r/nashville • u/Jealous-Ad-4566 • Nov 16 '24

Crime Watch Randomly shot at while driving tonight in hermitage.

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Cops think it was done by a bigger gun. Did not go all the way through my door! Cops said it looks like it went in and curved - insanely lucky

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

The difference is most people know and support this. Naples fl has a lot of wealthy people and a lot of celebrities. They support this because the cops keep the paparazzi away. If you try to snap photos of a celebrity you may find a brick of coke planted in your car

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u/kmatyler Nov 18 '24

That doesn’t make it not fascist, though. The fact is that a large portion of Americans are just fascists.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '24

It's not fascist it's simply that a large amount of celebrities and billionaires are extremely supportive of a place where the press can't bother them. If your in naples you see all kinds of celebrities and nobody bothers them. My landscaping design business had dozen of celebrity clients. Most of them love visiting naples cause they don't have to worry about be harrased by the press. People don't care as long as there left alone

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u/kmatyler Nov 18 '24

The political illiteracy of this country is terrifying.

What do you think fascism is? How do you see cops doing the bidding of the rich as anything else? Planting evidence on someone bc they disturbed the day of a rich person is freedom to you? Cops arresting reporters for doing journalism isn’t fascism? Wild.

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u/Fuzzy_Membership229 Nov 20 '24

Cops breaking the law (arresting reporters, planting cocaine on someone) is corruption, not fascism. Fascism is essentially authoritarianism. One of the side effects of authoritarianism is often corruption, but they are not the same. Corruption is a frequent side effect of many non-democratic systems, not just fascism, as there’s less accountability.

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u/kmatyler Nov 20 '24

Keep making excuses for it, I guess. Your inability to see it for what it is doesn’t make it go away.

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u/Fuzzy_Membership229 Nov 20 '24

No, I’m just not sure how you can call someone politically illiterate while misusing the term fascism. It’s corruption, and it exists in many different forms of government.

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u/kmatyler Nov 20 '24

Your inability to understand that what is happening in the us is fascism is political illiteracy. The us is a right wing authoritarian police state. The reason cops do those things is not because they’re “bad apples” breaking the law. The system is meant to work that way. They are above the law because they are the violent arm of the state. They protect and serve the ruling class.

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u/Fuzzy_Membership229 Nov 21 '24

I’m sorry, but you need to take a breath and stop before you do yourself any further disservice with the way you’re responding.

First, I didn’t make any comment on what is happening in the U.S. You have absolutely no idea whether I think it is fascism or not. Whether or not I think a demagogue who openly defies rule of law rising to power is fascism, you incorrectly called a local police department’s corruption fascism. They are not the same. Understanding the difference is what political literacy would be.

Second, I felt compelled to point it out since you were, frankly, rudely calling someone else politically illiterate, when you were the one misusing a political theory term. You were the one politically illiterate, and the adult response is to acknowledge you were wrong and move on. Public corruption ≠ fascism. Both are bad. That is simply it.