We’ve never been great. It’s just removing the veneer of respectability we gave ourselves and doubling down on the shittiest parts.

Jennifer Government and Snow Crash here we come. Except we don’t get any of the cool shit fictional cyber-dystopias do.

Yep. Engagement drives more engagement.

They want it to happen before midterms. That way trump can justify canceling them.

Bullets go through thin metal car bodies fairly easily, especially rifle rounds. A windshield is some protection, but not enough.

I literally put the very first sentence of the text that it was an older article.

The context is that law enforcement has a history of deliberately escalating by placing themselves in front of vehicles.

Doing Putin’s bidding.

By even attempting or formulating an attack on Greenland he places the rest of NATO against the US. If he can separate the two, then NATO no longer exists.

This is trump being a Putin toady.

Obviously it would be a choice to have them wifi or not, opt-in, not opt-out. I wasn’t implying anything should be automatically wifi.

Ah, now they bust down your door in full paramilitary tactical gear after rolling up in an MRAP and APC, then just shoot you for “resisting.”

90’s were the good old days.

Remember the ‘80s, where a lot of the action films were heroes wiping out boardrooms full of evil dystopian executives…? Yeah. Funny we don’t see much of that anymore.

Things that can be wifi: my light switches and anything that might’ve had an analog timer back in the day. Anything critical? You can buy an analog sensor that will beep if it’s out of limits, like a freezer alarm.

The rest can f right off.

That’s why it’s a work of fiction.

You “lol”, but if trump threatens their black market economy you bet your ass they’ll unite.

The dems are every bit as effective as the people who stay home instead of voting. When it’s important, they do nothing.

They offered lots of money to join ICE to the worst people. Why is this surprising? They wanted thugs, they got thugs, not Harvard grads.

Start with trump and his minions, please and thank you.

a woman died because of his mistakes

It wasn’t a mistake.

Not when you want to justify the escalation of force. There’s plenty of clips out there of officers deliberately placing themselves in front of vehicles.

Yeah. They could. Group of protesters protesting ICE, someone throws an acorn that hits an ICE agent in the hollow head, they hear a “thock” sound and start shooting. Claim they feared for their lives because they can.

Taking away your right to vote.

2A people are dead silent.

Did you just “everyone’s a little ADHD” me? For the record, I was only suggesting that this is something an ADHD person would understand very well without intending to imply that the OP was ADHD.

I don’t know why you’re downvoted. You’re essentially correct and this justification has been used by LEO on many occiasions. All they have to do is claim they felt or saw something that made them believe their life was in danger - even if that threat was them deliberately placing themselves in front of a vehicle and refusing to step aside when it was apparent the vehicle was headed toward them with plenty of warning at worst a shin bruising speed. This is how we get people shot who are unarmed, or already on the ground, or acorns hitting car roofs.

However, he’s not innocent. Not at all. It will be impossible to convict because the legal system is full of boot lickers or scared of the police, and trump toadies will intervene.