ITT: Guy who can't spell thinks all people receiving healthcare subsidies are "to lazy to work."
ITT: Guy misunderstands that healthcare subsidies are only available for people with five figures of earned income.
ITT: Guy is predictable as ****.
These parts of the Affordable Care Act were very well conceived. They identified and fixed real problems faced by Americans of all political persuasions.
In which "patriotism" is defined as one's ability to sing a song and look at a flag whilst standing, and not defined as "making a sacrifice for the good of my American neighbor who may otherwise die without his subsidized insurance."
That's not the ******* job, you twit.
If that's the job, then we can stop giving these high school flunkies $30k/year and just use drones. With the stuff Google's doing, drones are probably smarter than cops at this point.
No. I never made that statement. You made that statement on my behalf because it's an easy one to argue against. The old Strawman fallacy on full display.
It's interesting to watch you wiggle. The misdirection you're employing here is telling.
You made the statement that it's not...
This is ********. We are talking about situations wherein cops respond to people with knives. Individual people. With knives. In that scenario, the crime rate in both Europe and the US is 100%. And the rate of people having a gun is 0%.
My question to you was simple--why can Europeans expect...
Why do you insist I have lower expectations for American police officers than people in Europe have for their police officers?
And I think cops take great liberty with the phrase "threatening or harmful manner."
I would hope not.
Of course, nothing says, "I'm in policing to do the right thing and I'm definitely not drawn to the death and destruction of it all" like a picture of a skull with a blue line going through it.
If police officers are going to respond to the sight of a knife by shooting the thing holding the knife, without using any discretion or judgment or using any skill to disarm the single pocket knife wielder, then why not just have drones carry out policing? It would be way cheaper.
It's your position that I should hold citizens, who are just average people without the right to arrest other people, to the same standard as police officers?
Excellent example of the sort of ******** that justifies everything I wrote above.
No. I'll hold you to a higher standard. Because...
My critique is of the culture surrounding police officers, in which low salaries are paid for bad work to attract people who have no other options. Then those people are trained badly and told, over and over, that every person is looking to harm them. Then they aren't held accountable for their...
There's a seriously long distance between FBI agents and your local cops on patrol.
Notice I did not say all law enforcement. Federal agents are usually sharp, smart, qualified people who are really good at life. Notice that Secret Service people don't typically kill people unless there is a...