EXCEPT, you are saying they should give up all rights as human beans... NON student-athletes can start businesses, do 'endorsements' (i guess), etc, etc, etc... do basically anything within legal means to make money while in school; student-athletes can not... is *that* fair ? ? ?
even giving my point above about the tuition having significant value, i can DEFINITELY see giving the student-slaves, er, athletes a stipend of some sort so they can go out and buy a damn pizza without running afoul of some NCAA RULE (NOT a 'law'!), or depending upon some booster to give them a hundred dollar handshake... (which you will NEVER stop, by the way...)
1. ncaa is eee-vil, no doubt, ALL KINDS of crap they get away with by having themselves exempted from various laws, etc, and effectively being a monopoly... 2. *HOWEVER*, i disagree with the apparent dismissal of 'free tuition' NOT BEING some sort of compensation; you might want to ask the 90% of the other students who pay (or their parents pay) their tuition/books/etc whether THEY think $20-30k+/year is negligible... 3. now, whether 'free tuition' is ENOUGH compensation, is another question: if you're in some 2nd tier sport that generates ZERO income for the school, then, yes, i think you are justly compensated; if you are in a 'major' sport which brings in TONS of revenue (which is basically football, basketball, and maybe baseball), then, no, perhaps not... (although, perhaps so: a 4th team walk-on scrub who is essentially a practice dummy? not even on scholarship ? i don't know, maybe you should just count yourself lucky...) 4. student-athletes have all kinds of petty rules* which PREVENT them from having other jobs and/or sources of income, not to mention the TREMENDOUS amount of time they have to put in for workouts, practices, team meetings, etc, etc, etc... 5. BUT a LOT of this 'unfairness' applies only to the 1% of the 1% who are superstars; 90-99% of the players are -by and large- unknowns, then the problem becomes: should a 4th string unknown scrub who never starts be given the same consideration as a superstar athlete who makes the cover of SI, gets all the pre-game hype, their jersey sells 1000 times more than others, and they will go pro next year ? ? ?
*bearing in mind that a LOT of these petty rules were because coaches, schools, boosters, AND PLAYERS, WERE taking advantage of them: so you have a rule where you can't feed them a crappy denny's dinner, or give them a crappy tee shirt, which sounds petty and stupid, EXCEPT THAT, when that *IS* allowed, suddenly you find some valuable recruit getting 10 GROSS of tee shirts their uncle sells off, or getting a restaurant gift card worth $1000 which they sell to someone, etc, etc, etc...
"Try not to color the world with your personal issues. Not everyone has ADD, not everyone is naturally anti-social, and not everyone fears someone saying something to them. I understand your issues, but they are not the norm."
1. try not to be gratuitously dismissive of, well, EVERYONE; it makes it appear you have serious abnormal (borderline personality?) issues you are probably unaware of... 2. no, not everyone is 'naturally anti-social' (but i am), but NEARLY everyone has 'natural' social anxiety and reluctance to engage for various reasons at various times... but, of course, you'll be the judge of that... 3. as an aspie-lite type person, i would say online interactions make me MORE 'social' than i would be otherwise... in spite of your insistence 'social' means face-to-face interacxtion, you are ignoring how media IS social, whatever the technical means... *this* is a form of social interaction, and were it not here i would be scribbling in journals the world would never see... (you would say 'thankfully so', because that is how you roll...) 4. your judgmental attitude based on AN anecdote is telling: there are any of a MILLION reasons why they were validly doing what they were (that is granting your recitation of events, which i have good reason to doubt), and only one is as a metaphor for the destruction of interpersonal communication... in fact, here is one overriding reason: because they fucking felt like it... make no mistake: communication IS debased and degraded on all kinds of levels, but that is because of the political and MEDIA (NOT MEDIUM) corruption...
okay, here's the ONE point you can takeaway from my burblings: the SCOTUS is corrupt, morally, legally, and monetarily-wise as well; their 'decisions' are NOT a distillation of law and reason dedicated to upholding the constitution and promoting the greatest good for the greatest number, but pre-determined outcomes that benefit Empire and its puppetmasters... discuss...
urine idjit... it is not LITERALLY that rich people pay no taxes (although there are some who by dint of tax skullduggery do not), but that they do NOT pay their 'fair share'...
rich people also use FAR MORE RESOURCES than poor people: not too many poor people have a private jet that takes advantage of airports built with the 99%'s tax dollars; nor do poor people jet-set around the world as much as wealthy people...
it is off the backs of the poor and middle class that modern stadiums get built, NOT with the pocket money of the team owners... it is off the backs of the poor and middle class taxed at a HIGHER RATE (see, buffet, warren: 'my secretary pays a higher tax rate than i do') that EVERYTHING, including Empire's enforcement arm, the military, gets paid for...
greedy libertards like you make me want to puke... you have NO RESPECT for anyone but the wealthy, your 'values' are skewed 180 degrees from normal... you have totally bought into the 'greed is good' mantra at the expense of 99% of your fellow human beans...
and yet there will be a look of hurt and surprise when the destitute gangs drag you and yours out for a necktie party... *snort*
tired inertnet meme to follow: wow, i am impressed by your prognostication, do you have a newsletter i can subscribe to ? ? ?
1. that the supremes decided 'wrongly' ('wrongly' meaning against the wishes of the large majority, and violating the maxim of 'the greatest good for the greatest number') is probably a better than even bet on ANYTHING... 2. that they used flawed and specious 'reasoning' to pre-determine the conclusion they were hell-bent on reaching, is bidness-as-usual... 3. that they did so by stretching credulity and the meanings of words, is nothing new... 4. at this point, i look to NOTHING the supremes decide as being based on morality or law and the greatest good for the greatest numbers, but simple obeisance to the results Empire EXPECTS out of them... 5. EVERYONE could have predicted they would do *something* to twist the case to their will, but you just never know what bullshit rabbit they will pull out of their hats... 6. in short, they have -as is their wont- rendered 'The Law' meaningless by their tortured logic in reaching the conclusion they WANTED, not the one that was predicated on law, logic, and reasonableness...
listen to you, bowing and scraping to your koroporate overlords, instead of standing on your own two hind legs and baring your fangs...
is that REALLY what twitch was about ? people were downloading a crappy recording of a stupid video which had some shitty song in the background and THAT was depriving the MAFIAA of a sale ? ? ?
r u SERIOUSLY saying that ? ? ?
(and -no- i DON'T care what 'the law' is; 'the law' is MEANINGLESS because it ONLY works for the 1%, and works against the 99%, 'the law' DESERVES no respect under lawless Empire...)
using NOTHING other than uncommon common sense, you SHOULD be able to see how this is a losing proposition for SOCIETY; and the ONLY ones who 'win' are the MAFIAA... society as a whole GAINS NOTHING, and loses a LOT...
sanders is SINO (socialist in name only), simply because to be somewhat left of attila the hun is to be a radical left-winger in our skewed political discourse... he caucuses with the dem'rats, and rarely strays far from the status quo, he voted along with the rest of the frightened kongresskritters to pat israel on the back for its current illegal, immoral campaign of extinction... in other words, he supports Empire, no matter what...
Empire must fall the sooner the fall, the gentler for all...
precisely... i know when i first got 'into' photography to some extent, way back in high school, i was actually very UNimpressed that 'professional' photographers would take rolls and Rolls and ROLLS of pictures to glean ONE that was worthwhile...
frankly, kind of made it seem like it WAS a random process where you just take a thousand pictures, and ONE will turn out 'okay'...
(yes, OF COURSE, i am aware that photogs can and do all sorts of stuff to set up the picture, etc, especially in studio settings; but they STILL took hundreds of frames, bracketing exposure, etc, to get one good shot...)
so, what you are proving, is that we have the korporate tail wagging the civilization dog... reason #158582352 why korporate domination of OUR lives is eeee-vil...
it is NOT that it is or isn't 'illegal' (again, what meaning that has when the 1% ignore laws with impunity, and the 99% get crosswise with secret laws before they get out of bed in the morning), it is that it is IMMORAL...
i know that is an ancient word that has not only ZERO meaning, but NEGATIVE meaning in the korporatocracy we all worship, but some assholes like myself still think being 'moral' is an admirable goal over being profitable...
@ whatever- go read the site, nimrod, he is almost always going around to public buildings, etc, PURPOSEFULLY testing those 'rights'... whatever actual 'crimes' he has been at have been few... (you know, except for the 'crime' of filming public officials in public capacity...) dickless, abject authoritarian that you are... (bill murray: "it's true, the man has no dick...")
not that you are not correct, but there is more to it than OUR perfidy: al qaeda, etc *have* been against such programs previously without the added disincentive of bogus spook-sponsored vaccination programs...
hell, even back during the vietnam war, when we would vaccinate kids, etc as *part* of a program of 'winning the hearts and minds' (part bullshit cover for more insidious actions), the vietcong would come in and cut off the vaccinated arms of the kids to terrorize the citizenry into not cooperating with unka sam... (kurtz voice: the horror, the horror...)
as i've mentioned before (and this is merely incident #15663864 to confirm it) USAID been spooked-up a LONG time...
...you didn't include a direct link to the website he and carlos miller have: PINAC (Photography is not a crime)
here is their website linked to another story of him being arrested by other donut eaters for, um, well, for, um, being a citizen while holding a camera...
...was how THEY were bitching that someone bitched about not having ice during a 105 degree day ! yeah, how unreasonable is that: you go to a place SPECIFICALLY to celebrate/drink, and on a stifling hot day they don't have ice ? i don't care WHAT the reason is, if you are a hotelier, you fucking run down to the min-a-mart or whatever and start carting bags of ice back to the hotel... what kind of lame shit is that: 'oh, our ice machine is broken, and we're in the middle of NYC, so, no way we kind find any other source of ice...' what a joke...
Re: Anti-cop website Techdirt flies same flag, as usual.
and another anti-citizen pig squeals:
"Anti-cop website Techdirt flies same flag, as usual."
you mean being against BAD KOPS ? ? ? maybe assholes like me constantly harp on how there are no 'good kops' 'cause they REFUSE to call out their bad kop buddies, BUT the writers at tech dirt are scrupulous in sucking up to pig-lovers like you, and maintaining how they have a tough job, blah blah blah, and ONLY go after extremely egregious cases of bad kops...
to non-thinkers such as yourself, there is no such thing as a 'bad kop', and that describes the nub of the problem right there: YOU you are an authoritarian without a heart (yes, i know, an oxymoron)
"1) What you call a bad cop is likely a good cop with a bad set of circumstances."
what you call a bad citizen is likely a good citizen with a bad set of circumstances. THAT is about 1000 times more likely than your statement...
"2) Unless you have done the job or supported the job, your actual knowledge of how it works is insufficient to judge them."
I BEG YOUR PARDON ? ? ? STFU, asswipe, kops are our EMPLOYEES, *supposedly* serving the public; NOT our fucking masters, bosses, or state-appointed torturers, you authoritarian POS... WE determine (OR SHOULD, The System is FUCKED) whether kops are doing a good or bad job, whether their policies are in line with what WE WANT, not YOU, you entitled, arrogant flyspeck...
"3) Newark PD, to take a specific instance, should always be allowed to punch their non-compliant suspects. I live near Newark, worked in Newark, went to school in Newark. Newark PD is, if anything, too restrained with some of the walking crap that lives there."
by walking crap, you mean kops like yourself ? ? ? otherwise, you are betraying a mindset that is the DIRECT OPPOSITE of what a 'peace officer' (what a joke, amirite?) should have to work within the community they are supposedly serving and protecting...
"4) If police don't deserve a union, that's fine. See who you can get to work that kind of job without protection from political interference and tell me how the crime rates are then."
i'm not sure where the 'don't deserve a union' bullshit comes from; however, when the union becomes an institution that reflexively 'defends' bad kops, then it is a bad institution which does not serve the public's needs...
as it is, the ONLY kind who WANT to work as kops, are fellow low-IQ headknockers, borderline psychopaths, dickless authoritarians who like to throw their donut-stuffed bellies around, and ex-military who can't find ANY OTHER JOBS because they don't exist anymore...
"It's nice that your world-view has sheltered many of you from what real urban life is. I'm happy that you have that. Please, though, don't apply your model to places like Newark, or NYC, or other large urban centers where you would be scared to live."
i'm not 'scared' to live in NYC, etc; i think ALL cities above a certain size, are a blight, a cancer upon the geographic landscape, because they use up areas far removed from themselves to support the unsupportable concentration of nekkid apes... THEY ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS, they depend upon -much like capitalist imperialism itself- the domination and use of OTHER's resources to prop their unsustainable systems up...
besides, in case you have not heard: A. violent crime has been trending down for decades, NO THANKS to violent kops... B. kops are LESS LIKELY to be murdered on the job than retail clerks, big tough boy... C. 90%+ of kops NEVER have to draw their gun in their whole career, far more likely to eat their own gun than get gunned down by a perp... D. gee, tell me why kops are so much more likely to abuse drugs, alcohol, and kill themselves FAR MORE than the average population ? could it be the crushing guilt they internalize for being goons for the 1% ?
kops ? facilitating the police state EVERY FUCKING DAY, hate em, they are anti-American... Peace officers that serve and protect ? wish we had some, but they don't exist anymore, they've been SWATTED up to being an occupying army...
i know, foolish question... but if i get fired, can't i sue for 'loss of future profits' ? if not, why not ? ain't i as good as any korporate-person ? ? ?
precisely... i guess classy is as classy does, where does that leave the queen of darkchylde ? ? ? does sound like *quite* the thin-skinned, self-important douche... oh, *please* escher girls, post that too ! ! !
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NON student-athletes can start businesses, do 'endorsements' (i guess), etc, etc, etc... do basically anything within legal means to make money while in school; student-athletes can not...
is *that* fair ? ? ?
even giving my point above about the tuition having significant value, i can DEFINITELY see giving the student-slaves, er, athletes a stipend of some sort so they can go out and buy a damn pizza without running afoul of some NCAA RULE (NOT a 'law'!), or depending upon some booster to give them a hundred dollar handshake...
(which you will NEVER stop, by the way...)
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mixed feelings...
2. *HOWEVER*, i disagree with the apparent dismissal of 'free tuition' NOT BEING some sort of compensation; you might want to ask the 90% of the other students who pay (or their parents pay) their tuition/books/etc whether THEY think $20-30k+/year is negligible...
3. now, whether 'free tuition' is ENOUGH compensation, is another question: if you're in some 2nd tier sport that generates ZERO income for the school, then, yes, i think you are justly compensated; if you are in a 'major' sport which brings in TONS of revenue (which is basically football, basketball, and maybe baseball), then, no, perhaps not...
(although, perhaps so: a 4th team walk-on scrub who is essentially a practice dummy? not even on scholarship ? i don't know, maybe you should just count yourself lucky...)
4. student-athletes have all kinds of petty rules* which PREVENT them from having other jobs and/or sources of income, not to mention the TREMENDOUS amount of time they have to put in for workouts, practices, team meetings, etc, etc, etc...
5. BUT a LOT of this 'unfairness' applies only to the 1% of the 1% who are superstars; 90-99% of the players are -by and large- unknowns, then the problem becomes: should a 4th string unknown scrub who never starts be given the same consideration as a superstar athlete who makes the cover of SI, gets all the pre-game hype, their jersey sells 1000 times more than others, and they will go pro next year ? ? ?
*bearing in mind that a LOT of these petty rules were because coaches, schools, boosters, AND PLAYERS, WERE taking advantage of them: so you have a rule where you can't feed them a crappy denny's dinner, or give them a crappy tee shirt, which sounds petty and stupid, EXCEPT THAT, when that *IS* allowed, suddenly you find some valuable recruit getting 10 GROSS of tee shirts their uncle sells off, or getting a restaurant gift card worth $1000 which they sell to someone, etc, etc, etc...
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Re: Re: Re: Re: At last!
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Re: Re: Re:
"Try not to color the world with your personal issues. Not everyone has ADD, not everyone is naturally anti-social, and not everyone fears someone saying something to them. I understand your issues, but they are not the norm."
1. try not to be gratuitously dismissive of, well, EVERYONE; it makes it appear you have serious abnormal (borderline personality?) issues you are probably unaware of...
2. no, not everyone is 'naturally anti-social' (but i am), but NEARLY everyone has 'natural' social anxiety and reluctance to engage for various reasons at various times...
but, of course, you'll be the judge of that...
3. as an aspie-lite type person, i would say online interactions make me MORE 'social' than i would be otherwise... in spite of your insistence 'social' means face-to-face interacxtion, you are ignoring how media IS social, whatever the technical means... *this* is a form of social interaction, and were it not here i would be scribbling in journals the world would never see...
(you would say 'thankfully so', because that is how you roll...)
4. your judgmental attitude based on AN anecdote is telling: there are any of a MILLION reasons why they were validly doing what they were (that is granting your recitation of events, which i have good reason to doubt), and only one is as a metaphor for the destruction of interpersonal communication...
in fact, here is one overriding reason: because they fucking felt like it...
make no mistake: communication IS debased and degraded on all kinds of levels, but that is because of the political and MEDIA (NOT MEDIUM) corruption...
in short, video didn't kill the cerebrum...
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Re: Re: Re: Track Record
discuss...
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it is not LITERALLY that rich people pay no taxes (although there are some who by dint of tax skullduggery do not), but that they do NOT pay their 'fair share'...
rich people also use FAR MORE RESOURCES than poor people: not too many poor people have a private jet that takes advantage of airports built with the 99%'s tax dollars; nor do poor people jet-set around the world as much as wealthy people...
it is off the backs of the poor and middle class that modern stadiums get built, NOT with the pocket money of the team owners... it is off the backs of the poor and middle class taxed at a HIGHER RATE (see, buffet, warren: 'my secretary pays a higher tax rate than i do') that EVERYTHING, including Empire's enforcement arm, the military, gets paid for...
greedy libertards like you make me want to puke... you have NO RESPECT for anyone but the wealthy, your 'values' are skewed 180 degrees from normal... you have totally bought into the 'greed is good' mantra at the expense of 99% of your fellow human beans...
and yet there will be a look of hurt and surprise when the destitute gangs drag you and yours out for a necktie party...
*snort*
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Re: Track Record
wow, i am impressed by your prognostication, do you have a newsletter i can subscribe to ? ? ?
1. that the supremes decided 'wrongly' ('wrongly' meaning against the wishes of the large majority, and violating the maxim of 'the greatest good for the greatest number') is probably a better than even bet on ANYTHING...
2. that they used flawed and specious 'reasoning' to pre-determine the conclusion they were hell-bent on reaching, is bidness-as-usual...
3. that they did so by stretching credulity and the meanings of words, is nothing new...
4. at this point, i look to NOTHING the supremes decide as being based on morality or law and the greatest good for the greatest numbers, but simple obeisance to the results Empire EXPECTS out of them...
5. EVERYONE could have predicted they would do *something* to twist the case to their will, but you just never know what bullshit rabbit they will pull out of their hats...
6. in short, they have -as is their wont- rendered 'The Law' meaningless by their tortured logic in reaching the conclusion they WANTED, not the one that was predicated on law, logic, and reasonableness...
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Re: Infringement
is that REALLY what twitch was about ? people were downloading a crappy recording of a stupid video which had some shitty song in the background and THAT was depriving the MAFIAA of a sale ? ? ?
r u SERIOUSLY saying that ? ? ?
(and -no- i DON'T care what 'the law' is; 'the law' is MEANINGLESS because it ONLY works for the 1%, and works against the 99%, 'the law' DESERVES no respect under lawless Empire...)
using NOTHING other than uncommon common sense, you SHOULD be able to see how this is a losing proposition for SOCIETY; and the ONLY ones who 'win' are the MAFIAA... society as a whole GAINS NOTHING, and loses a LOT...
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Re: Re: Re: Too Much Credit
he caucuses with the dem'rats, and rarely strays far from the status quo, he voted along with the rest of the frightened kongresskritters to pat israel on the back for its current illegal, immoral campaign of extinction...
in other words, he supports Empire, no matter what...
Empire must fall
the sooner the fall,
the gentler for all...
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Re: Re: monkey selfie??????
i know when i first got 'into' photography to some extent, way back in high school, i was actually very UNimpressed that 'professional' photographers would take rolls and Rolls and ROLLS of pictures to glean ONE that was worthwhile...
frankly, kind of made it seem like it WAS a random process where you just take a thousand pictures, and ONE will turn out 'okay'...
(yes, OF COURSE, i am aware that photogs can and do all sorts of stuff to set up the picture, etc, especially in studio settings; but they STILL took hundreds of frames, bracketing exposure, etc, to get one good shot...)
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there *CAN* be, but 99.99% of the time, there isn't...
proof?
the monkey taking the picture...
QED
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reason #158582352 why korporate domination of OUR lives is eeee-vil...
it is NOT that it is or isn't 'illegal' (again, what meaning that has when the 1% ignore laws with impunity, and the 99% get crosswise with secret laws before they get out of bed in the morning), it is that it is IMMORAL...
i know that is an ancient word that has not only ZERO meaning, but NEGATIVE meaning in the korporatocracy we all worship, but some assholes like myself still think being 'moral' is an admirable goal over being profitable...
too many do not think that...
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go read the site, nimrod, he is almost always going around to public buildings, etc, PURPOSEFULLY testing those 'rights'...
whatever actual 'crimes' he has been at have been few...
(you know, except for the 'crime' of filming public officials in public capacity...)
dickless, abject authoritarian that you are...
(bill murray: "it's true, the man has no dick...")
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hell, even back during the vietnam war, when we would vaccinate kids, etc as *part* of a program of 'winning the hearts and minds' (part bullshit cover for more insidious actions), the vietcong would come in and cut off the vaccinated arms of the kids to terrorize the citizenry into not cooperating with unka sam...
(kurtz voice: the horror, the horror...)
as i've mentioned before (and this is merely incident #15663864 to confirm it) USAID been spooked-up a LONG time...
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a little disappointed...
here is their website linked to another story of him being arrested by other donut eaters for, um, well, for, um, being a citizen while holding a camera...
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/10/23/jeff-gray-arrested-recording-cops-days-becomin g-pinac-partner/
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*pssst* heh white hat hackers...
*shhhh* don't tell the grownups we're doing that...
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the one that got me...
yeah, how unreasonable is that: you go to a place SPECIFICALLY to celebrate/drink, and on a stifling hot day they don't have ice ?
i don't care WHAT the reason is, if you are a hotelier, you fucking run down to the min-a-mart or whatever and start carting bags of ice back to the hotel...
what kind of lame shit is that: 'oh, our ice machine is broken, and we're in the middle of NYC, so, no way we kind find any other source of ice...'
what a joke...
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Re: Anti-cop website Techdirt flies same flag, as usual.
"Anti-cop website Techdirt flies same flag, as usual."
you mean being against BAD KOPS ? ? ?
maybe assholes like me constantly harp on how there are no 'good kops' 'cause they REFUSE to call out their bad kop buddies, BUT the writers at tech dirt are scrupulous in sucking up to pig-lovers like you, and maintaining how they have a tough job, blah blah blah, and ONLY go after extremely egregious cases of bad kops...
to non-thinkers such as yourself, there is no such thing as a 'bad kop', and that describes the nub of the problem right there: YOU
you are an authoritarian without a heart (yes, i know, an oxymoron)
"1) What you call a bad cop is likely a good cop with a bad set of circumstances."
what you call a bad citizen is likely a good citizen with a bad set of circumstances.
THAT is about 1000 times more likely than your statement...
"2) Unless you have done the job or supported the job, your actual knowledge of how it works is insufficient to judge them."
I BEG YOUR PARDON ? ? ? STFU, asswipe, kops are our EMPLOYEES, *supposedly* serving the public; NOT our fucking masters, bosses, or state-appointed torturers, you authoritarian POS...
WE determine (OR SHOULD, The System is FUCKED) whether kops are doing a good or bad job, whether their policies are in line with what WE WANT, not YOU, you entitled, arrogant flyspeck...
"3) Newark PD, to take a specific instance, should always be allowed to punch their non-compliant suspects. I live near Newark, worked in Newark, went to school in Newark. Newark PD is, if anything, too restrained with some of the walking crap that lives there."
by walking crap, you mean kops like yourself ? ? ? otherwise, you are betraying a mindset that is the DIRECT OPPOSITE of what a 'peace officer' (what a joke, amirite?) should have to work within the community they are supposedly serving and protecting...
"4) If police don't deserve a union, that's fine. See who you can get to work that kind of job without protection from political interference and tell me how the crime rates are then."
i'm not sure where the 'don't deserve a union' bullshit comes from; however, when the union becomes an institution that reflexively 'defends' bad kops, then it is a bad institution which does not serve the public's needs...
as it is, the ONLY kind who WANT to work as kops, are fellow low-IQ headknockers, borderline psychopaths, dickless authoritarians who like to throw their donut-stuffed bellies around, and ex-military who can't find ANY OTHER JOBS because they don't exist anymore...
"It's nice that your world-view has sheltered many of you from what real urban life is. I'm happy that you have that. Please, though, don't apply your model to places like Newark, or NYC, or other large urban centers where you would be scared to live."
i'm not 'scared' to live in NYC, etc; i think ALL cities above a certain size, are a blight, a cancer upon the geographic landscape, because they use up areas far removed from themselves to support the unsupportable concentration of nekkid apes... THEY ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS, they depend upon -much like capitalist imperialism itself- the domination and use of OTHER's resources to prop their unsustainable systems up...
besides, in case you have not heard:
A. violent crime has been trending down for decades, NO THANKS to violent kops...
B. kops are LESS LIKELY to be murdered on the job than retail clerks, big tough boy...
C. 90%+ of kops NEVER have to draw their gun in their whole career, far more likely to eat their own gun than get gunned down by a perp...
D. gee, tell me why kops are so much more likely to abuse drugs, alcohol, and kill themselves FAR MORE than the average population ? could it be the crushing guilt they internalize for being goons for the 1% ?
kops ? facilitating the police state EVERY FUCKING DAY, hate em, they are anti-American...
Peace officers that serve and protect ? wish we had some, but they don't exist anymore, they've been SWATTED up to being an occupying army...
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does that 'principle' work for the 99% too ? ? ?
but if i get fired, can't i sue for 'loss of future profits' ?
if not, why not ?
ain't i as good as any korporate-person ? ? ?
(don't answer, i already know...)
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i guess classy is as classy does, where does that leave the queen of darkchylde ? ? ?
does sound like *quite* the thin-skinned, self-important douche...
oh, *please* escher girls, post that too ! ! !
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