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Thank you. Personal pointless pet peeve.
You need to get hobbies IMO
Don’t be a grammar cop.
You can do better, so can Seattle.
Less needless “corrections” that add nothing to conversations. More engaging in conversation
Less being a stickler for no good reason. More being chill for once
Less grammar cops Better communities
Fewer people who care how language works.
More people who can’t speak their own language.Less people enforce arbitrary outdated “rules”
More people let language evolve like the living thing it is
Less people care about prescriptivism outside of formal contexts
More the language reflects reality rather than being left to stagnate and die
I fucken got stuck talking to a libertarian coworker yesterday who was all about negative enforcement. Dude truly believed we needed more punishment and more cops.
Suggest they read more of the books around them.
There’s a huge body of academic evidence showing that broadly policing is an ineffective intervention for crime. Including a huge study commissioned by the us government before the 84 crime bill.
That we then passed anyway.
Not just ineffective.
Cops are the biggest criminals I’ve seen.
Watch how many traffic rules they break.
Watch how often they breach their own policies, and wear treasonous gangsign badges to show allegiance to the gang, not to the public and their professed duty.
Last time I saw a couple cops, they had come to my house to tell me they were committing mail fraud, breach of duty of care, theft, dereliction of duty, and when I tried to report crimes to them, they then fled the crime scene.
Not the worst I’ve had from them…
Once, a gang of thugs broke into my home, tied me up, stole my medicine, and threatened to make me their prisoner for over a decade of being raped. And I could not call the cops on them, because they were the cops.
Still recovering(?) from the PTSD from that, 21 years ago. What a waste of human potential they cause.
Fun fact, you can see that this poster is for Seattle.
The police union has used its power to force the city to not allow more than about 24 responders on the “CARE” team, which is a team of non-police responders that are basically just well-equipped social workers with formal training that lets them incredibly effectively handle things like mental health emergencies, drug users, etc.
They then put additional restrictions in place to make it even harder for those people to get dispatched to a scene, such as if any drugs are visible at all, if the person is “confrontational”, if they’re in a building or car, or if there’s an “indication” they’ve committed any form of crime at all.
Dispatchers also can’t send the CARE team alongside police anymore.
The police don’t just do their jobs badly, they force the city to spend money on their high salary and high overtime wages to get worse results, instead of sending in actual professionals.
ACAB.
That wasn’t fun at all, that was bloody infuriating!
