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Shot dead because this is MURiCAHHH. And we are sociopaths here. USA USA USA... 🤮
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To the idiot that downvoted, what other country have you heard of where police has shot a woman for defending herself?
You want a full list of countries? Or are we restricting this to a single continent? Or NATO block? Or what?
Because Israel is some low hanging fruit.
As usual trans women are just seen as "acceptable" targets. Those cops have been itching to murder a minority and finally got what they saw as their opportunity. They knew what they were doing.
Ok, but how many films or shows have you seen where the cops shoot at fleeing suspects? I think it's about way more than that - it's about US police's attitude to pursuit.
She needed to be interviewed by police, no question, right? But the police thought that, because she was running away, any means was justified in apprehending her. I think in the mind of a lot of the public too, someone "wanted" for questioning has earnt whatever comes to them if they run.
Whipping up a rage about this murder from the point of view of identity is dangerous, even though it may be a component. We don't know from this, and accusations that may turn out to be wrong are counterproductive. But this was a murder, so we should be directing our rage at what we do know.
In a civilized country, that officer would be tried for murder.
I am not aware of any other democracy where the police can run around killing people at will and even in their homes, without being tried for murder.
When I write democracy I know USA is not really a democracy, but only a flawed democracy, or a 2nd rate democracy.
"Representative democracy" - representative of the control freak rich holding the purse-strings that have long financed the vast majority of election campaigns.
The best democracies in the world are also representative. That is not the problem, the problem is that USA instead of improving regulation to reign in capitalism, has chosen to allow it to run wild taking over elections, and hasn't improved on the flawed FPP system.
Some places have ranked voting, and hopefully they will be pointers to the future, but there's a long way from where USA is currently to having any chance of that.
I'm 100% in the ranked choice voting camp. And ideally, we'd find a way to do it proportionally but I acknowledge that would be a bit of a heavier lift within the current US framework, so I'd be happy with RCV as first step so we can work to elect folks that will help get the proportional aspect implemented.
For anyone who wants to know more, check out https://rcvresources.org/why-adopt-rcv and https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/proportional-ranked-choice-voting-information
And I also think we should have Democracy sausages! :) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage)
Don't sweat the downvotes. Misclicks, mistaps are easy to do. And I think by far everyone here is largely going to agree with you on this. This is all heinous and unacceptable.
Maybe you are right, but in standard interface downvotes turn red and upvoted blue, so it's pretty hard to misclick without noticing.
Maybe I'm too sensitive, IDK?
My client uses gestures to up and down vote, I do it on accident all the time.
Same. If I'm looking away from Voyager for a moment, I've seen accidental votes when I looked back that I reverse, and I'm sure there are ones I've missed.
I have accidentally up or down voted a cartoonish number of things. I generally browse through mobile and my default scrolling motion has caught those arrows a lot
Its Lemmy, we aren't all using the same base software.
In fact I'm not even using Lemmy.
I dunno, on mobile most of the time. And I have 100% had votes I didn't intentionally place. But this is heinous both that in it happened and that people will largely dismiss accountability for it. Because it was somehow a minority and could never happen to them. Which should never be the standard to begin with.
Just a few minutes ago I accidentally hit up instead of down. I didn't notice for awhile.
Here you go:
https://lemvotes.org/comment/lemmy.world/comment/25264149
6 people down tooted you.
Interesting, how do you get that comment number?
... Menu, then "View original..." with the rainbow pentagram(fediverse icon) copy that link
Ah silly me, thank you very much that is very cool to have that option. 😎 👍
China. But they're more about black bagging you and taking you to a facility. To be technical "trans" magically doesn't exist in China, they've all been killed, beaton to the point of they're "not trans" anymore or hiding hoping no one finds out.
You can downvote the fuck out of me, but it doesn't mean it isn't true because you don't like it.
PS I didn't downvote you, just answered your question.
Edit. Pretty much any Islamic country too. Forgot to add Russia, they're homophobic as shit.
What you need to understand is in these countries, their governments control news, period. These things happen all over, you just won't hear about them because that's how they work. The US along with other first world countries share and report information. So it's incredibly easy to criticize them when horrible things like this happen. It's hard to criticize something that's never released.
This guy thinks the government doesn't control our media
Not to diminish the point being made, but there are a lot of countries that commit widespread or even state-sanctioned violence against women. Most of them are third-world hellholes. So the US is in good company.
I wouldn't say it's good company, Bob.
I am more sad nobody even seems to care when victim is trans. People just ignore.