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If an insurance company refused to carry a cop, they'd be sued out of existence by every police union and booster org in the nation.

As someone who's anti death penalty for any case, I'd prefer we waste money on incarcerating people if we must, rather than risk killing the wrong person. People have made entire careers out of justifying why an (usually) innocent person has to die, using a lot of junk science (bite mark, hair, thread analysis, a lot of CSI stuff is absolute bullshit or at least no better than 50/50).

The crime is usually better known as "being black in public". More specifically "being a black authority figure".

Especially with the recent East Wing argument, the lesson is "if you do it fast enough and ignore other people getting angry about it, you can do whatever you want."

"I found an island paradise that's also full of old Soviet bunkers and we're pretty sure that's gonna be nice to have when the next American civil/world war kicks off, we just need to make it palatable for our billionaire friends who can't stand looking at nature".

Instead of using numerical codes, Bungie uses animals as error codes for connectivity and server issues.

Finally an interesting timeline. Anyone wanna go strategically scatter health packs and ammunition with me?

There's definitely room for Rule of Cool. I always allow Druids to do magical beasts, with the caveat of "I can say no if shenanigans".

First off, nowhere in your rant does it ever state that it's about middle-class people or whatever. Is it true that a lot of people have a lot of things they could do without? Yes. Will we have to make changes in order to combat climate change? Yes. But this scans a lot more like "nobody should own things or create or engage with media because minimalism is more environmentally friendly" - which is partially true, but is also a common right-wing canard ("you shouldn't own anything if you're REALLY serious about saving the planet", etc).

Pretty much this. You're effectively halfways to stumping for sumptuary laws because "poor people don't deserve to enjoy anything in life until they're not poor.*

Much easier to say when you're not the one invested with massive power, and often massive wealth too. There's a reason the saying goes that power corrupts.

Prosecutors and state governments love executing people because they keep claiming it "deters crime". It also looks fantastic on your resume to a certain stripe of voters when you can yell "I helped get rid of XX amount of DANGEROUS CRIMINALS".

You also want to kill anyone who you've already decided to kill, because otherwise they tend to have a habit of being exonerated. It's awful embarrassing to have to say "yes we framed a dozen murders on this guy who didn't do anything but steal a bike" or whatever.