Yeah when I reported my rape and assault to LAPD they said "well aren't you married to him" all cops are fucking BASTARDS
Rapists
Pedophiles
Abusive motherfuckers
My wife was being stalked. We reported to the police who said (a) she should be flattered and (b) they couldn’t do anything since he hadn’t done anything (hello, trespass??)
Anyway two weeks later the guy was arrested an hour and a half away for attempted kidnapping and human trafficking.
The kid just said the man was lying down and handcuffed. He never even mentioned resisting. That's how automatic it is for cops to cover for each other. Even with no other information, in a probably generalised example scenario: the guy was resisting and the cops had no choice but to beat him down.
Interesting - but not at all surprising - that he thinks of a question about police brutality as "politics".
I mean, obviously it *is* political - among other things - but that's how he dismisses the topic?
(Also, someone get the kid a job as a journalist. Good follow-up.)
Yup. And so they see any disagreement with them as "making it political".
(Even though the Republican Party *thrives* on politicizing things that many of us might think of as basic humanity. E.g., "police brutality is bad".)
"Your politics consist of those things which you consider outside the realm of politics." - Jerry Holkins
That people need to be controlled by "better" people is self-evident to an authoritarian, as much as the contrary "all men are created equal" is self-evident to a liberal democrat.
Yeah. Keeping authoritarians out of positions of power is good, but better would be minimizing positions of power.
(Paraphrasing someone, possibly Rebecca Solnit.)
Interesting. It's kind of the way privilege only works when it's really working -- the privileged don't even notice it. It is merely the normal order of things. Once it's been named, once you're aware of it, it's not really working any more.
This but also applied to everything. They will say something like, “I shouldn’t know what kinda sex you like if your not my friend” and then when they see a man and woman kissing it is fine but a man and a man kissing violates that rule.
Conservatives think everything that disagrees with their emotional conception of themselves is “politics”. They don’t believe anyone could possibly disagree, they’re just being contrary to be mean and combative, and score points.
The authoritarian mindset is a trip through a dank and dark place.
They want to be at the top of a little hierarchy, like they were in high school. We need something like permanent high school that we can stick these guys in, to keep them out of our way.
yep, he's just a footsoldier
the maintenance of his own powerbase in the background by his betters isn't in his pay grade, he's literally too stupid
just there for the free coffee and uncontrolled violence
Seriously. Better, smarter, more put together than I ever was in middle school. Just shockingly well adjusted. My nieces and nephews who are in their late teens/early 20s are the same way.
The best part of this, is how easy it is
Oh, a mob of tweenagers can alter the course of blockbuster movie productions now? What can a mob of the ones w the least to lose do to regular old reality then? Bc pretty sure they can demand a functional society, if we can show em what "done looks like"
Oh god, now I'm wondering if you could perform chest compressions by foot.
Doing it effectively for more than a few minutes is exhausting. Your arms are locked and you're using your body weight, but legs have more power available.
Is it just the optics of stamping on someone's chest?
