United States needs fewer pro police leadership but unfortunately both parties are bed buddies with the corporate protectors
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
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They aren't the same though, even though those two parties sometimes agree.
Making it seem like they're identical just feeds apathy and helps the rightward march of politics. Only a useful idiot or accessory would do that, are you doing that?
Remember when Biden said nothing would fundamentally change?
And then nothing fundamentally changed?
I agree with this.
Self-proclaimed "leftists" who equate the two dominant parties fail to gather allies from the more likely group and inhibit the movement. "Both parties are the same" is pathetic, grow up, members of one would be willing to help you and you know it.
I think we can very comfortably say that party leadership is shitty and center or center right in both parties. They are too comfortable in their cushy information-is-power jobs which keeps them rich. They do not care about what the party or their voters want.
This comes off as so unhinged. They didn't say a general statement like "both parties are the same". Obviously they're not, though much of the time their goals do align in some way. They said something specific, and true. This reactive need to defend the Democratic Party is ridiculous to me, they have enabled and voted for many bad and harmful things, they often do not understand or represent the interests of their constituents, they have plenty of money, they do not need you to stand in front of imaginary bullets for them. The way left is not through the Democratic Party. I know we don't have a good option yet but I can tell people are ready for it.
Unhinged is not the same thing as "thing you disagree with".
Choosing nothing instead of the lesser of two evils is childish. Grow the fuck up. If you're so superior why don't I see your party on the ballot? All you do is complain and get left behind. Win a fucking election, then you can talk shit.
Yeah, not helping your side of this argument look "not unhinged". And once again either misunderstanding or willfully mischaracterizing what's been said. See above.
Biden's whole career over half a century has consisted of feeding the police but he advertises he is Democrat and Harris picked a running mate who teamed up with Trump to stomp out the oil pipeline protestors
both sides are not the same?
Yes, they are not the same, or even remotely similar, as we all and also you have known this entire time.
Friendly reminder that drug dogs have a false positive rate of ~80%.
Was the family white or why were they surprised?
It is not a "routine" traffic stop if anyone is made to get out of the vehicle, much less searched.
This is tricky. I once was a Norwegian NATO soldier in the Balkans and while we usually was deminers we often was tasked to search for weapons in buildings. Once we searched this cluster of houses close to a combat zone where insurgents were known to operate when we came across what looked like a normal family with male and female adult and a small child of perhaps a year. Our policy was to be the least intrusive we could be, and mother and child stayed inside while we did the kitchen and toiler first and let the man inside. The child was screaming the entire time. After a while our civilian interpreter took us aside and said the was something off with the child. Something in the way they talked about it. It was still screaming like crazy, unconsolable. Our policy was that male soldiers did not search females or children under 16, but by some stroke of luck our company comander was present and his driver/clerk was female. So under our directions with British MP, Ukranian UN Police and mother directly present she carefully stripped the baby and found a cleaning kit for an AK-47 under the clothes. Mother had held the baby in a manner to conceal it. The child was creaming because it was in direct contact with its skin. Mother was under duress to do it it turned out, man was not related and in the end we found equipment and uniforms for a five man squad in the house. It served as some kind of staging area. And a weapon cach including AT in the forest nearby.
Point of this long story.. Searching children is tricky and should only be done carefully after a solid risk assessment
“Our decision to conduct this search was influenced by the increasing prevalence of tragic incidents where children have been harmed or killed after accidentally coming into contact with dangerous substances.”
Please tell me they’re not still pushing this “coming within 12 meters of fentanyl could be DEADLY!” nonsense. They say later in the quote that the kids could “overdose” when drugs are left unattended, but I guarantee you they are still trying to use this absolutely nonsense logic.
Tell me you’re white without telling me you’re white.