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It’s more that he is affluent. Try to imagine white trash pulling this stunt and it wouldn’t go well either.

As proud trailer trash -- fucking with the feds is a time honoured tradition, and we have done similar and gotten away with more.

Please stop being so condescending.

I mean, we still end up in jail cells for a few hours. But sure, we might get off with a slap on the wrist.

Probably the stupidest discussion on hw.

So why is it that “rural America” seem to hold the local police in such high regard. But think the Federal police are so bad?

Because we get a statement showing what the PD used our tax money for, every single year, vs the endless black hole of the IRS. Also we can fire and disband them if we so wish. For us "Defund the police" is not a toothless meme, it's a reality that we can implement if the police become a nuisance. For instance my town fired the entirety of its' PD a good decade ago.

Counterpoint; why do city folk hold their police deparments in such low regard and scream for their defunding yet somehow hold the federal enforcement agencies in some do-no-wrong-holier-than-thou limelight?

I’ve never known federal police to stop and frisk, racial profile, be accused of police brutality or stop someone for “suspiciously” walking through his own neighborhood where the county is only 2.9% Black (my 6 foot 3 step son who grew up in the burbs all of his life), we lived in the most affluent county in the metro area (this was Atlanta metro not saying much in the grand scheme of things) and we had a household income twice the median since I work remotely for $BigTech.

But that didn’t stop them from thinking “we didn’t belong here”.

It’s the same reason NWA never wrote a song called “Fuck the FBI”…

They absolutely do all of that, if you live within 100 miles of a federal border, and anywhere else they happent to have jurisdiction. Being detained by feds sans warrant is patently unfun, lemme tell you that.

I suppose I'm happy for you having the privilege to live such a sheltered life where you don't see any of this.

You mean Customs and Border Protection - another department that is aggrandized by the same people who “Back the Blue”?

No, I mean any and all Fed agencies, FBI, Border Patrol, Secret Service, etc, etc.

Yes, even the Postal Marshals.

Are you serious? Look up COINTELPRO. The FBI very literally tried to blackmail MLK into committing suicide. They helped Chicago law enforcement assassinate Fred Hampton. They tried to undermine the civil rights movement at every turn.

When we say “defund the police”, it includes federal law enforcement.

I’m assuming you don’t know this: white trash is a slur.

As in, deeply offensive to some people.

I apologize, it wasn’t my intention to offend anybody

Sir, you horse just shat on the ground, please take it and your white-knighting somewhere else

It is a derogatory term and I have no idea why people are downvoting that sentiment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_trash

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