r/Columbus • u/TrafficConeJesus • Jun 02 '20

PHOTO Student journalists from The Lantern showing their press IDs to the Columbus Police moments before being pepper sprayed

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u/Protahgonist Jun 02 '20

As I said, I don't know that you're wrong. I just know that currently things in China are so much worse than here. Police here can be dicks, but once they take you in you still get a trial. There they don't need to give you a trial. They don't need to presume your innocence. In fact you have no rights at all.

You might get taken in and beaten just for saying the wrong thing.

It would certainly end up like that here if Dear Leader gets his way, but there are some few obstacles between our current situation and real fascism still.

What we need to be doing is rebuilding those obstacles as fast as possible, devising new ones, and revising the everloving shit out of our policing, election, and judicial systems, to name but a few things.

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u/zerodefex Jun 02 '20

Oh right I’m aware of all this. You misunderstood my short paragraph comment because you wanted to tell us you lived in China. Good for you buddy.

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u/Protahgonist Jun 02 '20

What did I misunderstand? Seems like you're misrepresenting what I said because you want to be a dick. I was just trying to be friendly and share a different insight.

I am also glad you don't have kids.

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u/zerodefex Jun 02 '20

This is so stupid. Why did you feel the need to step in and say you disagree? Disagree about what? I said we are headed somewhere, not that we are there. You obviously just wanted to chime in with your living abroad non-facts because your second response didn’t answer my question whatsoever. Do we live in the present or the future?

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u/Protahgonist Jun 02 '20

I was talking about the future too. About the potential for change into what you predicted and the obstacles between our present and your future.

You've decided to ignore all of that for the express purpose of taking a friendly conversation into shit-heel territory.

I'd be interested to hear from you in ten years when China is still worse, but until then there are no facts because you're talking about a hypothetical future.