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The power a retail worker weilds over the public is not the power that police do.
False. Fucking. Equivalence.
Because it's not given to them.
But really, how many food service workers spit or throw snot in the food they serve? How many with infectious disease contaminate what unknowing victims eat? Not many, maybe 10 out of 1000, maybe less.
But yeah, that's false equivalence because it ain't exactly the same thing. It's not abuse of power and wrongdoing in the exact same way so it doesn't qualify. Gotta give retailers guns so they shoot customers instead. That's when we'll be allowed to compare the two.
Got any sources for your food tampering claims?
And can you back those claims up with the evidence of all the other fast food workers defending the "bad apples," or, at the very least, remaining silent re your food tampering claims?
And how about that massive fat food workers union litigating for and defending said food tampering?
Cos, i can point to MOUNTAINS of evidence of the police doing all of that.
Sweetheart, no matter how much you love and lick those boots, they'll never love you back.
Wow, how condescending can you even get...
And also amazing how you claim it's a false equivalency (yes, one is much more serious than the other, that doesn't make it a false equivalency), and then continue on the comparison and then actually turn it into a false equivalency. Because a police officer shooting someone will make it into the news. Someone spitting into someone's food will not - and that's assuming it's even noticed.
There's no comparison between the power a cop enjoys and that of a retail worker, as demonstrated. Sorry that confuses you.
Wow, more condescension!
I wasn't comparing the power, sorry that [sic] confuses you.
Oh honey boo, you're really into justifying your hatred.
As you defend cops. Laughable.
Keep sucking the boots. They'll make their way to you eventually.
I defend the people who are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but nobody here likes that notion anymore it would seem.