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I hate cops.
They don't protect shit.
They don't protect shit.
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The fact this is even happening is pretty indicative of a serious disconnect between police and citizens. Whetever the cause is, that is certainly a terrible phenomenon.
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The cause seems to be holding the cops in your town accountable for the cops in another city's bad behavior, which is irrational, self-defeating and guaranteed to cause problems between you and your town's cops where their wasn't any before.
My sympathy is with pissed off people who've had it with the occasional power-tripping cop, but it ends the moment they take that out on the next person they find wearing a badge
My sympathy is with pissed off people who've had it with the occasional power-tripping cop, but it ends the moment they take that out on the next person they find wearing a badge
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I dunno, it's always the police line that any problems with their behaviour are down to the individual qualities of the misbehaving cops, not to any problems with police culture as a whole. I am suspicious that the police line is objectively correct. It's also doubtless wrong that every cop is a personally bad individual but you wouldn't have to believe that to have problems with police officers as a group, any more than a racist has to believe in the low moral character of literally every single black person.
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To be fair there have been some fairly major changes in Russia between those two descriptions.
If only it was that recent! People believed Thomas Jefferson was going to rule as a Robespierre-esque ultramajoritarian.
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True but neither were entirely correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church#Under_Communist_rule
Today only 41% are Russian orthedox. Much less than the US's 70% christian population
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41% are the people who declare themselves Orthodox at censuses. The amount of people who attend church regularly is actually pretty low.
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But she didn't have an iron cage. Unless it was in the hoard somewhere.
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Because comparing
Spot on.
If the abuser's son were not autistic, they'd be spewing a different tune.
But since the son was an autist (and his mother had mental issues, too), they think it's funny to act like total cunts about this.
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did your dad lock you in a cage for being autistic?
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Actually preventing crimes is a secondary purpose at most for normal police. Generally, police act after the fact to investigate and enable prosecution of crimes already committed.
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I won't say I like the police and the direction they're going, but common sense says to treat them with a modicum of respect. They're not the enemy.
I know several cops well and most of them are decent people. I also know a few that are complete assholes. As long as you're not a fucking moron, cops are pretty easy to get along with. Treat them like people and they tend to do the same.
I'll admit it may be different in cities though, that could get impersonal.
I know several cops well and most of them are decent people. I also know a few that are complete assholes. As long as you're not a fucking moron, cops are pretty easy to get along with. Treat them like people and they tend to do the same.
I'll admit it may be different in cities though, that could get impersonal.
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But refusing service to cops doesn't do anything to address that and only furthers the divide between the police and civilian populace. I mean there are places where talking about police culture and drawing attention to it can make a positive difference but this is just likely to make any officer who is denied service feel alienated from the community they're policing, which doesn't bode well.
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I haven't heard of any real businesses doing this recently. Just a couple dumbfucks like the Whataburger guy, who was immediately fired, and that idiotic anarchist coffee shop that went out of business because John Langley is incompetent and their coffee was shitty.
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No, but if there is somebody who is genuinely uncomfortable around cops, I think that's something that people need to respect, and I think given how much crazy shit cops are doing, I think we should give somebody the benefit of the doubt if they claim to be uncomfortable. I know fast food jobs aren't supposed to be great fun but nobody should be required to do work that is genuinely traumatising, and I'd rather err on the side of a few cops having to go down the block for coffee to a few people being fired for not serving them. And yes I know the law doesn't reflect my views, but I'm arguing for what's moral, not what's legal.
With anarchist cafes excluding cops, it's really a rational business decision to promote their brand, either directly or indirectly, so I totally endorse it and would expect anybody who cares about the rights of small businesses (LOL) to do the same thing.
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If we're comparing globally, Russians are fairly religious, comparable to Americans, generally more religious than most other European countries (honorable exception for Poland obviously). The big difference that an American dominionist might approve of, aside from the whole hatin'-dem-gays thing, is that Russia has no separation of Church and State - the Russian Orthodox Church is explicitly protected by the Russian government and the state's duty to preserve and maintain Orthodoxy is written into the constitution.
This is one of the best indicators that, despite what lazy op-ed columnists might say, Putin is not just resurrecting the Soviet Union wholesale - he's fashioning a new autocracy that draws from some aspects of Soviet totalitarianism (mostly its military successes) but draws, I would argue, equally heavily on the cultural and political legacy of Imperial Russia, with the Orthodox Church playing a major part of that.
This is one of the best indicators that, despite what lazy op-ed columnists might say, Putin is not just resurrecting the Soviet Union wholesale - he's fashioning a new autocracy that draws from some aspects of Soviet totalitarianism (mostly its military successes) but draws, I would argue, equally heavily on the cultural and political legacy of Imperial Russia, with the Orthodox Church playing a major part of that.
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These Fundamentalist Christian tears are delicious! This is my third glass today.
Let 'em go. Like I said about "The Rapture". A country where we don't have to put up with there ass-backwards bigoted nonsense sounds pretty heavenly to me.
Let 'em go. Like I said about "The Rapture". A country where we don't have to put up with there ass-backwards bigoted nonsense sounds pretty heavenly to me.
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I think we disagree on whether denying them service is something that's done primarily out of discomfort, or as a deliberate act of exclusion. I don't find the latter to be productive at all.
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I think it's normal to exclude people that do not want to be a productive part of society.