Slash the military budget.
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@drafterman
Slash the military budget.
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@thett3
Oh no, sorry, my post was poorly worded.
I'd support these changes in all cases of police brutality. The cases where this would have positive influence tends to be cases where police brutality is targeted at African-Americans.
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@Tejretics
got it...still don’t agree but I was surprised you didn’t see how having an explicitly different legal standard based on race is a dangerous road to go down
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@Swagnarok
Albeit with a strict burden of proof, if it can be proven that a person levied a false sexual assault charge in court that person ought to be charged with a felony crime with a sentence of equal severity to that for sexual assault, and put on a sex offender blacklist upon release.
(1) How would that be proven? Accusations of sexual misconduct are positive claims -- how would you objectively disprove such claims? These accusations are rejected in court if there's no evidence; would you prosecute accusers of sexual assault without evidence? That would be bizarre, given that a huge number of these cases are true, just hard to uncover evidence.
(2) This seems to carry the obvious disadvantage of fewer people coming forward about these crimes -- and it seems to me that that's a larger impact than the impact of preventing false accusations, which, while real and awful, are also rare.
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@ethang5
I think that all people should have free medical care...I support single-payer health care....Contradiction?
I mean, people -- in a single-payer healthcare system -- aren't directly paying for the healthcare, they're paying through taxes, so it's technically free at the point of service, even if indirectly paid for. This tax structure of payment allows for different burdens to be placed on different people in terms of how much they pay for healthcare and therefore makes healthcare effectively free for a lot of poor and middle-class people. Moreover, some of this cost will be absorbed by the state, by money collected through means outside of taxes, e.g. taking on debt.
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@Tejretics
Well, you're right, that would be politically unpopular.
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@ethang5
There is what popular. Hillary won the popular vote.Well, you're right, that would be politically unpopular.
There is what is popular, and you will be jailed/locked away if you do not agree with what is popular.
There is what is popular, gets the most votes and is not the best/smart thing to do for the greatest number of people.
There is what is popular, and just plain immoral and dangerous to those who do not have the means to avoid the dangers their placed on them by a more popular { majority } belief or democratic { majority } voting system.
There is what is popular yet misguided for various reasons, the worst of all being those in authority who act immoral via lies. Ex idio-ump president and his Trumpanzees.
There is what is popular via emotional charge { joy } and is not based on well thought out metaphysical-1, mind/intellect/concepts.
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@mustardness
So what? Our system is based on the electoral votes. Get over your butthurt, it's been more than a year.There is what popular. Hillary won the popular vote.
The economy is good, we are at peace, ISIS is hurting, jobs are up, unemployment is down, and NK is talking. And after almost 2 years, there is no evidence of collusion.
Trump won. Fair and square. He is the president. Get over it already.