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The and was not meant to be exclusive. It should maybe be read as or. It's not meant to imply all police forces were slave patrols. Plenty evolved to protect other capital interest…

Police forces have roots in protecting capital, for example warehouse guards or for another slave patrols. They still exist for that purpose in the US. They do not exist to protect…

And did not mean to imply exclusively. Plenty of police departments don't have roots in slave patrols.

The establishment of the Charleston police department directly traces roots into slave patrols. The department was formed from city guard, who were used to round up spaces and put …

While some night watches were public safety distributed among community members, they were often there to protect the goods of merchants rather than protect the ordinary citizens o…

According to the cops. The same cops who shoot people for having wallets and sticks. Same cops who beat Deaf people for not following verbal instructions. Same cops who shoot autis…

Cop didn't do everything right. A cop who does everything right leaves the force.

I'm probably your age, kids back in my day would kill or injure other kids for being gay or Black. I think a lot of bullying has actually gone down, but because of the internet one…

Do you know why ACAB? Is not because they are rude, it's not cause they mean. It's because they participate in a societal role that requires them to do bastardly things. They have …

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Yeah. Which is wild to me because Biden was center/center right. It's not like one has to hide it the past four years. And most online platforms will still be moderated for the nex…

Now do "How American companies oppress workers and run lives". We got wage theft, abuse, sexual harassment, at will firings, wage slavery, and all sorts of fucked up healthcare for…

Why would women and Black men not be good authors? If you have evidence that the books nominated were chosen on something other than merit, share that, otherwise you sound like an …

I like how this author is ambivalent towards the technology. "They both are fine, whatever" feels like the right take and I wish I saw it more in computing. Programming languages? …

Comparing it to Jonestown is ludicrous. Most of America didn't pack up and follow them out. A more similar comparison would be the flight from MySpace or Digg. One day those places…

You've been duped. Your information environment sounds very narrow, and you may be over valuing information from people who are politically similar (I believe some people call this…

Damn, got me with the "understanding and being critical of the media you watch is how they get you". Are you ok over there? It sounds like you might need some help...

Trusting Alex Jones is a bold strategy. And not one for anyone who has any media literacy, but you do you!

You seem to think that I care about the audience. It's funny because it's a puppeteer piloting the shambling corpse of Jones's products around to mock him. A constant reminder of h…

Oh no, far to the contrary, this is funny as hell. The fact that Alex Jones isn't there makes it even funnier. And they got all of the stuff and the brands. The chemical brands, th…

I don't think that follows are all, actually. I might give something away and say, "support my patreon" or "buy me a beer" or "contribute back" or "pay for support". You might expe…

It's anarchism, my friend. Not the purge style anarchism, but the academic Kropotkin "Conquest of Bread" style of anarchism. And it's existed many times in human history, it just i…

This is laughable. Like, yes, free software is better and open source is a capitalist spin. But these problems still impact free software. AWS can still exploit the labor of free s…

Pretty sure they don't delete your account, right? Just change the name to some gibberish and overwrite your password hash, so no one can find the account by name.

I'm a game dev, and it's useful for me to have stats about how frequently abilities are used, what items players use, etc. to tune game systems. I've often thought it would be real…