captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 8 hours ago:
It’s cool lol, this was one of my half lunch break rambles. And I totally get the anxiety lol
But yeah the fact is that if cops want to be liked and safe they need to make it easy and beneficial to comply and to follow the rules. As it stands if they decide you’re a bad person who’s committed a bad crime they’ll ruin your fucking life if not end it. So if they can’t catch the people who commit violent crimes against people like me or even bother to pretend to try, but they can decide to kill someone for running away from them despite none of the accused crimes being potentially capital offenses, then what are they for. If they can ruin your life on a hunch then the only thing stopping people from being violent towards them is that most people aren’t violent unless pressed.
I can see ways forward for American policing, but they all require the police to display a humility, vulnerability, accountability, and restraint that I’ve never seen from them. It will require them to learn the law, follow it, and accept punishment when they break it. It will require them to embrace a duty to protect all people in their jurisdiction, including both the accused and convicted. It will require them to see their job as impartial collection of evidence for the only entity that has the right to determine guilt: a jury consisting of the peers of the accused. It will require them to argue for evidence based legislation and justice that seeks to minimize harm to both victims and the convicted. And it’s going to require them to be ok with the dangers inherent to their profession where not accepting those dangers puts the rest of us in danger, because that’s what everyone else in a dangerous job does. And it’ll also require them to have mandatory therapy where the therapists can put them on paperwork duty because that’s obviously something they need, we shouldn’t have traumatized gunmen with a license to kill for a police force, but currently we’re preloading them with trauma responses as training and probably barring them from therapy because that’s how we handle mental health in this country.
Sigh, i just want this world to be better and I understand that it’s not easy. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible or not worth trying.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 11 hours ago:
Exactly, the cops will pull out all the stops to convince you that the accused are criminals and the media happily plays along. Luigi Mangionie has no conviction and as an American is therefore innocent for the time being. The cops don’t want you thinking of this as them parading an innocent man like that. They routinely violate and abuse the accused, and in cases like this they’re trying to ensure that the public, potential jurors, go in with the assumption that he’s the individual who killed Brian Thompson. They treat not guilty verdicts as “criminals going free” rather than “innocence being decided” and they treat jurisprudence as a hindrance to justice rather than a foundation of it.
The cops believe all they see to be guilty by virtue of falling under their gaze. And they get angry you don’t celebrate them for it.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 11 hours ago:
I really don’t understand why cops think we should like them. Like they treat the accused like shit, even when not guilty, they’re just awful to the victims, and half the time you see them they’re on a power trip.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 12 hours ago:
I hate that not only do I believe you I’m not even surprised.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 13 hours ago:
Yeah, the thing that’s shocked me is how my most capitalist liberal friends are in agreement he did nothing wrong. Like some of them are even agreeing when I use the phrase “class warfare”
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 13 hours ago:
I can’t imagine having so few beliefs as to change sides between the two parties in a two party system in order to be on rhe winning team.
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 13 hours ago:
Yes, but the charges should fit the crime not be selected to ensure the desired outcome
- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 1 day ago:
Hell yeah. We’ve got what are basically cannabis altoids
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 2 days ago:
Don’t bother telling her that Islam considers learning to be a religious duty
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 2 days ago:
It’s a shame that politics have gotten us old women with sniper rifles in the most ugh way possible. Come on we could have grandma shooting ceos, but instead it’s a upper middle class woman vice signaling her love of violent solutions ro problems that need thinking
- Comment on Anon makes weed eggs 2 days ago:
$20 to get my wife and I high with nice breath (mints) every weekend for a few months. Mind you I do love my dry herb vape for fine tuning my high but yeah it’s so affordable
- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 4 days ago:
The disparity in toilets in that country is insane. You have ones with full remote controls on the seat in some places then others that are squat holes that flush
- Comment on chatgpt remembers 5 days ago:
Nowhere but oakwood would have that kind of affluenza except maybe springboro (at least within the Dayton area)
- Comment on chatgpt remembers 5 days ago:
Fun fact, in his hometown of Dayton he’s banned from most bars
- Comment on Happy birthday, peon 6 days ago:
I have pto
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 6 days ago:
The first step will be for more and more of tech management to actually confront their misogyny. And not just the obvious stuff like this, but also subtle stuff like how women’s professional performances are often seen as worse when not blinded.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 6 days ago:
Yeah, as a married lesbian linux user the joke is gross and reminds me why so often tech related spaces are so male dominated
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 6 days ago:
looks at comment section yep you’re right, ew
- Comment on The gods are with Anon 1 week ago:
Welcome to modern paganism. Next he’s going to realize that community celebrations at significant points of the year like solstices and planting and harvesting time are really good for your mind.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Yeah our wait times are like your free ones, but with higher prices than your paid ones
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Oh veterans are fucked here too. Imagine the nhs but worse, now imagine you had to join the us military to get it
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 1 week ago:
When I was 23 I spent multiple weekends driving to a different city to talk to older women (60s) about their lives and shared community
- Comment on $1K a month is a good deal 1 week ago:
That’s after employer contributions too. But if we had universal Healthcare we could quit our jobs when we’re abused
- Comment on Itch drama is getting real 1 week ago:
It is weird to imagine a world in which glasnost kept the union together and we have active .su domains around. I imagine they’d be less suspicious than .ru in our timeline but not a lot less
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
Yeah I live in a populous red state and was forced to join a union for a job. It was as bad as how they forced me to wear hearing protection and steel toe shoes on the factory floor. Watch out or you may be forced to do such things as well
- Comment on As a human, here is my human take on unions 1 week ago:
In the US standard is 2.5 hrs/month. I can’t say for certain I made that back cash, but by the time benefits and job security were added i more than made it up
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 1 week ago:
Nobody chooses the circumstances of their birth
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 1 week ago:
It’s ok I wouldn’t want to admit it if my family reunion turned into an orgy either
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 1 week ago:
Yeah, genetically don’t make a habit of it, but you’re probably fine (unless your grandparents are identical twins or has hapsburgs or something), but also I’d be super uncomfortable if it was my kid
- Comment on Anon meets a girl at a wedding 1 week ago:
I’m not comfortable condemning them for their crippling genetic disabilities (except where they perpetuate it), but they did do the majority of leading countries involved in WWI. And not only do these fucks still have money, they fund modern fascist movements and hateful propaganda as well as still being politically influential. The head of the family is an ambassador for the country his family took from superpower to “I could’ve sworn you were the kangaroo country”