Comment on You've probably met someone who has killed a person

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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah. I was thinking for the UK it’s highly unlikely a cop has killed someone here. We do follow America into war and I’ve got a few soldier friends who likely killed people, but our soldiers seem to talk about it less than American ones.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same with America. Despite TV/Movie Copaganda, most cops go their entire careers without pulling their weapons, and certainly without firing it.

    The most likely American citizen to have killed is a military member.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You have a whole lot more military than all other countries too making it more likely you meet a killer.

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      ‘Being a cop isn’t that dangerous’

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    smh, your soldiers don’t want to write books about how terrible warmongering made them feel so they can get that kovie deal?

    wack

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not sure why you’re trying to say.

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      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        He’s mocking the typical route of a soldier with a story: a memoir or fictionalized tale of what they did, with the hope the book sells enough to get them a chunk of money or a movie studio makes a movie of it.

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      • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “USian soldiers will invade your country, and then ten years later will write a book and make a movie about how traumatized they were by the war.”

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The US isn’t even in the top 20 for murders per capita.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    at the city-level some are comparable though

    nashville/st.louis/new orleans last i bothered looking up the statistics

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No one is talking about cities here.

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      • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        well the united states are anything but, and crosses an entire continent. so many country-level statistics arent really comparable

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And the Untied States is the only country in the western world that still has executions

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  • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wrong, Europe still has executions because there are armed police killing drowning refugees in the Mediterranean or cops shooting Roma people

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yep, I’ve worked with a LOT of war veterans. (American sheet metal factory)

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