I didn't ask you. This was a question for CountryCouple54.

I don't know what you're on about now, but none of it makes sense.

I know that they are trained to OVER-react. That's the whole problem.
Our cops are trained to de-escalate. That is safer for everyone involved.
It does help that our cops don't have to assume that everyone has a gun.

It's not very very few, it's lots and lots of times. The problem with right-wing Americans is that it has to happen to YOU or someone you love, before you
see the problem. As long as problems hasn't affected you personally,
you're unable to accept reality.

YouTube is full of actual cases of people who were just minding their own business getting a cop in their face for nothing. They get shouted at in a way like "Don't enter that house!" or "Don't touch that car!". If they then say "But that's my house!" or "But, that's my car!", that is "Resisting arrest" according to the cop, for which he arrests them and put them in front of a judge, demanding 6 months in jail. There's a legal channel showing all those cases, for people who didn't do anything wrong, but were confronted with a cop in an completely over-excited state. That can happen to anyone. If you just live in the same neighborhood as a criminal, or he's looking for someone of your color, size and age, or he's looking for a car that has the same color as your car, he assumes you are the perp he's looking for on the weakest of evidence. That's super dangerous to your health. You better freeze and do exactly as he says, because one move can be your last.

Are you like phart, that you would defend every action from a cop, arresting, beating up or killing a citizen, when you can find the smallest detail to say that the citizen didn't immediately and fully cooperate with the cop, so it's the fault of the citizen?

You: "I didn't hear the cop, because I wore headphones!"
Phart: "Well, that's your own fault for wearing headphones outside!"
Now you're going to jail for six months for disobeying an officer.

Or, you ask Saint Peter at the Pearly gates: "Why am I here? What killed me?"
Saint Peter: "A cop shot you, because you didn't hear his order!"

Is that a world you want to live in?

Can't you see how biased you are? People need to do this and that and be ready
to grovel to a cop at second notice, or it's their fault when a cop arrests them,
beats them up or kills them. That's not normal, phart! That's not freedom!

That's not a system that you should defend.
That's not a world that you should want to live in.

Anyone else agree with phart still, or is this making sense to you, at all?
Didn't you once call America "the land of the free"? Is this freedom to you?

In his capacity as an official! He still has the right to sue people who defame him PERSONALLY, he can just not use THE GOVERNMENT to crack down on people who have criticism of how he behaves OFFICIALLY.

That would be the stupidest loophole to completely destroy the First Amendment ever. What would be left of it, if a politician could just say "they offended me",
and then use the power of the government to crack down on a citizen.

You really do not understand what your founding fathers intended.

In the five years since he was granted limited protected status. Abrego García was granted lawful status in 2019 to live and work in the U.S. by the Immigration Court under the Department of Justice when Trump was president. He has never been convicted of a crime.

I thought the series called "Lucifer" would be dumb, but this is interesting:
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They are not bankrupt, they are just shutting down, because they see a bad future.
If they had confidence that Trump's ideas would be good for them, why would they stop?

TAXES!
Poor people are a burden to an economy, middle class people pay LOTS OF TAXES.
Middle class people also SPEND a lot, which is very important for your economy, since the reciprocal tariffs to Trump's tariffs are destroying your export.

Why are you only for investments when rich selfish assholes do it, to benefit themselves? What's sooooooo bad about public investments, to benefit ALL?

Rodney King broke the law, so he should have been apprehended. Disobeying cops is not a reason for them to kill you. There was no one in mortal danger in that situation, it was just fascists cops thinking disrespecting them is a capital offense.

Again, you are making my point; I told you that bad cops should lose their jobs. That means overaggressive cops and that means cowardly cops.
Serve and protect or find another job. Why do you keep disagreeing?

That's not a point that is in any way relevant.
We have criminals too, but our police doesn't harm or kill innocent citizens.

How many times should I tell you that the police should protect and serve
the citizens, instead of prioritizing THEIR lives over the lives of citizens?
That's exactly what happened in Texas, which proves MY point, not yours.

Manufacturing jobs on a small island can only exist with very low wages, because the costs of transportation are so high. They would all be working, making other people wealthy, but not themselves.
Private investments will just make the private investors rich, not the people. They need public investments increasing their economy, so they can invest in themselves.

What point am I missing? That being a cop is dangerous?
I just told you how many other jobs are MORE dangerous.

You're not adding anything to your original point to make it stronger,
you're just repeating your original point, which I have already rejected.

What's the difference between a "work accident" and a cop getting killed?
The end result is DEATH. In both cases the "employer" didn't intend it.

Risk = Frequency X Consequence
Other jobs result in a higher frequency of the consequence death
Other jobs ALSO result in a higher frequency of other consequences,
like serious injuries or disability.

Cops having a dangerous job is no reason to increase danger to innocent citizens.

Our cops are better funded than your cops.
We just don't allow them to be judge, jury and executioner.

What are you trying to point out with your Texas example?
That's your cops failing to do their work, due to a society problem.
It's a society problem that YOU have and we DON'T.
We don't allow people to own military weapons, to make our cops fail at their job.

Trump cannot sue people for speaking in such a way that it harms his reputation,
as you say, because he's the representative of the government now, not a person.

How would you have liked it if Biden had people arrested for harming his reputation?
Maybe with that example you understand how dumb your idea is.

You lack the basic understanding about the First Amendment.
It protects PEOPLE from the GOVERNMENT,
NOT the GOVERNMENT from the PEOPLE.

"Death to the Jews" is indeed hate speech, because it is a "protected group".
"Death to the Americans" is NOT hate speech, because you are not a "protected group". Discrimination is about exclusion. You're ALL Americans.
It could very well be considered a THREAT, but NOT discrimination.
You don't understand discrimination laws either.

You can copy-paste facts to me, but YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THOSE FACTS.
There is NOTHING in the points you posted that contradicts what I said.

You cannot deny the right to protest to a group, when individuals are using hate speech, you can only sue the individuals for that hate speech.

There are laws that allow the government to assign other locations for protests,
but those are strictly limited. And they are banning protests all together.

In any case, Trump is not allowed to EXTORT publishers to ban books.
Those books he's banning do NOT contain ANY discrimination or threats or any other limitation to free speech, they just criticize him and your politics. That's the definition
of protected speech, and what Trump does is a crime against the First Amendment,
BY DEFINITION.

Deporting LEGAL immigrants for ANYTHING, without due process is also a CRIME.
A LEGAL immigrant doesn't turn into an illegal, when he has a "MOM" tattoo.
Do not lie again that you're only deporting ILLEGALS, because you're CLEARLY NOT.

There is nothing like that in the law. The law protects your right to speak freely from
the GOVERNMENT, not other people. And you're not free to say anything you want,
because other people have 1st amendment protection, from your defamation, discrimination, threats, fighting words (although rarely applied), obscenity (hard to define), doxing, false advertising / fraud and cyberbullying.

The government is NOT protected against the speech of people. It only works ONE WAY.
You can say whatever you want about the government or the country and they are NOT allowed to punish you for it. If they do, than THAT is the crime.

Taping your mouth shut is assault, you're already protected against that. Other than using force, people have all the right not to listen to you or to prevent you from speaking in a private setting. You don't have a right to use a private platform. Your right to speak your mind is only applicable to PUBLIC platforms. That's where you have free speech, that can only be limited if you break the law.

How are they promoting an anti-American agenda and what limits of free speech
are they crossing? They are pointing out that the US is supporting a genocide,
that's your side being anti-American. Trump is EXTORTING publishers to ban books.
That's not just anti-American, that's criminal.

The rest of what you're saying is straw-manning. It's not hatred of America or Jews,
it's condemning war crimes and fascism. Trump is deporting people for legitimate protected speech. Attacking that is anti-American.

It's very simple; if your government considers someone's speech law-breaking,
they should indict the person and a judge will decide if the speech is law-breaking.
The methods Trump is using is authoritarianism, and 100% against the first amendment.
He doesn't use the legal route, because he knows he would lose.

By the way, the American government can ONLY sue a citizen over speech in very limited circumstances, and it must meet strict legal standards because of the First Amendment
of the U.S. Constitution, which strongly protects free speech.

Do you even care about your First Amendment and laws, or am I wasting my time?

Yes, and when any of those people who have other jobs are bad at their jobs, they get fired. When bad doctors are causing deaths, the system cracks down on them and they are gone. If cops are causing people to die, they should be gone too.

Being a cop is certainly not a safe job, but their risk is far less than lots of other jobs, while they're causing much higher risks to other people in their jobs.
Cops are not even in the Top 10 of most dangerous jobs.
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There are 49.6 million teacher interactions every day in the United States.
There are almost as many teachers killed on the job as cops. Is that an argument?
Do you allow teachers to shoot students, for not following their orders?
Do you ever hear about the good related to teachers? I guess not lately, in the US.

Do you want a doctor, who was fired from several hospitals for killing patients by gross neglect of their responsibility, operating on you? That's the system that you willingly allow for cops. The bad ones get protected. You deserve better, so demand better!

The laughing icon shows me that even you don't believe that.

What did the Democrats do, to make them fear little white girls?

That's a YOU problem.
Create a country where cops have a REASON to be afraid,
and you'll have a reason to be afraid of those cops.

Then there are lots of cops that act out on people who do exactly as they are told. These cops are clearly not qualified to be a cop, but they get transferred from precinct to precinct, instead of getting fired permanently. That's because you keep supporting politics that let the cops worry only about themselves and not about you. Why do you keep supporting policies that screw you?

He had his headphones on! Also, deaf people exist! Cops should know that.
I know you don't care, because he was black, but things like this happen
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Do you think she was doing anything wrong?
No reason to be afraid, right?


Police Shooting Kills Unarmed Deaf Man
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Deaf Man Dies After Being Shot By Police Multiple Times
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Cops Tased and Arrested Deaf Driver for Not Following Orders
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Former metro officer weighs in on deadly shooting of deaf, nonverbal man
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Not just people either: Old, Blind, Deaf Dog Shot Dead by Cop Thinking It Was Rabid
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This is happening so often in your country, that deaf people are now communicating ways to each other to not get killed by police, as a result of being deaf.
"After Deaf Man Is Killed By Cop, Here's How Hearing Impaired Drivers Can Be Safe"
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Don't you understand how fucked up that is?


Cops should shoot for only one reason; if they don't, someone else will die in the next second. That's it! No bullshit like "He looked like a threat!" or "He didn't follow orders!". If one cannot do their job of serving and protecting, go find another job, in an office somewhere, like I do. Or be a waiter, or a mechanic, or a dentist.
Only be a cop if you respect people's lives and honor the badge that people allow
you to wear. And you should respect yourself, by demanding respect FROM police,
not FOR police.

I know many of you don't like him anymore, but who makes jokes like this?
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He's being offensive to everyone, but he's allowed, because he doesn't just kick down,
like most anti-SJW and anti-woke 'comedians'. Hate isn't humor, humor is humor.

I know you like this. I'm talking to people who care about human dignity.

People don’t grasp that free speech is to protect you from government backlash for your speech, not social backlash. Right-wingers genuinely can’t tell the difference. Free speech of the right isn’t under attack, it just turns out a lot of people don’t want to listen to bigots.

Meanwhile, Trump is defunding universities for not doing what he wants, which is return to
a time when black people had no chance to achieve anything, just because of the color of their skin.

Meanwhile, Trump is threatening Amazon with pulling government contracts, if they don't ban books he doesn't like.

Trump is literally ripping up the first amendment, but right-wingers are crying about being called stupid, racist or sexist, when they are saying stupid, racist, sexist bullshit 24/7.

This isn't fiction, things like this happen every day.
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Another video of the Christian evolution scientist, reacting to a creationist.
This time, he's reacting to him disputing that birds evolved from dinosaurs.
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This is why society has created laws, regulation and agencies like the FDA to enforce those laws and regulation. Modern civilization is dependent on cooperation, which is the opposite of doing and making everything ourselves. Because, when we developed cooperation wider than just our immediate family, we couldn't all just trust each other. That's why humanity developed rules and punishment. We have the police, because without them no one would get caught when they brake the law.
If you want to be able to buy food from manufacturers with an incentive to produce it as cheaply as possible, or sell product that is expired or contaminated, you need rules and regulation against selling product that could harm you. Then you need some organization to enforce those rules and regulation. If that works well, you do know what you're eating, even if you didn't produce it yourself. Actually, you know better than when you produce it yourself, because you wouldn't do an E. coli test every time you slaughtered an animal. In history, people died a lot from the food that they produced themselves.

I don't want to live in the middle ages. I am a modern human, supporting the optimization of civilization, to produce high quality products, efficiently, safely and sustainably. I don't want to go back to the middle ages, when we needed to work the land all day, to do only a bit better than not starving to death, if everything went well.
I don't understand your ideas that everything was better, back then.
Looking an animal in the eye as its life is being taken, was one of their least concerns. They had to look most of their children in the eye, when one of their lives was being taken, every god-damn winter, from some random bacteria, virus or mold.
If you want the future to be like the history that humans left, you're on the right path.

"Evolutionary Biologist Reacts to Creationists Arguments".
He's reacting to the claim that the eye is irreducibly complex.
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By the way, he's a Christian, he's just not a young earth creationist Christian.

A science question for the people here;

Do you know what a rainbow weighs?
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Nothing, it's pretty light.


Didn't make it up myself, it was just one of the jokes Creaky Blinder™ always ends with. This was the one I just watched:
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That's a cool use of math. Fractals are very interesting.
I listened to all of the music, but I stopped watching soon,
because that's an overload of the brain. I guess, if they put
some hidden messages in, your brain will eat it like candy.

Damn good piece of trance music though. I put it in my favorites.

When Obama became president, ALL Republicans and Tea baggers
were screaming from the rooftops: "Obama will tear up the constitution!",
"He'll never leave!", "He'll declare himself king!!".
For Trump: Check, check, and check.

Deathly silence from those Republicans and Tea baggers now.
You lot are all telling on yourself.

Trump only tells the truth accidentally. Everything he says intentionally are lies.

It's also possible that he's creating some relief in the markets, to allow the stocks
to go back up again, and make a lot of money on stocks for himself and his friends.
It's easy to make a lot of money from the stock market, if you control the policies
to make it crash and recover, at will.
It's fucking corrupt, but Trump doesn't give a fuck about that.

There is still more of you than there are of them.
MAGA pretends half the country voted for Trump, but that's nonsense.
Many people have lost all trust in any government and didn't vote at all.
That doesn't mean they want a fascistic oligarchy. They are on your side.
How many MAGA hatters would actually fight for billionaires, instead of for themselves?
No, I think, when it's time for the pitchforks, your revolution will succeed.
Just look at the millions of people who are protesting this evil regime.

Why do you think Trump appointed all those judges?

Tariffs are income taxes. Trump has put income taxes on all goods entering your country. In response to that, all those other countries have or will put income taxes
on all your goods. If that lowers some prices, like when demand drops for certain products, that will be temporary. The producers will sell less product, so they will lower their production and raise their prices to make the same profits. They will also need to fire employees, because they don't need all of them, when they produce less.
They cannot make their factories smaller, to reduce non-personnel operating costs,
so their margins will become smaller. Their product will become more expensive,
if they want to raise prices or not.

Trump put tariffs on everything, even coffee and bananas. Let's use them as an example. You cannot grow coffee and bananas, so all American products made with coffee and bananas will become more expensive for Americans and who ever you want to export these products to. When you export them, those products become even more expensive, because all those countries will tariff your products. They don't have the same tariffs on importing coffee and bananas and they don't have the same tariffs when they export them to anyone besides the US. Do you think you can undercut their prices, by a 2x tariffs amount? How much cheaper do your employees need to work, to compete with the rest of the world, that doesn't tariff each other?

That's not an argument, the dipstick was your democratically elected president.
It now belongs to Panama, end of story. The Panama canal also doesn't belong
to Russia, China or Zambia. If they shut it down, it's up to Panama to resolve that problem. If they cannot, it's an act of aggression against Panama. I'm sure they would want your country to come to their defense then.

Just because Cheetolini doesn't understand that, doesn't mean you should adopt his nonsense.

The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90% —
And That’s Made the U.S. Less Secure
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Everyone here belongs to that Bottom 90%, but you keep supporting your own exploitation.
That's because the people who exploit you can afford great advertising.
They have spent billions in advertising LIES, that made them TRILLIONS.

That's not happening at the moment. You are claiming prices are going down NOW.
Do you understand CAUSE AND EFFECT?

It's only Americans who think you can demand something back, after you give it away.

The Panama canal was made to ship goods quickly and cheaply between
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. You can still do that. Why do you need to own it?
It's only because your stupid cult leader tells you.

Did any of you know how Trump came up with the idea for tariffs?

He had Jared Kushner investigate a good trade policy program, for his first campaign.
Jared just looked for books in the economy section of Amazon, and found a book.
He didn't read any of the books, he just looked at covers, and he liked the book titled
"Death by China", by Peter Navarro, who later became Trump's key trade adviser.

In that book, Navarro introduced a character named Ron Vara, who was portrayed as a seasoned economist offering critical insights into China's economic practices. However, investigative reports later revealed that Ron Vara was not a real person but an alias created by Navarro himself. The name "Ron Vara" is an anagram of "Navarro," and he used this pseudonym across multiple publications to present viewpoints aligning with his own perspectives on China's trade practices.

So, now you have a president, who implemented the economic vision, of the alter-ego
of a paranoid schizophrenic. This is a RECORD LEVEL OF INCOMPETENCE.

Yes, stop meddling in Canada, Mexico, Panama, Greenland, Iran, Yemen and Palestine.
China has pulled more people out of poverty than you would ever want to.
Tell the billionaires you worship to do actual jobs that require physical effort.

Do you understand CAUSE AND EFFECT? There is NONE in your claim.
There is no economic rule linking your chaos with lower prices for oil and gas.

Sometimes prices go up, sometimes prices go down. Trump didn't do this.
What he did do is just cause a global stock market crash, due to a trade war.
Those trade wars will make everything more expensive for those families.
People will lose their jobs. Even if some production is coming back to the US,
that will take YEARS. Meanwhile, your economy is going down the drain,
because other countries will trade less with the US. International trade is based
on trust, for a big part, and no one can trust your country now.

Those are probably all rich kids. You have them too.

PV Solar and onshore wind are already cheaper than ALL other forms of energy.
Coal is about THREE TIMES more expensive.
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Since when do you care what workers are getting paid?
Actually, the manufacture of solar panels is a high skilled job and even in China
the workers who make them are likely paid higher than average wage for a worker.
Most of it is automated. The workers are just machine operators.
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It's exactly the type of production that you say you want back in the US.

Mining coal is an incredibly unhealthy job. It's also very labor intensive. Coal mines
in the US were going out of business, because it's a financially nonviable business.
They only tried to keep the industry alive by exploiting the workers and ignoring safety
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Let Rand Paul tell you how tariffs work.

WATCH: Republican Senator Absolutely SLAMS Trump's Tariff Plan
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Oh, good, it's all back to normal then.

Thanks for the compliment.
I'm definitely left field, but you have me defending CAPITALISM right now.
I'm just explaining what's happening, can you?

You have always been a staunch defender of capitalism and you hate socialism.
Trump is doing something that's not capitalism and not socialism.
Can you tell me what it is that he's trying to implement and why you support it?

You should care, because deporting people who no one cares about is always the start of horrible shit you WILL care about.

How did they become "prisoners"? They were rounded up on the streets, for not looking white enough. A whole lot of them were LEGALLY staying in your country. That's your country breaking the law, not those people. If you don't care about the law, when it should protect other people, it won't be there for you, when you need it.

Oh sure,that's all they are doing now. Don't be ridiculous.

Do you think that's what people are protesting, in 50 states?

Many Americans are already working second and third jobs. Didn't you know that?
That's something we don't see in Europe, or WAY less.

You are bett1ng on the idea that those stocks will go up one day.
What is the route to recovery that you see? Explain the logic.

The idea is that tariffs will return production to the US, right?
Who is going to do those jobs? The unemployment rate in 2024 was 3.7%.
You are most likely counted as 1 of those 3.7%. Just like fat MAGA moms.
How many millions of immigrants did Trump want to deport?
First you need to fill all the jobs that those immigrants were doing.
Then where do you find the workers to do those production jobs?

And then I would like you to explain who's going to buy those American products?
You can forget about all the countries you just tariffed.
Do you think Asia will ever need what you are making?
In Europe, we can make those products cheaper in our own countries.
Just because the US tariffed everyone, doesn't mean they'll tariff each other.
The result is that the US either makes, sells and buys its own products, or you think you can out-compete the global market by still being cheaper, after tariffs.
It must be the last option, because you don't want wages to go up.
Without wages rising, you won't have Americans who can afford those products.
So, you think you can make those products cheaper and better than China.
-> Americans need to work harder and more efficient than Chinese people.

Another alternative is only making high-tech, high-value products.
You need highly educated technicians to build that production infrastructure.
Trump is destroying education as we speak, so that's not going to happen.

You are towards an economy of dumb workers, who are paid less than Chinese people and work harder, thinking you can out-compete China, while China is heavily investing in education and innovation. Do you want to switch positions with China from a few decades ago?

I'm asking you all of this, because I want you to show that you put any thought
to the future of your country and the choices you make as a voter.