d of the free, home of the brave? Sure doesn't sound like this anymore. Especially, cops' attitude towards the people whom they are supposed to protect and serve. They mostly seem to be chosen to be cops based on how much of a scared little bitch they are.
Cops all around the world are usually the last people who should be trusted to protect with weapons or serve. I have dealt with them in a few different countries but they are very similar to each other with the power trip. I don't trust most of them because I have seen many messed up things they did with my own eyes in addition to what we all see on T.V. So, fuck the police.
I think that’s an unfair generalization, but there is still some truth there. There are plenty of cops who truly want to be serving their community, and who are perfectly good people, great even. A good friend of mine grew up to become a cop... he’s an amazing guy. And he did it because he wanted to try to be a good cop, because he’d seen some fucked up ones through his life. I have personally had to deal with cops for breaking the law and I have always felt respected except once ( that cop was a fucking cunt). There are a lot of good people filling a needed role in society. The problem is that the position also attracts the sociopathic bully types is disproportionate numbers. You hear about those ones in the news, but you don’t hear about the good guys who are putting their lives on the line for people they don’t know and many of whom automatically hate them.
There is. Certainly there is a police culture and behavior problem in America, but I don’t think it’s fair at all when people lump all cops in with the scum bag douche bags who make it on the news.
Although to answer your question Asperger and high functioning autistic people can absolutely buy and sell drugs.
Yeah, Aspergers is the lightest end of the autism spectrum , they are typically quite intelligent and as high functioning as anyone else, but with difficulty socially and sometimes emotionally. I have been close with several people with Aspergers and was in a band with one... he has some serious emotional problems and difficulty seeing things from other people’s perspectives, but he’s a smart guy who gets by in the world on his own and is a fantastically talented musician.
you shouldn't let pride in your country stop you from constructively criticising it or accepting criticism without feeling as if it's a personal attack.
Agreed fully(as an American). It is very important, in fact patriotic, to criticize and accept the shortcomings of how your country is operating, in order to have a successful democracy. The right to protest and dissent is a fundamental right and in fact the most important patriotic duty for an American (or anyone from any country). Failure to accept when something is wrong is the road to fascism. You have to be critical and accept criticism without reacting in anger. Anger is just hiding fear. That’s what anger is.
Canadians also tend to be much more friendly in my experience too.
Well Canadians are well known to be incredibly friendly. But a lot of Americans are very friendly too, it just depends on where you live. I live in Appalachia, and people here, by and large, are great. Where I live, I look everyone I come across in the eye and there is greeting and acknowledgement and often greeting, sometimes we get to talking about something. But if you go to any big cities or some areas in America and you will find some rude and self centered people.
but to a liberal, all conservatives are racist. My own aunt asked me if I was racist when she learned I had voted for Trump. She knows my 2 best friends are black.
“All liberals think trump supporters are racist” is itself a bigoted statement. It’s not true. I identify as “liberal” (but I form my own beliefs and am not registered with either political party), and I don’t think all trump supporters are racist. I don’t even think trump is particularly racist, maybe not even at all, he’s just pandering to his base. Many of whom fell victim to fearmongering about illegal immigrants. And many trump supporters, I understand, support him for other reasons. My aunt is a supporter. She says she doesn’t like him personally at all and thinks he’s a pretty sketchy dude, but she cares more about abortion than anything else ( she is evangelical Christian ). She’s a great person.
I don’t support trump for many reasons, mostly because of his policies against the environment (which affects a whole lot more than global warming). Some other things too, but that’s my main concern. It’s perfectly valid for me to voice this concern I have about the leadership of our county. That’s the entire point of democracy. If we’re not allowed to say anything bad about our country, then we’re lookjng a lot like china, aren’t we?
Things aren't perfect here.. far from it. But I love the country I live in despite it's flaws.
I absolutely agree, I love the USA, I was born here and it’s my home. But I still resent what’s going on, the rabid partisanship most of all. It distracts us from the fact that almost all of our elected officials are trying to turn us into a peasant working class, and they’re all in bed with the corporations.
But the prosecutor's office for King County, which Seattle is in, made it official policy 10 years to prosecute less than 3 grams as a misdemeanor, with possession over that amount usually getting the Drug Court option, ot at least the Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative. As of last year, it is now their policy not to prosecute < 3g possession AT ALL. So this policy holds true for the city of Seattle as well as most of its suburbs, but not in Tacoma which is only 30 miles south.
Yeah, Location/jurisdiction matters a lot in the US for sure
www.abc.net.au
