You can still empathize with people who were uninformed and subsequently exploited / harmed.

Giving into the “me vs them” team mentality is giving the oligarchs exactly what they want: divide and conquer.

Nice forum sliding

I still think it’s a reasonable deterrent. Amount of people armed matters, too. I don’t even think the agent raises his weapon if many of the people standing in the crowd he aimed at have a reasonable means to defend themselves. (In the Texas case the man who fired was hidden from him)

That’s different, someone fired on a government agent who was pointing their gun at someone else. That would not fall under stand your ground because the person holding the firearm was not in immediate danger.

Wouldn’t the danger these weapons pose fall under many states stand your ground laws?

I am willing to bet if protestors / monitors were very armed in a decent amount of numbers those illegal uses of force would stop happening

Right, they’re only doing it so they can point to it as a reason for a bailout. Fuck them, it’d be a lot cooler if we seize their assets and throw them in prison when the scam collapses.

We can only hope. But the left wing of the working class needs to wake up and realize they have that right too; and get armed if they are not already.

The pentagon… the agency that can’t pass an audit, despite stealing most of our tax dollars… needs LLM companies to steal more of our money to bail their big investors out, for fucking up stealing our labor/art and trying to sell it back to execs to put us out of work?

If they do try and get a bailout we def need to be armed with ARs and Plate Carriers for our protests.

Why would they step in?

They have barely talked about stakes in AI companies to this point. It’s nothing like banking and housing market that were actually useful, and impacted people’s lives, unlike AI. LLMs are just an aggregate of stolen work that they sell back to gullible C level execs.

I can’t fathom how people actually contribute to a 401k when it’s run by Wall Street ghouls that stole everyone’s money 20 years ago and never suffered any consequences for it…

Better start preparing to grind the economy to a halt when they try it. This time any occupy Wall Street movements should be heavily armed and wearing plate carriers

They didn’t take a risk to get rich, most were just born rich. I think that’s what they meant by “got lucky.”

We really should be keeping a public database of where they all live if they try to stick us with the bag.

Are these projects… in the room with us right now?

Brother all big sports are theater & scripted, not just football.

I bet you believe all those players holding their legs on the ground from being tapped begging for a card are actually hurt and not acting.

It genuinely feels like group stage was scripted to get them further in the tournament because they were a host nation. The team playing last night looked very different from the group stage team.

I feel like the script was for Balogun’s red card was supposed to be the reason for them to lose; but trump wanted to insert himself into the play to look like a hero “saving Balogun” so then they had to change the script on why they would lose.

Believing the World Cup is actually real and not just the global stage version of pro wrestling is incredible to me. Theres nothing to “understand”

They absolutely should, but they won’t because Europe has no backbone when it comes to FIFA.

Imagine being so invested in a clownishly corrupt organization and then being surprised when they perform a clownishly corrupt action.

Stop watching FIFA games. Stop supporting them. It’s that simple. Everything else is whining.

Ah yes… FIFA, a paragon of integrity.

Do you all hear yourselves? FIFA Article 27 exists exclusively to not have this so-called integrity you all are concerned about.