He’s the biggest liability to all of his companies. Good on SpaceX for firewalling him from the company as well as they do.

I think that Israel’s habit of constantly fucking with its neighbors makes it more of a liability to the interests of the US. It leads to more local hostility towards US troops in other regions in the area and attacks on US people and interests both abroad and at home (9/11).

A better approach would be to ally with indigenous democracies and help them maintain stability. First, our allies should be at least mostly compatible with our own national values (not theocracies, monarchies, apartheid states, etc). Secondly, allying with an indigenous nation instead of a bunch of settler colonists is less likely to draw the ire of every common person in the region.

Some Palestinian children and international aid workers are going to pay dearly for this.

He’s a hardcore Zionist who thinks that Palestinians are subhuman and he’s trying to say that indiscriminately slaughtering civilians is good for Israel.

It’s basically like talking to a cartoon villain Nazi without any self-awareness and I congratulate you for not taking the bait.

lol, somebody modded this up?

So you’ve waded into an article about the criminal behavior of an American policeman, found a comment calling for police accountability in the US and posted some unverifiable anecdotal “evidence” that only qualifies their statement in the vaguest sense, but is aimed to plant uncertainty and doubt in the sentiment that police as a whole are bastards and need better oversight and accountability…

You very much appear to be one of the “good” cops that will do anything to minimize the crimes of his bad brothers. I would say that maybe ACAB only applies to the rotten societies like ours, but you are falling over yourself to cast yourself in the same lot as the bad cop in the article and to defend the profession. That’s not making the statement you think it is.

I’m not sure how things work in your country. You’ve helpfully neglected to even state what country that is (which conveniently makes it difficult to find examples of the state of policing in your country).

This article is discussing American police and so that’s the context of my statements. We don’t do police accountability or oversight here, so your counterpoint doesn’t lend much weight.

Think the following question over yourself. Don’t bother answering it here.

As the enforcer of the law, how many times have you casually broken the law and felt ok doing it? How many times have you seen a fellow police officer break the law and failed to hold them accountable or even helped them cover it up? In your experience, these events may have only involved minor crimes - not murder or rape or anything - but you almost certainly still operated in an environment of willingness to break the law and fraternal duty to protect your colleagues at any cost. The same situation is too common with serious crimes, as we see in the news on a regular basis.

Good cops don’t help cover up the crimes of bad cops.

Once police throwing out/locking up the bad ones starts to become the norm, instead of circling the wagons and covering up each others’ crimes, we’ll start to see that distinction. In our universe in the present, however, the police, their unions, the prosecutors, and the judges all act almost in lockstep to prevent police from ever being accountable for any of their actions in almost all situations. Thus ACAB.

Be careful everybody! This poster was extradited and is currently serving a prison sentence in London for the comment above. Don’t make the same mistake they did.

Relieved in the sprinkle pool? If not, I’m disappointed.

Because it’s a wall of text bot-spam from a self-appointed arbiter of truthfulness with questionable methodology.

And it’s spammed to every posting on some subs giving the disappointing appearance of actual human activity.

Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.

They were in violation of that treaty themselves and the US is no longer a party to it (as of 2019).

They should be called oligarchs here too

This really is the right answer, as much as I despise what Israel is doing.

The Olympics should be about increasing non-hostile relations between people of the world and I don’t think anyone should be excluded.

Complicating this stance though is the compulsory military service that means that the attending athletes are associated with the military and the ongoing atrocities.

Which Democratic candidate are you thinking of? Surely not the one who has been bankrolling this whole thing so far…

I don’t think any “viable” candidate from any party will support the ICJ judgement.

But they’re also having to fight for more limited funding among a crowd of chatbot “researchers”. The funding agencies are enamored with LLMs right now.

Thank you for beating me to this. I had just copied that section to post this exact same thing.

How many other people are in prison to cover up the crimes of the police?

No need to qualify that statement.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach