I stopped putting blame on people. I focus on the grand scheme of things - not the individuals involved in it. The list of people I have negative thoughts about throught the week is zero long.

No, but I only start cooking when I’m hungry but then am too impatient to wait for it to be done so I’ll start snacking while I wait and then I’m no longer hungry when it’s done.

Even if the penalty (death) can be morally justified it still shouldn’t be celebrated. Also, I oppose death penalty - the people celebrating this have no moral standing to oppose it too. They’re on the wrong side of history in my view.

It’s all fun and games as long as you get to decice who the dragons are. The people you oppose have their’s too.

Literally celebrating the murder of a person is what I mean.

So many here showing their true colors and demonstrating that they’re actually no better than the people they oppose.

Where I live, there’s a strict screening process to become a cop. It requires a three-year education, and you need a college degree just to apply. There are far more applicants than available spots, so even many good candidates don’t make it in. Trust in the police is generally quite high among the population, they’re respected, and every time a firearm is used for example, it’s investigated thoroughly. Officers do face legal consequences when malpractice is discovered.

So, yeah, I’d hang out with a cop and talk to them about the same stuff I’d discuss with anyone else.

There are tens of millions of cops around the world. The idea that not a single one of them is a good person is so statistically improbable that I’d bet my life on it being false.

Can you name another broad generalization that applies to every single member of that group without exception?

Neo-nazies are the same species of human as KKK members. If what Daryl Davis did worked with KKK it should work with neo-nazies too. Or do you have a valid reason to think it wouldn’t?

That all cops are bastards.

I genuinely believe ACAB, and this news has me conflicted because my new friend seems really cool and super nice.

What you’re experiencing is cognitive dissonance. New information is clashing with your prior beliefs, leaving you with a choice: either update your beliefs or double down and lie to yourself even harder.

Toss my tool bag into my truck and drive to the customer’s house I guess unless told to do something else by the authorities.

Maybe if we dig our heels in even deeper, double down on the identity politics that got us here in the first place, ignore half the population, and treat them as the source of all evil, things will magically turn out better next time.

“I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise” is such a simple statement, yet you keep asking the same thing again and again. If this is too difficult of a concept for you to comprehend I can’t possibly imagine you grasping my nuanced view on any of the subjects you mentioned. I’ve engaged with enough of people like you to know to pick my battles.

I don’t have anyone I’d want to remove and I’m also not so naive to think it wouldn’t come with major unpredictable consequences.

If you have a salary that’s in the hundreds of thousands and you think that you’re doing well? You’re just not very poor. You’re basically a slave. You’re a slave with bells and whistles.

No wonder people are so miserable if they believe someone earning 100k+ a year means they’re poor. In the vast majority of places in the world that puts you well into the upper middle class. I earn less than half that and I consider myself quite well off.

Probably? I’m fairly certain that saying mean things about Musk on Lemmy has no effect on him whatsoever.

I’m not interested in trying to convince you otherwise.

I cannot defend nor explain the cause for a view I don’t hold.

At least he’s living by his own principle on this one:

If you’re not adding back at least 10% of what you remove, you’re not removing enough.