Any port in a storm.

Okay, but can we execute these people for putting this concept into the world anyway?

Community is what you make, sometimes it’s no more complicated than talking to the same people every evening when you take a walk or getting to know your neighbor. Your brother’s family is your community. Your family is your community.

I mean, great, I have family and some good friends too, but none of us have anything to spare and we’re all struggling to hold our shit together constantly. We get together and hang out a lot but we’re not able to actually fulfill any of our goals or grow as people. I want to do more with my life than just fucking consume bullshit and worry about if I’m going to have enough money to handle the next emergency.

As one of those that carried that feeling throughout my life. It’s not that I haven’t worked to make things better. I’ve worked my ass off and all I’ve been able to achieve is barely treading water. I can’t invest in my community because I don’t have any spare resources to do so. I’m almost 40 and I’m still renting a room out of someone’s basement ffs and there’s no indication that anything is going to get better any time soon. If I wasn’t on the hook to act as a (shitty) safety net for my brother’s family when our parents are gone I’d have probably domed myself by now.

Being able to see their faces increases accountability.

My friends compliment me on my physique and being well dressed pretty often. Sometimes they give me shit for it to but that’s just banter. I don’t compliment them much on their appearance but that’s because they usually dress pretty schlubby and don’t take care of themselves.

Who’s bewildered? Of course this was going to happen. Everything enjoyable about life is being ruined. It’s not surprising at all.

No Kings didn’t achieve anything and the US is hardly the only country that’s backsliding.

They refuse to be held accountable or hold each other accountable across the board. They deserve nothing but to do their fucking job exactly as the public who they serve wills it. If they don’t like it they can quit. They have abused any and every bit of latitude they’ve been given since the inception of police forces. They don’t need masks, they don’t need privacy while they’re working. Any who want to hide should be fired immediately. If they don’t have enough integrity to stand behind their actions they’re in the wrong line of work.

They can turn off body cams, or refuse to answer questions of bystanders, or hide their badge numbers. They do it all the time. If they aren’t allowed to wear masks at least people will have their faces to go off.

Sure, I just don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to require at all times.

It is. There’s literally no reason they ever need to be masked.

Neither do. Police only need to be identifiable when using their authority, such as when making an arrest or dealing with protests, and in the latter case, only agency affiliation is necessary.

Disagree. Police serve the public. If they are working they should all be identifiable so they can’t step out of line. Especially during protests. Otherwise we end up with priest getting shot in the eyes with pepper rounds.

Losing? Trump is ripping everything out at the roots and nobody is doing a fucking thing about it other than post snarky comments on the internet.

Witnesses who are too far away to see their identification can still see their face to ID them. Undercover cops are a different situation than what ICE is doing and really shouldn’t be making arrests IMO. In winter they can take their mask off to interact with people.

If we ban law enforcement from wearing masks, that opens the door to banning masks in public.

It doesn’t. The general public doesn’t need to be identifiable at all times like cops do.

No, they are law enforcement and should be readily identifiable the community they serve. Including their face. Also being masked makes it harder for the people they’re interacting with to understand what they’re saying. They lose all the non-verbal communication that comes from the face. Them being masked has absolutely zero upside to the public.

Great. How does that help me right now? You have no power to change society. If anything we’re going backwards. We’re not even a meritocracy like the original comic suggests. Comments like that are just empty platitudes.

Thanks but you and whoever else “we” is valuing me doesn’t pay my bills or help me reach my goals.

Yeah, I’m productive as fuck and not valued much at all. Wtf is this comic talking about.

Is there a political movement targeting Debian and Wikipedia?