In 1960 Over 90% of Homicides in the USA Were Solved Compared to Only 50% Today

HugodeCrevellier

They certainly neither serve nor protect.

HugodeCrevellier

The police in the USA seems to be becoming
less and less like an actual police,
i.e. there to 'protect and serve' the citizens,
and more and more like an occupation force,
i.e. there to subjugate, control and 'pacify' the population.

HugodeCrevellier

Stay away from companies that charge by the minute.

HugodeCrevellier

Sure.

On the other hand, laws are created/invented according to mentality/ideology.

And so, depending on the society/time, something that's harmful or even potentially catastrophic can be legal,
e.g. money in politics, lobbying, copyright trolls, Monsanto, mass immigration, health insurance companies, spying on citizens, corporate-police states, greed-driven ecosystem destruction, unjust wars, etc.

And something that's not harmful or even beneficial can be illegal,
e.g. freedom of speech, some political views, sharing information hidden by corrupt governments, using medicine paywalled by sociopaths, having a gun, etc.

Governments try to, or, rather, should try to, figure out how to make the minimum amount of laws required for a good/civilised world ...

but mentality does matter.

HugodeCrevellier

It's supposed to work thus:
If you don't pay, you have to see ads.
If you do pay, you don't have to see ads.
However, now people unwittingly accept
both to pay and to be bombarded by ads.

HugodeCrevellier

Yes.

Seeking a profit is, of course, understandable,
when it aims at people making a decent living
within a civilised society.

But unchecked greed-driven mentalities,
which can only think in terms of financial profit,
lead us on a dangerous path.

This is but a mild example of the apparent
stupidity/folly/sociopathy.

HugodeCrevellier

Germany didn't attack England

England attacked Germany.

Germany counterattacked England.

And England attacked Germany
supposedly 'in defence of Poland',
or, actually, in order to continue propping up
some infamous 'Piłsudski's colonels' hunta regime,
which no-one seems to mention somehow.

Now, once Germany (and most of Europe) were destroyed by WWII,
the Polish people were promptly delivered to Stalin,
the main 'good guy' of WWII, and,
incidentally, the worst mass murderer of the 20th century,
you know the one that did e.g. this:

The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940. Though the killings also occurred in the Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons and elsewhere, the massacre is named after the Katyn forest, where some of the mass graves were first discovered by German Nazi forces. The order to execute captive members of the Polish officer corps was secretly issued by the Soviet Politburo led by Joseph Stalin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

WWII ended up costing ~80 million lives ...
in order to give Poland to Stalin.

Worth it, was it?

HugodeCrevellier

As a general rule, the USA, starting out as a European colony, got most of its ideas from Europe.

However, after the WWII destruction of Europe,
its US and USSR occupiers (and their European stooges)
literally outlawed many of the competing ideas/ideals/ideologies in Europe.

Basically, the same thing that was done to European Art was done to European Ideas.

Ugliness, stupidity and primitivism were now the only allowed/promoted movements
and anything classical/European was to be despised.

To become a celebrated artist or thinker in occupied Europe,
you had to abide by the new rules ...
something that, unfortunately, is still going on.

HugodeCrevellier

One might blame the USA for spreading its insanity/idiocy into Europe ...
but one should more rightly blame Europe for letting itself be influenced
by that insanity/idiocy.

HugodeCrevellier

The war for decency and against sociopathy is timeless.

HugodeCrevellier

You'd think that one of the benefits of saidit having relatively few visitors
would be that it would make it not worth the money spamming it.

HugodeCrevellier

The key seems to be that this is about the most taboo 'topics', not the most taboo 'acts'.

I'm sure that talking about the genetic differences between races/subspecies
is only considered more taboo than 'talking' about incest and paedophilia,
not 'committing' them.

One can only hope.

HugodeCrevellier

It's like 'believing' that 2+2=4.

HugodeCrevellier

It's weird how rare it is to see/hear the speeches of
such a historically important figure.

HugodeCrevellier

The NYT does not clumsily 'ban' Journalists
(to the extent that any remain at the NYT)
from using accurate words
('Genocide', 'Occupation' and 'Palestine').

As masters of lies and experts at doublespeak,
they merely instead imply that telling the truth
might be detrimental to your continued employment.

You see, they just want their 'journalists' to
~~keep spewing bullshit~~ ... errr ... use alternative terms,
you know, for 'better clarity and accuracy', of course. :/

HugodeCrevellier

That's fucking horrible!

HugodeCrevellier

meh!

HugodeCrevellier

Perhaps.

But the hopelessly corrupt 'Democratic' party in the USA is not 'left;
but rather controlled left-astroturf,
which considers 'we the people' to be 'them, the deplorables'.

'Left' and 'right' no longer, if they ever did, correspond to coherent political ideologies.

Those who fight for liberty and against totalitarianism/tyranny,
and/or those that fight for totalitarianism/tyranny and against liberty,
must not be categorized as ... 'right' vs 'left'.

HugodeCrevellier