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My new campaign idea: one rule book, one setting book
 
 
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Huge Michael McDonald fan
 
 
 

I do not and cannot support an implied false equivalency. Nationally, there are many guns available overall, but police officers have state-enforced powers to get away with murder. Police officers operate in a gang that has their back; we know that "good cops" will cover for bad cops. Police officers enjoy grossly overpowered unions that are Republican backed. Police officers have a history of instigating protestors until riots erupt.
 
Police officers can legally rob you and there's very little you can do to legally reclaim that property (assuming you can even afford the process in the first place). Police officers can stop you and engage in harassment because "they don't like the look of you". Police departments have a history of racist policies (not to mention recruiting members of racist ideologies). Police departments can reject applicants of sufficiently high I.Q. (for the flimsiest of reasons). Meaningful reform is nearly impossible, because an admission of guilt from a P.D. is less likely than drawing blood from a stone.
 
So, no...the olive branch has to be extended from one side.

I have no doubt, and that those people should be dealt with.  But the general implication is that everyone should be punished, entire cities punished, hell entire states punished (ie- "pay the NG wages.  unless you are a place I need votes for"), for the situation.  That's the way media influences talk about, when calling out these incidents.  Normally that's a problem, but it's a huge problem when the President directly acts on their opinions.
 
I can talk about the inevitable problem it creates when we have leadership that constantly calls people, cities, and states who don't agree with them as "the enemy" and treats them as figurative terrorists for just existing, but that's a conversation for the political thread.  I bring all this up because of the commentary on the article just linked.  But there's a larger conversation on the literal use of federal power and resources to punish people who don't agree with the President, and there are two things I can bet on for the nature of these riots.
 
If Trump's twitter account never existed, I'd bet you a couple c notes that these protests would be 33% to 50% smaller.
 
If coronavirus had been tackled without creating the biggest unemployment in the history of our country, these protests would be 75% to 90% smaller.
 
If the response to these protests had been more careful and measured from the beginning instead of doing what 'kept up the authority', they would be 50-66% smaller.
 
So if we want to know how to actually resolve these issues, to stop the violence and protests, consulting the list here is a great start.  If we want to resolve the underlying issues... that will take longer.
 
 
 
And how can I forget my friend who was busted at a party (as a young kid) and coerced to roll specifically on the only black kids on the party.  Made to claim that those kids 'brought the drugs' (hint, all of them did).  Literal decades later he can't forget that he destroyed some kids' lives because, as a dumb terrified teen, he was made to 'roll on them'.
 
None of the people I've named as friends are online associates.  They are people who I have known for years, and almost all of which I've bought beer at a bar for.  Over a quarter of the people I've known for years in my current location have been abused by officers or major government-oriented authority figures who never have nor will ever face any kind of effect for it.
 
A less direct contact, a friend of my mother's had been tormented by her bf for literal years, with him calling, terrorizing, and threatening to take away her kid.  He is related to the local Sherriff as I recall correctly (or certainly a close friend), because he used their resources to torment, threaten, and stalk her with impunity, even having the police drop by on his behalf.  It took him literally calling her in the middle of an FBI training session, degrading, threatening, and humiliating her before a room of dozens of FBI agents undergoing training she was providing, for literally any action to happen at all.  But I still don't think she's out from under his behavior, with her kid, even now.

I do not and cannot support an implied false equivalency. Nationally, there are many guns available overall, but police officers have state-enforced powers to get away with murder. Police officers operate in a gang that has their back; we know that "good cops" will cover for bad cops. Police officers enjoy grossly overpowered unions that are Republican backed. Police officers have a history of instigating protestors until riots erupt.
 
Police officers can legally rob you and there's very little you can do to legally reclaim that property (assuming you can even afford the process in the first place). Police officers can stop you and engage in harassment because "they don't like the look of you". Police departments have a history of racist policies (not to mention recruiting members of racist ideologies). Police departments can reject applicants of sufficiently high I.Q. (for the flimsiest of reasons). Meaningful reform is nearly impossible, because an admission of guilt from a P.D. is less likely than drawing blood from a stone.
 
So, no...the olive branch has to be extended from one side.

I do not and cannot support an implied false equivalency. Nationally, there are many guns available overall, but police officers have state-enforced powers to get away with murder. Police officers operate in a gang that has their back; we know that "good cops" will cover for bad cops. Police officers enjoy grossly overpowered unions that are Republican backed. Police officers have a history of instigating protestors until riots erupt.
 
Police officers can legally rob you and there's very little you can do to legally reclaim that property (assuming you can even afford the process in the first place). Police officers can stop you and engage in harassment because "they don't like the look of you". Police departments have a history of racist policies (not to mention recruiting members of racist ideologies). Police departments can reject applicants of sufficiently high I.Q. (for the flimsiest of reasons). Meaningful reform is nearly impossible, because an admission of guilt from a P.D. is less likely than drawing blood from a stone.
 
So, no...the olive branch has to be extended from one side.

I do not and cannot support an implied false equivalency. Nationally, there are many guns available overall, but police officers have state-enforced powers to get away with murder. Police officers operate in a gang that has their back; we know that "good cops" will cover for bad cops. Police officers enjoy grossly overpowered unions that are Republican backed. Police officers have a history of instigating protestors until riots erupt.
 
Police officers can legally rob you and there's very little you can do to legally reclaim that property (assuming you can even afford the process in the first place). Police officers can stop you and engage in harassment because "they don't like the look of you". Police departments have a history of racist policies (not to mention recruiting members of racist ideologies). Police departments can reject applicants of sufficiently high I.Q. (for the flimsiest of reasons). Meaningful reform is nearly impossible, because an admission of guilt from a P.D. is less likely than drawing blood from a stone.
 
So, no...the olive branch has to be extended from one side.

One works for the other. One has the power to ruin or end a life. The overall burden is clearly lopsided (as it ought to be).

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