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PF4LFE t1_jeaobxv wrote

Oversight - hopefully not by a politician

Internal Affairs - Great theory

Body cams - off button

Leadership - those guys were probably cops for 20 yrs - tainted

Peer Integrity - negated by the brotherhood of a union

Morals - not sure of the direct relationship between law and morals but I’m sensing they are not related

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moneyfish t1_jeanny3 wrote

>This "jump to report first" shit is worse than the 24 hour news cycle.

It’s not the News fault that people demand news about events in real time. Every time there’s a major event like this Reddit demands information and updates every 5 minutes. Reddit also demands that news is free with no ads. If people could chill the fuck out and wait a day, we’d probably have better news because they’d have time to sort the facts out.

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Pollymath t1_jeams68 wrote

Probably because they don't spend as much time loitering, and the can taxi without being off the ground. From what I hear, V-22 pilots really do respect their craft far more than any other pilot because the vehicles scare the shit of them.

Our local small airport is a frequent stop-over for many military aircraft and last time I watched a group of Blackhawk and Apache take off together they taxied, in the air, on a path usually used by fixed wing, including turns, then ran down the runway at low alt before taking off...again, like fixed wing.

While it was cool, it just seemed kind of unnecessary.

Helos are fucking badass but I have some concerns about how much we use them for mundane training tasks, especially in groups.

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Deranged40 t1_jeam3rk wrote

Guilt is a legal term that refers to whether someone has violated a written law. Guilty absolutely does not inherently mean that something wrong has been done. It just means that something was (or in some cases was not) done, and that thing is against the law. The law may be shitty.

Russia has tons of shitty written laws, some of which may be flat out inhumane or strongly against our beliefs.

Going with your heart and doing the right thing will get you sent to prison in a lot of countries.

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ibbity t1_jeam2go wrote

I know hella people who are aggressively anti-abortion, and the thing is that it's not that they actively want lots of women to die in pain, as such. What they want is for women to know that that might be their fate if they have sex outside of marriage, and to stay virgins/celibate out of terror. For those who still have sex anyway, they want them to experience pregnancy and childbirth as a punishment for having sex, and then immediately hand over the baby to a more worthy adopting family.

The actual agonizing deaths are more desirable as a threat than as a constant reality, because if they are happening a lot, people might start to turn against the draconian anti-abortion laws. If they only happen occasionally, they serve as deterrents much better. It's not about sadism so much as it's about maintaining control over women and forcing them to "experience consequences" for having sex. Women (specifically) having sex "without consequences," they consider the height of moral depravity. Making it so that women will suffer for having sex is a means to an end (stopping them from having sex), not the end in itself.

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