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0 pointsslackfan3y ago0 comments

As proud trailer trash -- fucking with the feds is a time honoured tradition, and we have done similar and gotten away with more.

Please stop being so condescending.

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Quarrelsome3y ago

I mean, we still end up in jail cells for a few hours. But sure, we might get off with a slap on the wrist.

ipaddr3y ago

Probably the stupidest discussion on hw.

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scarface743y ago

So why is it that “rural America” seem to hold the local police in such high regard. But think the Federal police are so bad?

slackfanOP3y ago

Because we get a statement showing what the PD used our tax money for, every single year, vs the endless black hole of the IRS. Also we can fire and disband them if we so wish. For us "Defund the police" is not a toothless meme, it's a reality that we can implement if the police become a nuisance. For instance my town fired the entirety of its' PD a good decade ago.

Counterpoint; why do city folk hold their police deparments in such low regard and scream for their defunding yet somehow hold the federal enforcement agencies in some do-no-wrong-holier-than-thou limelight?

scarface743y ago

I’ve never known federal police to stop and frisk, racial profile, be accused of police brutality or stop someone for “suspiciously” walking through his own neighborhood where the county is only 2.9% Black (my 6 foot 3 step son who grew up in the burbs all of his life), we lived in the most affluent county in the metro area (this was Atlanta metro not saying much in the grand scheme of things) and we had a household income twice the median since I work remotely for $BigTech.

But that didn’t stop them from thinking “we didn’t belong here”.

It’s the same reason NWA never wrote a song called “Fuck the FBI”…

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Quarrelsome3y ago

I mean, we still end up in jail cells for a few hours. But sure, we might get off with a slap on the wrist.

ipaddr3y ago

Probably the stupidest discussion on hw.

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scarface743y ago

So why is it that “rural America” seem to hold the local police in such high regard. But think the Federal police are so bad?

slackfanOP3y ago

scarface743y ago

But that didn’t stop them from thinking “we didn’t belong here”.

It’s the same reason NWA never wrote a song called “Fuck the FBI”…

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