https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_County_Police_Department
Wikipedia seems to think they still have a police department. So the police as an institution isn't being replaced, it's just being reformed. It's controlled by a different level of local government and it has different rules now, but it's still police. If this is what you're supporting, you're not for abolishment of police, you're for police reform. Which the US does heavily need. Abolishment of police means something else entirely.
So they didn't abolish the police, they reformed it. That doesn't disprove my statement, which in itself was not a shot at you, merely commentary on what you said.
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They are an emergent property of large social systems. Society will re-invent the role. We might as well fill the niche in a manner we want, instead of a manner we dont want.
And I don't disagree, I merely stated that police of some sort, regardless of name, is not just an emergent property, but also a necessity. I never said that the way Americans do policing is THE way to do it. I'm not American myself.
Firstly, we already live in a lawless society; see any of the actions Trump has taken since January. Its just a matter of “for whom does the law apply?”
That's more an America problem than a "police is inherently bad" problem if you ask me.
TL;DR: Yes, I agree, policing in the US needs heavy reforms. But the moment you go around saying "abolish the police", you're not talking about reforms, or at least that's not what most people are going to hear. They're going to think they're going to have to live in The Purge. So maybe stop referring to it that way and people will give your ideas, which are actually good, more consideration.
But countries with no history of slavery have police forces and prison systems. They are an emergent property of large social systems. Society will re-invent the role. We might as well fill the niche in a manner we want, instead of a manner we dont want.
I mean yeah, if you don't have means of enforcing law, the law becomes pointless, might as well abolish all laws.
And I mean that MIGHT be possible, but do we really want to test what it'd be like in a lawless society where it's probably going to be money and violence that decides who's right, kinda like now, but with no possibility of suing the people with money or violence, you could only respond with your own violence.
Replace it with what? Militsiya? Pretty much every country in the world calls their law enforcement "police" these days. I suppose there are some that have gendarmerie or carabinieri or similar, though those exist next to police rather than instead of them usually.
Best part is, they're either overreporting it, or they're legitimately dangerous to society from being so overworked in a job that already seems to put them on edge.
I have no quarrel with people being paid for their overtime (in fact, it would be shady for overtime to NOT be paid out), but I don't think 19 hours of overtime per week over the course of an entire year (or 20 if they take 2 weeks off a year) for police officers is OK. Tbh I don't think it's OK for anyone who doesn't earn dividends or bonuses based on company profits, but it's even less OK for police.
Okay, fuck it, I'm getting out of this software engineering thing, I'm moving to the US to become a cop. I think I'm white enough for Trump, definitely whiter than he is.
You're not going to play Witcher 4 because you don't like the games, I'm not going to play because my PC is aging and I feel new GPUs are so ridiculously overpriced, I don't want to replace my RTX 3060 ti anytime soon.
I've never read the books, but... It was clear from game 3 that she was going to play an important role in the future. The entire plot of the main campaign in Witcher 3 was about HER powers. The Wild Hunt wanted her, not Geralt.
Plus also she's awesome anyway. What the fuck is wrong with people? Oh I can't enjoy my vibeo game with a wahmen as main character, it'll ruin my mood!
Honestly I'd rather be looking at a cute girl dashing around than an old man, even if I identify more with the latter. Video games are for exploring things. Fantasy worlds, dragons, wraiths... And the biggest problem with suspending disbelief is playing a character who isn't the same gender as the player? lmao.
Maybe I'm just not enough of a gamer. Only been two and a half decades or so since I first touched a computer and played games.
A lot of those so called cat haters actually love cats. Did you know that outdoor cats have much shorter lifespans?
After watching lotr a bunch of times without really knowing who he is and then watching his newer things, I was like... Wait imdb said he was in lotr? Really?
For someone who plays in so many action movies I feel he actually has a lot of range.
If it's within the EU and you're offering, I will come pick it up in person sometime this summer
Yeah. I haven't played 1 much beyond the first 10 minutes, was too janky. 2 was mostly focused on the war, with Geralt being the most important character IMO. In 3 he was no longer THE most important character, but he was a close second - out of a large cast of supporting characters that aided them on the way.