[Tainnor]

I hate criminals and social disorder too.

You're part of the problem that I'm talking about. Instead of engaging with the issue at hand, you jump to wild assumptions about my positions, as if there were no alternatives between absolute anarchy and full-on authoritarianism.

That's what I mean by "poisoning the well", you have 124268 karma and yet you can't help yourself but discuss in bad faith.

[rayiner]

You’re calling people “Nazis” and I’m the one arguing in bad faith?

If you keep calling people Nazis for views on policing that are to the left of Nixon and Lee Kuan Yew then they’ll start assuming you’re an anarchist.

[mrala]

It was a metaphor. Are you taking it personally because the shoe fits?

[Tainnor]

I didn't call anyone a Nazi because I don't like the inflationary use of that term. But the "Nazi bar problem" is, unfortunately, an established metaphor. It doesn't have to be about literal Nazis, it could be about tankies for all I care. The problem is the same.

I'm going to keep calling people right-wing authoritarian and possibly fascist not for supporting more policing, but for supporting a person who has shown repeatedly that they want to rule as an authoritarian leader and is now implementing another step of that policy.

It literally doesn't matter how bad crime in DC is, because the danger of allowing a person who has denied losing an election for 4 years to single-handedly take over the capital of the most powerful country on earth is so high, in the same way as it didn't matter whether communists actually did or didn't set fire to the Reichstag.

This is what this is about. Not reasonable disagreement about policing, or immigration.

But of course, your only response to opposing authoritarianism is that one has to be some sort of anarchist.

Rest assured that I would react exactly the same if I was talking to a Tankie who was supporting some sort of Stalinist dictatorship.