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how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
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RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 9:58 am
Institutionalized failure means there is corruption on all levels. It’s why policemen do bad things and why their superiors up the chain of command cover for them. Corruption.
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RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 10:00 am (This post was last modified: June 24, 2020 at 10:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Institutional failure and systemic racism are not caused by individual corruption. Focusing on corruption and drape changing is nothing more or less than the concerted effort to avoid addressing a problem we may find difficult to name by diverting our efforts to a smaller problem more palatable to our sensibilities and notions of self as a country, or as people.

We've been doing that for some time, throwing individually corrupt (and non-corrupt) people into the flames as ritual sacrifice. It hasn't worked.

Perhaps we should organize our police force in such a way as to make it difficult to nigh impossible for a person to engage in such abuse, even if they are individually corrupt and very much do want to abuse our fellow citizens? What do you think?
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#173
RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 10:03 am
Thereby stating the obvious that the corruption is not on an individual level so much as an institutionalized level. Which I had already stated.
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RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 10:07 am (This post was last modified: June 24, 2020 at 10:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Yes, stating the obvious, that the institution itself, and not the officers, or supervisors or leaders... is corrupt. How does that corruption manifest itself? How is the institution abusing it's power, and who are the primary victims of that abuse?
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RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 12:12 pm (This post was last modified: June 24, 2020 at 12:12 pm by Rev. Rye.)
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RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 12:18 pm (This post was last modified: June 24, 2020 at 12:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 12:22 pm
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RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 3:12 pm
Some of the testimony from whistleblowers today appears to cut directly to the point of contention in this thread as well. Turns out that Billy Barr is using the power of the government in an attempt to control our economy. Man doesn't like the reefers...or, really, any business that The Donald rage tweets about, and has been using the DOJ as a cudgel against them.
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#179
RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 4:32 pm
(June 24, 2020 at 8:49 am)Agnostico Wrote: The dems want state controlled industries. Like the Nazis

Actually, idiot, there were very few state controlled industries in Nazi Germany. The established companies kept their industry (except those owned by Jews, SDs and Communists) and individual Nazi party members used their clout to take ownership of appropriated companies in Germany and, during the war, in occupied territories.

There was less state control of industry in Nazi Germany during the war than there was in the United States, supposedly the most free market friendly country in the world at the time.
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#180
RE: how many of you think this is still about Mr Floyd?
June 24, 2020 at 4:32 pm
A point I probably should have made.
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