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I am American and really despise the way our culture not only avoids nuance but pushes it away like it's radioactive.
I have been helped by police, I have called on police when I've been trouble, I've thanked everything I believe in to be in a country that has emergency services. When I was fighting a home-invader, seeing uniformed police come down the hall with weapons drawn was like seeing the fucking calvary charging in to save the day.
But the police are a terrible, broken, literally evil institution that needs to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up with an entirely new set of principles and directives and culture.
YOU CAN HAVE BOTH OF THESE BELIEFS YOU FUCKERS. ALL OF YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE REASON THE ORCS ARE WINNING IS BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO CARE ABOUT NUANCE. They routinely believe five or six different principles or ideals that are completely contradictory of each other and they don't care. They just charge right ahead arguing both points at once and not even trying to make it make sense.
The instance about police is easy, but this needs to be extended to every social issue so we can just fucking move on and focus efforts on dismantling the system, not each other.
Upvoted because it's better thought out than anything I can post.