I haven’t even said where I’m from? Because in my country, incidents like what I see often from America are extremely rare

I knew you weren’t American simply because you were WAY over-educated for law enforcement. At best you were in a Federal Agency but that was highly unlikely.

ACAB is admittedly more of an American phenomenon. Policing in other Western nations is generally far better, but imperfect, and this stark difference in education standards is a significant (but not the only) reason why. In the US high intelligence is considered an indicator the individual will find police work dull drudgery and greatly reduces the likelihood of, if not overtly disqualifies them from being approved to become a police officer.

Appealing for nuance where the problem literally is they are too uneducated to appreciate nuance is unreasonable. The solution requires bold and blunt ‘enough is enough’ statements that clearly declare society is done with the concept of law enforcement as it stands and wants the return of classic peace officers.

Leviticus’ proscription of homosexuality in the Torah predates Grecco-Persian wars

Even a ‘good cop’ covers for, or supports directly or indirectly bad ones.

I’m an ex cop and…

Thanks for literally proving my point.

It is akin to the idiom “1 rotten apple spoils the bunch”. Even a ‘good cop’ covers for, or supports directly or indirectly bad ones. Their internal culture is manifestly rotten with an “us vs them” mentality.

Spends the day cursing being surrounded by criminals, at best trying to ignore racist jokes, and gets lucky nobody challenges their supreme authority so doesn’t get on the news: a good cop (for now)

This article is 40 years late

I don’t know for certain, but I think it is simply looking at what you do with your mouse. If the movement is erratic, imprecise, and delayed it goes ‘yeah, that is either a cat that got lucky which is close enough or a human’. The reason I think this is that I’ve failed same site’s checks if my mouse just happens to be hovering over the checkbox when the prompt appears. Retry, move the mouse, success.

ACAB. Some get convicted.

What are you looking at because the instance list shows lemmy.ml using a Beta version, and isn’t the only one.

Dozens are using 19.5 which appears to be the latest stable version. Consider a couple of recent stable versions caused a lot of headaches for users and admins I think waiting to see if a newer ‘stable’ version is actually stable, let alone volunteering to test experimental versions in situ is prudent.

I hope you aren’t saying that because you think that’s what I’m suggesting

FTR no I’m not.

But but… They pay me though! (lol as if they could afford to atm)

Those poor innocent penal colony employees just trying to make money and live their lives! We should incessantly call for the destruction of the Russian Government every hour of every day until successful as it is clearly all their fault!

Do you hear yourself? You even point out he implemented a Muslim ban. Clearly, the side you should be supporting. No reason to think otherwise. Nope.

This astute logic brought to you by a person that thinks insulting the people they need the support of is a good idea.

Here’s some more reading for you.

It’s not a matter of ‘being upset with a moderator’s decision’. Moderators are overstepping their mandate and it is a problem. Say something rude? Banned? Fine. Obviously against the rules. Politely say anything a core clique in that community disagrees with, factual or not, and there’s a non-zero chance you get your comment deleted at best because a mod+ disagrees, and it happens way too often.

But how is that different from any other website?

In other places there are extrinsic factors that influence how moderation is done. Reddit for example is concerned first and foremost with ensuring it is a place Ad agencies are comfortable working with. Reddit would strip moderators of their roles specifically because they weren’t doing their job right, and upsetting the community or ad agencies. More to the point: they have a Code of Conduct that is standardized for the ENTIRE platform. (AFAICT the problem with the mods being so problematic here is likely due to this mass exodus of incompetent mods from Reddit, but that is a hypothesis that needs further testing and out of my ability to research.)

At best this whole problem is that the Mods can’t be bothered to actually investigate reports, likely due to inadequate mod tools. Someone reports misinformation, or a troll, or rudeness and the accused gets punished with zero thought as to the veracity of the claim. I do not think that is it though. There are a couple mods who have a MO of abusing mod powers after verbally abusing a user just to get the final word, at least that I am aware of or experienced first hand.

And finally, I find the argument to ‘join the cartel of corrupt Mods if you don’t like it’… counterproductive. I personally do not want full control of moderation. I want moderation to be regulated/standardized because Lemmy atm is very much like the Old West.

“Antisemitism was an accusation that used to freeze the blood in people’s veins. I see many people now realising how this fear tactic is used to shut down conversations and scare people,” Youssef wrote in his final post on the platform

Mission Impossible, and like 90% of the James Bond films. What can I say? I have a type.

Has the right to STFU… but not the ability.

Israel has to offer terms acceptable to Hamas

They really don’t. US wants Israel to cool it, not the other way around. And unfortunately, there really isn’t much support for negotiating with terrorists. 50% of the population flat out sides with Israel, and only a small portion of the Democrat representatives let Palestinian deaths bother them. At least the Biden administration is trying. Half-heartedly? Sure. But better than not doing anything except listen do the civilian death counter ping like a pinball machine.

The hostages are dead

So you simultaneously believe Hamas is negotiating in bad faith but only place blame on Israel.

isn’t already ties with Kamala getting the tiebreaker?

If that is the case atm Reps win