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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

In America police violence is shown on tv and presented as a good thing actually, in china it's not on tv.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

And if you talk about police violence in China the police come to your house and tell you to stop.

If you don't stop you and your family dissappear.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Well the USA doesn't have Execution Vans yet if we're comparing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Ok wow I bet those are coming here soon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

We still have police in vans running around executing people with guns. I think we should really stop splitting hairs and just settle on both police forces being authoritarian death cultists.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Jack Ma is just being educated to this day lemmy! Don't look behind the prisons!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Looks like universal Monk has a new alt.. or is it noted sociopath linkerbaans alt?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Damn linkerbaan, now there's a name I haven't heard in a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 46 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They made tankie 196? Gross.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 hours ago

tankie-inclusive chaser central

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

honestly im glad someone has called it out, the US is BAD and China is also BAD but with highspeed rail and some better ideas along the way which is tbf GOOD. and if we are criticising everyone i want to know why rent and housing is so unaffordable in most of europe and why landleeches can reap. i also want to know why the hell life is worse for women in so many countries, looking at you india, iran and others. problems dont go away because u ignore them and yes sometimes less bad or least worst is progress too but we must strive for the best hard enough that if we fail to hit it we achieve at least good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah dictatorships are good if they build a train

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Individuals are far too complex to be 100% anything, so the same applies to the added complexity of a state.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"OUR fair and just police vs THEIR brutal murderer cops"

They should learn that ACAB means "ALL cops are bastards", not "All cops in the US and not my beloved infallible glorious prc"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I vote for politicians that want certain laws.

Those laws become fact. Cops enforce them.

Why would they be a bastard?

I'mma be honest. I have never had a single interaction with a cop in Belgium. They just walk around sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Generally it would be when they choose to selectively enforce those laws to unjustly do things to people they don't like.

If that doesn't happen where you are, count yourself very, very lucky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

They can't do that when those laws don't exist to begin with.

People are pretty protected. But now this issue:

E bikes have been surging the country, theft has increased as well. These bikes have a tracker in them.

It locates into a certain neighbourhood, later on it will be more precise.

But people can just deny entrance, so cops (along with the owner) can't just go and look around.

Now, this is pretty digitalised eh, the tracker from a third party shows the bike is there. So the owner would really like it if they could just get the bike for him.

I would vote so that they can just go grab these bikes. Get it over with. Cops entering homes wouldn't be bastards then.

Obvious issue: can just put a stolen bike in the neighborhood, have citizen give permission to look for the stolen bike quickly. They enter the house. Plant some evidence. Blablabla.

But still, I want e bikes to be promoted. Theft to be lowered. There need to be solutions.