• vivadanang@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Biden openly backing militaristic policing,

    bwahahaha what the actual fuck is this shit supposed to mean? honestly, citations, now, otherwise gonna relegate you to the pile of hyperbolic shitposters where you belong

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      1 year ago

      Mr or Ms FlashMob provided a fine citation, which I’ll reprovide.

      Mr Biden is not Donald Trump, which is why millions of us voted for him, but he’s completely pro-police.

      • vivadanang@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        That article is not support for your premise. If anything, it’s milquetoast bullshit. Nothing which supports Openly Militaristic Policing. First off, we can totally support the idea of better trained cops. Shit trained cops is 90% of the fucking problem. If cops can’t make it through rigorous training they shouldn’t wear the badge. Perhaps better trained police will step in when their mates decide to murder people more often.

        The defund the police crowd painted themselves into a corner and now want to drag the Dems into it with them. Dems as a whole didn’t sign up for that shit; vague, nebulous war cries with no actionable objectives are the fucking problem, and you’ll never convince people that law enforcement is completely unnecessary. I even believe we could do away with a substantial portion of law enforcement if we’d fund mental health and rebuild sanitariums, but then you’re just returning to institutionalization as a ‘fix’ when it’s actually just imprisoning the mentally afflicted.

        And here were are, once gain, explaining: there aren’t easy answers, and there are few right answers, but holy fuck are there a lot of wrong answers out there people just love to latch on to.