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by bcdtttt 2y ago
The and was not meant to be exclusive. It should maybe be read as or. It's not meant to imply all police forces were slave patrols. Plenty evolved to protect other capital interests.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Police forces have roots in protecting capital, for example warehouse guards or for another slave patrols. They still exist for that purpose in the US. They do not exist to protect people. They are a tool of the state and capital. The years
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
And did not mean to imply exclusively. Plenty of police departments don't have roots in slave patrols.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
The establishment of the Charleston police department directly traces roots into slave patrols. The department was formed from city guard, who were used to round up spaces and put down slave revolts.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
While some night watches were public safety distributed among community members, they were often there to protect the goods of merchants rather than protect the ordinary citizens of an area from petty crime. As merchants grew, and their goo
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
According to the cops. The same cops who shoot people for having wallets and sticks. Same cops who beat Deaf people for not following verbal instructions. Same cops who shoot autistic folks. Yeah, I don't think "armed" means
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Cop didn't do everything right. A cop who does everything right leaves the force.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
I'm probably your age, kids back in my day would kill or injure other kids for being gay or Black. I think a lot of bullying has actually gone down, but because of the internet one sociopathic kid can fuck over people at scale.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Do you know why ACAB? Is not because they are rude, it's not cause they mean. It's because they participate in a societal role that requires them to do bastardly things. They have to enforce unjust laws and unjust outcomes, and st
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Yeah. Which is wild to me because Biden was center/center right. It's not like one has to hide it the past four years. And most online platforms will still be moderated for the next little while.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Now do "How American companies oppress workers and run lives". We got wage theft, abuse, sexual harassment, at will firings, wage slavery, and all sorts of fucked up healthcare forcing people to work here. Edit: to say nothing of
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Why would women and Black men not be good authors? If you have evidence that the books nominated were chosen on something other than merit, share that, otherwise you sound like an ass by insinuating that women and Black men can't write
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
I like how this author is ambivalent towards the technology. "They both are fine, whatever" feels like the right take and I wish I saw it more in computing. Programming languages? IDEs? Repo structure? Service architecture? It&#x2
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Comparing it to Jonestown is ludicrous. Most of America didn't pack up and follow them out. A more similar comparison would be the flight from MySpace or Digg. One day those places just weren't it, and everyone was talking about h
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
You've been duped. Your information environment sounds very narrow, and you may be over valuing information from people who are politically similar (I believe some people call this an "echo chamber", but I'm not fond o
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Damn, got me with the "understanding and being critical of the media you watch is how they get you". Are you ok over there? It sounds like you might need some help...
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Trusting Alex Jones is a bold strategy. And not one for anyone who has any media literacy, but you do you!
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
You seem to think that I care about the audience. It's funny because it's a puppeteer piloting the shambling corpse of Jones's products around to mock him. A constant reminder of his failure he'll see every day.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Oh no, far to the contrary, this is funny as hell. The fact that Alex Jones isn't there makes it even funnier. And they got all of the stuff and the brands. The chemical brands, the infowars brands, all of it.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
I don't think that follows are all, actually. I might give something away and say, "support my patreon" or "buy me a beer" or "contribute back" or "pay for support". You might expect that any arb
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
It's anarchism, my friend. Not the purge style anarchism, but the academic Kropotkin "Conquest of Bread" style of anarchism. And it's existed many times in human history, it just is fairly antagonistic with capitalism, s
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
This is laughable. Like, yes, free software is better and open source is a capitalist spin. But these problems still impact free software. AWS can still exploit the labor of free software engineers and profit while not giving those devs a
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
Pretty sure they don't delete your account, right? Just change the name to some gibberish and overwrite your password hash, so no one can find the account by name.
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
I'm a game dev, and it's useful for me to have stats about how frequently abilities are used, what items players use, etc. to tune game systems. I've often thought it would be really easy to collect telemetry-- send a json bl
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by bcdtttt 2y ago
I think you've drawn the wrong conclusion. Just because a life has a step early in the process of forming that includes an egg and a sperm does not mean that it is a living thing at that point. You are affirming the consequent here, wh