chickunsendwich

chickunsendwich t1_ja0zfyi wrote

There is a weird mythology surrounding the existence of independently-minded cops. Cops draw from people who are ideologically oriented toward reinforcing whatever the existing system is. This is their role in literally every society that's ever had law enforcement. They will never not have sympathizers with extra-legal factions with that same system-reinforcing goal (proud boys).

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chickunsendwich t1_j8i8n9e wrote

Reply to comment by wogal555 in Ohio toxic air in DMV? by ghostofhogan

Experts on the ground have compared this to a nuclear bomb being set off over the town. While this is also hyperbole, you can’t blame people for freaking out about this. This event was much worse than just “bad” for the people affected by it.

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chickunsendwich t1_j6ggfee wrote

It’s not the dog-owner’s lifestyle that i would expect the city to adapt to. It’s the life (not life-style) of household pets. Not sure why anyone would have a problem with making a city more pet-safe, given the fact that pet ownership has been core to the human experience since pre-civilization days. I could understand the reluctance if the pet owners were issuing pain in the ass demands, but in this case it’s literally just “don’t throw chicken corpses on the sidewalk”.

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chickunsendwich t1_j6ftk6v wrote

What a deranged take. Bones and rotting flesh littering the street is unpleasant for just about everyone, dog owners aside.

As for the dog owners, it's not so simple as just 'making sure it doesn't eat random shit'. Chicken bones are small. They often blend in with the sidewalk. A dog will smell it long before the owner sees them.

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chickunsendwich t1_j676nod wrote

Reply to comment by BlakeClass in Police Protest by thejgcole

Absolutely ghoulish bro, you're attempting to concern troll about lynching in order to obfuscate the white supremacist nature of the system those cops were enforcers of. Seek help.

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chickunsendwich t1_izohorl wrote

"oh no I heckled a person tasked with parking enforcement into saying that she won't give me a ticket, and she gave me a ticket anyways! wtf!"

These workers encounter 100 people like you a day. Half of them will verbally accost the worker if they respond "yeah, you gotta fix that or you'll get a ticket". It's easier to just tell people they're set in order to continue with the drudgery w/o problems.

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chickunsendwich t1_it2w08u wrote

UK and Germany allow citizens of their capital cities to vote, but they still arbitrarily exclude other groups of people living in their countries. One of the scams successfully pulled off by the architects of liberal democratic systems is that it's totally fine and normal to disenfranchise people if they meet certain criteria. As long as it's seen as acceptable to say a non-citizen living within the country's borders cannot vote, for example, the door is open for excluding other groups.

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