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I am saying that starting to yell at every cop that pulls you over and refuse to ID yourself is not really going to change the system, if you did it for a thousand years

What in the fuck do you think brought about this:

burning down the 3rd precinct

Because if I fucking recall, George Floyd was not fighting back.

So what in the absolute fuck are you talking about?

Allow me to update with a personal experience:

"Can I see your ID?"

"Sure, here you go. You know this is bullshit, though. My brake lights aren't out. Those are parking lights"

"Well now this is happening, get out of the car"

And then I was arrested for suspicion of being under the influence (because I had the gall to talk back to a cop), and my car was impounded for being unfit for the road.

Just to note here - no, I was not under the influence of anything, and my brake lights absolutely were not out. My friend recording audio on his feature phone (because thats how long back this story goes) got the charges dropped, and the goddamn manual in the fucking car proved me right about the damn parking lights.

Yes this shit happens. Yes this shit continues to happen.

Yes, you are incredibly fucking ignorant if you think otherwise.

Edit: I hit send too quickly because of how pissed off your comment made me.

That's new, like within just the last few years that it started happening consistently. How did that change happen?

BECAUSE PEOPLE STARTED PROTESTING AFTER THIS SHIT KEPT HAPPENING, AND PEOPLE FUCKING DIED.

Thats how.

Edit 2 because of how much this pissed me off.

And its still only the worst and most newsworthy examples, and even for those many end up being a slap on the wrist at best.

People still getting fucking shot and killed in their own bedrooms because cops can't get a fucking address right, attending talks where they get told how hot it is to get laid after you killed someone, with far right pieces of shit being ingrained in the police for literally fucking decades, and you really think just fucking comply is a "smart" decision.

Ffs, the absolute goddamn privilege in those replies.

A traffic stop for a ~~specific~~ nonsensical and nonexistant infraction

It wasn't raining.

There was no reason for them to escalate.

This is a common tactic used to go after people of color, it isn't remotely new.

Why in the absolute fuck are you advocating for people to just swallow fucking boot all the damn time?

Challenging this nonsense is the way, historically, any change has happened. You are just arguing against people doing the right thing and saying "but its OK because cops are taught to do this".

No shit. Thats the fucking problem. He knew what was happening and what would happen, thats why he asked for a supervisor.

The fact that you think this would have gone substantially better for him by just complying shows a complete and utter ignorance of the history of policing.

Its not making it harder.

Ita barely even less convenient. You can just got to mbin/kbin (without even being logged in) and see the same info. The only reduction in convenience would be one site not showing it.

Votes on Lemmy are not private and you shouldn't think that they are even remotely, and I think thats something lemvotes does quite well - shine a spotlight on the problem, which should be addressed inside of Lemmy.

Ehhh I would say in a general sense that sales tax absolutely should be done away with. Really any regressive tax, including payroll taxes (there is a cap, so higher income earners don't pay their relative share), the current structure of property taxes, tolls, so on.

Even then I wouldn't call it good, just better, but that'd be a whole separate discussion.

It is, and unfortunately its also what's most often abused.

Corporate tax (and what's more equivalent, individual income tax) should see the same progressive taxation, where higher profits yield higher tax rates above each of those thresholds.

Unfortunately, corporations play a lot of games with accounting to effectively reduce those profits and not pay their share (or not at all, even with some extremely large corporations), effectively shifting the tax burden onto individuals instead. Then, of course, those individuals benefitting most from the corporations not paying their fair share are also playing accounting games to reduce their own tax burden, further shifting the burden onto lower income individuals.

So when you combine that with increased costs for everyday consumer goods, you see an increasingly higher burden on lower and middle income, even higher income individuals until you get to the extremely wealthy outliers. The impact is greater the lower you go in income level though.

Sales tax, yes, corporate tax... No.

Sales tax is functionally a tax on the lower income anyway, since it has a more substantial impact on a lower income vs a higher income. Its regressive.

Unless we are specifically talking some sort of luxuries tax based on a value that changes with an index (like a luxury housing tax, median values against area median income + percentage overhead before additional tax, etc, or speculation/vacancy taxes, taxes on private jets or yachts, so on).

Corporate tax is a tax on profit though (talking in generalities here obviously, there are many types of taxes), which doesn't apply the same way here in terms of a direct consumer cost, so I'm not sure what you are driving at in that aspect.

Just to add, the company importing those goods then increases prices to make up for the expense, passing the costs to consumers (Americans). I think that is an important note.

Site manager with cloud and on prem hosted in a single view. The benefit is for MSPs.

Both.

eBook reader for when I'm in the middle of a series or something, when I can sit and read.

Phone for on-the-go, or if I randomly feel like reading.

Bonus: tablet for any comics/manta/etc.

I firmly believe hamid is just using alts these days, so... Give it time?

I have plenty of thoughts about their majority shareholders.

Its just none of those thoughts are positive.