"There's only one emotion of that list I find acceptable to allow anyone to watch the video and it's neither "wince" nor "cringe"." I am sorry, but "wince" or "cringe" would probably be my reactions, not "cry". It's not due to lack of empathy. It's just not a typical reaction for me. Different people express their emotions in different ways. Your judgment seems a bit harsh.
Look to the Ukraine. Look to Egypt. Look to any other country with major uprisings and revolutions lately. I'm not very optimistic that it would turn out any better in America, of all places - and even more so if gun nuts are the ones that start the revolution in the first place because in the Ukraine it's bad enough when the gun nuts took over later.
"Cops deploy their training and their intuition creatively, and I wielded every trick in my arsenal, including verbal judo, humor, warnings and ostentatious displays of the lethal (and nonlethal) hardware resting in my duty belt." Interesting that "nonlethal" is in parentheses here.
Yeah, that sounds likely. Although personally I think that this would more turn into a kind of civil war. Because that's what normally happens in most other countries when armed police confronts armed civilians. But then again America is special.
I am pretty sure in Germany this part of the policy wouldn't be valid. At least here you can't just write everything you want into a policy and I guess it won't be much different in the USA.
Well, I'd say that patriotism is normally unhealthy and would surely count being proud of your military as unhealthy, but I guess that's an unpopular stance around here.
I'm not sure whether this applies to the USA as well, but here in Germany law students aren't required to do math at all. Of course you then get horrible stuff like this.
That's funny, because the GDR collapsed only 23 years ago. The Stasi also knew where you worked (was even more a given in the GDR as you were basically employed by the government) and all the related data, and basically anything you mentioned here.
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I am sorry, but "wince" or "cringe" would probably be my reactions, not "cry".
It's not due to lack of empathy. It's just not a typical reaction for me. Different people express their emotions in different ways.
Your judgment seems a bit harsh.
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I thought the police was an organization that should replace and prevent lynch mob mentality instead of institutionalizing it?
The death penalty for looting and pillaging seems beyond excessive to me. What's wrong with you?
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What kind of person does one need to be to do this kind of stuff?
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I'm not very optimistic that it would turn out any better in America, of all places - and even more so if gun nuts are the ones that start the revolution in the first place because in the Ukraine it's bad enough when the gun nuts took over later.
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Interesting that "nonlethal" is in parentheses here.
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Although personally I think that this would more turn into a kind of civil war. Because that's what normally happens in most other countries when armed police confronts armed civilians.
But then again America is special.
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So you have anti-government workers, you've got a weakened enemy and bad press for him. What's not to like?
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