“The west” is far more than the US, and I have no clue why you keep bringing it up in the first place.

Assuming that the oligarchy system you are referring to is the US, I don’t care. I don’t live in the US, I didn’t mention the US, and whatever the US does has no bearing on whether or not China can accurately be considered democratic.

Doesn’t matter. I’m talking about China. The US having a shitty democracy does not do anything to legitimize China’s lack of democracy.

“My country is democratic”

Remind me, when was the last time the ruling party lost an election in China?

The bottom three are just normal looking dudes. The top three are for sure unrepentant rapists.

I’d prefer if they’d release it as a flatpak. Making it browser based chains you to chromium browsers, since Firefox decided a while back that exposing USB devices directly to the internet was too much of a security concern. Ran into that issue with my keyboard.

Depends on who owns them these days. Last I heard they had changed hands a couple times.

It’s technically the Rogers Center now.

I haven’t met a single person who is even willing to acknowledge the name change of the SkyDome. There’s no way anyone pays any sort of attention to him trying to rename a lake.

Read through my comments to the other guy. Already gone through this.

In the modern world, I really don’t think you are going to be able to get away from having a professional police force, at least in the major cities. There’s simply far too many people. Maybe a better situation looks somewhat like how firefighters are. Part time officers who just respond as needed in small communities, and you only have the full time forces in major cities. Even that gets hard, based solely on how much easier mobility has become relevant to the past.

At the end of the day, I don’t think there’s any one set of things to can do to make it perfect. There’s a whole lot of smaller things to do to improve it, but I think the most important part will have to be much stronger oversight, and actual punishments for when one inevitably steps out of line.

Now that I think about it, maybe you just aren’t understanding how broad of a category “fix the police” is.

“Execute all existing cops and start again with a completely different set of people with a completely different set of rules” is an idea that would fall under the umbrella of “fix the police”.

The reason that laws truely exist is because there’s someone to enforce them. “Police” is just the term used for whoever is doing that enforcement, whatever form it takes.

Don’t get too hung up on the rape part. I just used that as an example of a law that we can all agree needs to exist. If I said “theft”, there would be the added complication of whether or not that law should even exist in the first place.

Ah, but didn’t you hear? Corporations are people, and since they’re the biggest and loudest (money is speech after all) people, they get all the attention.

It’s astonishing how much damage those two decisions have caused.

The status quo sure as fuck isn’t “fix it”.

What third option is there? If we accept the premise that there’s a problem with policing, you are left with four broad categories of what happens going forwards:

A) fix policing

B) leave it as is

C) get rid of it

D) make it worse

D is obviously what nobody wants, A is what the other guy said is impossible, so that only leaves B and C.

I said fix the police, you said they are not fixable. That only leaves two paths forward: status quo or get rid of law enforcement. Laws that are unenforced leave the actions de facto legal.

“We haven’t found a perfect solution yet, so fuck it, let’s just make rape legal”

So fix the police. You need someone to do the job.

And who do you propose should enforce the no raping and murdering laws?

In this case, the one cop was very specifically not being a bastard. As much as we need to keep calling out shitty behavior, we also need to reinforce good behavior.