Bruh…

Do you legitimately believe a DA and cops don’t have a close enough working relationship that the DA can (and frequently do) say something like: “Do this or I’ll refuse to press charges for shit you want”.

I’m fucking sick of this learned helplessness.

You won’t even fucking ask the people with power to help, to even help.

If you’re gonna be like this. At least keep your own head in the stand and stop chasing everyone else around throwing sand at us

Be ignorant and ineffective if that’s what you want. But let the people who know how to fix it and want to fix it actually fucking do something.

Like, that was the entire point of my original comment, and you just stumbled in to tell everyone you don’t understand any of this, and maybe we should try just not opposing fascism.

Quick edit:

For some constructive feedback, the right course is to ask questions, not just make assumptions including that if you don’t know something, it means it don’t exist.

You could have just sked how the DA could apply pressure to make the arrests happen. That’s an incredibly common thing, but not everyone knows.

But just ask fucking questions instead of making up excuses for people unwilling to fight fascism.

Which is even more ridiculous when the candidate saying it is the incumbent, and you’re listening to it in school.

I’m not doing it now, but I would totally do it if not for _____

It’s manipulating a quirk in psychology where talking about fixing something can result in more dopamine than you’d get for actually fixing it.

Even for people who actually want to fix it, sitting around and talking about fixing is more pleasurable than doing anything to fix it.

Nothing wrong with it, it’s human variation and valuable to plan ahead before acting as a society. But the fucking house is on fire and we’re sitting at the kitchen table. We don’t need the perfect plan, we need damn near any action to stop the fire or bare minimum go talk about it on the yard and not in an active house fire.

We need people like this DA to just start levying charges. Her saying an arrest has to happen before charges is easily disproven by the mere existence of the FBI’s most wanted list.

How can someone who hasn’t been apprehended be charged with a crime if apprehension has to happen before charges?

She just doesn’t want to do the legwork of identifying and proscuting, which is literally her fucking job. She wants cops to hand her an airtight case with video evidence and the suspect already in handcuffs, then she might be willing to press charges.