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Dont Mess With Sucess
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the GOP trades security for freedom. ok, so it's not that unimaginable. any reactionary demagogue worth a poop knows people HATE the tsa, and since we're bailing out airlines again it might be a good time to ease a few tiny restrictions and claim a new paradigm for consumers' freedom of movement.

but i wanted to ask, ok, first, is this a sort of next step in the evolution of our two-farty cystem? they are now so alike that whichever is in opposition is for Freedom and against Security?

and secondarially i feel like we have this premise that late stage capitalism is hand in other hand with the police state. but in a way the police, when they arent being deployed to suppress protestors or work their second job in the duane reade or murder children at daycares (look it up.) are a form of public austerity - i'm wondering if at a certain point its just gonna be more efficient for walmart security corps to man the walmart guard towers while the rest of the land goes lawless... go. educate me. make me learn. do it. i fucking dare you.
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Mike Nelson here.
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in canada recently the conservative government was like we need to get extra tough on crime and introduce minimum sentences and put more peeps in prison and build bigger prisons and shit. and reporters were like hey gang isn't crime going down and well they tried those policies in the US and they failed horribly. so the attorney general said well that's because the statistics are all wrong, i've got a feeling the actual crime levels are a lot higher now. and the reporters swiveled around their chairs and sat on them backwards to explain what that meant. for example, it would mean that somehow there is a huge rise of thousands of new crimes which are unreported for some secret reason and which police are completely unaware of but somehow the attorney general personally knows about by intuition. and he was like yeah i guess what's the big deal. and they pushed through the crime bills.
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Dont Mess With Sucess
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discipline posted:

swampman posted:
are a form of public austerity

what do you mean

i mean to the extent that they do necessary police work like catch rapists or pull over dangerous drivers, they're a feature of the welfare state. thanks for the heads up on the tsa union, i should have guessed that this is a reprisal for something remotely good happening

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i dont think theres really anything wrong with using those scanner things, the right doesnt like them because 1) theyre not (overtly) using racial profiling and 2) yeah the union thing
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so a dude sees a blurry picture of my junk. so what
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i mean its not like hes masturbating over it..... and even if he were, how does that actually harm me in any way. its not like all the pics are uploaded to tsadicksandtits.gov
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Mike Nelson here.
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deadken posted:
its not like all the pics are uploaded to tsadicksandtits.gov

well, actually

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deadken posted:
so a dude sees a blurry picture of my junk. so what



yeah its cool the states takin a picture fo my junk. they dont have a pic aggrreation site for it yet

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