It’s the same tactic children employ when they throw tantrums in a grocery store. They wager they can make a fuss big enough so that it’s just easier for parents to give them what they want and carry on with their day.

Idk, I had shitty parents and I’m not a fucking Nazi. At some point personal responsibility is a thing, and it literally takes zero effort to not be a fascist.

Again… I’m not sure that officers would follow the orders even if you could find a police chief willing to stand up to the fraternal orders.

We’re in the age old “who watches the watchmen” scenario. Politicians over decades have empowered the police to protect their classes self interest to the point where we don’t really have a way to control them any more.

You’re commenting on an edit

Do you not stand by your edit, what’s the problem here?

I can excuse your tone

You just can’t muster a rebuttal?

late to the party

Lol, now that’s some weak loser shit. Why even respond if you don’t have anything to say that actually defends your claims?

Adding a positive is positive, reducing a negative is also a positive. I’m reducing a negative by asking these helpless bleating losers to be less unhelpful and vocal.

Lol, telling someone who is claiming the solution is to convince people to vote a loser is positive?

I mean that’s just the truth… You can’t make changes to the organization of the executive branch without securing the support of both the executive and Congress.

Maybe instead of loosing your shit about people being looser doomers, you might just want to read a book about civics.

It would be nice… But I think we’re running into politicians discovering that the American police state is above the law.

I don’t think anyone wants to address the elephant in the room that even if the governor of a state had the balls to order state police to arrest ice agents, they wouldn’t obey the order.

Cops in Minnesota have already released press statements that they side with “law enforcement”, and you really can’t prosecute anyone if you aren’t able to detain them in the first place.

States need to start banning police fraternities and unions and firing any cop who isn’t willing to follow the rule of law.

In extreme cases we’re starting to see now, I’d say if given an order to fire upon US citizen protesters, I’d hope the soldiers would have common sense in knowing that’d be illegal.

I think even if someone had the notion that it’s an illegal order, I would bet they’d still follow it. The military has made it very clear over the decades that they will protect soldiers following illegal orders before they protect soldiers disregarding illegal ones.

“i was just following orders” does not hold up in a tribunal sense.

The problem being that US soldiers are immune from prosecutions from international courts. The government has illicitly stated that we would invade the Hague before allowing a US military member be tried before their courts.

International courts of justice are largely a legal farce that allow countries to transmute their hard power into soft power to influence geopolitics.

Our laws are clear. You can refuse illegal orders.

I mean that’s kind of a cop out that relies on the least educated people in the chain of command to not only successfully refuse an illegal order, but to defend its legality in a court where you’re guilty until proven innocent.

If scotus and other federal judges take weeks/months to deliberate if these are actually illegal orders, I’m not exactly confident that a bunch of privates and specialist are going to figure it out in the moment.

Lol, so your claim is that people with excessive cholesterol levels require it because they are making more brain…?

No is claiming you shouldn’t have any cholesterol in your blood, just that there isn’t reason to have an elevated amount.

If your body actually needed the excess lipids being produced it wouldn’t be saturated in the blood, it would be getting used.

The body literally makes it because you need it

For what?

People with high cholesterol live longer…

I don’t think that’s really a conclusive study. It only focuses on people who are already 80 or older and ignores the majority of people who suffer from cardiovascular issues that don’t make it to their eighties because of it.

From this study you could also conclude that people who have a natural resistance to high cholesterol live longer.

Youd wanna lower arterial plaque so cholesterol doesnt get stuck?

Plaque forms when cholesterol lodges to the walls of arteries. This happens at a greater rate when you have more lower density cholesterol in your blood.

An arterial calcium scan is the best indicator for heart disease etc. Not cholesterol

But calcium buildups are formed from clacified plaque, which is made from cholesterol…

If all forms of high cholesterol were really beneficial Americans would modern day Methuselahs.

You mean the guy whose sole talent in life has been being childhood friends with a Getty oil heir …has a bias towards fossil fuels? Shocked.

Its crazy that all you have to do to become governor of California is have your rich friend buy you a winery and then cheat on your wife a bunch. The man can’t even read.

Kinda a crazy move considering that they were charging 8k for “fsd” before, and are moving to a monthly subscription of a hundred bucks a month.

You would have to own your Tesla for six and a half years for them to make the same return. My guess is that the hundred dollars a month is just the initial price which will drastically inflate over time. That or they are just going to raise prices by 8k and still charge you a subscription cost anyways…

If anything I think it just shows that it’s impossible to reduce something like a government into something as binary as good and bad.

You could accurately claim that all governments do bad things… But claiming all governments are bad or even that there is such a thing as a good government is pretty nonsensical imo.

A state could still claim you as a resident if you meet certain criteria. You don’t get to unilaterally decide if you are a resident or not.

Plus, what’s the point of wanting billionaires to stay in your state if they aren’t being taxed?

Why do they always look like they volunteered to be hall monitors in highschool?

That’s the fairy tale we teach to perpetuate the ugly reality. Since the late 19th century the police have evolved to replace the privatized security wealthy magnates used to have to hire at their own expense.

Instead of spending a small fortune to hire the pinkertons or burns security, the wealthy of America developed a way to socialize the expense of systemically abusing workers and protecting the status quo.

It’s pretty obvious what the intent and purpose of police really are when you look at the chain of custody of people facing trial. During the process of arrest and sentencing, police officers have the lowest education requirement but the most leeway to influence your future.

Prosecutors, clerks, and judges all have set rules that dictate the limitations of their decisions. However, the police have the ability to simply not arrest anyone, or arrest a completely innocent person. What else is an attack dog without a trainer or leash but a weapon of terror?

Apparently three separate video angles and testimony from half a dozen witnesses is no longer enough evidence to conduct an investigation…

I feel like 10-15 years ago Waffle House was a really decent greasy spoon diner for the money. I remember being able to get an all star special for five bucks. I just looked it up and they’re wanting $13-14 now…

Tbf she’s not actually wealthy. Her father was at one point, but his business empire collapsed into debt. She’s just a heiress with no inheritance who had lots of connections with wealthy people.

See your honor… We’ve run into a problem. They actually don’t even make jails for rich white women.