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Didn't know Bas Rutten was a trained chef also!
How on did he manage to fund his journey? This guy a trust fund kid? 25 years of walking???
The guy provides a possible explanation about why American police have been trained to be so violent and trigger happy.
Grossman? We need to listen to a Grossman?
Are you a Jay bro, it's ok nothing will fall until you admit your kind will flee to the username you hate so much. Good luck.
You obviously did not watch the video. Its a video by another youtuber bashing Grossman and explaining how Grossman's idiotic ideas made it into police and military training manuals in the USA and why his ideas caused so many problems.
Like with the collapse of American Empire hype this is fake news. There are less than 1000 police shootings in America each year which is pretty good considering criminals kill around 20K civilians each year. If you ask me there needs to be more police shootings, not less. And I actually believe it is way less than a thousand as in 50+ years of living in America where I see 5 to 30 police officers everyday I have never seen one pull a gun or getting physically violent with a suspect (anecdotal evidence). Quite amazing that such a massive country/population can be so civil with such laissez faire judges and policing.
Australia doesn't suck (I've spent 2 years on the ground there) and neither does America. Whether one's existence sucks or not is primarily a state of mind.
Have you seen the what happened in Australia during COVID? Or that currently the Australian government is fighting to pass a TAX ON UNREALISED CAPITAL GAINS! It is true banana republic stuff.
In the U.S. during a given year, an estimated 1 million civilians experience police threat of or use of force resulting in a conservative estimate of 75,000 non-fatal injuries requiring hospital treatment and 600-1100 deaths.
U.S. Data on Police Shootings and Violence | Law Enforcement Epidemiology Project | University of Illinois Chicago
Data on police shootings and violence impacting civilians in the United States, as prepared by the Law Enforcement Epidemiology Project.
policeepi.uic.edu
That is a lot for 75,000 people to end up in hospital because of police. On a total and per capita basis it appears much higher than most countries. Just recently for example an Australian reporter covering a protest rally in the USA was shot with rubber bullets. Not something you generally see outside of 3rd world countries.
I'm sorry I'm not aware of jewish humour.
No one cares or thinks there are too many police...until they are coming for you or your family.
Haven't watched the video yet so can't comment on it but I've read the Col's original book. Being conditioned to kill is not a good thing...
Modern militaries (and now by extension, increasingly militarized police) being full-time forces, rather than citizens called up in times of need, is sliding down a slippery slope. When someone's whole career/life is wrapped up in such a profession, of course they will lean towards violence when in doubt.
Time to bring back militias and Andy Griffith style lawmen.
That's all good and well and I'm not trying diminish your perspective, but that's not going to happen. Once the old timey cultural genie is out of the bottle there's no putting it back in (atleast in our lifetime).
In my vast experience on American soil for which the better part of two decades I was an outlaw of sorts (non-violent of course) I've never personally seen the police misbehave, quite the contrary, I've only ever seen the police doing their job in a professional manner. Much less have I experienced any type of "police state." In fact, there have been several times in my life when I wished there were lots of head bashing authoritarian types of cops around to put some thugs in their place.
My hypothesis, which bears fruit from 50+ years of anecdotal experience on American soil, is that if you have a valid drivers license, a decent looking car that is insured, have no warrants out for your arrest, aren't out in public running your mouth and looking for trouble, and pay your taxes, that the police are your friends not your enemies. And you can never have too many friends. We need more police in America that are tougher on perps. This is also a thesis in the book Freakonomics... legal abortion (because mothers who are forced to have kids who don't want them raise deviant criminals), coupled with more police on the streets and 3 strikes tough sentencing laws reduce crime (as exemplified in the early 1990's American crime stats wherein 1970's single mother kids that wouldn't have been aborted at the onset of Roe v Wade in 1973 would have been coming of age and turning to crime).
I'm obviously anti-abortion, but if you want to reduce crime, allow women who don't want children easy access to abortion, flood the streets with tons of cops that bust heads, and enact tough 3 strikes sentencing laws that put recidivous felons in jail for life on their third felony. This approach seems to also be working well for Singapore which has one of the lowest crime rates on the planet.
I'm afraid we won't be able to have Andy Griffith style lawmen until we have Mayberry style populations.
Songhai empire? Was that near Wakanda?