Except for the guys who can actually bust into your house and/or kill you if they have a good enough story for the judge and jury.
I'm going to try re-framing the discussion about police brutality by referring to cops as the government. Because, you know, they are.
Since government is terrible and badwrong about everything, this should provide "interesting discussion" on the center of reasonable discussion that is Facebook.
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Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 04, 2014, 12:47:35 PM
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:mittens:
I'm going to try very hard to push the "government should be held accountable" meme in these kinds of arguments. I'd like to see others try it too, and report any interesting results.
If you give me slogans, I can make dozens of these, easily.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 04, 2014, 01:19:21 PM
If you give me slogans, I can make dozens of these, easily.
Unrelated, but please please please make me an Obama/Bieber 2016 one.
Hmm. Gotta think of a catchphrase.
In the meantime...
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Taxation is Theft
Policing is Murder
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So, the problem with getting this adopted is the BIG GOVERNMENT IS BAD crowd is almost always the same crowd that is pro death penalty. The Rugged Individualist thing and all the Calvinist heritage gets them to the point where if you did bad things YOU DESERVE TO DIE and if they do bad things (special pleading). They've been doing those intellectual gymnastics so long it will be very hard to even convince them to think about it.
Might get a giggle, though.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 04, 2014, 03:32:20 PM
In the meantime...
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I LOVE YOU YOU ARE MY HERO!!!
ALTHOUGH IF YOU COULD REDO IT TO SPELL BIEBER WITH AN "IE" THAT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.
I would just like to point out, a lot of libertarians already accept these points.
However, they're using it to agitate for the privatization of police services.
In the current American context, I see that outcome being far more likely than police reform.
Quote from: Cain on December 05, 2014, 09:55:40 AM
I would just like to point out, a lot of libertarians already accept these points.
However, they're using it to agitate for the privatization of police services.
In the current American context, I see that outcome being far more likely than police reform.
The argument being that citizens can at least sue private police...
...the reality being that private police will inevitably end up with the same favorable presumptions and indemnities as the old fashioned public kind.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 05, 2014, 05:27:42 AM
ALTHOUGH IF YOU COULD REDO IT TO SPELL BIEBER WITH AN "IE" THAT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.
WHOOPS. MONDAY.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 05, 2014, 06:36:32 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 05, 2014, 05:27:42 AM
ALTHOUGH IF YOU COULD REDO IT TO SPELL BIEBER WITH AN "IE" THAT WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.
WHOOPS. MONDAY.
Ain't anybody gonna judge you for not knowing how to spell Bieber.
Ha!
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As promised.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
What on earth are you going to use it for?
Wait, I'm not sure I want to know.
BIEBERKRIEG
:baby:
:ahhh:
:cpd:
:remaincalm:
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 08, 2014, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
I don't get this joke. Obama can't be president again, and Bieber is both 1) too young and 2) Canadian by birth.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 13, 2014, 12:04:25 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 08, 2014, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
I don't get this joke. Obama can't be president again, and Bieber is both 1) too young and 2) Canadian by birth.
But that's WHY it's funny.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 13, 2014, 02:54:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 13, 2014, 12:04:25 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 08, 2014, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
I don't get this joke. Obama can't be president again, and Bieber is both 1) too young and 2) Canadian by birth.
But that's WHY it's funny.
It makes no sense. It would be funnier if it were someone eligible.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 14, 2014, 04:31:17 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 13, 2014, 02:54:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 13, 2014, 12:04:25 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 08, 2014, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
I don't get this joke. Obama can't be president again, and Bieber is both 1) too young and 2) Canadian by birth.
But that's WHY it's funny.
It makes no sense. It would be funnier if it were someone eligible.
:lulz:
That reminds me, I am thinking that a viable avenue of research might be the autistic sense of humor.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 14, 2014, 04:31:17 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 13, 2014, 02:54:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 13, 2014, 12:04:25 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 08, 2014, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
I don't get this joke. Obama can't be president again, and Bieber is both 1) too young and 2) Canadian by birth.
But that's WHY it's funny.
It makes no sense. It would be funnier if it were someone eligible.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rFAekeDyK7E/VI7g-UhmixI/AAAAAAAABkU/KyitXupm0pg/w451-h140-no/Nixon%2B2016.jpg)
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 15, 2014, 12:14:06 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 14, 2014, 04:31:17 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 13, 2014, 02:54:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 13, 2014, 12:04:25 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 08, 2014, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
I don't get this joke. Obama can't be president again, and Bieber is both 1) too young and 2) Canadian by birth.
But that's WHY it's funny.
It makes no sense. It would be funnier if it were someone eligible.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rFAekeDyK7E/VI7g-UhmixI/AAAAAAAABkU/KyitXupm0pg/w451-h140-no/Nixon%2B2016.jpg)
:mittens:
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 15, 2014, 12:14:06 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 14, 2014, 04:31:17 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 13, 2014, 02:54:59 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on December 13, 2014, 12:04:25 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on December 08, 2014, 04:19:36 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on December 08, 2014, 03:33:04 PM
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As promised.
SQUEEEEE!
Thank you, LMNO!!!
I don't get this joke. Obama can't be president again, and Bieber is both 1) too young and 2) Canadian by birth.
But that's WHY it's funny.
It makes no sense. It would be funnier if it were someone eligible.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rFAekeDyK7E/VI7g-UhmixI/AAAAAAAABkU/KyitXupm0pg/w451-h140-no/Nixon%2B2016.jpg)
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:
Well, Obama's sorta like Nixon. If Nixon had a tan. And became really rightwing. And less competent.
Quote from: Cain on December 15, 2014, 04:49:36 PM
Well, Obama's sorta like Nixon. If Nixon had a tan. And became really rightwing. And less competent.
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz: