It's worth mourning that someone in the custody of the state isn't being protected from attack. For every evil cop getting stabbed there's a ton more people (some of whom are innocent) who are subject to the same negligence and cruelty in the system.

The right is way more hooked into the culture war, but plenty of leftist communities cannibalize each other via "no true Scots"-ing each other with intersectionality. I see very little patience or compassionate education on intersectionality, and instead see a competition about how quickly one can scold. Regardless of whether that's valid, it sure as hell makes it difficult to build bonds with other groups or onboard new folks to leftist ideas.

The diversion is the idea of rainbow capitalism. For example: fighting for the right for people of any identity to own slaves is not a valid goal and also won't "free the slaves." Ending slavery is the goal. Rainbow capitalism acts as a shell game to divert energy toward token concessions and labels them victories. Anti-racism and feminism should be (and I would say, are) at the core of any coherent flavor of leftism, but diverse oppression is still oppression and a rainbow flag on a Raytheon missile is not a win.

Edit: should have read the comment further down. Said what I meant but with gooder words.

Nah that's common to leftism in general.

Yep. Did a bunch on it. Graduated in 2009ish in a small, rural town.

I mean, they do care. It's a fundamental part of how fascism works, so they can't leave hypocrisy out.

The only thing modern Russia has in common with the USSR is territorial ambition. They don't have the life expectancy, the culture, the art, the principles, or improving quality of life. They don't even have the opposition to fascism. It's the result of capitalism's victory over and looting of the Soviet Union. MAGAT's will never have based flags.

I see where you're coming from. But for Westworld the gratuity is sort of fundamental to the theme and plot of the show.

This is the hidden most based take in the thread.

Came here to say exactly this.

Most people are not armed in the US. And cop isn't even in the top ten most dangerous job. They act like everyone is armed because they're indoctrinated to see everyone as an enemy (and get off on violence).

Trying to repair a spice grinder. After swearing a bunch and cutting up my fingers I gave up putting the original switch and safety lock and decided to cannibalize a new switch from a space heater that isn't a POS.