No, it isn’t the case that we are able to protect our rights by ourselves. I hate reality and all of humanity.

People are the problem, then. All people. And not in a solvable way.

I can’t fucking fix you or myself or anyone else. If technology was the problem, machines can be repaired or replaced. People can’t, yet you all insist on being fucking insufferable.

Yeah, Trump? Well, come near anyone to defend those fucking nazimobiles (provided there was no one in them, I’m not crazy) over people and see how long you last. This is war, doesn’t matter that you’re a handful of people with a shitton of money, WE WILL END YOU.

The article itself fits, thank you.

He’s 10, and even though psychopaths can start that early, psychopaths can’t feel or fake regret. Are you going to send an 11 year old to prison over a boy recklessly grabbing a gun owned by his parents? Even as an adult, that’s manslaughter but not murder. Even if he could potentially be a sociopath (who can fake empathy), what proof do you have that’s the case? Are you willing to send a 11 year old to prison for life on the coin flip he might be a sociopath? Are you willing to do so if it was your son?

This is something that should be watched very closely. If he can be deported or imprisoned, you can.

I literally refuse to buy from Wal-Mart because of that shit. Lied to their workers nobody was getting fired or laid off, bullshit.

“And the Inner Party was safe.”

“War. War never changes.”

“Back home, you guys were the Nazis.” “Maybe so, but does hating me make you any better?”

“People! Soylent Green is PEOPLE!”

“What is he going to find out there?” “His destiny.”

Context always matters.

I don’t know what AI these assholes are using but I only trust perplexity to research for me, I still check the answers and at least glance at sources.

If you’re a parent, the number one thing your child needs to have is knowing how to question things and think for themselves.

Beyond that, point them to a research AI such as - but obviously not exclusive to - Perplexity. The AI you choose needs to be able to fact-check things well. So far I only know of Perplexity but I’m not some spokesperson so I welcome other suggestions.

If you can get the former, they’ll live. If they get both, they’ll succeed. If they only get the latter, they’re doomed. AI will not fix this, only enhance the solution.

You can stop the Trolley at any time but the switch is on the tip of Mt. Everest

Fixed.

You can refer to the post where I explain that I filed a restraining order (well, threatened to) against the city’s only bylaw officer and it actually prevented them from harassing a homeless Native Canadian friend who we wanted to give shelter to. Fuck you, hypocrite.

Cops can’t do so except in plainclothes, it’s illegal for government employees to protest in uniform because it presents a conflict of interest if a government agency or department (or here, instead of departments, ministries).

Also, do you have any idea how much corruption in police forces can be solved just by disallowing investigation from within? Every corrupt cop hates when they can’t commit a crime and get away with it because every cop in the country is subject to 3rd party review. I don’t know for sure if we use that here, but I’ve asked cops what they think of the kinds of situations pointed out in counterarguments, and they admit it’s not a perfect system and that there’s only so much one person can do so it is unlikely to be solved.

According to your logic, policing is unacceptable. If you’re discriminated against, the US has a long history of criminalizing minorities at every level of the judicial system, yes. That doesn’t mean cops are unhindered in corruption here. Judges here prefer rehabilitation, or if the person committed a crime like assault or murder then they actually consider “is this person sane” a valid question.

There is discrimination in Canada against natives. In my experience, I’ve personally seen my dad’s Salish friend be kicked out of our house by City Hall. By a bylaw officer.

You think I did nothing? Oh no. I immediately walked to City Hall and fucking told them “I am filing a restraining order against your bylaw officer”. Grand Forks was too small to have another bylaw officer, and the one that they had was part of their inner circle, that effectively meant they could not administrate my family, which meant we were able to fight back against City Hall as if City Hall didn’t have a say.

We never saw them discriminate against my dad’s friend ever again. Beat that, you goddamn hypocrite.

I think you’re a human being, and that not one of the people commenting in this thread seem to care that blanket statements don’t help, so why am I not also entitled to make blanket statements like “humans are stubbornly unaccepting to the point of cruelty”?

Nobody is. If you’re going to call the kettle black, fucking admit you’re the pot. Nobody is doing anything about your fucking situation because nobody can.

You know that, right? Trump didn’t get elected. He stole it, and the reason nobody stopped him is because you let capitalism get to a point that the supposed result that he won seemed plausible. And Russian interference is probably what got him in, because bomb threats to voting stations? Record voting turnout, but lowest participation in recent years? Someone must have taken and destroyed a lot of votes…

But by the time that was known, Trump had already taken office.

You know Germany was a democracy before Hitler took power, not just after, right? Plus, even then they tricked people into supporting them because nobody yet knew the word “Holocaust”.

Nobody supports Trump except a few rich assholes betting the farm on his monstrosity. This problem was inevitable the moment WWII ended, because capitalism without regulation grows like cancer. By now, it doesn’t matter what anyone wants unless you have the money to buy the entire industry behind it.

By that logic, you’re a bastard for thinking democracy is a good system because the US isn’t a good example of a democracy and you live in the US. By that logic, you have to defy all orders instead of question them (because you either obey or defy at all times), which is anarchistic at best. By that logic, capitalism is a good thing because it makes innovation profitable and thus desirable by penalizing stagnancy, which is patently false.

Poor people don’t choose to live in a society where they have no value, why would a good cop be able to choose to be in a society where all cops are perfect? Why would anyone be able to choose to be in a society where they suffer?

This isn’t a policing issue, it’s a cultural issue. This is what anarchocapitalism looks like, the inevitable result of a society brainwashed into thinking socialism and communism are the same thing.

I’ll give you a hint: The US has never been communist, but everything Trump took from you were socialist government systems that actually (barely) helped combat the money bias. Why? Because capitalism has an end goal, industrial feudalism where you are property of a corporation or a wealthy owner. And right now, the US government and it’s police force are even “deporting” white people to El Salvador.

It’s not authoritarian to follow rules that seem to make sense, it’s authoritarian to say the rules make sense if provided with opposing evidence. Some of the rules still make sense here. That is all I’m saying.

Then give me evidence that the cops I’ve met would ignore and lie to defend corrupt cops, and I’ll budge further. Otherwise, you can’t force someone to agree with you, as much as I hate that.

There are better cases, that I agree on.

This is going too far, though. You don’t have to keep hammering like you can force me to do whatever serves your viewpoint above all others. Public conversation is about actually improving things, and I literally can’t drive a car or buy a bus ticket (and for reasons unrelated to money, politics and the topic at hand). If you want change, I have less social pull than you and I can accept being argued against, but I will not be forced to change just because every fucker on the internet has to have everyone else be part of their echo chamber.

All I can say is, would this have ended there in your country? Because it didn’t here. There are consequences to actions here. That is my point when I say it is “different” here. Most crimes get punished by judges fairly and if not then afaik by external investigation teams.

There’s something to know about legal systems. An honest judge will acquit any criminal, no matter how heinous-looking and obviously guilty, if the evidence is gathered by corrupt cops or even with incorrect procedure.

Why is that honest? Because otherwise the criminal hasn’t received due process. You need warrants. You need to ensure evidence isn’t tampered with. And the moment you allow police corruption to take root in plain sight, you as a judge have betrayed justice in ways that a mere criminal or even hardened crime lord will inevitably be unable to. A criminal can commit a crime, but a cop can make law meaningless.

There are bastard cops. That cannot be covered in blanket statements about police protocol. Different places do things differently, and it works with varying degrees of success. I don’t think all American cops are evil, but yes, the vast majority are. I don’t have as much evidence against the RCMP, if you think otherwise because you do have evidence, I won’t stop you from protesting or demanding action. I just have no reason to try because my ability to affect change is less than the average person and I do not have personal experiences that would justify it.

There’s a reason TV isn’t 100% accurate, but I’ll give you a take. Lazy? Sometimes. Also underfunded. We are a country with a land area a little bit bigger than yours (assuming you’re an American) with a population of 10% that of the US. They’re spread very thin, sometimes a crime happens and it’s not serious enough to solve because you’d need DNA evidence and it’s petty theft (or, far worse, something like embezzlement).

Incompetent? Not that I’ve encountered, but I won’t discount it. That can never be discounted, no one is perfect.

Instead I propose their weakness is trust in legislation and especially political leadership. Bill C-11, the internet censorship bill, scares me. I am not stupid enough to think the RCMP couldn’t become an authoritarian nightmare at the behest of a corrupt government or puppet leaders.

Because I don’t live where you live. And no, I’m not rich. I live with my parents and brother, our house is only paid for because my parents are in their 70s and though we have no mortgage, we do have bills and taxes and we pay in a low income tax bracket because we are actually in that bracket instead of fucking lawyer loophole bullshit.

My parent’s house was paid for by selling our old house. They bought their old house 25 years earlier. That house had a 25 year mortgage. I get it, that’s more fortunate than most. That’s why I’m saying “If you weren’t that lucky, I will defend you” and not “just ask for an interest-free million dollar loan”. It’s also far less common in the US to have a paid-for home in a safe neighbourhood.

Danger from police is always possible, I am wary of them. All I know is, I can’t always trust my emotions and all it would take to destroy me is one corrupt cop, so I damn well know that I’m satisfied with the fact that the RCMP don’t get to self-investigate corruption.

I’ve literally been a victim of the mental health system and I still recognize that was doctors and nurses and orderlies that did that to me.

That’s not disputing your point, only providing counterargument with context. Those cops in particular should be fired, and are actually bastards. If there was any corruption by police officers I’ve interacted with, I was not aware at any point. Doesn’t mean this is that surprising, it’s not like reality runs on video game rules that somehow make things fair.

Upvoted because it’s better thought out than anything I can post.