408
Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things
(files.catbox.moe)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
408 points (99.5% liked)
A Boring Dystopia
12686 readers
346 users here now
Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.
Rules (Subject to Change)
--Be a Decent Human Being
--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title
--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article
--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.
--Posts must have something to do with the topic
--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.
--No NSFW content
--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Stories like this are why despise Biden and Obama so much. Both enthusiastically armed the police while pretending to support change and helped give them this sense of invincibility, and both had the power to make real change in policing but cared more about being reelected than doing the right thing.
Despite Obama’s “hope and change” promises the first time around, they were both status quo presidents who needed to ensure the dominance of the state above all else.
But don’t you wish we had status quo now? I could go for a little stability and respect with a side of human rights and investment in the future
You mean like expanding the United States' illegal drone assassination program?
That status quo comfort you're yearning for is exactly what lead us here in the first place.
That stays quo was built on incredible amounts of violence inflicted on the global south, and now the imperial boomerang is coming back around.
So no, I don't wish we had 'a bit of that status quo'.
I was replying with something snarky like ‘hey Alexa how many people did we kill in the Middle East while I was big chilling’ so thank you for producing an actual productive response first
Bombs for peace (tm).
Didn't take long to tie actions under a Republican admin to Democrats. Par for the course.
That's because these things do not happen in a vacuum, and if said Democratic presidents had made real reforms, the actions Trump is committing right now wouldn't be possible.
Yep, and the "block everything" McConnell senate of Obama's terms would have allowed that reform too. You could conceivably make that argument about Biden for 2 fucking years if not for Sinnema(sp?) and that chucklefuck from WV.
The Dems are feckless but the president can't just decree shit. (well, unless you're trump I guess)