I was amazed by the first movie’s side plot about Billy’s birth mother. Both that it was a dark but realistic place, and that they handled it so sensitively. It was an odd fit with the tone of the movie but paid off for me.
Did AVClub just publish an interesting retrospective essay that isn’t clickbait about some topic-of-the-day?? Does The Herb know you snuck this through?
They’re still trying to figure out how to legislate the last couple decades worth of technological advancement, and since few of them can be assed to actually learn anything about what they vote on, they defer to the lobbyists and committee consultants (former or future lobbyists) to simply tell them whatever they’re…
Hey, how do you confuse an AI?
Failing to properly legislate them DEFINITELY was a mistake.
Maybe creating AI tools like this was a fucking mistake.
I mean ACAB and all that, and definitely some % of cops do dream of the day they get to cap someone, but I’m not sure most do, given how many go their entire careers without ever even firing at someone (the vast majority, last I heard). In fact this actually points to an ACAB fact which is that the shootings that do…
I never believe a cop narrative, so I can’t speak to whether this dude pulled a gun or not. But he WAS driving around with a gun on his hip, and cops are very well known to kill people who are completely unarmed.
The fallacy here is that sovereign citizens would consider themselves exempt from any sort of gun control laws and would be armed anyway and would respond with lethal force in any attempt to impede them. Even if guns were absolutely banned today those dipshits would be armed and the result would be the same.
Excess violence?? You kidding me?? The guy tried to pull a gun on a bunch of police officers.
This is one of the core problems of the whole thing. People often talk about how in most countries, traffic cops don’t have guns. But unfortunately, in the United States, they kind of have to assume everyone they stop has a gun, because they COULD have a gun. So of course they have guns. It’s just classic escalation.
Sovereign Citizens and related movements don’t so much scream “mentally ill” as they scream “Nobody can tell me what to do”.
Note that for a European, it does not really sound like excessive violence in itself, more like violence constrained by the number of guns in circulation. Just sayin’, as the sayin’ goes..
Where’s the moral outrage about an obviously mentally ill person being unjustly kill by (multiple) police officers?
I went down that road at first, but upon seeing the footage and realizing that the officer had little time to react to what was likely a credible threat on their life...Its really hard to say they reacted too strongly. I wish they had tazed him, or used some other non-leathal form to subdue...but the reality is they…
Maybe, just maybe, if your country didn’t allow everyone - including this delusional kid - to wear a gun, shit like this wouldn’t happen. Without that gun on his hip, this probably ends with the kid getting some (well deserved) fines. Yeah, he was a fucking idiot, but that clearly isn’t yet a death penalty offence.
I feel aweful for everyone involved here. For the loss of life, for the loss of a son. For the officers who have to live with taking a life (leaving out whether or not it was justified...you still gotta live with that).
I just don’t get it. These people, so-called “sovereign citizens” and others, LOVE being in America, claim to be great patriots, but don’t believe that our government and laws apply to them at all? How does anybody get so deluded, so indoctrinated (because it’s not their own, spontaneous “research” that leads them to…
I feel torn, on the one hand: ACAB forever. On the other, if anyone is going to get shot at a traffic stop then one of these guys... y’know.