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- colin_s0
most on this forum seem to be some version of centrist/liberal, with a few on either side of the extreme (myself included), so i'd like to ask:
who that may be a moderate is against abolishing the police in the USA and why?
if there were proposals to replace a police department with, say, four or five immediate-response services (an expanded EMT service with different units for mental health, domestic, houseless or automotive incidents) that would have unarmed, trained professionals... would that sway?
obviously there could be a standard detective force for solving crimes, and an emergency armed unit for incidents like a mass shooting (so, a swat team that acts more like a fire department), but no more police.
i guess i don't understand if it's fear or a lack of imagination that is the issue at this point. or perhaps that cops have become so ingrained in american culture it's impossible to get people to realize not only their lack of necessity but the fact they impede social progress at almost every turn.
- it's just so easy to imagine a time in the future where they look back at us as so uncivilized because of copscolin_s
- most on this forum seem to be flat-brained pisswater reactionaries who think minority representation and struggle is amusing and something to be mocked.face_melter
- Personally I don't think the proposal does much without first revising the rights around firearms ownership and addressing wages/poverty.ben_
- ftr I agree with restructuring emerg response based on pillars of social need. I just don't think it can happen before the other two are anchored.ben_
- Aye, face_melter - because bearded non-binary emoji really make a huge difference in the world. Get over yourself.Nairn
- But maybe they do to the people who identify that way? I mean... we're *mostly* grown men here, what the fuck are you doing using emojis?ben_
- Like most other low grade corporate effort, it's not even a lick of paint on the situation, rather a distracting elastoplast for virtuous chest thumpers.Nairn
- You're right from that angle, Nairn. But the comments on that post were uniquely anti-representation and just sounded like bitter old men. Get a Jitterbug.ben_
- simpler times can be found here: https://www.fastemoj…ben_
- t(-.-t).ben_
- Meh, I prefer the world where bitter old men whinge about EVERYTHING, including their own shit. tbh, I found those emoji overly reductive and q. insultingNairn
- so I'm not really sure how the 0.01% of people they're supposed to 'include' would much benefit. Whatever though, we can agree - emoji are cretinous.Nairn
- yeah if you're an adult and you use emojis, you're cut. If you're not and you see yourself represented by emoji's, more power to you.ben_
- if you thought my line was purely about the emojis then you're oblivious to what I meant. the world would be a better place with less old men whining.face_melter
- especially about things they have no idea or experience with. because i'm sure bitter QBN men have been threatened in the street or forced to changed jobs...face_melter
- ...because of how they represent themselves. so don't tell me to get over myself when I see a prick make another '...I identify as...' 'joke'.face_melter
- The funny thing is, for some of the QBNers you've attacked, I know that life wasn't as black and white as you're simplifying, like you've got a clueNairn
- Most cunts in life that I see getting aggrieved about third party issues are the ones that haven't had too much to deal with in their own experience.Nairn
- So no, it wasn't just about the emoji.Nairn
- thank heavens you are back face_melterfadein11
- anyone seen serenity? point of trying to make people better. as long as peopel there will need to be policedeathboy
- so the whole idea is stupi. hell we are no different than we were 10,000 years ago. jsut know a alittle more and carried byt the 1%deathboy