I just made arrangements yesterday with my first college girlfriend (who is happily married x30 years) to drive me to and from cataract surgery at the end of this month.
Still loves Mattis and everything that he’s about and that Trump only just needs to keep his mouth shut and stay off Twitter. Failed to recognize that Mattis was critizing Trump for his policies, not just his language. The mental gymnastics was too much for me to handle.
Also, didn’t you check your 401k today? It’s only down a tiny bit from earlier this year. And also don’t you know that not even close to 1% of cops are bad at their job. “My only concern when I vote is for my money”.
I watched this thanks. I learned a few things. I don’t think it makes a compelling argument for literally not having police. It does make a good case for dramatically reducing their power and scope of inquiry and replacing it with metal health and social work professionals.
One thing I have been thinking about without really being able to fully come to a conclusion is whether or not peaceful protest is actually better than what we saw last weekend.
I want the answer to be peaceful protest is better but I wonder if it just makes it easier for people to ignore. You even see it in this thread where the posting is something entirely different than what it was last weekend. Last weekend we were all riveted to the scenes. This weekend there have hardly been any posts about the protests.
It makes me wonder. If we are actually wanting to accomplish something is this really the way to do it? And to be clear I am not necessarily talking about burning cities down so much as do something to meaningfully inconvenience the powers that be and their supporters. These protests have been moving to me. The couple hours I spent doing it here was moving to me. But at some point the millions protesting want large scale change. I am struggling to see how this accomplishes that.
Reposting @Danspartans post in the Trump thread of the pilly protests. Hoping to get this thread back on track and about the protests and police brutality
@moderators can we move whatever cuse and JT are talking about to a separate thread? This thread has been really useful as a news aggregator and it’s getting swamped.