In other words, they’re only interested in punishing the ones that get caught, and they’ll only process it well after it’s happened so they can just deliver a slap on the wrist.

By definition, you can only punish the ones that get caught.

I don’t.

I’m a bit clumsy (ADHD) and having a cable attached to my body attached to a €1000 device is asking for trouble. I hate the cable getting tangled up, caught on things etc.

I’m not sure which countries don’t - the UK doesn’t. Germany does.

But German police seem to be eminently better trained than the US cops.

None of the icons in this meme are classed as “unskilled labour”.

A farmer? a bricklayer? are you fucking joking?

Do you have any idea how much a bricky gets paid. Probably more than you.

Another classic case of arrogant internet socialists with zero real world experience letting the mask slip.

OK, but why do you think you’re paying teenagers to work in McDonalds and not courting the best neuro-surgeons and rocket scientists?

What is it about their relative skillsets?

Except there are plenty of jobs where ten years of experience doesn’t equate to ten years better at the job.

There’s an upper limit to how efficient you can become at say - cleaning offices or picking up litter, or picking apples.

The cost of a new hire versus someone with ten years worth of experience just isn’t worth it.

What about if instead of giving police a free reign to commit brutality, he said something like “we’re going to vastly increase the funding that goes towards quality training; we’re going to reduce reliance on old military weapons and tactics; there will be less lawsuits because our police will be given a quality education.”

How about wanting the police to be the best at their jobs, rather than the most brutal?

True. But it was left wingers who killed millions of Russians in gulags, who committed the Cambodian genocides, the long marches and purges of Maoist communism.

So maybe there’s something to be said for moderation eh?

One side is pure good and does nothing wrong! The other side is evil!

Mastadon is chock a block with far left crazies.

It doesn’t even matter. Hard right and hard left are all just fucking nut job low IQ idiots with different flavours of asshole populism.

Horseshoe theory is as clear as day to anyone not on the extremes.

I don’t think they are all the same, and not all of them cause “offence”.

“using the wrong tone” is by definition wrong, so of course it will cause confusion and irritation.

I’ve only ever heard left wingers claim that compromise is ‘blasphemy’ or that “center politics” is just for people who are too afraid to admit they are right wing.

Fuck, there’s even memes abotu being centrist is being OK with half the holocaust or the KKK.

Your comment is exactly the insane shrill partisan hackery that is the problem.

BAM - just immediately guns blazing accusing the other side of what your side is guilty of.

“matches that of Heinrich Himmler”, you mean the head of the SS and one of the main people behind the holocaust?

Have you ever considered that your life, and life in general would be better if you didn’t have such absurd and shrill opinions?

Obviously it sounds like the kind of thing that is happening.

For example that teacher in Canada who came to school worth enormous fake breasts.

That happened.

The annoying thing is these people never see themselves as the insufferable bores always taking about local politics.

It’s always really important.

It’s always that you’re a nazi if you don’t agree.

It’s just modern born-again Christians, who aren’t knocking on your door, they’re posting in your social Media.

If it were that simple, then it would be fine.

But the point is, people just start to label anything that whiffs of a different opinion as “intolerance”.

Then why don’t you ask Russia to withdraw, wouldn’t that be easier?

“let” Ukrainians.

Your patronising colonial mask is slipping.

Ukrainians have ASKED for these weapons so they can get rid of the murderous, child torturing Russians out of their country.

Stop amplifying the propaganda of child torturers.

Fascism was defeated in the UK by some clever jokes and having a monarchy.

The UK helped defeat a couple of fascist Regimes through spending the last power of the Empire on it.

Fascist Regimes were defeated, not the concept of fascism.

The concept of fascism is not defeated through violence, it is through education and debate.

You think some young nazi is going to wake up from a baseball to the head and think “oh wow, I was so wrong about the concept of ‘might makes right’”