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Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005
Continuing a derail from the last thread...

StarMagician posted:

90% of the people on this forum, at least, support higher taxes, more regulations, and in the general sense, a more involved and intrusive federal government. Growth in government requires growth in enforcement power, which at the moment is entirely various flavors of cop.
This is patently false. Our police have gotten excessively militarized: they're taking a shotgun to an anthill. We need more accountability and self-control in our police, not more force.

Die Sexmonster! fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Jun 29, 2014

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Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005

SedanChair posted:

Fascinating, Serpico seems to think that reforming the police head-on is worthwhile:


Is he naive?

I'm naïve as well if that's the case, these ideas all sound positive to me.

Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005

Cole posted:

Do you know why it's illegal to point things at the police that could be mistaken for weapons?

I'll give you 12 years to consider your answer.

Show us a gun that resembles a banana.

This thread is suddenly full of cop apologists.

Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005

ActusRhesus posted:

IMO, simple weed possession should be an infraction at best.

How utterly ignorant. Why should possession of a plant be any sort of crime or infraction? How does it harm society that I possess a plant?

The mindset is so entrenched that criminal justice reform is going to be a long, hard battle. See: your posts

Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005

disheveled posted:

Please, please, please, as a legalization advocate, I ask you to please stop using this terrible argument.

It seemed contextual, I'll admit there are dozens of arguments though. Why, exactly?

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Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005

ActusRhesus posted:

ten years for taking a human life? Possibly less with early parole? I can't say I agree.

That's because you're still dragging your knuckles behind the rest of the populace who have realized extended sentencing does jack poo poo to deter crime. How much time have you served to be such an authority on the topic?

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