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Arthur · 8 answers · 12mo

So a paramilitary militia (not bandits, but former cops) decided to set fire to 35 buses and one train in the west zone of Rio (not where I live) after a police operation. Way more than bandits did and effectively stopping people's commute in a very populous area and during peak hours. Thoughts?

Former cops? Who is surprised? Bunch of grown bullies who do dumb shit with their community of shitheads to maintain some illusion of control in their lives

Warfare? Idiotic masculine destruction urge? Accidentally happened when the vehicles were parked closely? - Context?

The line between cop and crime-doer has always been razor thin, I'll bet if you went to prison and interviewed inmates, a larger-than-you'd-expect number of them would say they originally wanted to be a cop and couldn't for various reasons, anyway let me go all comic book on you and say that Batman and the Joker kind of need each other in order to continue existing, at the expense of the rest of Gotham - I'll let you draw your own conclusions from there

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