Bluesky

The answer is Yes. ALL cops are cowards to begin with, and are trained to embrace their cowardice by responding with extreme force to the slightest inconvenience.

Why didn't they just zip tie the wheel on the rascal

The outcry over HitlerPig's child separation policy was enormous. I personally called every one of my elected officials and literally HOLLERED at them over the phone, demanding they do something about it. I don't think I was ever outraged more about a government policy. He rescinded it after a few days because the pressure was so intense.

The Biden administration tried hard to return those children, but to this day, there are almost 1000 children who have never been reunited with their parents, and likely never will. It is one of the worst modern atrocities of the American government iny lifetime, and it is entirely MAGA's fault.

Personally I think it started before that. It has its roots in the mass overturning of civil rights after 2001, the implementation of secret courts, disappearing people into black sites, extrajudicial killings, and breaking international human rights laws to hold people in indefinite detention without trial.

No subsequent administration has ever walked that back because that kind of power is so convenient to them. But this framework is what has facilitated the slide towards fascism.

That's why people in deep red states think the government is filled with waste, fraud, and abuse - they don't realize that crumbling infrastructure, a lack of social services and societal blight aren't the norm.

They just see other poor people getting help from the government in blue states and wonder "well where's my handout?" Without realizing they are in fact voting against those measures every election.

The cons keep telling those voters that the government is broken - so they re-elect them to prove it.

People would talk about Baltimore as being a really scary place.

And I wished they talk more about Tennessee being just a sad awful state.

Christians, through history, loved stoning anyone who did not agree with them or follow their beliefs. I think it would be ironic if they ended up on the other end of this.

But truthfully, I think just permanently removing their ability to have any effect on the world we live in, by their speech, money, action, position, etc, as quickly as humanly possible is far more important than just carrying out old fashioned punishments for catharsis. We all just need them gone.

Nothing matters in this country aside from how much wealth you generate or spend at the moment. Doesn't matter how good or bad you are. Ethics are frowned upon. How much money you can spend or generate for others is the only factor. We are an experiment in how far largely unrelated capitalism can be pushed. The only fix for this is an absolute societal collapse.

Right there with you

Working class people's interests actually being represented in one large municipality

Yeah, see those elderly lady's aren't old enough to remember back when America was great, they are far to young. Another ten years and they'll be auto selected for the Senate

But they are very uncomfortable, which I can only imagine is the point.