• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      To say nothing of the fact that the US has a massively higher rate of both imprisonment and execution.

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    Renea Gamble was found by a municipal judge to be not guilty of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, and providing a false name to law enforcement. (The allegedly false name was “Aunt Tifa,” which is hilarious).

    She has filed a civil claim seeking monetary damages of $2 million and attorneys fees.

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      17 days ago

      Still. A civilized society doesn’t give every single person in a uniform the licence to tackle, kill and assault whomever without facing any real consequences. Sure, the money’s nice, but not getting tackled would’ve surely been much more civilized.

      Aunt Tifa hit a double-jackpot. Second, the money. But first and foremost - she’s still alive. She’s also white, which might have more causal relationships with her getting said jackpot than should be the case in a civilized society.

      The problem is that not everyone has either her luck or her complexion.

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        Every police in a civilized country has a professional training for several years, including psychology, laws. In the US the police only a training of some month, mainly self defence, no schoolgrade needed to access. ICE agents not even this.

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    17 days ago

    But, imagine, if my government is evil, how evil the barbaric hordes must be 🤯

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    If authoritarianism & the violence it brings (which there is a ton of) in the USA correctly upsets you, then authoritarianism everywhere else (for which there is a ton in China, as well as across most of the rest of the globe) should upset you as well. Trying to make excuses for it in one place or another for ones “team” is pathetic. Fuck all the “whataboutism” - it’s all counter productive.

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        16 days ago

        More like “statists gonna state” ;)

        But yeah, optimally every person’s human rights should be honored, regardless of what side of imaginary lines they were born in, but I’m not holding my breath to see that happen, or thinking that we just need to join in a round of “kumbaya” to get there.