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  • US police forces kill far more people than the overall homicide rate in Europe

    How are you calculating this? Doesn’t seem right.

    2024 was the worst year with 1,365 police killings in the US. That’s around 4 people for every million. Per capita this is a rate 8x that of France which I believe has the most police killings in Europe.

    General European homicide rates vary on countries from 5 (Swiss) to 42 (Latvian) per million. It’s higher than the rate of police killings in the US.

    However, the general homicide rate in the US is like 6x the European rate.

    I only briefly checked the numbers, I hope I didn’t get anything wrong.












  • CrueltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldyou are
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    19 days ago

    You’re truly a lost cause here. Won’t be engaging any further with this disengenous argument.

    No, the “all lives matter” comparison seems spot on. No problem is unique to men or women or people of color. Yet some problems are clearly worse for those groups.

    You’re acting like I’m saying women are universally believed and supported. In reality, it’s just much better for them, even if not perfect.


  • CrueltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldyou are
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    Ironic that you would claim I’m saying “all lives matter” in some way.

    I pointed out something that is much more a problem for men than women, then you lament about how it’s also a problem for women. That is textbook “all lives matter” rhetoric.

    Or are you claiming that women DON’T get more support when it comes to SA?


  • CrueltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldyou are
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    19 days ago

    You mean the sex trafficker who went to prison for exactly that?

    I wish the guy who assaulted me went to prison for it… or anything, really. Instead, when I reported it, they just took photos of my extensive bruising and lacerations on my neck from strangulation, “lost” the clothes with DNA I gave them, and did nothing to the man. They asked me multiple times if I was gay, as if they didn’t believe I wasn’t (as if that’d even matter).

    I had to file a federal lawsuit myself since no lawyers care, and men don’t have the same organizational or social support. I’m alone in this, currently in the federal court of appeals retrying to reverse a summary judgment.

    “But women have that problem too!” is literally an “All lives matter” take, is it not?


  • CrueltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldyou are
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    19 days ago

    Not at all. I just think women have fewer issues, or less severe ones in Western societies. Could be a “grass is greener” situation, but that’s just my opinion. I can think of very few reasons to not prefer being a woman.