Dont think cops should have rifles to begin with, and if they didnt there wouldn't be any to steal.
Secondly there's more than one cops, and they are ostensibly trained, though I know that might be going too far. I think 4 or 5 of them should be able to successfully neutralize even a meth head without killing them. People are way too blase about cops just having the ability and immunity to just kill people. Whether or not they're drug addicts
Maybe tazing someone isn't the best idea. There are other methods of suppression.
Also once it doesnt work, most police forces in most civilized places know how to take a man down without shooting him up, even if he is trying to take your gun. Its only in the US that cops seem to think fuck any semblance of a threat means I can start blasting people to timbuktu
Call me crazy but I use this thing called a bottle. Then even if I knock it over when im asleep it just wakes me up and doesnt cause me to have to start cleaning up water and glass at random times
Yeah maybe its the job of the politicians to go out and get peoples votes and listen to what they're concerned about rather than just sitting there saying well you have to vote for us cuz that guys worse
Funny how Biden brought up price gouging but then never acted on it
Funny how they brought up corporations buying elections and then never acted on it.
Funny how they could have enshrined abortion or medicaid into law and decided not to because they couldn't even get their own house together to vote for it because they're all paid for by corporations and Israel.
Funny how they couldn't do the basic moral thing and not finance fully a genocide.
Funny how they didnt reach across to any left leaning voters but instead paraded around a family of genocidaires. Funny how they kept leaping to the right instead of even trying to stay as a democratic party.
Funny how they've rigged their own elections since Obama in 08.
Could argue that everyone who didnt give a fuck about genocide because it didnt directly affect them voted to kill 100,000 plus people.
Could argue that the same violence happening in Gaza, the same thought process, is exactly what's happening here. The violence committed 3000 miles away for decades under US rule is coming home to roost.
If Americans were so pissed off about trump they would be out in the streets protesting every single day. But they're too fat and lazy and dont know how to protect their rights. So if you want to sit there and be dickslapped by democrats pointing at Republicans and aaying they're bad while half of them vote alongside them at every single point, then ya good luck. You're not gonna go anywhere except further right. Get in an actual left leaning party with an actual.policy that isn't "keep the status quo that has failed consistently going" and you might have a chance to have a democracy again.
I do grow my own food for the most part
I buy a 20 kg bag of rice once in a while, and I buy meat from my local farm when I want to cook meat
I still think we should make sure everyone has enough food considering we create more food than everyone needs.
Do I think Farmers or food growers should suffer because of that? No. But that is why the government or whoever is in charge should subsidize it. If everyone has food we are already better off as a populace.
It's insane to me that people think that others shouldn't have food or water
So that would be their car payment then if it's pre insurance. That also tracks.
I pay 165 a month for one car and I haven't had any tickets or accidents in over 7 years so might depend where you live as well
But now imagine if that 12 min car ride was easily bikeable or had public transport. You'd get to places far easier and you would have shops etc around you so you didn't have to drive 20 min to get to a grocery store.
The fact that it is not mandatory should not even register with anyone with half a brain cell.
The US is just so stupidly backwards and going even further in that direction that it's even an option to not vaccinate your kids.
All that's going to happen is that this country will push out all the intelligent people who will want to leave for somewhere with some intelligence and the oligarchs will be left to rule over a blatantly stupid populace who force themselves into slavery
Just looking at that map seems to show the Ross sea to the south