I'm on board with punching Nazis, actually. I just also want my models of the world to trend toward accuracy, if that's even possible.
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Replying to @cowtung @ThePrussian1 and
I want my model of the world to trend towards having nobody who threatens me or people I care about in it and I really don't give a shit about anything else As Karl Marx said, "The philosophers have described the world; the aim is to change it"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ThePrussian1 and
We will just have to agree to disagree about the compatibility of those two aims.
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Replying to @cowtung @ThePrussian1 and
Look, I actually had this discussion AT THE TIME, with the mutual FB friend of me and Scott that led to this whole thing And in his very high-decoupling way he actually laid it out in very stark terms
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
"I just strongly believe in a divide between thoughts, speech and action If someone tells you 'I'm seriously doing research that might lead me to the conclusion I have to punch you, but I'm not convinced yet,' that's not a reason to punch them You can still have a discussion"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
And I'm just like What the fuck No, that statement so clearly disproves your point If someone tells you "I'm thinking of punching you, I think that might be justified," THAT IS A THREAT You don't fucking wait to respond to a threat, you take immediate action
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
To use more of Scott and Eliezer's beloved Star Wars references, when Greedo stands there talking about carefully weighing the cost/benefit analysis of taking you to Jabba alive rather than shooting you now, you only keep him talking long enough to draw under the table
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
You don't fucking wait for him to decide You don't let him come to some kind of intellectual decision If him attacking you is *anywhere* in his "decision space" you cut that shit off by any method you have to hand, as fast and as hard as you can
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Replying to @arthur_affect @cowtung and
Much like how cops are trained to shoot as soon as they believe a suspect attacking them is anywhere in the suspect's decision space? Yeah, that's been turning out real well.
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Replying to @BotondBallo @cowtung and
I do not believe the problem is that cops don't trust civilians, exactly - I don't think the problem can ever be fixed by training cops to trust civilians I think the problem is too many civilians trust cops
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You know what happens when cops actually, truly come to believe that literally anyone they see at any time might turn on them and kill them? They burn out, they resign, they quit being cops This is good, this is the goal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BotondBallo and
The goal is to exhaust them, to push them to the point where the constant hypervigilance takes such a toll on their ability to function as humans that they simply surrender, they hang up the badge
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BotondBallo and
If ALL of them do this and the police department ceases to exist as an institution because no one will take the job for any money, we win But even if that never happens, every cop who quits in dejected exhaustion is a victory and makes people safer
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