Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose. Historically this is the requirement for most societies to upend these types of structures. It’s what drove the “New Deal”, which was essentially a stopgap to allow the wealthy an opportunity to comply with the requirements of basic human needs and dignity. Same with Teddy Roosevelt’s trust busting.

After that they allowed some tinkering around the edges to make our enclosure more habitable, things like the Civil Rights Act and even parts of LBJ’s “Great Society”. All the while continuing to exploit foreign markets and people for our industries, consolidating economic and military power around the globe. Now, not only have all the lines in the map been filled in, but we are starting to see conglomeracies like BRICS form in order to subvert the total dominance of the United States.

The only way for the wealthy business interests to maintain their profit margins was to turn the exploitation inward, to subject the American people to the same type of exploitation they have been meting out in the global south, while desperately enacting last minute and insufficient plans to suppress these rising entities and eliminate them if possible.

The rot has reached the core

Suggestions of the nanny state never come up here. The dichotomy of what were expected to do for ourselves vs what they say the nanny state does are a vast ocean filled with bullshit Republican rhetoric

The government always has and still does work for wealthy. They all really do. Some just strike a different balance in perception because they need to in order to keep the people working for the benefit of the wealthy.

What the distopian fuck

The attorney is just going to tell you (a) yes you have to provide your ID (b) yes you have to get out of the car.

I mean if they told you that in real time, and you were actually willing to do it when they told you, then yes it would be worth the $200/yr to save yourself and your car getting damaged and then you getting a bunch of extra charges.

I have long been a proponent for mandatory and severe sentencing guides/augments for public officials who violate their oath and duty.

So I agree with you whole heartedly.

Start with taking away their qualified immunity...

The death penalty might be a bit extreme, however, I am in favour of a dystopian tournament where these cunts have to face a series of increasingly dangerous tasks in order to be provided with food.

Could call it Pig Game.

At the very least an old school tar and feathering and run em out of town on a rail (watch the series John Adams if you ever thought tar and feathering was silly)

The government should not take away anything that it cannot provide. It can't make life so it should not take it.

While I agree that this should be a severe offence that removes the perpetrator permanently from any employment from city to federal, killing people just brings you down to their level.

The death penalty is an abomination. No.

I get the sentiment, and share it to a large degree, but death penalty? WTF?

The fuck man

I think I'm on the wrong social media... you guys are out of your damn minds.

I think the best solutions to problems like this take a sociotechnical approach. That is to say that in this case, I think that a crowd of people recording is more powerful than any app. I live in a country where police violence is less prevalent than in the US, and I have seen times when the police have tried to intimidate someone into stopping recording them. One of those times, it was successful, and the bystander got scared and stopped. Another of those times, someone who was better informed overheard the exchange and whipped out their camera too, and explained that the police had no grounds to ask that, especially given that we weren't interfering with their investigation of the original person.

It is unfortunate about the ACLU app though. Tech tools like that helped protect individuals who were trying to hold the police accountable, which is a useful step towards normalising a healthy suspicion of the police. I haven't read the above article yet, but I suspect the only reason why this footage wasn't destroyed or confiscated is because the cops didn't realise they were being recorded.

There are dash cams that upload to a cloud so destroying the camera doesn't destroy the footage as well.

We need open source, multi channel dashcams that record to a central box that can be hidden deep inside the car and in times of duress, livestream via a connected smartphone. Press a button, the camera connects to a smartphone and triggers an app. All channels, audio and video, livestream out via the smartphone.

You might even say ACAB

Don't u worry, Trump's on it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-enforcement-administration-ends-body-camera-program-trump

I mean, this is a weird article to post that on lol