Somehow this is the only country on earth where this seems to happen. When talking about shootings involving guns, okay, fine, the US is certainly an outlier there, but every country has cars and police.

This is murder.

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[–] 77 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is this where society is heading? Rampant theft resolved with murder to save corporations?

To them, this probably sounds easier than lowering prices, reducing CEO’s millions in pay and propping up stock prices.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    The governor of Florida and presidential hopeful said looters will be shot on sight. So no, it's not where we're headed because we've passed that destination and it's normal. Property is firmly above people.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There’s a reason why Militech and Arasaka are the biggest players in the cyberpunk rpg universe. Once corporatocracy reigns supreme and public funding is gone they reap profits off private security, as intended. We’re just now seeing the horizon of “defund the police” becoming “hire a PMC as your ‘police force’”

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes. To get back to normality, we must pass through this extreme, which is the necessary counter to defunding and demonizing the police as opposed to holding only the bad ones responsible for their actions. We'll be in this state until we remove qualified immunity. So it will probably take a while.

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