I don't get it either. Seller seemed pretty tolerant, and wanting to help. OP seemed highly impatient, demanding, presumptuous, then outright rude, among other things.

Getting upset is one thing. Getting upset and airing out dirty, poop filled laundry that only makes yourself look bad, much worse....

When you've got a user named "Mr. Tantrum" giving you advice on how to behave, you know you've acted out to the extreme...!

Can we please get any hate speech shitting on cops, out of this thread...and any thread, please?

No "_____" is anything. Broad stereotypes are asinine, and only create more hate and division.

I'd seen it places, twitter for sure. Finally looked it up after the post above.

I can't imagine the lunacy most cops, medics, nurses, cashiers, that anyone in public service has to deal with day in, day out.

God bless the Garbage men too, especially in summer and winter.

(I carried mail for ten years. I know the ever luvin' shit that work can bring, at any given moment.)

I didn't downvote his post, as I hadn't read the article.

Just did now though.

I definitely agree with some of his statements and ideas, and proposals, but I also disagree with his overarching generalizations and his general sense of balance in what he's seen, been a part of, and describing.

I also will say, I read an article recently, an editorial mind you, that stated there are 375,000,000 police interactions with citizens annually in this country. I've always thought on this point, of how many direct and indirect engagements officers have annually, and proportionately how few deaths and infractions occur as a result.

Millions of engagements, but still a small number of engagements where things might, and often should, have been handled differently. Media skews and focuses ENTIRELY on the inflammatory, versus focusing on the positives, as positives are dull, and have no ratings value.

To that effect, this article leans to that concept as well. He minimizes his own positive deeds as an officer, to focus solely on depicting ALL officers as misguided, and animalistic.

All of that said, law enforcement, and the military, DO restructure you, to become a tool, a weapon, an enforcer. That unfortunately needs to happen, as a massive population thrives and only becomes greater in number.

Christ, I can't even ask my neighbors to politely stop having their dogs piss in my yard, signs are up even, yet alone could random villagers prevent some nutjob like Genghis Khan from existing?

When a number more than one human exists, resources will be fought for. Natural gathering, and resource management fuel directly into ideas of property and capitalism. As long as there are large groups of people, law enforcement needs to exist. Period. Sadly. But not sadly, as we are animals, like any other. And we will all fight one another for that last scrap of meat to survive.

Well, guess I'm an idiot, for being moderated for discussing topics brought up by other members.

The entire thread somewhat has no theme at this point, and the OP seems to have left. Rather than moderate multiple people, why not just close the thread...?

Second time you've posted to say that. I never understand this approach.

Are you calling attention to the thread to be closed? Do you have an issue with anything that has been discussed in the thread, but don't wish to vocalize it?

Just always a head scratcher, when "this isn't closed" or "in before it's closed!" comes into play. It adds nothing opinion wise, and just feels provocative in an empty, baseless way.

Does it really have to skew this side or that? Can't individuals be assessed...as individuals?

The massive polarity choices are entirely what the media thrive on, profit from, and relish.

You sound really, really frustrated, and that sucks.

The entire country, and world, certainly has so much tension on it, and in so many different capacities.

Try and take a break from being online. I know Twitter for me, often feels distressing, and I'm sure forums and Facebook, etc, only often serve to raise tensions.

Be good to yourself buddy, and do something you enjoy, and feel better. Or try to anyway.