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Which internationally-recognized aid organizations have concluded that starvation in Gaza was a myth? Israelis believe Americans are this gullible, that they can just call something a myth and that makes it so, and they can call something true and that makes it so. There’s a reason America’s approval of Israel has been plummeting. Let me guess, the Norwegian Refugee Council is Hamas?
Here’s a helpful list to get you started: 1) American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), (2) A.M. Qattan Foundation, (3) A New Policy, (4) ACT Alliance, (5) Action Against Hunger (ACF), (6) Action for Humanity, (7) ActionAid International, (8) American Baptist Churches Palestine Justice Network, (9) Amnesty International, (10) Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz, (11) Associazione Cooperazione e Solidarietà (ACS), (12) Bystanders No More, (13) Campain, (14) CARE, (15) Caritas Germany, (16) Caritas Internationalis, (17) Caritas Jerusalem, (18) Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), (19) Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), (20) CESVI Fondazione, (21) Children Not Numbers, (22) Christian Aid, (23) Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), (24) CIDSE- International Family of Catholic Social Justice Organisations, (25) Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS), (26) Council for Arab‐British Understanding (CAABU), (27) DanChurchAid (DCA), (28) Danish Refugee Council (DRC), (29) Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, (30) Doctors against Genocide, (31) Episcopal Peace Fellowship, (32) EuroMed Rights, (33) Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), (34) Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e.V., (35) Gender Action for Peace and Security, (36) Glia, (37) Global Legal Action Network (GLAN), (38) Global Witness, (39) Health Workers 4 Palestine, (40) HelpAge International, (41) Human Concern International, (42) Humanity & Inclusion (HI), (43) Humanity First UK, (44) Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, (45) Insecurity Insight, (46) International Media Support, (47) International NGO Safety Organisation, (48) Islamic Relief, (49) Jahalin Solidarity, (50) Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC), (51) Justice for All, (52) Kenya Association of Muslim Medical Professionals (KAMMP), (53) Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, (54) MedGlobal, (55) Medico International, (56) Medico International Switzerland (medico international schweiz), (57) Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), (58) Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), (59) Medicine for the People - Belgium (MPLP/GVHV), (60) Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), (61) Médecins du Monde France, (62) Médecins du Monde Spain, (63) Médecins du Monde Switzerland, (64) Mercy Corps, (65) Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), (66) Movement for Peace (MPDL), (67) Muslim Aid, (68) National Justice and Peace Network in England and Wales, (69) Nonviolence International, (70) Norwegian Aid Committee (NORWAC), (71) Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), (72) Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), (73) Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), (74) Oxfam International, (75) Pax Christi England and Wales, (76) Pax Christi International, (77) Pax Christi Merseyside, (78) Pax Christi USA, (79) Pal Law Commission, (80) Palestinian American Medical Association, (81) Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), (82) Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), (83) Peace Direct, (84) Peace Winds, (85) Pediatricians for Palestine, (86) People in Need, (87) Plan International, (88) Première Urgence Internationale (PUI), (89) Progettomondo, (90) Project HOPE, (91) Quaker Palestine Israel Network, (92) Rebuilding Alliance, (93) Refugees International, (94) Saferworld, (95) Sabeel‐Kairos UK, (96) Save the Children (SCI), (97) Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund, (98) Solidarités International, (99) Støtteforeningen Det Danske Hus i Palæstina, (100) Swiss Church Aid (HEKS/EPER), (101) Terre des Hommes Italia, (102) Terre des Hommes Lausanne, (103) Terre des Hommes Nederland, (104) The Borgen Project, (105) The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), (106) The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P), (107) The International Development and Relief Foundation, (108) The Institute for the Understanding of Anti‐Palestinian Racism, (109) Un Ponte Per (UPP), (110) United Against Inhumanity (UAI), (111) War Child Alliance, (112) War Child UK, (113) War on Want, (114) Weltfriedensdienst e.V., (115) Welthungerhilfe (WHH).
Are they all anti-Semitic, or what?
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5hr ago
Iran’s desire for self-sufficiency reasonable. What happened just today with rice imports illustrates this neatly:
Jan 13 (Reuters) - India's basmati rice exports to Iran have slowed to a near standstill amid the protests gripping the Gulf country, with suppliers wary of new deals due to the risk of non-payment and potential additional U.S. tariffs, trade officials said. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that any country trading with Iran would face a 25% tariff on its commerce with the U.S., a move exporters say has made Indian suppliers even more reluctant to sign new contracts with Iranian buyers.
"The proposed 25% levy under the Trump framework adds an additional challenge to the Indian basmati rice sector," said Akshay Gupta, head of bulk exports at KRBL Ltd (KRBL.NS), opens new tab, a leading rice exporter. India is Iran's largest rice supplier, with the staple accounting for nearly two-thirds of all Iranian imports from the country.
IMHO the average American is blind to the utter bloodlust that many Zionist donors have against Iran, and how thoroughly Trump is committed to these Zionist billionaire donors. They would be fine starving the Iranian people just like they were fine starving children in Gaza. This is what makes the pretext of caring about the Iranian people so perplexing to me. Who can believe this? It requires terminal-level gullibility to believe it when we can look back at a quarter century of bloodshed, 400,000 civilians killed directly through American intervention, in Syria alone a mass migration crisis involving five million people… we even funded Islamist groups to accomplish this!
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19hr ago
Do you know what "cherry picking" is?
These are pretty significant indicators. Especially if we want to “free” an “oppressed” population and deliver them American-Grade™️ Values. If our values lead to worse results for the average person than the average person in Iran, we should rethink our ability to improve other nations and instead consider why we’re doing so poorly. Their life expectancy is also tied with ours (and at a better trajectory) and they have half the obesity. The question of course is what they would look like without sanctions, with an extra 1 trillion.
cherry pick an instance of slightly improved relations with the Saudis to defend the insane proposition that Iran's version of Shia Islam makes it easier to deal with its Sunni neighbors
The proposition is that, while an Islamic Iran has something important in common with its Muslim neighbors, a non-Islamic Iran would lose that card altogether and could never leave pariah status. This may not be a factor today but it may be a factor in the future. Consider from the Atlantic Council —
To some extent, the Gaza war has brought about a degree of Iranian-Saudi alignment while pushing the two countries toward deeper diplomatic engagement. Four days into the war, Iranian President Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman had their first phone conversation since their countries restored diplomatic ties. In the call, they agreed on the “need to end war crimes against Palestine” and promote stronger Islamic unity. Then, on November 11, 2023, Raisi came to Riyadh to address the joint Arab League-Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) emergency summit on Gaza, making him the first Iranian president to visit Saudi Arabia since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the 2012 OIC summit in Mecca.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/iran-saudi-arabia-china-deal-one-year/
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21hr ago
Why all the mass protests in America or France? This signals that people have opinions, it isn’t a valid indicator of predicted happiness of social policies. I mean, toddlers and teenagers protest everything from authority, but they seldom are able to predict the longterm outcome of their desired proposals. This is the sin of democracy, that people mistake mass opinion for predictive ability.
Are you aware that Iran already has a famously high rate of plastic surgery?
Are you aware that Iran has half our suicide rate, one eighth of our drug overdose rate, a heavily subsidized and expansive healthcare system, and one third our intentional homicide rate? Probably not. Perhaps you’ll accuse them of cooking the books.
Are you aware Iran has a famously high rate of brain drain
Yes, hence why I mentioned it: this doesn’t apply to the religious cohort, which is why they have an interest in maintaining their religious “extremism”. Otherwise they will all leave.
Are you aware that the extremist version of Shia Islam the Iranian Islamic regime adheres to increases conflict with basically all of its Sunni neighbors?
Of course but when it comes to the risk that Israel poses in the region, you can’t ignore that Iran being Islamic is helpful for speaking with other Islamic nations.
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21hr ago
Israel has been trying to trick us into believing that Iran is years away from nuclear weapons for 30 years now. Iran opened itself to outside observers during the nuclear deal era. Meanwhile Israel has killed an almost inconceivable amount of women and children in Gaza while illegally stealing land in the West Bank. “And then one day, for no reason at all, Iran started preparing for war against Israel…”
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22hr ago
The sane choice is to prepare for the inevitability of conflict with a regional power that is committed to warring against you, and in fact just assassinated a number of your scientists.
America has interfered in democracies before, even in Iran before (1953). In Ukraine, we funded pro-EU news in the lead up to the coup of Yanukovych, which was an illegal coup where a mob forced the democratically-elected Yanukovych to flee and the procedure for legal impeachment was never followed. We supported this anti-democratic mob activity in Ukraine diplomatically. Chavez was elected and popular in Venezuela, and we tried to coup him in 2002. At the same time, we have committed ties to absolute monarchies, the polar opposite of “enlightenment-based democracies”, and indeed those countries are fine and thriving.
Iran is viewed as a threat by the US and Israel because they're antisemitic religious fundamentalists
And Israel is not anti-Arab or anti-Palestinian? From a purely consequential standpoint it is the Israelis who have more blood on their hands. It is also Israel who attacked Iran first. Israel is also becoming more religious extremism, while Iran seems to be becoming less so.
if Iran were not a fanatical dictatorship, fewer intelligent people would leave.
The intelligent seculars will leave no matter what, as intelligent seculars around the world always try to leave for better countries. But the high TFR intelligent netionalist / religious families will stay.
replacing their regimes with sane governments
The Iranian government is approximately sane. They need their religious fervor in order to (1) sustain their already low TFR, (2) incentivize high births among the intelligent [who otherwise would leave or not have so many kids], and (3) encourage bravery among the men who will certainly be dying against Israel this century. It doesn’t hurt that (4) it also promotes alliances with other Muslims in the region. Without Islam, Arabs would be a lot less resistant to the idea of America and Israel completely destroying them. If you were dictator of Iran and had the best interest of Iranians at heart, IMO you would be forced to retain the religious component of their governance, even without considering the huge gains in life satisfaction that come with religiosity. (And even the veil — women having to wear a modest veil likely increases their happiness given the longterm problems that come with the culture of appearance-obsession that plagues Western women).
The idea that “secularism” is sane for Iran is silly. The idea that democracy is remotely viable should be disproven per the long history of America interfering with democracies.
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1d ago
Some % of Iranian Americans are likely Shiite extremist or Iranian extremists simply as a matter of statistics; it is not unheard of for extremists to be the children of those who left their country because of extremism. According to the official documents they were “voluntary telephonic interviews” and
SHAKERI's stated reason for participating in the interviews was to attempt to obtain a sentence reduction for another individual ("Individual-1"), who is serving a sentence in U.S. prison, by providing assistance to law enforcement on this individual's behalf.
But this really stretches the imagination, as Iran would brutally torture him to death for conducting such an interview, were he a real person.
Iran has a documented history of using criminals, foreign and domestic, to conduct assassination operations because they have leverage and plausible deniability
Plausible deniability would be paying someone who is not Iranian. Really this all sounds similar to the string of antisemitic arson attacks in Australia, where some mysterious overseas organization hired criminals to commit random acts of criminality against Jewish organizations, most of which never constituted a real threat, coincidentally as the Australian Jewish community pushed for tyrannical antisemitic hate speech laws:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8057j0mz5mo.amp
Australia's federal police have said they are investigating whether "overseas actors or individuals" are paying local criminals to carry out antisemitic crimes in the country.
There has been a spate of such incidents in recent months, the latest of which saw a childcare centre in Sydney set alight and sprayed with anti-Jewish graffiti. No-one was injured.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called a snap cabinet meeting in response, where officials agreed to set up a national database to track antisemitic incidents. Thus far, the federal police taskforce, set up in December to investigate such incidents, received more than 166 reports of antisemitic crimes. Albanese said it appeared some of the crimes were "being perpetrated by people who don't have a particular issue, aren't motivated by an ideology, but are paid actors".
These “attacks” were designed specifically to cause no damage: https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/3/10/mob-faked-attack-on-australian-synagogue-police
The caravan had been easily located, the AFP said, adding that the explosives were clearly visible and no detonator was present, suggesting there was never any intent to attack Jewish targets. “The caravan was never going to cause a mass casualty event but instead was concocted by criminals who wanted to cause fear for personal benefit,” Krissy Barrett, AFP’s deputy commissioner for nation
This has also been blamed on Iran, because of course.
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2d ago
IMO the allegation that Iran tried to kill Trump is frankly too absurd to take seriously. The Iranian agent conducted an interview with the FBI while in Iran? Like he is employed by Iran for a super secret mission, and voluntarily decides to confess guilt in an interview with the FBI, while still in Iran? And it’s a phone interview, so it could be literally anyone on the other side of the phone? Disregarding the absurdity of Iran ever trying to do this, never in a million years would they task a 50-year-old who spent a decade in prison with such a mission; that is like a television drama’s idea of how intelligence work plays out in real life. I think whoever is responsible for this bizarre event gave the game away with this:
he allegedly told the FBI of the IRGC's desire to kill an Iranian American activist and target Israeli tourists in Sri Lanka with a mass shooting event. Shakeri also told investigators that the IRGC tasked him with surveilling two Jewish American citizens living in New York
Would Iran, with its half-million strong diaspora in America, able to call upon thousands of Shiite Muslim Americans to do their bidding, task a criminal for four of their highly sensitive operations, none of which have anything to do with each other? And we know all this from a phone call interview? Press X to doubt.
The first sentence of your analysis is a mischaracterization.
The moment the agent fires, he is standing here to the left of the SUV
The agent is hit in such a way that “to the left of the SUV” is a mischaracterization, as his torso makes contact with the left of the car. He is hit by the car. Thus he is not “to the left of the SUV”, but in its path. More to the point, the only consideration is what the officer reasonably believed would happen and the actual direction of the car’s tire at the moment of shot is immaterial, because self-defense is in the reasonable eyes of the reasonable beholder. Our officer had only one second to respond to the speedy change of tire direction. It’s one second between “absolutely going to hit me dead on” and the shot. And it is half a second between “still definitely going to hit me and run me over” and the shot. Because she changes the direction of the steering wheel that quickly. The average person’s raw reaction time is .25 seconds, and the time it takes to calculate whether a car is going to run you over while you hold a gun, a phone, and are surveying the driver’s car is more than .75 seconds or .25 seconds (depending on how badly you want to be hit by a vehicle).
I created an imgur album of three still images from the video above. The first image is before the officer realizes the car is coming, the second is right before impact, and the third is how far he was displaced by the car. The middle red dot shows the distance of the officer’s torso from the car from a static parked park to his left, and the right-most red dot shows his feet placement. https://imgur.com/a/cM5z4Xc
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3d ago
Some questions I am puzzling over currently:
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Has anyone done the napkin math on how safe it is to be apprehended by ICE? I think it’s 30k ICE agents and only 1-2 people shot with questions of justification this year. It’s likely that on a per-hourly basis you are safer being around an ICE agent than you are around the most criminally-prone young male demographic, or walking around certain cities at night. I wonder what a top-tier AI would calculate on this. If ICE agents in the line of work are safer than the average person, then I’m not sure why anyone would be worked up about this event for a rational reason, but if there’s a non-rational reason then…
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… Do humans have some instinct to argue about death? This would explain the perennial popularity of these stories + TrueCrime. I suppose it’s possible. Or is there an instinct to really, really hate when a low status male kills a female in the “tribe”? “White police officer” is coded extremely low status in Progressive America, and I can’t imagine anything near the same response if the officer was a Somali woman (!!!). Would these White progressives really shout “shame” at a Somali woman in uniform, which would connote high status and deference? Re: low status femicide, this would explain why the national park couple murder event got so much traction some years back. There was a uniquely large amount of vitriol online expressed against the murderer in this event, as in, more than both the typical murder (no one really pays attention) and the typical true crime murder.
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Were it the case that everything is so instinctual, is there any way that ICE can short-circuit the instincts at play here? Maybe they can paint images of empathy on their car (cute animals, maternal colors, mothers protecting their young). Or better yet, like the Ancient Greeks with their apotropaic magic imagery, they can paint a Medusa’s head on their car, except the Medusa is actually an image of a strong disabled black woman in a same sex relationship. I have a hard time believing the protesters would yell at vehicles wielding the ultimate seal of inviolability within their own cultural norms. It would be a bad look. Or maybe there is a way to change the entire “spirit” of the social encounter through music. What if you played really relaxing Enya or Jack Johnson music from loud car speakers? Or, going the other direction, just for curiosity, Richard Wagner? I wish these kinds of things were studied.
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3d ago
These are qualitatively different events. The Babbitt question is about whether the police officer was justified in killing someone for tresspassing non-violently because (a) previously the protesters were violent, (a2) though they weren’t violent upon gaining entry into their desired locations, (b) pursuant to the security of VIP politicians, (b2) though the politicians had already begun evading minutes before, (b3) and despite no imminent danger to any politician. As we do not ordinarily kill on sight those who are trespassing while non-violently protesting, it is the politician’s security which is the pertinent detail.
In the ICE officer’s case, he was in the process of being hit by an accelerating car, and arguably excused for believing he would be run over in the center of the car rather than the side.
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4d ago
I can’t conceive of a motive for that. He has an interest in downplaying them and assigning them to the fringes
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4d ago
He’s anti groyper and claims to have reached out to people in the know in dc so in this case yes
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4d ago
She doesn’t seem panicked at all in the video. She is smiling, unstressed, comes across as giddy, arrogant, cognizant
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5d ago
It seems intuitive to me that a woman who goes out of her way to impede the law and disobey orders is going to be more likely to resist arrest violently, whether with a firearm or a blade or a car. The average woman would not do this, thus you can’t place her in the population of average woman, any more than the average Jan 6 protester is not representative of the average population of Trump voters. The small segment of the female population who would do this is radicalized, which is a small sliver of the female population, like 0.001% of them. A woman who believes that ICE is so evil that you must illegally stop them and then evade them is simply going to be more likely to commit violence against them than the general population of women. This is a filtered, or “preselected”, radical population, in a climate where the news is constantly radicalizing people and where death threats have previously been made.
it is notable that her planned way of impeding them was non-violent
The officers did not / would not know that. She could easily be luring them to the vehicle, which is common tactic in anti-police violence.
Anyone willing to murder a few ICE agents in the process of impeding their progress would not waste their time on non-violent resistance
Disagree per above, and also because the violent do not behave rationally. Irrationally and violence go hand in hand.
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5d ago
I’ve been listening to the Hallowfall OST for WoW, though I haven’t played in more than a decade. Really nice pieces esp for the Lorel’s Crossing, Armory, Church of the Sacred Flame areas. I am a sucker for airships (always loved treasure planet), Halloween-themed things, and fictional renditions of Christianity, so I love it. I think they fucked up by implementing widespread flying mounts though, doesn’t seem like you can connect to locations if you’re rushing through them so quickly.
I’m also paying attention to ARC Raiders because I’m interested in why it is so popular. It seems that “coalition-building” is a really big joy that people get out of it which you don’t find in alternative titles, and the designers have implement some cleve matchmaking algorithm that puts all the cheaters in the same lobbies. And how just three years into the nature of war changing with drones, we already have a drone-heavy war simulator, which is interesting.
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5d ago
I’m confused if you’re criticizing the isolationist faction or the interventionist faction here as you’re mixing the two together in your last sentence. And you’re providing examples of criticism while claiming there’s an extremely narrow window of criticism, which doesn’t make sense. In any case, we live in a two party system, so each party comprises strange bedfellows, like those who want American Imperialism and those who want strict interventionism, or those who want it in some cases but not every case.
IMO Venezuela is indeed very different from Iran / Ukraine. We didn’t cause harm to their citizens, whereas our pressure in Ukraine destined hundreds of thousands of young men to perish in absolute agony and demographically destroyed an entire nation. Our intervention in Iran could destroy an ancient and high-science civilization for little reason except that it benefits Israel and KSA. (Just months before Israel killed Persian scientists and their families while they slept in their beds, Iran was publishing about their important nuclear medicine products which formerly only Germany was able to produce). Personally I am all for Venezuela-type resource grabs and even taking Greenland, but I don’t want to see hundreds of thousands of guys just like me be slaughtered in Ukraine, or see science take steps back because of Israeli neuroticism and expansionism. There are reasonable utilitarian grounds for this imo
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5d ago
It shouldn’t matter if shooting her was ineffective at preventing the hit, because if there is even the tiniest chance that shooting mitigates serious injury, then it is rational and moral. The person receiving the unjust serious injury has every right and reason to prevent as much of it as he can; it is the aggressor who forfeits their claim to life. The chance of being stuck on the front of her car until she crashes or runs you over is slightly lower if you shoot her.
You can’t profile this woman as the average member of the general class of women, because she belongs to a very small class of people trying to illegally impede the law. I imagine those who go out of their way to impede ICE have a much higher risk of carrying a weapon.
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6d ago
The car drives in reverse as the ICE agent walks toward her door from the front of the car. It abruptly stops in reverse with its tires faced in the exact direction to hit this ICE agent. If the last moment of “stopped with angle of hitting agent” is set to 0 seconds and 0 milliseconds, there is 1 second and 5 milliseconds before the shot is fired. Within this 1 second, the driver changes the angle of the tires as they begin to accelerate, which narrowly prevents the officer from being run over by the driver. Cold, fatigued, and stressed, the officer has all of these concerns within a single second:
• Do they have a weapon? His eyes need to be on the driver through the windshield, because ICE agents have previously been shot and weapons have previously been brandished. This is normal policing: you take out your weapon when someone belligerently refuses to listen to orders.
• Do I have my weapon out and ready? He needs to get his weapon out and aim toward the driver in case she has a weapon, which is normal police work.
• Is she going to hit me? It looks like she is, but my attention is not on the split-second angle turn of her tire, but on whether she has a weapon.
The shot appears to be fired just as the officer is hit by the side of the vehicle, though the officer probably had no idea that the driver intended to swerve out of the way in the last milliseconds so that it would simply brush against him, rather than giving him life-altering injuries which he doesn’t deserve (like paralysis). A reasonable person would infer that an accelerating driver with its tires angled toward you, and who sees you, is not going to serve away right at the exact moment to avoid life-altering injuries. If this inference is correct, then we are not discussing whether lethal force is justified over a trivial injury but over a serious injury or death.
IMHO we are left with these possibilities:
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Never allow police to stand in front of a vehicle. I have no idea what the discussion on this would look like. If standing in front of a vehicle is helpful in determining whether a driver is reaching for a weapon, then this would be a complicated determination.
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Tell police to do a barrel roll away as soon as they see a car beginning to move in any direction. I guess they can do that. But that interferes with safety per above. This officer could have jumped out of the way when she reversed, but did he know that she was about to accelerate toward him? This would require a change in policing strategy, so it can’t be blamed on this sole officer but the whole of society who elects lawmakers and so forth.
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Require police to accept probable but not certain life-altering injuries in their line of work. This seems unreasonable and unethical.
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Tell people to obey orders and not accelerate toward a human being in front of them.
Someone might say, “were I the officer I would have used my split second reaction time to get out of the way”. But for you, this event would put you in a hyper-vigilant and high adrenaline state of heightened attention. For the officer, this is simply one of the 40 hours of monotonous work that he must do every day. You can’t compare your state to his; you should compare his state to the periods of low or moderate attention that you sustain in your own occupational hours.
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6d ago
Photogenic woman whose last name is Good. Hard to imagine a name more suited for emotionally-charged polemics.
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7d ago
It’s anecdotal but so was most of what you’d see for these issues on Reddit in the mid-late 10s. You’d routinely see stories like “this black immigrant student got into every college”, “this person was jailed for racist violence”, “this person was a victim of racist violence”, “TIL about Black Wall Street”, “this person was the recipient of anti-immigrant violence”. Selectively positive and negative anecdota have a big impact on opinion because a normal person simply assumes that they represent reality, like how a person who watches K-Dramas might unconsciously develop a positive image of South Korea. And many of the anecdotes on Reddit were never really verified anyway.
The story of deprave cultural practices in Africa is the balance to the curated stories of positive cultural practices in Africa or negative cultural practices of colonists in Africa. There’s not really rational grounds to consider one witchy and the other run of the mill
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7d ago
Do you see Scott’s own example image for these supposedly hyper-problematic witches that must be eradicated from all civil discourse? It’s three links: a program that tells you if the entertainment you buy is injected with SJW themes; a video on the frequency of economic schemes in Africa and the risk of their migration to the EU; a black serial killer who targetted only white children. What witchcraft!
The moral of the story is —
that Scott was proven wrong, horrifically so. Scott’s idea (or rather those in agreement with it) paved the way for the BLM hysteria and the largest amount of ineffectively-altruistic charitable giving ever. Were these witches allowed to discourse freely, maybe the public would have double-checked the reports on racial homicide / police stats, and maybe the leaders of Minnesota wouldn’t feel pressured hide the report on billion-dollar Somali schemes, etc. What is so wrong with these witches? They made Scott too uncomfortable? Or is he just not aware that, at the same time, the top stories on Reddit were on all inverses of this supposed witchcraft — a list of the most inclusive games, a story of a successful African immigrant family, a white serial killer who targeted only blacks — these sorts of stories were allowed to proliferate without any counterweights for years.
I digress. Undesirables are now all on x and short form video content; few now have the bandwidth to read two paragraphs.
The US / UN did not find evidence of that. There we also easy ways to circumvent that were it happening, like thousands of aerial aid box drop locations or excluding certain men from receiving aid based on the facial recognition software already in use in Gaza. Hamas stealing aid isn’t even something that could be feasibly done in secret as 2% of the population stealing all the aid from starving people would be obviously discernible from drones.
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