BlackDragon

they’re mini cities, capable of maintaining the families, servants, and guards of the ultra rich for hundreds of years without outside support.

The slaves are going to revolt nigh-immediately when the government collapses and those riches evaporate without the societal support structure required to mobilize them

Neither party lives in reality. Neither party actually believes in climate change. The Republicans outright deny it and the Democrats do nothing about it. It's not enough to say you believe in climate change, you have to demonstrate that you believe in climate change by behaving as though it is real.

We've got two cars racing toward a cliff. One has the gas pedal weighed down with a cinder block and the driver insists there's no cliff. The driver of the other car says "what an idiot!" as he very intelligently, moderately, and progressively presses his gas pedal halfway down

Neither driver will acknowledge their passengers' pleas to hit the brakes

No. They're people who signed up to enforce unjust laws in a system in which people are exploited. They are fundamentally bad.

No it fucking isn't lol

Just a few days ago in my country cops arrested several rich bastards for corruption.

But every single rich bastard is corrupt and commits crimes against the people daily. The fact that very occasionally cops arrest a couple of them and then once in a blue moon maybe one of them sees an actual punishment doesn't change the fact that the status quo is for those rich bastards and all their rich bastard buddies to live in luxury on the backs of the unfairly compensated workers and that the job of the cops is to enforce that status quo through violence.

And they are not “state sanctioned user of violence”

If I tackled you to the ground, bound you hand and foot, shoved you into my car, drove you to my headquarters and locked you in a cage, you wouldn't consider that violence? What exactly would it be then?

I know several cops and they are all great people.

No they aren't.

Murder. You're not going 75mph in a 25mph zone and trying not to kill people. Doesn't matter whether there was a specific target in mind.

No, entirely believable. This is what being a cop is all about. You get to do whatever you want and murder whoever you want.

Here in the Netherlands, immigrants are not allowed to work, so everything has to be provided to them by the state

wait how do i immigrate to the netherlands, asking for no particular reason

Why didn't any of these supposed scientists make an easy million dollars by scientifically proving the existence of a supernatural phenomenon, then?

Immigrants are not only not a detriment to society, they are in fact a positive. Even the ones people in my area get mad about despite being hours and hours by interstate from the nearest border. More workers means more shit can get done, everything you're mad about is because the system sucks and is designed to keep us in poverty.