You know what I'd fucking love, if just fucking once when one of these assholes says, "we need to have the conversations about" someone says, "okay, go ahead"
Why does this untalented, arrogant, jackass even have a national platform? He talks a lot, but he does nothing else, he just opens his pie hole and let the crap flow.
It’s well known that cops will do anything to rack up overtime. Lots of petty arrests happen at the end of their shift. All this bellyaching about how poor cops are. Derek Chauvin had a house in Florida. My coworkers who are married to police officers seem to have big houses in the suburbs and late model cars. I’m an RN married to an engineer and I drive a 2010 Camry (by choice).
Teachers are underpaid (especially today with the conservative war on public education), because their role in educating young people is vital to sustaining an informed, thoughtful and productive society. Police are vastly underpaid also, because the responsibility to de-escalate a volatile situation with people who may be intoxicated, mentally ill, aggressive, irrational or desperate is enormous, and complicated. Police are humans, and they are required to engage with people who often become adversarial, without knowing much about them, and while following protocols that dictate what they should and should not do. If better pay attracted better people, perhaps these horrifying incidents would decrease. Is Nichols’ death the result of 5 people who never should have been officers in the first place? Does the Memphis PD and other cities have such a shortage of uniformed officers they are forced to hire people who are themselves troubled and prone to abuse power? It’s hard to believe all 5 of these men are disturbed or deranged or sociopathic. Something else is going on. Some officers are learning to hate the people they are sworn to protect. If the stress or psychological demands of the job are such that this keeps happening, the entire system needs more study and massive reform. The mission needs to change. The relationship between public and police needs to change. And police of all ethnicities must stop seeing black people as “less than,” and therefore deserving of less compassion, patience and humanity.
Same reason that people who are even worse (Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, etc.) have platforms: his show makes money, he blames everyone except the rich and powerful, and some people are gullible and/or dumb enough to think he makes sense.
1. I'll bet much of the ruling class are happy with a society that's productive but not informed or thoughtful. They want us to be obedient little worker drones who never question anything.
2. After all these incidents, I think that a certain kind of person is attracted to police work and the military: violent sociopaths who want to kill and maim and get away with it. They know that for some people, the uniform excuses everything.
You know what I'd fucking love, if just fucking once when one of these assholes says, "we need to have the conversations about" someone says, "okay, go ahead"
"Realer" is the most Bill Maher word in the English language
Why does this untalented, arrogant, jackass even have a national platform? He talks a lot, but he does nothing else, he just opens his pie hole and let the crap flow.
I ignore Maher.
It’s well known that cops will do anything to rack up overtime. Lots of petty arrests happen at the end of their shift. All this bellyaching about how poor cops are. Derek Chauvin had a house in Florida. My coworkers who are married to police officers seem to have big houses in the suburbs and late model cars. I’m an RN married to an engineer and I drive a 2010 Camry (by choice).
I’m overworked and underpaid and have never killed anyone, or even beaten anyone bloody. I did once shatter someone’s patella when he attacked me.
"And this is an opportunity for us to have that conversation."
Which we should've first had about 60 years ago.
"Having a conversation" basically means "hope it dies down so those of us in power can continue to ignore it".
Teachers are underpaid (especially today with the conservative war on public education), because their role in educating young people is vital to sustaining an informed, thoughtful and productive society. Police are vastly underpaid also, because the responsibility to de-escalate a volatile situation with people who may be intoxicated, mentally ill, aggressive, irrational or desperate is enormous, and complicated. Police are humans, and they are required to engage with people who often become adversarial, without knowing much about them, and while following protocols that dictate what they should and should not do. If better pay attracted better people, perhaps these horrifying incidents would decrease. Is Nichols’ death the result of 5 people who never should have been officers in the first place? Does the Memphis PD and other cities have such a shortage of uniformed officers they are forced to hire people who are themselves troubled and prone to abuse power? It’s hard to believe all 5 of these men are disturbed or deranged or sociopathic. Something else is going on. Some officers are learning to hate the people they are sworn to protect. If the stress or psychological demands of the job are such that this keeps happening, the entire system needs more study and massive reform. The mission needs to change. The relationship between public and police needs to change. And police of all ethnicities must stop seeing black people as “less than,” and therefore deserving of less compassion, patience and humanity.
Same reason that people who are even worse (Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, etc.) have platforms: his show makes money, he blames everyone except the rich and powerful, and some people are gullible and/or dumb enough to think he makes sense.
1. I'll bet much of the ruling class are happy with a society that's productive but not informed or thoughtful. They want us to be obedient little worker drones who never question anything.
2. After all these incidents, I think that a certain kind of person is attracted to police work and the military: violent sociopaths who want to kill and maim and get away with it. They know that for some people, the uniform excuses everything.