No ‘reapeat offense’ needed, once is enough. They were warned against such behavior when they were authorized to perform the duties of their office.
They should know better, and face consequences per instance, and summary dismissal without benefits after several offenses.
ACAB, and should face legal consequences for it until it’s no longer true.
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I heard police departments being shuttered and reformed as higher quality community services is far from unheard of.
Seems we need to put clear and functional systems in place to streamline to process of identifying and terminating corrupt agents within our society.
I mean, it’s not like shuttering libraries or schools or firehouses due to corruption is even a thing. It their operators or employees are acting against social norms they are generally just terminated and replaced, no fuss.
Why is a cop allowed to commit crimes against their community but a librarian isn’t?
That doesn’t funnel as much poor taxpayer money to the already rich elite. This is money laundering in muddy water.
Didn’t some ancient calendar end in 2012?
To effectively combat fascist one must first identify them, then take away their boots before they can even get their socks on.
This isn’t checkers.
You want my king, you come get my king.
… And keeping them in a state where they are easily manipulated.
I joined the fediverse and blocked all meme and shitpost feeds, so maybe take that everyone out of your goddamn mouth!
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They call it a representative republic.
Democracy has never been tried at a scale the size of the US. But I’d argue that it was the end goal on many who penned the US constitution, that it’s well past the point where it could have been reached, and that over and again it’s been held back by fools.
It’s interesting. It was pretty clear to me as a child, years ago, that this nation was fucked.
It had, and has, potential, but is driving in the wrong direction, with blinders on.
But I think it’s a perspective thing.
Some people just don’t see it, cause they are doing fine in their fishbowls.
Others have a twisted perspective and can’t tell what’s real and what’s not–even confuse what’s right in front of them, or biting them in the ass.
There are people that see it, sure. And people who fight against it. But it’s a lot and they are few. So even with huge wins here or there the overall trajectory remains the same.
It’s like the doomsday clock: it’s 5 second to midnight, maybe tomorrow it’ll move back to 10 seconds, but it’s unlikely to ever move back a minute, or an hour, or a day.
And I’m an optimist.
Look deeper. There have been underground resistance groups that have formed and taken action using new tech to organize and communicate.
With those tools and groups in place, and with their practice using them to organize group action, they are in a key position to lead more overt resistance operations going forwards… As well as provide guidance and support to other groups that form in other areas as they naturally will.
A similar get up to the underground railroads and zines of years past, that, in those days, provided platforms for organization, expansion, and brought up the historical resistance leaders we can still read about today.
Those leaders and actions don’t just pop up and happen spontaneously, even though it may appear that way when you only read about them and the outcome of those events in history classes.
There’s a whole process to the buildup that has often taken years, sometimes decades, but can now occur much quicker due to our modern resources.
When, or if, a time comes when the scales tip and people turn to more overt action, the systems needed to ensure they are noteworthy will already be in place, I assure you.
There’s no need to rush it ATM.
Haste makes waste, as they say.
But there’s always a breaking point, and we vary well may hit it.
No, we want the view count there to go up.
It sends an important message about censorship.
If you hate ads, and you see them there, use an ad blocker or alternative YouTube app like Revanced.
Not sure what this article says, but I read statistics show most Colbert shows get about 2.5mil views when initially aired.
Even his most viewed, like with Taylor Swift tend to be pretty low.
They do get streamed online after, and copied and shared in ways that likely are not tracked officially.
This video almost immediately matched those aired show views, and continues to climb.
It’s at 8.4mil currently.
So bribery. Maine residents are okay with immoral national politics, as long as they get their kickbacks for making it happen.
I’m thinking concessions for being the deciding vote should not be a thing.
So the real leftist plan isn’t being played out in politics, it’s being played out in business.
Join a co-op or credit union today.
Support local and sustainable businesses.
Support non-profits.
If you can, buy a for-profit and convert it to a non-profit or a non-profit co-op.
Most of the people at the top on the left don’t have the drive or the power to enact real meaningful change in our lives, but voting left when you can is still the right thing to do politically. It at least makes it harder for the far right to gain yet more ground.
Like cancer, you can’t just ask it nicely to stop killing you, you have to cut it all out.
But unlike cancer in a human body, we can also escape this cancers influence by simply building a separate cancer free body.
Technically we can do both, and hedge out bets a bit, but one is much easier to do than the other.
Well, it’s technically true. Pedophilia, attraction to children (prepubescent youths), is generally best addressed with acknowledgement, treatment, and management.
Sexual assault, and rape, and predator practices are the crimes identified pedophiles are typically found participating in if their attraction to kids isn’t addressed appropriately beforehand.
Ya’ll don’t really think being attracted to kids is a crime itself do you? Or that there aren’t thousands, or tens of thousands, of people out there that are attracted to kids and just don’t act on it, or haven’t been identified?
Pedophilia, though specific in nature, is a similar subject to mental health in general, in how it’s treated by society. As it becomes more acceptable to admit to having mental health conditions, the instances of those conditions leading to dire circumstances dimishes.
Be more proactive, and less reactive.
Note: though it should be clear enough, I do want to specifically state that this message in no way promotes or supports criminal actions taken towards children or knowingly disregarding such actions if the assailants are rich, or any other such nonsense.
Like being tall, or black, or gay, being a pedophile is a state of being, not an action, and people should not be attacked for their state of being, full stop. Crimes they commit are another matter entirely.