Mercer

Nigga got himself OK Boomer'd

lol @KILZ FILLZ, was just looking at that:

It's a PR battle, and chaos, and it always has been. Some are more organized than others.

Shot in the face by police with a rubber bullet, or "pepper ball" maybe and regaining consciousness in the hospital now. Less than lethal often times allows for even more cruelty.

They are, granted it's not everyone but there are people against police brutality, and against theft, the two positions aren't mutually exclusive, and are in fact completely compatible: The people effected will assume that it's "systemic racism" when they need to take a 30 minute bus ride later to buy groceries, hence this never ending cycle that feeds itself from both sides. This is going to be one of the greatest achievements of this next generation who I think has the willpower to address this properly. Nothing against us gen x'rs, but we haven't made a single step forward in this arena, and it's only gotten worse during our time in my opinion. Addressed this in a previous post in here on the last page.

No 1st amendment

A country where there's accountability because law enforcement is comprised of private citizens, citizens that can be held accountable for their misdeeds, as opposed to a "special class" of people with qualified immunity. Take this case for example, no reasonable human being could deny the fact that what that cop did was an intentional homicide. To feel someone squirming/dying under your weight, and begging for their life for 8.5 minutes like that without letting up, well that takes a special kind of human being. For the other 3 officers that allowed it, and the ones defending it, it takes a special type of conditioning to accept that as a normal part of enforcing laws. Humans (every one of us) has a built in cognitive disconnect that allows us to commit acts of violence, a sort of built in survival instinct the state takes full advantage of in the case of military/law enforcement. I see why the law enforcement system was set up the way it was. We didn't have video cameras everywhere until recently, and every criminal on this planet will/would have accused the police of wrongdoing if they knew it would save their ass. You had to give police the benefit of the doubt 99.9% of the time or risk bogging the system down with dead end investigations police misconduct, and violence for everyone who every piece of shit that simply didn't like being arrested. We're still not past that point fully, and law enforcement needs to operate with some sort of autonomy in order to do their jobs. The conflict here arises from the fact police no longer have to be given the benefit of the doubt because of the way the system is designed to protect them. That cop should have been arrested as soon as the video surfaced. He wasn't, and this is why the system needs a massive overhaul to both continue to protect law enforcement, and the system as a whole from being bogged down in bullshit claims of police violence. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd say most of the people on here with IQ's above 100 would agree with most of what I've said so far. At the same time I'd guess less than less than 10% of those people who agree the system is broken, actually have a solution that would make a difference. The fact is, most of us don't think things through with a consistent logic. We just see something we don't like, and emotionally react to these individual situations without having an overall consistency to our plan, or philosophy. Here's how dumb we are: me think police bad, poverty bad, landlord not charge what I like to pay, me don't like my employment options, so destroy Target and situation will improve. There are more sophisticated expressions of this like Social Democrats but it's basically the same thing. They can't offer any viable solutions other than everyone lives under socialist poverty. The only thing they can do is demonize success, (landlord bad, person who earns billion dollars legally bad) and assume punishing people and destroying their own economy will make things fair. Then you have the people who think it will never happen to them and why did that black guy talk back to the officer, he deserved it types. Even dumber. Outside of the meme I regularly post saying take police misconduct settlements out of police pensions etc. I bet there are zero viable solutions presented by thee mainstream types that only start realizing something off after shit like this goes down. My philosophy has a logically consistent set of solution for state violence that starts with a slow, methodical removal of all police interactions: Step 1: No victim = no crime. Drug dealing, gambling, prostitution, and other laws aimed at correcting societal ills that forcing legitimate trades like the "worlds oldest profession" into an underground black market. No sane person would buy their crack/heroin/pussy/bets from a gang, when there's a legit dispensary, or brothel for it. You want to end sex trafficking/slavery, and drug violence, it's super fucking simple. No victim, no crime. Step 2: Slowly begin to enforce rights privately to reduce the immunity of the people enforcing personhood, or property rights. Let's take shoplifting for example, no need to get police and courts involved. Most of the larger chain stores have loss prevention departments with more advanced system of tracking shoplifters, and sharing that information with other stores. Why not allow them to ship shoplifters off to a private prison cutting out the middle man? Granted, they'd better have definitive proof like video on hand to do so, and the private prison shouldn't accept prisoners without some form of proof. Likewise there should be a private recourse system for anyone falsely accused, or imprisoned. Perhaps taking it to a civic court/jury trial if there's a dispute. Step 3: This private accountability can be fine tuned, and eventually expanded to all crimes against property. Burglary, car thefts, fraud, identity theft etc. This is important because anyone caught abusing people's rights in this private system I've just described can be held accountable from the top down. A store can be sued, shareholders might fire the CEO, the CEO can fire a bad loss prevention manager, and a loss prevention manager can fire the people making mistakes watching cameras, and security guards that decide to punch a suspect, etc. You can't get this level of accountability from police departments and city government. Not saying it's perfect, because it for sure won't be, but it will be a huge step up from what we currently have. Step 4: Crimes against person can be approached in much the same way, a slow methodical privatization of enforcement. It starts with accountability, you get yourself a concealed carry permit, and a gun. Now you might be a 5.2 female that weighs 100 lbs. but you've got your equalizer, better yet you can practice, and train with that pistol and never fear being assaulted/raped ever again. I honestly thing people with concealed carry permits need body cams, and should prove there was a threat to themselves present, that they did not instigate, or escalate by their own actions if they end up shooting someone. No bullshit like Zimmerman, or that redneck father and son team that clearly caused the situations themselves where their victims were forced to defend themselves from the aggressors. Maybe every gun gets it's own dash cam, type device, or you have a small body cam on deck when you're strapped. I mean it makes sense. I still need to get a police report in a car accident, but having a dash cam means there's no need to worry about a misinterpretation, and quite frankly I can't imagine driving without one. Placing at least some, if not most of the responsibility for protecting yourself, on yourself, is always the best route. The more responsible you are the less you'll cost to insure, and protect. I could go on forever, and one day I might write a book, but for now I'm simply saying reducing police violence, means reducing police interactions while continuing to fight crime. Plain, and fucking simple. No single entity should enjoy a complete monopoly on all violence like a government. They will abuse it, and protect their own every time, even when it's clear cut cases of abuse caught on camera. We're too urban of a society now, we are no longer living in small villages where everyone knows each other and can exclude bad actors based on reputation. That murderer cop probably had a tons of people that thought he was a great person, before they saw the tape, and there's a million more like him. In today's society a cop will most likely be policing teenagers that in most cases, aren't going to the same high school as their kids. They don't know the kids parents, families etc. A perfect recipe for an "It's an us against them" attitude that goes well beyond simple racism, and involves consistently trending towards police abusing everyone's rights, not just black people's, or poor people's. It's a joke on everyone rights unless you, or your immediate family is a police officer don't expect to exercise them without losing everything else in the process.

Same reasons they destroyed everything else that wasn't police related, plus a chance at exposure. Police are garbage humans.

There's like 9, maybe a dozen black people here in Denver. (I kid, but it's only 10%) Cowardly hearts and straight up shook ones with badges making power moves.

This is only partially true, fact is there are many different people looting, and destroying private property for multiple individual wrong reasons. I can tell by the visible demeanor of local cops, there is no reasoning with them, many of them are indulging in this us against them, win by any means based on the same retarded logic of the Iraq war. I/E the people they can draw out, and get rioting are "bad" people so "getting them off the streets" is worth breaking a few windows, or dropping off a pallet of bricks near wealthy shopping areas. There's really nothing else driving the agent provocateurs to commit these crimes, and the overzealous cops shooting/arresting the press, than this dehumanization of "those other people". They learned this cognitive disconnect over the last 2 decades invading other countries and terrorizing their local population into retaliation. They are incapable of understanding it's wrong to shoot journalists with pepper balls, or that it's wrong slowly murder someone squirming/dying under your knee because the fact is, it's these police, and government operatives that have no humanity, or human decency left in them or they'd do something about it. A huge crowd of state agents masked up, and kitted up to protect the murderer's home the night this all started, that tells me all I need to know. Parasitic garbage.

For me, it's almost 100% based on the financial incentives present in a larger, more competitive job market. I've tried to hit the sticks, demand for someone with my extremely specialized skillset is low, almost non existent in your neck of the woods. Best I could do is 1/2 of what I'm earning now (total compensation) here in a booming urban economy. This coupled with the fact the cost of living is actually less for me here (no vehicle expenses, housing prices are virtually identical, virtually unlimited options for employment) makes it a no brainer. I'll be buying property in a semi rural, suburban area that's maxed out on expansion due to the terrain, working in the city, and letting my employer cover my commuting expenses via a company gas card and brand new vehicle. Not sure if any of that makes sense, but the overwhelming majority of people don't have the access to resources required to make a move to a rural area. Most of us on this board would make terrible farm hands, and can't thrive, or even survive off from seasonal/low wage employment at this point. That's not to say I'm doing everything I can to establish financial independence, but realistically most of my goals require a higher than normal income level, which is highly unlikely in a rural area, but virtually guaranteed for me here. I also understand the cons of living in an urban area and we most likely agree on most of them. Combined, these cons do not outweigh the pro's of being able to retire early, and establish financial independence.