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How would you strip police unions of their pensions without also destroying the savings of every other labor union in the US? Dissolving labor rights is not the right way to fight an anti-labor force, it's very "fighting fire with fire".

Police have unions (They function as professional organizations, but legally they are labor unions) largely to block legal changes like this. To defeat them, you'd need to somehow pass legislation on the state and federal level that mortally undermines the power of all labor unions in the USA. This would have knock-on effects for all US workers, as unions fight for and uphold labor protections that benefit those outside their ranks. For instance, two day weekends and 40 hour work weeks.

It seems clear to me that ending QE - Which is merely a judicial policy, it's not even law - Is by far the more potent, simple, and safe avenue of attack. But I'm interested in your thoughts on the above proverbial gun that police unions hold to the head of every US laborer.

This is just the "bad apples" take, repackaged. You think bad actors are to blame, and that if you weed them out the institution will be cleansed. You miss that the problem is the institution itself and it's very nature, not individual actors. If you reformed the institution to not be this way... Then you'd effectively be doing abolition, the thing you think that you're not looking to do. And it would likely be a much more radical change than you envision it to be.

Yeah truth be told, most American-published military FPS games are supported by the DoD in some capacity. Just like most Hollywood movies that feature US military hardware get support from the DoD. So it's not really a mark against the CoD series specifically, more the subgenre as a whole.

I think the reason blops doesn't feature so highly in my memory is because I'd already moved on from the series at that point. I think I was busy playing Reach or Ark or something by then. I do have friends the same age as I who would agree with you on it.

Kaws, one of those pop art figures that ended up getting merchandized to hell and back.

Sounds like someone needs to take a little break from social media.

IRA member who tortured people was actually English. Shocking. /s

This is ageism. Social media should be banned for everyone.

I think the future will be somewhere between what we consider normal now and the austere dystopia you envision. This AI shit certainly isn't making the world any better, that's for sure.

Unfortunately that is a laughably miniscule number compared to the DoD budget, and great news for the arms manufacturers they will pay to replace them. As the other commenter said you cannot stop the US war machine with bills, only with body bags.

We used to undermine the security of our customers systems.

We still do. But we used to, too.