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If the police were as inaccurate and as weak willed as Trubisky, we wouldn't be having this conversation
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I have been stopped by cops in Germany and found them to be polite. So yeah anecdotes are not particularly informative
Germany has generally been a bit tougher on rooting out bad cops and better at training.
In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy Is Essential Part of Police Training (Published 2020)
In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform everywhere.
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Thumbs up for getting Trubisky into a conversation about authoritarianism and police brutality. Well done.
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No idea but I suspect it is low. It certainly wasnt warranted in my case where I had a gun pulled on me because I was "living black in a white neighborhood."
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Well yeah I've been stopped by cops in America and found them to be polite. Same goes for cops from Johannesburg Metro, Albania, Singapore...I've never had a problem with any police in any part of the world. I'm just telling you that if you act out in these places (well not Jozi since they just don't give a fuck) that retribution from law enforcement is swift and violent. Way more so than America.I have been stopped by cops in Germany and found them to be polite. So yeah anecdotes are not particularly informative
Germany has generally been a bit tougher on rooting out bad cops and better at training.
In Germany, Confronting Shameful Legacy Is Essential Part of Police Training (Published 2020)
In the postwar era, Germany fundamentally redesigned law enforcement to prevent past atrocities from ever repeating. Its approach may hold lessons for police reform everywhere.www.google.com
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Why do you despise Stephen A?
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I dont doubt it. It wasnt warranted when i was robbed at gunpoint for a half a pack of cigs and 37 dollars by a black guy. Doesnt make all black guys bad. Beaten by a cop but doesnt make all cops bad. Attacked by a Mexican guy with a knife and beaten with a tire iron by three other Mexicans. But not all Mexicans are bad. The only exception was being attacked by a white crackhead with a knife. All crackheads are bad.
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Ive also had guns drawn on me by the police. A few times. And im white. Although it never bothered me, i knew i was kinda a punk back then.
Happened again a few years ago up in the mountains of Idaho. Right in front of my daughter.
That was because i slapped the piss out of 2 guys who came into my camp trying to take a chainsaw from my buddy. Turns out it was actually their chainsaw and i was WAY out of line,
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This is correct. George Orwell was a democratic socialist, but he was obviously very much against the Soviet Union and authoritarian socialism.
You're also right about the definition of social-democrats. Now, what are the issues that you have with a social democracy? A social democracy is still a Capitalist economy.
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At any point during this post did you consider the fact that you're using the same standards to judge police and street criminals? Shortly after explaining that an extra-judicial beating you received from police was probably a good thing.
And we wonder why we have a policing problem.
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Met him a couple of times. Dudes an ass
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I have to admit I find him entertaining. But I haven't met him irl.
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Really? Do you mind sharing what these interactions were like?
I see him as a bit of a dope but he is funny/entertaining.
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Just pointing out that people are people. There are good and bad regardless of profession.
Cops obviously should be better than that. But they are people, they have tempers, it shouldnt happen but it does.
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Just got tired of reading the usual poor generalizations of some posters on here.
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I've known you through like a decade of posts but somehow since Montucky arrived under a year ago I feel like I've been dead wrong about you this entire time. It's been a gut punch.
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Sure. As you might know I work for delta and they have private Porsches that take obviously celebs and 360 members to their flights to avoid public eye. My first time working in that department I met multiple celebs, The Rock, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry (yes she is fine af @remydat ) and others but Stephen A was my last assignment. He is going to LA and his car is prepared for him. I get out the car to greet him and before I can even utter a word, he says “ Just take me to my fucking flight, I don’t want to speak to you”. Lol so that’s what I did. Maybe despise is too strong of a word and maybe the guy just hates flying but yeah isn’t the nicest
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I think @Montucky should give a synopsis of each regular poster we interact with, so that we might know each other (in a non-Biblical, non-troonery sense, of course).
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