Fascism in America

Discussion in 'Everything Else' started by cmdrmonkey, Apr 19, 2012.

  1. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/us/judge-blocks-controversial-indefinite-detention-law.html

    Judge Forester has made the injunction against the 2011 NDAA clause allowing indefinite detention without charge, trial, or legal representation permanent. The conversion to total fascism has been slowed slightly.
     
  2. Not US, but close enough!

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-19604735
     
  3. Canada, US... it's all the same thing anyway right? I mean other than I just shipped a package there for 50 bucks when I could get one acrossed the country for 10! still, very little difference.
     
  4. Hell I remember back in the day, I sold my voodoo 2 on half.com and shipped that thing in a big box for like $4-$5 priority. Fast forward to today, I just sold wow burning crusade collector's edition and it almost $13 just for parcel post. :(

    That asshole will get his purchase... it'll just take 10 days or so... bahahaa
     
  5. I know I only put 15$ for international and I gotta eat like 35 bucks of my profit!! lol luckily I sold it for a TONAGE so I end up with a little more than I expected but. I guess the bidder included shipping into her equation and couldn't find a better deal. Mine was Witcher 2 CE, everything but the game, OST and DLC. They give so much stuff with that CE though omiting those things is hardly much of it.
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    oh and the game guide you get with it xD I swiped that.
     
  6. I was able to sell mine for $140 so I made a ridiculous profit. Makes my complaint seem silly now, but I haven't really shipped anything from the post office in many many years so my jaw just dropped when I heard what the cheapest shipping price would be.
     
  7. I shoulda' never offered international :/ oh well
     
  8. This one is almost darkly comical:

    He wasn't refusing to show his hands... he only had one hand!
     
  9. Shooting a mentally ill, homeless wheelchair bound amputee? Wow, American cops have hit a new low. And the cops were seriously such candyasses that they were afraid of getting stabbed with a fucking felt tipped pen?
     
  10. More training problems. They're trying to apply what they are taught to do with the general population in a group home. They tazed and arrested a black deaf lady (who was the victim who called them in the first place), they shot a bewildered mentally ill guy +40 times, and now they've executed a mentally ill amputee in a wheelchair, who was wielding a pen. Why would they think an amputee in a wheelchair housed in a group home setting would be carrying around a firearm? They aren't competent.
     
  11. referring to the officers not the wheelchair bound man right? lol
     
  12. Yeah, not competent in the sense of not having the skills to understand and interact with certain populations. Expecting someone with major physical disabilities or mental illness to be able to understand their commands and drop to the ground with their hands behind their head and shooting them repeatedly if they don't immediately do it doesn't make a lot of sense.

    They tazed the shit out of a deaf black lady a month ago because she didn't immediately respond to their verbal commands (what a surprise; she's fucking deaf!). She was the one who contacted them for help. They knew the victim was deaf from when she called. Yet they just fall back to the same basic guidelines that apply to the general population, screaming that she stop moving towards them, which she of course could not hear, and then tazed the daylights out of her and arrested her. She was assaulted by an attacker in her home, called the police in response to this, and then was tazed and arrested by the police and held for 60 days without an interpreter (illegally). These people don't know what they are doing or just don't give a fuck at this point.
     
  13. Why would a kid in a school or movie theater be carrying a firearm?
     
  14. as far as the deaf lady maybe she was all hectic and they basically knocked her out to get her to calm down. Does that show incompetence? yes, maybe, but it's not nearly as bad as all the rest. all they did was taze her... that's what a tazer is FOR. not to say that 'guns kill ppl' or anything, not excusing the incompetence, this is deffinitely a case of ppl killing ppl and just using the gun as a tool, just saying you try calming down a big black deaf lady. If one had a quick means like a tazer in his back pocket I don't see why he wouldn't use it. It's not like it's lethal force or anything.
     
  15. Except when it is lethal.

    http://rt.com/usa/news/500-taser-law-enforcement-503/

    And "big black deaf lady"? Sounds a bit stereotypical.
     
  16. Yeah, really. Not all big black ladies are deaf.
     
  17. Obama has always campaigned as a moderate that is open to bipartisan compromise. If anything, he tried too hard to keep that promise, trying to make deals for too long with a House GOP that would always move the goalposts when offered concessions.
     
  18. [​IMG]

    That's quite a compromise.

    In fairness, most of the industrialized world is being taken over by the same type of fascist-leaning authoritarians. It's not just the US, although it's especially bad here.

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  19. Only if you accept that chart's premise that "libertarian" is the opposite of "authoritarian", which it isn't. Libertarianism is actually neo-feudalism, where authority comes from money and power, not representative government.