• @mholiv
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    5620 hours ago

    Is Lemmy full of sovereign citizens now days? In all countries including China when you drive dangerously you get a ticket.

    • @auzy
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      1015 hours ago

      That was my exact first impression of this post.

      Basically Sovcit nonsense

    • @Old_Yharnam
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      1417 hours ago

      I’m not driving, I’m traveling!!!

      • @mholiv
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        2819 hours ago

        People should still be punished for driving dangerously. Civil forfeiture is another issue.

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            The same place it says it’s for civil forfeiture. This being said the police officer does have a ticket in hand which implies some sort of safety violation.

            This comic could be taking place in China. The same scene could play out. Nothing specific to injustice in the USA here.

              • @Maggoty
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                715 hours ago

                If your state doesn’t do safety inspections that’s something you should talk with a state legislator about.

                • @[email protected]
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                  they officially are done, but only in the major citys and people living pretty much everywhere else is given exceptions. Safety inspections seem like a weird idea anyway, how does the government know what is safe for my usag of the vehicle. Is a lack of coolant a safety issue? What about a missing bumper? A half rotted frame?

              • @mholiv
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                719 hours ago

                If I was driving dangerously it would only be just that I be punished proportionately. Same goes for everyone in every country.

                If you call that boot licking so be it.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Who

                  Is

                  Driving

                  Dangerously?

                  Assumptions in your head don’t count anymore than anything else in there.

      • @Maggoty
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        715 hours ago

        And yet this meme is clearly about traffic enforcement.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 hours ago

          First you have to stops the cars to gets the money.

          I’m sure the Ferengi could have said it better.

      • @mholiv
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        We don’t need to start from Hobbes to understand that, as a society, punishing dangerous drivers is a good thing.

        There is a lot of good reading out there. I recommend this as a starting point when coming to an understanding of violence and society.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)

        • @Stovetop
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          We don’t need to start from Hobbes

          Recommends Hobbes as a starting point

          I agree 100% but just had a bit of a giggle

          • @mholiv
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            620 hours ago

            lol. I realized that as I was writing that. But I went with it. Hobbes is a great starting point for people new to political philosophy.

            We just don’t need to start with him.

            I think John Rawls is a better starting place if we were to start a society from scratch. Just a bit harder for people less used to reading philosophical works.

        • @[email protected]
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          418 hours ago

          Sure, but if simply keeping the roads safe was their only objective, they wouldn’t have things like quotas where they have to shake down a certain number of people for the sake of their budget.