Ragnor

Popeye.

The vandals hide among the rest, so the police has to disband everyone to stop things from reoccurring. When people don’t disperse when told to do so, or fight against the police when they try to make them comply, then things escalate. The police doesn’t have other options, sadly.

People have to realize that the police don’t do things if everyone follows the rules. They aren’t pigs or fascists, but people like the rest of us. The narrative on this site has gone completely haywire.

There are some policemen who do wrong stuff. I don’t know how many police officers are in the US, but I would be surprised if it is less than 200k. Take the stories you have heard and divide that number by 200,000, and consider the fact that they are put in rough positions a lot more often than you and I, and you should arrive at the result that they aren’t any worse than the rest of us.

The dehumanizing of the cops here on Lemmy is rampant, and it isn’t fair to the vast majority of cops who don’t do the bad stuff.

The issue is just that if people start burning things or breaking into stores or things like that, then the police has to dissolve the aggregation because the complicit people cannot be identified on short notice. That requires an investigation, which takes time.

If bad things happen then it would be best if people actually helped stop the vandalism or whatever could happen. It sucks for those who don’t participate in the lawless behavior, but what is the police supposed to do? Let people destroy innocent people’s property?

I totally support the protests, but people have to realize that when things take a wrong turn then the police have limited options. A lot of damage can be done in a very short amount of time when a gathering turns into a mob, so things have to be stopped.

It totally sucks that vandals often destroy it for the peaceful protesters, but what other solutions do you suggest to the police’s dilemma?

In the EU we work as a bloc, meaning that we have to agree with the other countries before the policies such as tariffs or similar are changed. Calling for it is how you get that train moving.

“The intelligence we get from the Israelis is too valuable to go against them.” -The US

I personally don’t care. If you don’t treat others right, you are bad people. Collusion included. I’ve been mad at the US ever since they dragged us into the Iraq war with their lies about WMD’s, and they have tons of other bad acts as well - in Vietnam, Venezuela, and more.

I think that now is a perfect time for us Europeans to start pulling away from the hypocrisy.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250522-denmark-calls-for-maximum-pressure-on-israel-to-lift-aid-restrictions-in-gaza/

I picked that name long before Ragnar Lothbrok made his appearance on TV. I’ve used it for about 25 years, and made it up myself for a Danish browser based viking game. It is a pure coincidence that the name was actually used in the viking era.

Definitely not all of the EU. Our Danish prime minister has officially denounced the way Israel has been conducting the war in Gaza for instance, and the majority of our population thinks that they are stepping way out of bounds.

If I got a warning about prompt injections, I would check my browsers add-ons and remove anything that I didn’t absolutely trust. Your email likely contains a lot of personal info that can be used for identity theft and other related things.

Please don’t put that guys opinion on all westeners. Most Danes agree that Israel are way out of line for instance, and our prime minister has officially denounced their behavior in Gaza.

The world is nuanced, and generalizing about large populations of people is never right. When you do that you are putting blame on a lot of innocent people, and demonizing people only makes it harder to work towards a better world.