Gotta be careful with that. I shared an office with an old guy once and had to bring headphones. We wouldn't talk, but he would constantly make old man noises. Coughs, grunts, snorts, etc. If I didn't block them out, they would drive me crazy like nails on a chalkboard. That said, the guy himself was really cool and I loved working with him otherwise.
You're saying this from the luxury of a stable country. If the same thing were tried where you live, it would be horrific and wrong, because those actions aren't warranted in a stable country. They only become acceptable when crime and violence have become so deeply rooted that it's impossible to tackle them with normal means.
Imagine late stage cancer. It's beyond the ability to get out with surgery. Instead, more drastic measures are required such as chemo or radiation therapy. This kills the cancer, but also kills some surrounding cells. It's necessarily destructive because the cancer has spread too far to fix with less invasive measures. Imagine someone dismissing those treatments as barbaric because "even a single non-cancerous cell dying is unacceptable". Meanwhile the person dying from cancer doesn't really give a shit, they just want to be free from cancer.
You don't have a single clue how bad things were in those countries before. You didn't go outside, even in the daytime. Nearly every business was held hostage by gangs. Seeing dead bodies was a common occurrence. If you got robbed, or raped, or killed, too bad; there was essentially zero justice to be found or had. For those living under those conditions for years, the price for safety is well worth it.
You're opposed because of the innocents who might be in jail? Where is your concern for the innocents just outright murdered due to unchecked crime?
While there are no doubt some innocents who got caught up; it has been shown time and again that the fastest and most efficient way to deal with wide spread gangs that have essentially taken over a country is massive arrests of anyone even remotely related to them.
It can turn violence filled hell-holes into safe communities within months, and the people know it. There's a reason Argentinians and El Salvadorians have massive approval for their government right now; because it worked. People are free to walk on the street without fear of getting shot. For those who lived in fear for so long, a few false positives is a small price to pay for locking up practically every criminal overnight.
You ever read about the newspaper headlines in Paris during the Seventh Nepoleonic War, when Napoleon escaped from Elba and began marching toward Paris?
They start off with headlines like "The Tyrant has returned to wage war on a terrified population." Then switch to more neutral language like "Napoleon takes Laffrey and continues his march toward Paris". And finally, upon his arrival "The glorious emperor Napoleon returns to Paris amidst cheers from an overjoyed populace"
Same concept, they're afraid of saying anything negative now that he is fully set to reassume power.
The CEO of my company decided to send a holiday E-Card to everyone right before Christmas. I reported it as a phishing attempt and IT just laughed and said it was fine. Apparently I'm the only one that reported it and just... What? An email from outside our organization that claims to be from the CEO and contains a non-descript link to an unknown website? And I'm the only one that saw red flags from that?!
No, fuck right off. That BS attitude is a big part of what killed reddit. Fake shit that tries to pass itself off as real is lame as fuck and insulting. With pro wrestling or plays or movies, you go in expecting it to be fake. It doesn't really matter if the wrestlers don't have any real beef or real drama, you still get to see 20 midgets attacking a bullfighter. The lie is just the set up, not the main event. But shit like this post? The lie is the entire thing. Take it away and you just have someone's shitty, unclever, poetry that isn't interesting or funny enough to stand on its own.
I have a soft spot for that movie because we had it on VHS growing up, which means I probably saw it at least a dozen times. Watching it feels nostalgic and I genuinely love how absurd and campy the plot is sometimes.
The villain is a villain because he's trying to accomplish the exact same goal of putting himself in danger to learn about tornadoes to save people's lives. The only difference is he's doing it with corporate sponsors and a team of professionals instead of hacking it all together in a barn and relying on a bunch of stoners in an RV.
My partner and I have started a rewatch of all the Marvel movies because we hate ourselves and it's too late to stop now. Gotta say, I've been surprised a couple times at how different the quality is vs what I remember it being.
Thor: The Dark World was surprisingly good when I remembered it being shit. The villain is a little lame, but other than that, it's actually a fun movie.
Oh the other hand, Iron Man 3. Oh boy. That is a bad movie. Like really bad. Literally the worst one we've seen so far and we just caught up to Infinity War. It's sitting at a 7/10 on IMDB and I'm shocked it's that high. That whole movie is full of cheese and bad plots. It contributes literally nothing to advance the overall MCU story. The whole thing feels like a cheap holiday special, which makes sense because it's literally a Christmas movie.
MD's aren't egos. They're bachelor's with a doctor.