Whenever you read anything about police in the USA, mentally replace “police” with “the mafia, but for rich white people.”
They are not only allowed to carry weapons, they are encouraged to kill, and they are protected from legal action by what we call “qualified immunity.” The court system is thoroughly corrupted at all levels, from small local courts up to the Supreme Court. Police officers are allowed to do whatever they want and change the narrative afterwards, and the court system laps it up, seemingly unaware that police are only human and can totally lie. The police officer who killed George Floyd was involved in multiple murders before that fateful day in 2020, and that was just one guy.
The USA has a higher rate of imprisonment per capita than China does. Our leadership genuinely feels we have to keep millions of people locked up and working for corporations for literal pennies an hour, or else the whole system will start to fall apart.
Backward doesn’t even begin to cover it. Barbaric would be closer.
The state is just a gang of warlords who force you to pay for protection. The difference between the US and the Taliban is that the US is 200 years old, backed by money and tradition, and dressed up modern suits/buildings
Let me clarify this for you.
Whenever you read anything about police in the USA, mentally replace “police” with “the mafia, but for rich white people.”
They are not only allowed to carry weapons, they are encouraged to kill, and they are protected from legal action by what we call “qualified immunity.” The court system is thoroughly corrupted at all levels, from small local courts up to the Supreme Court. Police officers are allowed to do whatever they want and change the narrative afterwards, and the court system laps it up, seemingly unaware that police are only human and can totally lie. The police officer who killed George Floyd was involved in multiple murders before that fateful day in 2020, and that was just one guy.
The USA has a higher rate of imprisonment per capita than China does. Our leadership genuinely feels we have to keep millions of people locked up and working for corporations for literal pennies an hour, or else the whole system will start to fall apart.
Backward doesn’t even begin to cover it. Barbaric would be closer.
The state is just a gang of warlords who force you to pay for protection. The difference between the US and the Taliban is that the US is 200 years old, backed by money and tradition, and dressed up modern suits/buildings