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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Getting shot at is bad for your health, got it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The study concluded that favela residents should expose themselves to fewer shootings in order to improve their mental health. It also recommended a further study to determine whether grinding poverty, lack of sanitation and contaminated air and water might impact residents negatively.

Bukele, the president of El Salvador, the guy who wants to lock up 5% of young men in his country and turn it into a fortified police state, that guy has an approval rating of 80% .. by far the highest in Latin America. If we liberals want to prevent the rise of autocrats we need to come up with policies to keep our citizens safe, instead of conducting inane studies that invite ridicule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They talk as if it were an option to expose themselves in the middle of a shootout, not to mention that most of the population living in a community is afraid of suffering some police reprisal. Most likely all residents have seen a child or worker killed by the police. The state is murderous, corrupt and hates the poor. They profit from this genocide.