• mholiv@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Is Lemmy full of sovereign citizens now days? In all countries including China when you drive dangerously you get a ticket.

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        2 months ago

        People should still be punished for driving dangerously. Civil forfeiture is another issue.

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            2 months ago

            If you can help us get rid of cars then great. Otherwise, yes we need some kind of accountability on people driving several tons of metal at insane speeds.

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                I don’t care if the small town gets paid because commuters can’t get off the gas pedal. If it keeps me out of the hospital from some asshole merging into a traffic jam at 80 mph then I’m all for it.

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                  And when some asshole merges in front of you going 30mph when traffic is going 60-70 and there’s no way you can avoid it, so you bounce off him into someone else and it ends up being a 5-car pileup, it’s ok because at least he wasn’t speeding.

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                    Is the speed limit on the road 30? No? Then that’s not what we’re talking about in the Authoritarianism community today. For the record going so far below the speed limit that you become a hazard isn’t okay either and is accounted for in all 50 states’ traffic laws. If you want to be mad about driving habits though this isn’t the place. The roads we’re talking about are frequently signed for 55 with most people doing 55.

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      2 months ago

      That was my exact first impression of this post.

      Basically Sovcit nonsense

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      2 months ago

      We started by making fun of sovcits, now we make fun of anyone who criticizes police. What the fuck is happening on Lemmy.

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        2 months ago

        well sovshits are genuinely hilarious.

        but lampooning them should not come at the cost of critiquing law enforcement.

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      In addition to issuing tickets officers all over the country take the opportunity to seize what they in their sole judgment regard as suspicious amounts of cash without benefit of a trial or charges. Many such seizures are in the mere hundreds of dollars with the average seizure only $1200 and the legal cost to reclaim such is usually in the thousands so people are left without recourse. Even when the money is reclaimed there is no punishment for officers for essentially robbing the populace.

      In the last 20 years they have taken about 70B from citizens mostly without actually charging the person they stole from and disproportionately from minorities.

      Regarding the victims, many people especially contractors prefer to deal in cash and frequently carry a significant amount of cash on hand to purchase goods and pay help. Others transport large quantities of cash from their business or to make large purchases particularly used cars purchased from owners instead of dealerships.

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      I mean depending on the state or even the town that officer is going to take any cash they have on them and might shoot them if they don’t comply…

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        I don’t think so. I mean cops can be jerks but they’re really not dumb enough to just risk their jobs for $40 USD out of someone’s wallet. Let alone build a culture out of this.

        Civil forfeiture of greater than $1000 USD where that stuff gets documented and people have the prove the “innocence” of that money on the other had is another issue.

        Cops stopping people for cash just feels like a childish characterization. There are enough real problems with police to address (ie systematic racism and nepotism) no need to work with characterizations.

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          I generally agree with you but have you not seen the news? They get away with killing innocent people illegally all the time. Do you think they’re actually afraid of getting in trouble over stealing 40 bucks?

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            And that stuff is terrible. But I think it’s caused by systematic racism. (aka what we should actually worry about)

            Like the comic empathizes the wrong thing. It reduces valid concerns with police to the level of sovereign citizens.

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          We don’t need to start from Hobbes

          Recommends Hobbes as a starting point

          I agree 100% but just had a bit of a giggle

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            lol. I realized that as I was writing that. But I went with it. Hobbes is a great starting point for people new to political philosophy.

            We just don’t need to start with him.

            I think John Rawls is a better starting place if we were to start a society from scratch. Just a bit harder for people less used to reading philosophical works.

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          Sure, but if simply keeping the roads safe was their only objective, they wouldn’t have things like quotas where they have to shake down a certain number of people for the sake of their budget.

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            That depends a lot on the quota system. If they’re easily achievable then it’s not going to incentivize bad stops. If you have a county that gets four cars a day and the quota is four cars then there’s a problem. Generally it’s a useful way to make sure your police aren’t sitting at the donut shop while they should be working. Like most policies its problems lie in the extremes.

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      Fuck off. If I had a button to ban every person who upvoted it I would. Local governments all over the country make up enormous percentages of their yearly budget directly taken from the citizens in the form of “parking enforcement”. Nobody said sovereign citizen anything this is a specific issue of police and what they’re for and who they do it to. Huff glue and choke:

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        Are you saying this ironically? Everyone I don’t like should be banned and should die? This seems really authoritarian to me.