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startups do not address other systemic societal issues (such as using platforms like AWS or Google that participate in PRISM and shred your staff and users' human rights), presumably because being a startup is hard/risky enough without also being on a societal-improvement-mission, so i'm not sure why people assume they will behave differently for d&i or systemic racism/sexism.

The police are only acting as boldly as they are because the protests are nonviolent and unarmed. The vast majority of protestors are not attacking police, not throwing molotovs, not shooting back. The police are behaving to scare and intimidate, because they know their targets are nonviolent.

Things would be *totally* different if the police were actually under attack. They are not.

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Why are people scared of the riots and looting?

The flu kills way more people every year.
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"why does every peaceful protest turn violent when the cops show up" is one of those questions where I am still stunned some people have trouble connecting the dots on the "when the cops show up" part

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The president could have made a special new human rights enforcement branch to rein in the BATFE, DEA, CBP/ICE, FBI, et al, and close the concentration camps, end parallel construction, fix the torture culture in prisons, and address pig violence and abuse.

Instead he made a new branch of the military to better militarize space, which has, so far, been entirely peaceful throughout its history (notwithstanding any antisatellite warfare that has occurred before).

"rules for the other guy because he's an idiot who will kill us all" is a basic human conceit, and lots of smart people are falling for it presently when they call for facebook and other platforms to censor people's communications.

i am of the belief that this will only stop when american police legitimately believe that there is a likelihood of the targets of their oppression returning fire.

13400 Alameda Ave, Clint, TX 79836 is the address of one of the concentration camps for children that is presently being run by the United States.

i wonder who the time travelers will travel back to 2020 to kill

anger at device manufacturers that put 5VDC barrel connectors on their shit for input and not microusb or usb-c

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