Eroding democracy isn't an on off switch per se. He's been actively dismantling systems since day one. It is hard to say exactly when all is lost and there's no coming back. That could have been last week or it could be next month. I suppose that will be up to historians.
I think frogs in a pot slowly being heated to a boil is a better analogy. We were pretty fucked as soon as we went in the pot. If there's any sense we can maybe jump out, but eventually we'll die if we don't act
Exactly, I definently miss the times when politics could be more easily separated, at least mentally, from the day. But at this point we're in an actual dumpster fire. There's not much else to look at.
Ironically we don't see much evidence of infectious disease in hunter gatherers. Now of course this only talks about those diseases we see evidence of in bones, but until we started keeping livestock and living in large close groups there doesn't seem to have been much.
Obviously there still was disease. You're never going to be able to find evidence of an infected wound or pneumonia in the skeletal remains, but the big killers like smallpox, measels, leprosy, etc. don't develop until later.
Of course for those humans in environments that supported mosquitos malaria was still a huge problem.
Unfortunately I don't think that would be practical in the US. We do have many people with guns and weapons in general. An overhaul of training and giving access to appropriate tools would be most important. As it stands US cops are taught that a gun is their best tool and that's how they use it. Maybe enforce pairs where only the senior most trained officer has a gun?
Otherwise I would like to see a lot more unarmed units focused on community policing issues. Whether that be a part of the police force or not. I also agree with units that only do traffic enforcement nothing more. That alone would reduce cop shootings massively. Many departments treat traffic stops as a way to catch other crimes and could care less about enforcing traffic laws that keep us safe
Police are trained that it is an "us or them" situation every time they encounter someone. Everyone will try to kill you unless proven otherwise.
They are taught if someone has a knife pulled they will be able to kill them.
Now obviously a severely disabled teen would not be able to rush them before they pulled their weapons. But they are not taught to evaluate or deescalate these situations. They are taught to kill
The goal is not to take out the entirety of ICE yourself. The goal is if they come for you to go down fighting and hope to take at least one. The only other option is to go peacefully and be shipped to an El Salvadorian gulag. Where you'll probably die anyway.
I'd assume with the spine severed like that you wouldn't feel much pain.
Plus with lethal injection it's common for it to take hours. Just sitting their slowly drowning as your lungs fill with fluid. I'll take the 25 to 30 seconds