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WorldsStongestNerd posted:If he didn't have hostages then yes. What most sane departments around the world do is stake out a person's house or location and ambush them when they leave the building. Thats the way you nab a cult leader or militia leader. You hide and wait for them to go get the mail or go get groceries. But then they couldn't use that badass apc they got! Think of the cops(who want to pretend they're in a Steven Segal action movie)
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ewiley posted:I'm not exactly trolling Not exactly edit: tax https://i.imgur.com/Y3afDKt.mp4
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Meatball posted:But then they couldn't use that badass apc they got! Think of the cops(who want to pretend they're in a Steven Segal action movie) I mean that’s also copying real life too now, since Segal destroyed a home and killed a bunch of chickens by driving a tank into it.
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The real important thing here is that we make sure that none of us are unfair to police. If we are going to criticize an authority figure we must be incredibly nuanced, specific, accurate, and as gentle as possible, otherwise it would be completely unfair to the organization with a state-sanctioned monopoly on violence. And if the homeowner had taken proper responsibility for his life and taken a modicum of precautions against this situation, then the entire thing would have blown over as a nothingburger. When you really think about it this family has no one to blame but themselves.
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kidkissinger posted:Even if you think it's necessary to blow up houses to enforce misdemeanor level laws, why the gently caress does that preclude compensating victims? Because then the cops will be preoccupied with financial liability that they will let shoplifters get away with some Walmart belts, or something like that
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ewiley posted:Should they have just walked away? Stole a belt and a shirt from wal mart. Yes, they should have walked away. gently caress it just pay for the belt and shirt and then they wouldn't even have needed to offer the guy $5000.
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Today I witnessed someone getting called a bad faith poster for not wanting cops to blow up their residence.
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Koalas March posted:Linds has reportedly been escorting to fund her lifestyle (since she's horrible to work with and an addict very much not in recovery anymore) for years now. That makes much more sense then, I had no idea. :O
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i am harry posted:Stole a belt and a shirt from wal mart. Yes, they should have walked away. gently caress it just pay for the belt and shirt and then they wouldn't even have needed to offer the guy $5000. I mean, really this whole issue is fundamentally based in US healthcare woes, specifically how unaffordable it all is. When the PD has to finance $10k a year in anger management per officer, it just becomes cheaper to let them rough up some minorities/kids once a year with a half-amount payout. The cops get the care they need, the city saves money, and there's the added bonus of community outreach.
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Going to take me a while to re-read my homeowner's insurance policy to see if it covers "local police, national guard or branch of armed services utilizing mechanical infantry, air, UAV, ground or sea support and/or ballistics to detain criminal seeking refuge within domicile wherein catastrophic damage is incurred".
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ewiley posted:Yay I have PJ's seal of approval now! Ok so now the argument is that cops don't owe the guy whose house they destroyed anything because...some other D&D posters didn't read an article? Or is this you agreeing that the court's ruling was bullshit and saving face by pointing out other people were wrong too, because I am okay with that.
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Barry Foster posted:Thank god the police shot the place up to smithereens, that shoplifter might have shot the place up to smithereens What's the over/under on ewiley being all in on the drone war?
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kidkissinger posted:What's the over/under on ewiley being all in on the drone war? Depends on if a state-designated authority figure told him if it was good or not.
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kidkissinger posted:What's the over/under on ewiley being all in on the drone war? 4.5
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:I wouldn't count on NPR to deliver an unbiased or accurate read on anything; they are skewing hard right these days. Has anyone written about this/looked in to it? I’ve noticed many of their stories/podcasts such as planet money have had a free market bent over the last few years.
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Residency Evil posted:Has anyone written about this/looked in to it? I’ve noticed many of their stories/podcasts such as planet money have had a free market bent over the last few years. They've taken a shitload of money from the Koch Foundation; that's pretty much where this new outlook is coming from.
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skylined! posted:Going to take me a while to re-read my homeowner's insurance policy to see if it covers "local police, national guard or branch of armed services utilizing mechanical infantry, air, UAV, ground or sea support and/or ballistics to detain criminal seeking refuge within domicile wherein catastrophic damage is incurred". Well according to the article the house was insured, but the belongings weren't because the son was a renter
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NPR also receives public funding and has to appear bipartisan/fair to keep the gop from trying to pull all funding.
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whenever NPR talks about amazon it's pretty much a gleeful handjob there was some fluff recently about self driving trucks and how amazon will use this to improve their service to your door!!!
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skylined! posted:NPR also receives public funding and has to appear bipartisan/fair to keep the gop from trying to pull all funding. That’s because the Overton window has somehow gone to this hosed up area where someone quietly reading facts on the news ihas a “liberal bias”. So now they have to make up outright lies like Fox News to make centrists and ultra-right dickheads feel good.
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I like the "dear friend will you please withdraw your impeachment stuff?" "Naw bro"
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luxury handset posted:there was some fluff recently about self driving trucks and how amazon will use this to improve their service to your door!!! meanwhile, in reality
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Cops blew up half a neighborhood in Philly once to clear out “protesters” nice to know law enforcement has near unlimited destructive power that would make The Avengers jealous
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skylined! posted:Going to take me a while to re-read my homeowner's insurance policy to see if it covers "local police, national guard or branch of armed services utilizing mechanical infantry, air, UAV, ground or sea support and/or ballistics to detain criminal seeking refuge within domicile wherein catastrophic damage is incurred". It likely won't, because those situations aren't considered "sudden and accidental".
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skylined! posted:So you think a militarized police force using explosives and APCs to destroy property in an effort to flush out petty thieves is a symptom of the prevalence of.... gun ownership? What the gently caress? Well, it's probably part of it. Police have this confrontational, antagonistic behavior because they've been trained that anyone could start shooting at them at any time. If they weren't constantly afraid of armed citizens, if gun violence wasn't so prevalent, they wouldn't be blowing up someone's house to catch a criminal because they wouldn't be working in this atmosphere of batshit paranoia.
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Watching the floor debate on the resolution right now. Holy poo poo Gym Jordan DOES own a suit coat.
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"Paper Lady" is leaving Fox. https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1189864644569128960?s=19 https://twitter.com/LisPower1/status/1189884220694499329?s=19
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skylined! posted:NPR also receives public funding and has to appear bipartisan/fair to keep the gop from trying to pull all funding. Publicly funded broadcasters in other countries are following this same trend, such as the CBC in Canada and BBC in the UK. A large part of it is as you say an attempt to appear "fair" and not disproportionately critical of conservatives burning everything down, because they can and have had their funding cut significantly. IMO the broader news media has an impact as well, as even a truly "neutral" broadcaster will appear stridently leftist compared to the explicitly conservative viewpoints that dominate for-profit media.
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Baby Status: Not Mad https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1189897137984876545
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Phenotype posted:Well, it's probably part of it. Police have this confrontational, antagonistic behavior because they've been trained that anyone could start shooting at them at any time. If they weren't constantly afraid of armed citizens, if gun violence wasn't so prevalent, they wouldn't be blowing up someone's house to catch a criminal because they wouldn't be working in this atmosphere of batshit paranoia. This line of thought lays the blame at citizens rather than the brutal authoritarian figures that enact violence against civilians. Police are not brutal because of the threat of The Gun, but certainly use that threat as an excuse to enact violence.
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Pants Donkey posted:Baby Status: Not Mad We did.... ...it is literally him blackmailing a foreign leader lol It gets me every time that even the super dressed up “transcript” designed to make him look good instead makes him look guilty as gently caress. I wonder what the unedited transcripts contain.
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I love that in his mind all his current troubles are because the entire country is refusing to read the transcript he released and keeps begging them to look at, just nobody's doing that
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Finally someone said it https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1189902834092908545?s=19
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I like that the Rs are cranky and powerless.
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My dude, you have no idea. I've been at UPS for 15 years and the stories I could tell about all the poo poo that has been happening in the shipping industry, hoo boy. And a lot of those are BEFORE amazon. Nowadays it's just a loving circus every day. My work area used to do ~3.5-4.5k packages a day. Now it does 7-9k, sometimes 10k+, an easy quarter to third of that being amazon packages. It's absurd.
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Well, on the upside, Rs are going really hard against process during the impeachment grandstanding. It's like listening to a reading of a QQCS thread full of backseat mods. There's just... nothing there. They have nothing.
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Solaris 2.0 posted:We did.... https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1189617635421376512
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I DO NOT LIKE THINGS THAT I DONT THINK ARE FAIR. ME. ME ME ME.
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How cheap and dumb can this dumbass be? https://twitter.com/politico/status/1189739280589053953
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Charlz Guybon posted:How cheap and dumb can this dumbass be? Those world series ads won't pay for themselves.
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