What if your task is later in the day? How do you stop from stressing about it the whole day?

I literally never said anything about police. I’m not trying to argue about police. Just that the world is in fact a safe place that continues to get safer. If the fact that the crime continues to drop, if that destroys your argument about police being bad, then maybe get a new argument about why police are bad. Crime is down. It’s just a statement of fact.

Global Peace Index includes factors like military spending and weapons exports. It’s not a measure of how safe it is to live inside the USA.

I’m not saying it’s “good enough,” I’m saying that it has improved. It will hopefully continue to improve. It’s far from perfect. I have no disagreements there. My problem was with this statement:

If police and prisons made societies safer the USA would be the safest society on the planet.

Well it is one of the safest societies on the planet. And it continues to get safer.

This is not the argument against police you think it is.

One lie I’ve heard over and over in my life is how unsafe everything is. Small town people think the cities are unsafe. City people think the small towns are unsafe. They’re not. They’re actually fine. It’s a scare tactic. The media over reports crime. Look at any crime statistics and you’ll see, yes, some recent spikes. As always. But if you’re watching the news you’d think we’ve been in a perpetual crime spike since the 1960’s or so. It’s a safer world right now than it was 50 and 100 years ago.

The USA is, in fact (even if it upsets you) one of the safest societies in the history of the world. Only behind other modern 1st world nations.

On a global scale this is probably one of the safest times in human history, and the USA is safer than most.

Seems like that stat about priests is mostly true, though hard to be sure of anything because only 1 in 10 incidents are reported.

I’m seeing numbers like 2-3% of men have committed child sexual abuse, and possibly 4% of priests. However the number of victims might be significantly higher for priests as they are encountering far more children.

It seems theoretically possible, with an unlimited budget and no time limit.

Larry The Cable Guy was the even weirder part. It’s a character he plays with a fake accent, making fun of rednecks. Yet the rednecks were the people who loved it.

IDK it’s like if the biggest fans of The Jazz Singer were black, or if the biggest fans of Borat were native Kazakhs. Groups are rarely happy with being depicted as a caricature played by a foreigner.

Then correct me, or I’ll keep thinking that’s what you meant.

You are saying you deliberately want to cause harm to people so they’ll learn their lesson. You are acknowledging how awful of a thing it would be to unleash the military on their own people. Yet you still suggest that as a good idea. That’s a dictatorship. You’re rooting for dictatorship. You’re saying it’s okay that they suffer, because in your mind they deserve it.

I hope you’re joking. That’s a pro-suffering evil attitude.

You’d rather the military fight Americans than fight non-Americans overseas? What in the hell? You want Americans dead?

Happened in 1991 but not uploaded until 2009. Mirrors the plot of Minority Report (2002). Like he could see the future.

I’d rather prepare to fight here at home

What? You WANT Americans abducted by the military? There’s a reason that the police and the military are two different groups.

Considering how many military roles he had, I’m going with Lt. Col. J.B. “Johnny the Duke” Thomas

John Wayne played so many characters named “John” or “Duke.” So many that I just tried to count how many roles and I lost track. I counted twice and got two different numbers, but I believe my final tally is 39 roles where his character had at least one of those 2 names.

EDIT: Final tally:

36 - “John” or “Johnny”

3 - “J” first initial, no full name given

5 - “Duke”

Bruce Almighty? His most memorable role.

The lights are fun when you’re drunk.

It’s more projection. Trump needs to win so he can stay out of jail. Probably the only reason he’s running at all.