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Quence said:
Oh dear, cuckery is afoot.

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Here is a local archived clip of Mark Rutte, former Dutch prime minister and NATO secretary general calling Donald Trump "daddy" in some kind of way.



President Trump later was asked about the remark and leaned into it positively.



Rutte now clarifies that he didn't call the President of the United States "daddy."
 
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>city-run grocery stores
Price controlling food will lead to skyrocketing food costs.
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This is the craziest one to me. Once upon a time, I worked as a grocer, and margins are insanely low. What few things did have good margins subsidized the particularly bad items (some of which would even lose money). Cutting out the profit would save shoppers no appreciable amount of money, and just creates headaches (if there's inventory loss, where does the money to cover it come from?)

And there's going to be plenty of shrinkage with the anti police initiatives.
 
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inetsone said:
It further erodes public accountability, transparency, consent of governance, and basically, trust. It is very counter to our cultural values. The police are not the military for a reason.
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I get the argument for sure, although like @Fapcop said it’s not like anybody’s getting identified easily under a helmet. My issue is more with your terminology, militarization has a meaning and I’m not sure how masking is militarization other than you don’t like it and it’s is a buzzword that people react negatively to instinctively. Is it actually a military practice though? It’s a bit like ‘assault rifle,’ people have trouble defining it but it’s an easy word to use to portray something as negative.
 
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Zohran Mamdani put out this video on Instagram through some media account and it is horrible. He talks about how being antizionist is a key issue for him while sitting on a park bench eating biryani with his hands. Eating with your hands is traditional for some part of South East Asia, but even the people who do this and live outside of their countries wouldn’t be caught dead doing it outside on a bench without access to a sink. It comes off as extremely forced and inauthentic.

He also says something nonsensical, that when living in South Africa, it his body that was his keffiyeh. (The fuck?)

Comments are all as expected: retards fawning over how he’s so genuine, authentic, and down-to-earth because he is eating with his hands. As if he would be doing that when the cameras aren’t rolling.

Also he says Astoria is the place in NYC where he feels at home being a South East Asian. He seems oblivious to the fact that NYC has several Indian ethnic enclaves, Murray Hill being more prominent than Astoria. If he doesn’t feel at home, he should go back.

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Scrumption said:
Also he says Astoria is the place in NYC where he feels at home being a South East Asian. He seems oblivious to the fact that NYC has several Indian ethnic enclaves, Murray Hill being more prominent than Astoria. If he doesn’t feel at home, he should go back.
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Astoria is indigenous Greek land, he should respect the native peoples
 
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inetsone said:
And putting numbers on them for identification when they wore masks, for instance, wouldn't solve this issue in any way, shape, or form.
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Ok… Why?
Does it make a difference whether you get deported by a tall Hispanic man with a mustache or tall masked man #818?

Suppose you get manhandled. Will it make you feel any better that you can write “He had blue eyes and sand blonde hair and a beard” in your complaint instead of: “His ID number was #931”.

You’ve chosen a very strange hill to die on fren.

Out of all the way police regularly shit on civil rights (illegal search and seizure, forfeiture, canine sniff, “officer safety”) but putting on a balaclava so your and your family can sleep safe at night is just a step too far.

Let’s not pretend that Dems care one bit about “police state methods”.

They want the agents identified.
They want them doxed.
They want them too scared to do their jobs.
 
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Haloperidol said:
I get the argument for sure, although like @Fapcop said it’s not like anybody’s getting identified easily under a helmet. My issue is more with your terminology, militarization has a meaning and I’m not sure how masking is militarization other than you don’t like it and it’s is a buzzword that people react negatively to instinctively. Is it actually a military practice though? It’s a bit like ‘assault rifle,’ people have trouble defining it but it’s an easy word to use to portray something as negative.
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That's a fair question and yes it is militarization. Soldiers cover their faces, and this is meant to further align the police as military units, not as civilians, even though they are in fact civilians. These choices have been intentional since 2000 to break down how the public sees policing and whether it is an anonymous, dehumanizing action like war or not.
 
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Fapcop said:
Ok… Why?
Does it make a difference whether you get deported by a tall Hispanic man with a mustache or tall masked man #818?

Suppose you get manhandled. Will it make you feel any better that you can write “He had blue eyes and sand blonde hair and a beard” in your complaint instead of: “His ID number was #931”.

You’ve chosen a very strange hill to die on fren.

Out of all the way police regularly shit on civil rights (illegal search and seizure, forfeiture, canine sniff, “officer safety”) but putting on a balaclava so your and your family can sleep safe at night is just a step too far.

Let’s not pretend that Dems care one bit about “police state methods”.

They want the agents identified.
They want them doxed.
They want them too scared to do their jobs.
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You're not arguing in good faith, shill. Dehumanization is half the point, you dumb fuck. Christ. You are God damn un-American af.
 
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inetsone said:
Are you arguing militarization of civilian police forces is a good idea now? I'm confused, do you not get how our civilization works?
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cops level of seriousness must match the criminals they're facing
looking at the state of american cities in current year, cops should probably look and act like more like army special forces than whatever mickey mouse shit you have in mind
 
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inetsone said:
That's a fair question and yes it is militarization. Soldiers cover their faces, and this is meant to further align the police as military units, not as civilians, even though they are in fact civilians. These choices have been intentional since 2000 to break down how the public sees policing and whether it is an anonymous, dehumanizing action like war or not.
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Lets go further, I want to advertise my company on their uniform.
 
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CraftyCat3 said:
This is the craziest one to me. Once upon a time, I worked as a grocer, and margins are insanely low. What few things did have good margins subsidized the particularly bad items (some of which would even lose money). Cutting out the profit would save shoppers no appreciable amount of money, and just creates headaches (if there's inventory loss, where does the money to cover it come from?)

And there's going to be plenty of shrinkage with the anti police initiatives.
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Groceries make money on volume of sales.

There won't be shrinkage with the anti-police initiatives: there just won't be any grocery stores at all. We'll start hearing niggers whining about "food deserts" which, to normal human beings, means "no one in their right mind is opening grocery stores in these areas because niggers steal everything and politicians punish businesses for trying to stop theft."
 
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