• Soup@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    They’ve already mutilated a few people. Besides, if your police are the type to pop off a few murders that should be even more reason to get mad.

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      4 hours ago

      The USA had the largest sustained series of protests in human history in 2020 about specifically this issue and vanishingly little was accomplished in terms of actual police reform/laws changed.

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      15 hours ago

      . Besides, if your police are the type to pop off a few murders that should be even more reason to get mad.

      “If your cops are trigger happy go stand in front of their guns.”

      Sounds like shit advice to me.

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          13 hours ago

          It’s easy to say what people should do when it doesn’t involve you, but I guarantee that if you were in our shoes you wouldn’t do shit.

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            10 hours ago

            Right? Let’s stand up, to our militarized, brutal police. Remember? They buy from military liquidation.

            Also, because we don’t have universal healthcare, it’s individuals against individuals with a hope of insurance. In the USA, you get hurt, show up in the ER… The nurses are chummy with the police and firemen so you’re right into their crosshairs.

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              9 hours ago

              Non-Americans don’t get it and they never will because they refuse to understand. They’d rather bitch at us and pretend they’re superior.

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            13 hours ago

            I am not telling anyone what to do. I am just a bit perplexed that the main selling point for the liberal gun politics in the US always was to enable citizens to protect themself against an eventual tyrannical regime.

            And now you are saying US Americans can’t protest like the French because US policemen use guns.

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              13 hours ago

              I live in fucking Missouri. What do you expect me to do? Do you think every gun owner is Rambo?

              We have been protesting, you just think that because the media hasn’t reported on it that it doesn’t happen.

              It seems to me that you haven’t put any thought at all into it. So, please, shut the fuck up and mind your own yard.

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                12 hours ago

                I think you are overreacting. As I said I was just pointing out the irony. I don’t excpect you to do anything.

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                  12 hours ago

                  No, you just wanted to shut talk without having anyone call you out for your ignorant bullshit.