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And demilitarize them, as well.

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When they were young, "doctor" seemed a path to wealth, respect, and power, but as they matured some found an alternate route - politics.

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I doubt it. I don’t have the stats handy, but I’d be very surprised if a majority of police were military veterans. The military actually has rules of engagement.

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No.

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Richard Pryor once observed that mob stories “consisted of motherfuckers who died funny that they killed."This makes no sense to me. Anybody help me out?

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Yeah, I was hoping that would be a link to the observation in question, because I'm pretty sure there's at least one word missing or changed. But no joy.

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I hope someday “assholes with flags“ will be a phrase that needs explaining. “Wait, they had flags in their assholes?”“No no no, they were right wing jerks and they had flags and they were violent and dangerous.” “What kind of flags?”“Regular American flags.”“How is that right wing?” The last bit is the optimistic fantasy part. 😌

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Pryor was talking about guys like Tommy from Goodfellas who told stories intended to be humorous, but which were actually grotesque.

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Bad grammar, I guess it means they were telling stories about people they killed who died in a funny way. Example: Alice and Bob shot at Charlie at the same time, and purely accidentally each of the bullets entered exactly through Charlie's nipples. If you are a callous murderer this is what passes for humour.

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Eh, negotiating as a group is another benefit of unions, and while weaker without the stick of strikes, it is still more effective than individual negotiation. If only because it means everyone knows what everyone else makes, there is no secrecy to be abused by the bosses.

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All flags are nationalism, and nationalism is bad. Go do something and be proud of that instead of being proud of the accident of your birth location.

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Good idea. Every department will lose 10% of their funding for each case of police brutality. After 11 cases they will have to start paying to be violent assholes.

Obviously, each victim x cop combination will count as a seperate case. So if cop A and B are beating on civilians C and D then you will have 4 cases: AC, AD, BC, and BD.

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I don't think the police can bitch about people going to a protest armed for violence. hypocrisy much?

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You're my new favorite.

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Don't forget banana skins! And thumb tacks!

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