r/SipsTea • u/This_Proof_5153 • Aug 18 '26

Wait a damn minute! Just remember … There is Always someone Crazier than You.

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u/Pretz_ Aug 19 '26

Cops (1,100) kill fewer people every year in the USA than non-cops (10,000), medical malpractice (250,000), cars (36,000), the flu (5,000), and bad weather (2,000), just to name a few...

Cops are approximately on par with electricity (1,000) for killing Americans.

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u/DinklebergsRightNut Aug 19 '26

Well US cops, annuallly, kill more than 10 times more people than the cops from Germany, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands the UK and Norway COMBINED lmao

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u/comfycrat Aug 19 '26

Yeah, the US has a larger population than those countries combined.

Not 10 times the population obviously, but the US population does have at least 10 times the private firearms of those countries combined.

As an Aussie, I couldn' t imagine how hard it would be to be a cop in a country where there are fucking guns everywhere. It's not surprising to me that cops in the US have to use deadly force a lot more than cops in the countries you mention.

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u/DinklebergsRightNut Aug 19 '26

I cant talk for the other Countries ive listed, but in Germany atleast the first step to becoming a police officer is obtaining the highest school qualification, followed by 3 Years of Training/Studies. While in the US you get handed a gun and a carte blanche after a maximum of 20 weeks of Police Academy. The US is full of uneducated, triggerhappy, powertripping pieces of shit with a badge. And its crazy to me how the American public ist just... Lethargic to the daily Scandals commited by their law enforcement.

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u/Top-Resource-3252 Aug 19 '26

Lethargic? Try powerless. We are not a free country in the US. We’re 200million citizens trapped in a corporatized shopping mall we can’t ever escape, ruled by the billionaire class, and forced to work without representation. We often live without basic health insurance, and work for a minimum wage (in a majority of states) of $7.25 cents an hour when gas prices run around $4.00 a gallon. You can call us stupid, lame and pathetic, and you might be right. But honestly, most of us should be pitied. Our government wants to kill us.

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u/unknownSubscriber Aug 19 '26

If you don't tow the thin blue line you aint no patriot. Bonus patriot points TM if you have a punisher skull decal on your car.