Right, which is why one in fifty cops gets to keep a gun. To hunt down the psycho who thinks that’s a good idea and come home afterwards for doing what his job actually is as per the social contract.
I can hate cops as they are today but still want for the actual safety of the public through the proven institution of “policing.” No, not the glorified slave-catchers American cops are, but real police.
I loathe the way things are in this country. Please don’t put words in my mouth to the opposite effect. I don’t own a firearm and veyy deliberately choose not to.
However, you go ahead and convince cowboy hat wearing rednecks with more pickup trucks than teeth that the system is fucked and their guns are part of the problem.
And adding barriers to voting is also very obviously not the answer either. Its not that I don’t want to change the system or think it can’t or shouldn’t improve. I’m living inside the shit hole. I smell it every day.
There’s also still reality, and we must all accept it like it or not. Decidedly not here.
Remote lock…by a supervisor
ACAB, first of all. However, and please bear with me;
I remember very vividly the video of a cop in Brooklyn minding his own damn business in his cruiser, probably eating a doughnut, when some dude walked up to his open window and blew his brains out. So how much time does that guy’s partner have to radio HQ and request the weapon be unlocked before he is also looking at a new breathing hole in his skull?
I do agree that not nearly every cop should have lethal weapons. The temptation to go for it when frightened is just too high, especially for the type of people that tend to become cops in the US. However, having them remotely locked and requiring explicit permission also entirely defeats their unfortunately very real excuse for being out there in the first place. Let them all have tasers and batons as that’s far more than enough for the vast majority of interactions as you pointed out, but to have the one lethal option perpetually out of reach even when its available and in that one in ten thousand case where it is actually required? Not entirely sure I agree there.
And just to be sure, I haven’t forgotten OWS, so NYPD can choke on an entire bag of dicks one at a time and I’ll sit back and watch sipping on an Arizona.
I understand what you’re saying, but that’s entirely a matter of opinion.
I like Trek overall. I grew up on TNG, but my father became obsessed with DS9 while it was airing. I was a little too young to fully appreciate it, but I’ll never forget him rushing to turn it on every Thursday night. A decade or so later, I watched all of DS9 and then jumped straight into Voyager. Janeway became my favorite captain and Voyager, for all the flaws in its continuity given the pedigree of the writers, became my favorite series.
Objectively, DS9 is generally considered the best series between the writing, the acting, the casting, and the overall impact on the political landscape of the Trek universe while Voyager used equal parts deep lore and significant handwavium to wrap up their impossible task all while keeping their finger on the perpetual reset button.
Further, I see people complain about Picard (which I didn’t finish) saying they besmirched the character and left the spirit of Trek behind. I saw a deeply personal tale about a man who became so accustomed to being a lynchpin of galactic affairs come to terms with his own mortality and fading relevance, turning to the rougher edges of life he learned the hard way to flirt less with.
But maybe I’m not a real fan either for not having watched anything last S2 Picard.
Totally tubular!
A man of exquisite taste here, folks. Kemosabe is choice, brother man.
Not without additional calisthenics, but if you do a combo of walking/running, martial arts, and calisthenics then yeah, actually, it can. It requires serious dedication, but it is possible if unlikely.
Try Tai Chi.
Low impact, not competitive, and not only gets you in shape, but teaches you self defense at the same time without you even realizing it.
I absolutely agree, though the reasonable side of me just wants to note that while Conservatism is evil as an ideology, being conservative (little c) isn’t inherently bad and, in fact, is required in order to be properly progressive; you cannot build a proper future without a solid foundation. Conserve what works, discard what weighs you down, build newer and better, rinse repeat. See: boiling water for power meme.
Modern right-wing movements are a global net negative on society, but I just hesitate to fully endorse blanket statements like yours because while the overall movements and ideologies tend to be oppressive and bad for society, there are still sensible elements and issues raised that are worth considering.
That said, if the Republican party got Thanos Snapped tomorrow my antisocial autistic ass would throw the biggest party in the world with open invitations. I’ll make pizza, you just bring the dough.