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Yes. Those who voluntarily put themselves in positions to do violence on behalf of others in the service of a formal system of justice make it possible for the vast majority of the rest of us to carry on peacefully in a civil society. As flawed as the system is, it brings far more peace and justice to common experience than the alternative. Police are the stitches holding together the fabric of society.
Individuals who bring dishonor to the institution are few and far between.
Even you can't be that stupid. There's this new thing called nuance, ever heard of it? All the kids are doing it (actually their really not but that's beside the point).
No. The police are the armed thugs of the criminal cartel known as the government. Of course, there are "good cops" who do good things but there are just as many cops who spend there whole career either dolling out speeding tickets or busting people for harmless marijuana, or even worse ones who use their authority to get away with seriously bad behaviour like unwarranted shooting and helping the government bitch slap people for not being sheep.
Homicides and suicides alike are rarely "caused" by any single factor. Many separate factors combine to produce these outcomes, sometimes spread apart by years or even decades.
What is known however, is that firearms make both homicides and suicides considerably easier to achieve from a practical perspective.
Violence exists, whether or not you wish it to be true. It is one of those things that you do not have to speak, for it to talk to you--in fact, the less fluent you are in the language, the more likely it is to be spoken to you.
Violence exists, whether or not you wish it to be true
Will you please just stop, you gigantically deranged twit? I didn't say violence does not exist. I tried to make idiots like you understand that we should not facilitate it. You seriously are intellectually incapable of genuine criticism, aren't you? You must always change what a person says before attacking it.
The police are not armed here. We have dedicated firearms units for special duties but the vast majority of police are not armed (with guns). They don't need to be armed because we don't run a society where we sell guns to idiots.
I tell you what buddy. Since you are so intimately fond of dictating to other people what they think, feel, like, realise and believe, how about you just write all my posts for me from now on? I mean, I wouldn't want to make a mistake and write something I'm not thinking. That would be terrible.
I didn't cite him, no. I posted a video of one of his speeches so people can amuse themselves at the similarities between his speech and your writing.
You said that’s what Nazis do.
Ah, but not only Nazis do it, right? More than Nazis quote Nazis.
You see, you can't hide the fact that you are a liar because you aren't clever enough. You stumble around contradicting your own arguments all the time.
I love when we get to this part. It’s the part where you make claims that are clearly untrue within the very thread you claim them. You’re not even good at this.
I do attack Marxists more than Nazis. That’s because the Nazis are all but dead, while the Marxists are a threat in full force.
I attack all collectivist ideologies. Identity/Marxist politics are in full effect, and in need of being attacked. On the other hand, the rampaging racism of the Nazis is fully denounced by nearly all. That’s why it is such a popular ad hominem against anyone who won’t goose step to the Marxist drum.
You do attack Marxists. You don't attack Nazis. You just try to distance yourself from them. They are bad publicity for your far right wingnuttery I guess, huh?
That’s because the Nazis are all but dead
Strange then, that many Holocaust survivors believe Nazism has been resurrected in the very people you support and lie for on a daily basis. It is amusing really, your plan to rebrand yourselves as something else to avoid revealing to the world exactly what you are, since this was exactly Hitler's plan too!
Are you that dense?--or, just that dishonest? You actually think anyone has to go out of their way to actively denounce Nazism on a regular basis in the 21st century?
Well, you will never hear him denounce it because he is secretly a supporter. I can't think of any other sensible reason why he has failed to speak out against it--he has had plenty of time.
you’re likely nom the commie, which makes you more accepting of Nazi-ike tyranny than I
My goodness Amarel, you really are such a dishonest little twit.
You have two problems here, buddy. Firstly, the Nazis were on the far right, which is a position on the political spectrum shared with yourself. Secondly, the Commies were on the far left. The Commies were the sworn enemies of the Nazis because they are essentially complete political opposites of one another.
Funnily enough however, another trait shared between yourself and the Nazis is that you both like to lie as frequently as possible. Moreover, you both like to lie as spectacularly as possible. Hence, whatever the truth might be in any given conversation, it is generally a given that you will be trying to turn it backwards, such as for example insisting that Communists (millions of whom were executed by Hitler) are the same thing as Nazis, while actual Nazis are in fact much different than Nazis.
Street gangs are often sworn enemies of other gangs, and no less criminal. Such is the case with commies and Nazis. I hold them as equals in my contempt.
Street gangs are often sworn enemies of other gangs, and no less criminal.
I see. Street gangs and political ideologies are the same thing? That's very interesting. The problem for your false analogy is that street gangs all follow the same hierarchical gang ideology, which is what makes them gangs in the first place. Indeed, perhaps the best way to illustrate your false analogy is to reverse it.
Different factions of Christianity are often sworn enemies of each other. Therefore Muslims and Christians are the same thing.
Yes, I am afraid they do. All gangs are hierarchies. That's the way gangs work buddy. They all have a leader or leaders. Communism, on the other hand, is a system predicated on the total eradication of hierarchy.
Just as just as all Nazis and commies are tyrannical.
Right buddy. A system predicated on the eradication of tyrants is tyrannical. That's definitely not your usual trick of turning the truth upside down or anything like that. Heavens no.
A system predicated on the eradication of tyrants is tyrannical.
How do we make this anusol drinker understand? We could tell him that the whole idea of communism is the elimination of systemic class hierarchy but he won't believe us. I guess he's just too much of a burrito fucking baboon to get it.
How do we make this anusol drinker understand? We could tell him that the whole idea of communism is the elimination of systemic class hierarchy but he won't believe us
I don't think in his case it is a question of convincing him because his distortions of language and reason leave little room for doubt that he is not interested in truth. He just wants to persuade the world to continue allowing him and the people like him to rape it.
Criminal gangs all share highly similar ideologies. Number one, they all have a belief in hierarchical power structures. Number two, they all have a belief in criminality. Number three, they all have a belief in violence. And number four, they all have a hatred for the law.
Rival gangs prove only that different factions of the same fundamental belief system can oppose one another (such as different factions of the Nazi Party). In order to make the analogy accurate by comparing opposing belief systems (such as Nazism and Communism), one must compare gangs to police officers, not other gangs.
Street gangs are often sworn enemies of other gangs, and no less criminal. Such is the case with commies and Nazis. I hold them as equals in my contempt.
No I'm not. Your entire posting history proves that you hate equality just like me. You want to have a capitalist market where everyone is in a different economic class based on how many moneys they have.
Your entire posting history proves that you hate equality
Quote me nom, or move on. My posting history is consistently against racism and all forms of collectivist value systems. Including both Nazism and communism, which are two sides of the same tyrannical coin.
Interesting. It seems like you are perhaps unaware that the United States has the highest number of prisoners in the entire world. It houses nearly a full quarter of all the prisoners on the planet.
True. It’s good that the vast vast majority of legal gun owners are neither homocidal or suicidal.
Yeah, it's good that the vast majority of legal nuclear weapon owners are neither homicidal or suicidal either. We should just chance it and give them out to everybody, right?
