That’s a weird take. Why do you think anyone becomes a terrorist? It’s usually not because they had a normal upbringing.

Nice username thats gonna be worth big money some day

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You keep changing the goalposts on me. First of all, doctors DO have a long history of racism. Just look up racism in medicine, there are plenty of examples, including teaching for a long time in medical textbooks that black people don’t feel pain as acutely as white people. Then there’s also the whole euthanasia thing. In my home state of North Carolina, for decades doctors involuntarily sterilized black (usually homeless) patients. There was a big settlement a few years back.

To this day, black women are way more likely to die in childbirth. The reasons for for that are complicated but it has been suggested that racism is a factor (not taking the complaints and concerns of the women seriously).

I think the medical field has largely cleaned up their act, but they didn’t get there by being told that All Doctors are Bastards. They got there by the long, slow, unsexy process of reform.

I am all for police reform. But saying “all cops are bastards” is no more truthful than saying “all doctors are bastards” a century ago.

No not really, but you can do both. Ranked choice voting has already been enacted in several places in the US and they didn’t get there by electing third- party majorities

https://www.rcvresources.org/where-is-rcv-used

The trick is to support ranked-choice voting in the meantime

You didn’t say anything about civilians. And besides, police officers can only use lethal force in either self defense or to protect others. In fact, that’s the same standard for “lawful homicide” as literally anyone else.

Replace cops with “doctors” or “engineers” or literally anything- why do people only make this argument with cops?

Soldiers.

But anyways, i think it’s just as reprehensible for, as an example, an engineer to not report his coworker cutting corners on an infrastructure project that could jeopardize an entire community (maybe he wanted to meet a deadline to make himself look good, maybe he took money under the table from an interested party) as for a cop to not report his coworker who took a bribe from a drug dealer. In both cases, the bystander has equal ability to intervene and potentially save lives. The fact that the police officer has the right to use force as part of their job description isn’t really relevant.

There is nothing inherently immoral about being a police officer though (as opposed to being a Nazi). Everyone but anarchists understands the need for police officers/“Violence of the state” in some capacity.

Haha welcome to Lemmy m8. I’ve gotten into this exact argument before. I’m all for police reform and I was out there in the George Floyd protests but the hatred of police officers on this platform is absolutely rabid.

Imo, the argument that ACAB because the good ones don’t stop the bad ones can be applied to virtually any group of people. So we’re all bastards I guess.

A lot of people don’t know that Abraham Lincoln was a big proponent of prohibition. It was seen by progressives as an important step to move society forward.

Yes and so was Harris. I mean, prior to selecting Harris, Biden literally said he wanted a woman of color as his VP. If harris picks a white man as a running mate, that will likely be a diversity hire as well (although hopefully she doesn’t say she wants a white man as a running mate out loud so she at least has plausible deniability).

I’m not saying she’s unqualified, her credentials are plenty good enough for the job and much better than Trump or Vance. Its also not necessarily a bad thing to intentionally pick a running mate with a different upbringing than you, so you get exposed to different world views. But it’s not racist to say she’s a diversity hire when Biden literally said as much.

Well it wasn’t an ordinary supper it was passover, wasn’t it? Idk I never went to church

Huh? Butterflies pop up in the spring and will stick around until fall. Where did you see that they are only (or primarily) around in October to November? That seems really late, I don’t think butterflies can survive frost.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/p1m2bc/who_are_adjust_the_mobile_marketing_vendor_used/

Whatever it is, it’s been around for at least 3 years.

Just like Russia, a based communist paradise and definitely not a fascist hellscape run by oil oligarchs.

That’s kind of a weird take. Centrists have not always done that (otherwise society would get steadily more conservative century after century) so you can’t just wave it away as meaningless. Instead I think liberals need to look at what is driving away centrists. (it’s immigration)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Rule34LoL/comments/1devqp2/immortalized_ahri_bobartnsfw/

There you go it’s like the top post of the month haha (NSFW obviously) (yeah its reddit sorry)

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