What question are you answering with that?
How do you feel about XYZ?
"it means you're an idiot."
or
Do you XYZ?
"it means you're an idiot."
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Look up Tamir Rice.
I'm well aware of Tamir Rice. You're completely unaware of how statistics work.
Unless you think Tamir Rice is 100% of black children holding things, and no black child has ever held anything before nor will hold anything again? That's your position here?
Rread this article about how the police works internally by an ex-officer. There is nothing that can be done at this point to reform the American police other than a complete do-over.
So your counter to my statement of fact that law enforcement has been reformed over time is some interview with a single guy, and your re-statement of an impossible to prove or disprove position?
M8, are you intentionally wasting both of our time? What are you trying to accomplish by such obvious bad faith tactics?
What did we get from Detroit? Bloated low tech shit boxes that barely make it past warranty.
Don't forget the bailouts:
How do you feel about doctors killing 50-100x as many Americans per year as cops do?
Do you make the same calls to abolish medicine and hospitals?
Context doesn’t bring dead people back to life.
True, but refutes nothing I said.
Reducing higher numbers of dead to a “per capita” statistic is straight up lying to dismiss the pain of communities destroyed by police violence.
I don't think you know what "lying" means.
Unless they’re black and holding something, on which case it becomes 100%.
A straight up lie. See earlier point about ridiculous arguments.
You cannot reform the police.
You definitely can. Virtually all societies have improved their police over the short and long term.
If you heard what they say about civilians in a daily basis you’d be demanding all of their heads on pikes like everyone who wants ICE to be abolished and every agent trialed for crimes against humanity.
No I wouldn't. I generally do not call for the execution of assholes, let alone displaying their corpses to out-do them on cruelty.
When we're trying to do an Apples to Apples comparison, implying cops are more deadly than mass shooters, context is important.
Put a kid in front of a mass shooter, they'll shoot them.
Put a kid in front of a cop, they'll shoot them 0.00001% of the time (citation needed, feel free to do the math on total police encounters vs. shootings of children).
That's bad, but to state or imply that they're even close to as bad is ridiculous and makes people interested in police reform look ridiculous.
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I'm guessing there's just so much money (and power) in that kind of thing that it's simply here to stay.
Sadly not relevant to my specific post, but I appreciate you spreading the word.
I think making a personal community, throwing it at lemmy-federate, and then posting it there really works best in this case.
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I guess I have some homework to
endlessly procrastinatedo.I reserve the right to feel guilty, embarrassed, sad, etc. for inappropriate reasons in much the same way I reserve the right to feel positive emotions for similarly nonsensical reasons, but I appreciate the logic of it and you for dispensing it.
Thank you.
In their defense, a feature that's not known by everyone isn't really the fault of the people who don't know about it.
Thanks to you, now they and I know about it.
Unrelated but is there a way to convert someone else's instance+community link to your own?
Obviously not faulting you for this, but when I click on your link I get taken to lemmy.zip, where I do not have an account so I cannot participate. I spent some time manually searching for that community on my own instance, which of course is a bit annoying for newbies and I would think there is a way around that I haven't found yet.
Until now I honestly thought I'd have to host an Instance to create a Community, for some reason. Now I'm a bit embarrassed.
Thank you.
Edit for visibility:
This answer is the direction I chose to go in, mainly for simplicity's sake.
If the fediverse gods are watching, it might be worth considering automatically making communities associated with people's usernames. Maybe reserved automatically, but invisible unless you opt-in? That way nobody can create harassment communities targeting your username on your home instance. Just a thought.
Seems like a good community
but sadly doesn't fit my use-case for reasons I haven't yet stated.Thank you for the referral
, though.After poking around it does actually seem relevant, though it's always against my nature to try to grab someone else's limelight.
Yes, but definitely not proper form, as my left hand rests on WASD+CTRL/Shift+Space.
I'm around 100 wpm, so maybe it doesn't matter.
While I completely understand people who can't get to 100 wpm (much like people at 110+ completely understand me), I cannot fathom young adults who cannot touch-type (barring disability, obviously).
I don't think I insulted your intelligence other than to imply you are not omniscient, and I immediately acknowledged I'm in a similar boat, just not in this very specific topic.
If implying you're not perfect is an insult, sure, you're welcome to throw in the towel and put that wall up by pretending I'm arguing in bad faith. Ironically, that actually does diminish your intelligence - actively fighting the opportunity to learn.
’ll bet my left nut that if we both tested our English skills, I’d have a larger vocabulary and better syntax. More than ten years ago I surpassed the average native speaker in vocabulary size.
Real talk? I don't care. Good on you if you're right, but I'm almost certain you're wrong. I do understand why you made your assumption based on the average internet user, though. Literacy rates are dropping in the US and it's equally embarrassing and dangerous.
My point by pointing out your terrible writing was that if you're going to argue in such bad faith, you should at least put some effort into it. Put some pants on before you go scream at your neighbors that their grass is giving you migraines. By pointing out your penis was exposed, I'm not actually upset that I saw a penis, I just was hoping it'd embarrass you enough to shut up and go away.
No, you’re just a dummy.
Seeing this part and glancing at your many more paragraphs finally gave me the kick in the head that I needed to make me realize what a colossal waste of time talking to you is. Congratulations, you're about to be the first person I've ever blocked on Lemmy.
... that said, before I hit the block button, I did notice this bit which tempted me to respond because it's an all too common trope that I'd happily enter an in-depth discussion with you about my lived experience counter-anecdote if you weren't such a prick:
There are laws in place which allow cops — just like soldiers, to not do what they’re commanded to do. They’re called “illegal orders”.
There are also laws that prevent Donald Trump from serving a second term. Does that comfort you, resting assured in the knowledge that your logic means he must not be President again? Definitely doesn't comfort me; I'd prefer to live in reality and advocate for his removal. Backing away from my metaphor, I promise you there are cops who have been fired for failing to follow illegal orders, you just didn't know about any of them because you never bothered to put in any effort to find out they exist. Ironically for the cause you pretend to care about enough to virtue signal on the internet, that pressures more cops to follow illegal orders (because they know they're completely screwed if they do the right thing). I would know, I sit in the former camp and know many who sit in the latter. Enjoy the illusion, though!
People rushing to log into their alts to declare anyone who participates in their secretly favorite communities is a degenerate so that whoever they think monitors their primary account might discover they are A Very Good Person:
I haven't heard a single person call for doctors to be abolished, despite them being 50-100x more deadly, and yes, despite them being just as bigoted as cops, as you rightfully point out.