dmcheatw
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Hahaha, dude, what the fuck? This thread is about police violence and you asked a question about Robin Hood. When I said it "wasn't a real question," I meant that I thought you were asking it as a rhetorical question, not because you really wanted to know about it. My response was a joke with some stupid trivia....
Uh, Robin Hood is a fiction. Not real. I'm not sure that you should be basing your asset forfeiture hottakes on Robin Hood.
It was a rhetorical question to show typical street-level bureaucrat behavior across time and place, so it was relevant to avalon's post comparing police seizures to outright thefts.
No robinhood wasn't a real person. neither was Hippocrates, Moses, or Sasquatch. The point was the story, and that you all could relate to it to see how police abuse power to extort the assets of citizens. and taxes were paid in kind long before fiat money existed, so yes government taking assets = government taxes.
Also, the reason I offered the etymology, which you so promptly dismissed, is because I was pushing back against your argument that Sheriffs were "local LEO". They were primarily county bureaucrats, and while their job duties did literally include, in part, "law enforcement," equating them with contemporary LEO and policing in the contemporary sense is too anachronistic to make for a helpful analogy.
i dismissed it cuz it really wasn't relevant. the point wasn't that their jobs were analogous, the point was they're both asshole tax men.
I didn't realize your og response was a joke mixed with a bit of trivia.