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Comment Re:Should be illegal to wear in public. (Score 2) 39

That's a very US centric view ... in many EU countries, there VERY MUCH is an expectation of privacy in public. Set up a doorbell camera in Germany that films anything but your own front yard, and enjoy the lawsuits from your neighbors. Store the footage more than 72 hours? More legal problems. It's great ... they take personal freedom seriously. don't just pay lip service to it.

Comment Re:Should be illegal to wear in public. (Score 1) 39

Maybe the solution to having less violence is regulating the tools of violence (a handgun is basically a point-and-click destructive device) and having a functional society that doesn't create an undereducated underclass with a culture that glorifies violence. The things that many EU countries that ALSO regulate surveillance in public also do. Also, 50% of homicides go unsolved because no one cares - it's dismissed as black-on-black crime or chalked up to gang violence and seen as deserved. There's a lack of will to investigate, even if the footage were right there. This being said, I'm fine with some murders going unsolved as a tradeoff for more personal freedom in society ... I'm not one of those who bleats "anything to keep the children safe, nine eleven" several times per day.

Comment Re:Now do USPS (Score 2) 45

I'm not rooting for it ... this is why I love Poland and prefer it to the US. It kept the best aspects of socialism. The national railway or one of the local successor companies runs trains to virtually every city of 50k people or more, as well as may smaller places. Generally, decently fact, clean electric trains. Public schools and certain higher ed are publicly run and of fairly uniform, if not of top-notch quality. National healthy system. Anyone working on the equivalent of a US W2 is enrolled by default and employers pay ~9% of income for employees getting insurance with very low deductibles ... none of this annual minimum or HSA nonsense like in the US. Feels much like the US and UK in pre-enshittification days, and it's absolutely glorious.

Comment Re:Russian Porsches disabled (Score 1) 96

And, I will add, fair is fair. If blue states supposedly inflate their representation, red states deliberately cut their voting rolls ... got caught growing weed in 1985 at age 18? No vote for you since you have a felony drug conviction, and the process to restore your franchise is deliberately tortuous and expensive.

Comment Re:Russian Porsches disabled (Score 1) 96

Fuck the majority and fuck you. If this were the old Slashdot, most people here would have been LIVID at the thought of ICE pigs stopping people on the streets at random, asking for their "papers please", and often arresting them or being violent EVEN IF THEY SHOWED PROOF OF US CITIZENSHIP. When did Slashdot become the home of bootlicking bitter old codgers instead of libertarian in bent?

As far as "dumbocrapsee", the rule of the voting rabble (deplorable trash) shouldn't be paramount or unlimited. That's why we have a Bill of Rights. Remember, well over 50% of the rabble, the voting scum, supported segregation in the 1960s, and saw MLK Jr. as a Communistic troublemaker. I'm not for unlimited democracy, and I'm not even the tiniest bit ashamed of that fact.

Again, the law isn't equal to morality. I spit in the face of unjust laws, the legacies of the people who made them, and the good names of the people that enforce them.

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