want to hurt you. Take self defense classes if you can.

        • Get your shit together. If you’re unhealthy, depressed, or have a list of issues that are preventing you from doing X, Y and Z. Now is the time to get that shit managed. Get to a doctor while you can, if you can’t or they can’t help, then do the very best you can on your own as soon as you can. You’ve been putting off the changes you know you need to make, now is the wake-up alarm, time to do that hard thing you’ve been waiting for “the right time” to start on to get your life managed.

        • Save money. Freeze your credit cards. Stop ordering fast food or doordash. Stop eating out altogether. Rice and beans motherfucker, do you speak it?? If you don’t know how to cook your own simple food at home, the only thing stopping you from learning how is your own motivation to type “How do I cook my own simple food at home?” into google and actually putting effort into it.

        • Kill your vices. Related to above, I don’t care if the substance you do daily is completely harmless to you and something you claim is medicinal and helps you sleep/stay awake, you gotta start stepping it down and putting that cash under your mattress and finding alternatives. This isn’t about ethics or legality, this is about not spending your money on things you can live without even if the adjustment period will be hard. Again, now is the time to make those changes.

        • Fix your attention span. It’s worse than you think and it’s preventing you from doing a lot of things you could be doing to make your life better and get healthier. If things get really, really bad, we need as many people as possible who can think clearly and analyze situations from many perspectives. We need people who have read books and can be patient and calm in the face of stress. If nothing else, you will have a better normal life if you don’t need to always have youtube videos of people reacting to tiktok videos playing on headphones before you can even read a work email.

        If things somehow get better all around for everyone, then having done all this will only have made you and your life and outcomes better.

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    “The man should be given honors for doing the reich the favor of disposing of the untermensch, even if it did fail.”

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    Sounds like someone should find that attacker and do the exact same thing to them, seeing as it’s non-chargeable behavior.