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Comment by anonym29

4 months ago

It's amazing to me that people who openly distrust obviously untrustworthy US police departments continue to trust the US federal government.

There's a difference between trusting cops, trusting the high-level branches of the US Government, and trusting the various departments of the US bureaucracy.

For example, I trust NOAA or NASA, used to trust the CDC, would never trust the CIA or FBI (because cops).

Distrust isn't a single thing. Distrusting cops is an entirely different kind of distrust than distrusting RFK Jr. RFK Jr kills people with pseudoscience. Cops go hands-on. I don't know enough about the statistics to compare the magnitude of killing. But I do know that the solutions would have to be completely different.