Just because they *FAILED* to overthrow a legitimately elected government because of their incompetence doesn’t mean they shouldn’t all be thrown in prison for the rest of their lives. Failure is not a defense of intent and actions. They intended to seize control. They tried to seize control. Just like an attempted…

But then they’re not slaving away for the Corporate America meat grinder! What about Quarterly Earnings reports! Profit margins! Won’t someone think of the billionaires?!

Admittedly unions in other sectors probably don’t have the same sorts of liability, but if you make it so that unions that defend people who steal money or embezzle are liable to repay that money, it would have a chilling effect on the power of unions to protect people from wrongful terminations.

Yup. That could have easily gotten someone killed, and anyone who has been paying attention to law enforcement ‘priorities’ over the last decade (at least) knows exactly which ‘someone’ it would have been — the innocent black man.

Again, until the cost of defending these ‘officers’ comes out of *UNION* coffers, the incentive structure is completely misaligned with good public service. Fired officers don’t pay union dues anymore. Hired ones do. The incentive is to keep every officer working, no matter how awful they are, because the awful ones…

“What if there’s a problem?”

So ‘black’ being the only thing he had in common with the description given to the officers was is totally good enough to arrest and detain someone for nearly a month.

There are two things that are a good gage to just how screwed up the government of a country (or state or city) is — the scope of its homeless and impoverished populations. If they can’t address issues that simple, then there’s an iceberg of other issues going unaddressed as well, because the focus is not on serving…

Having worked in exactly that kind of situation, I can confirm it routinely goes haywire when people in critical roles go on vacation for more than a day or two (ie long weekends). And whenever I went on vacation, nobody else could do what I did, so all the work that came in while I was away was waiting for me when I…

Because the people ‘at the top’ almost never got there by being good, smart, ethical people. They got there by being selfish, self-centered assholes. And since they’re still getting their fat paychecks, the ‘problem’ is somebody else’s.

Poking fun at a social issue respectfully? Okay, sure. Making fun of a social issue after it’s been resolved? Sure, whatever. Being foul and crass about a social issue that’s killing people on a daily basis? Not. Okay. Not ever. Just like it’s not ‘okay’ or ‘funny’ to point and laugh as cops beat and kill an unarmed…

“Those who do not learn from history...” and all that.

You know the spuds the grow off a potato left to its own devices? Yeah, ya know, the dick-taters. That’s also Trump...a dick-tater, a little spud growing off America’s conservative ass from being left to its own devices for too long.

So, sober drivers are 100% safe all the time, huh? Oh, wait, nope. Your desperate attempt to justify an inexcusable attitude is still showing.

Oh! Good to know! All I have to do to protect myself from drunk drivers is don’t be one myself!

Yup. It’s not an either/or scenario. It absolutely can be both. Furthermore, with evidence this damning, the officer should have been immediately terminated and charges of assault or (more appropriately) attempted murder filed against him.

Not really. Because we’re going to have a massive surge of transmission vectors to bring covid right to everyone’s doorstep. Again.

And I’m sure you’re one of those people who thinks that drunk driving is no big deal either. Because how dare police officers pull people over for driving while under the influence! It only kills ~10,000 people per year.

This from the same group of people who are more than happy to completely overwrite the chapters of American history where the “Great White Saviors” butchered millions of Native Americans and black slaves. So, really, is the fact that they’re trying to rewrite the Holocaust out of existence any surprise? Historical…

Unless, of course, the black man was shot seven times in the back by a cop who ‘felt’ ‘threatened.’ Then it’s totally justified, and no charges will filed.