agitatedpotato @ agitatedpotato @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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They're just finally saying it out loud. Look at Clarence Thomas, been around forever, but only spoke up recently once he realized his version of fascism took enough root that he could act the way he does. They've been waiting a long time for this, and the democrats have been giving them the benefit of the doubt the whole way here.

I fully believe the conservatives shifted the window hard on Obama because he was black. He did what Reagan did, but he did it with brown skin, so hes a socialist. Now Reagan like policies only get remembered as Obama like policies and Republicans hate it and Democrats think its progressive. I hate to say it, but electing a Black president deepened and widened the divisions between Americans. I really hoped there weren't enough people who were that racist, and I know a lot happened before Obama but behind him is a wake of division deepened by reactionary racists. The fact that the US was apparently too racist to be ready for a black president is depressing.

Every iteration of gun control, with few exceptions, carves out exceptions for LEOs and Military. If you want this to stop a good start would be making these guys have to follow the laws the rest of us do, because if you campaign for more of the same from your lawmakers, I guarantee there will still be exceptions for the people who protect the rich.

Yeah I can't even look at that word without asking myself 'well whose definition are you using?' It's alreay a deflated term, too much more and it will mean about as much as the word 'woke' does these days.

Jair Bolsonaro

Im not a vagina haver, and I hear that the PH levels can also slowly cause holes in a lot of fabrics. That sounds rough, my washing machine slowly ruins enough of my clothes on it own.

My oldest reddit acount was around 12-13 years old when I moved here and let me tell you the shifts over time were noticeable and constant especially in the world news sub. Honestly looked like it was someones goal to turn it into what it looks like now.

I read the article twice and still have no idea if this display was a cop trying to be funny or a citizen trying to make a display of protest.

If it's somehow any consolation, I'm in a place where it's the opposite and I could vote for anything and the democrats would win regardless, and whenever I try to push my representatives on issues that don't align with where the party already is, I get what is essentially an automated response.

How funny, after writing the above I searched my reps name in my inbox to go through some past ones, and the last one where I wasn't just urging them to follow through on trump was the Israel Palestine conflict centered around Sheikh Jarrah in 2021. I asked him to make it matter in the next budget. All I got was a semi pre-written response where my senator said he supported asking for a ceasefire. Maybe I'm the moron for asking my senator to stand up and ask the rest of congress to give Israel less money instead of just asking for them to stop shooting. Everyone's asking them to stop shooting, not everyone has real power to change the conditions that allows the shootings, I thought that was the point of appealing to the government.

Simply business strategy, if you can, keep the barrier to entry high enough to limit your competition.

There are around 18 known gangs in the LA Sheriff's Department. Not moles for street gangs, gangs made up entirely of active duty police officers. This has been going on since the 70s. Cops are exactly gangs, sometimes in more ways than one.

I'm just surprised the space bar allowed me to put so much distance between them tbh.

Glad even the title is questions their status as 'moderates' because I really don't think those exist anymore in the republican party. If you really want to find a moderate conservative, you can find plenty in the democratic party.

I stand by my opinion that making a dog become a cop is inhumane to the dog. The dog deserves better if you're gonna make them have a job, like smelling old people for cancer, or helping people with vision impairments. You know, useful things.

What do we call 200 people who sit together with 20 Fascists?

Just waiting for Trump to not pay this like all his other bills and watch as the legal system decides to fine him for not paying fines because they don't have the balls to put him in a cell.

All I can offer her is anecdotal evidence heard from retired officers but they made it sound like this is a problem in every department. Maybe not to the same degree everywhere, but in general bad things happen to people who follow the rules when the rules implicate wrongdoing on the part of another officer. Weather that's shunning, teasing, pranks, being assigned to only specific duties or shifts, or worse is gonna depend on the situation. The impression I got was this was commonplace and most officers understand the unwritten rule to not report thing little things (and sometimes even the big things) that could get a fellow officer in trouble. It works too because at the end of the day you gotta entrust your life to the people you ratted on, people who know how to make things look like accidents and have a network of people that will vouch for them.

https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2017R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/132808

These one, oldies but goodies. If you take verbal abuse out of the equation the number drops 12 points to 28% instead of 40% and that's the biggest 'controversy' I remember about these numbers. But I don't think abuse thats only verbal helps someone think about their spouse as a good guy so imo the whole number is useful for this case. Theres also a strong bias in favor of the cops as its an observed phenomenon that cases of anything against cops, especially Domestic Violence, don't often go very far, there are very real blind spots in the justice system for cops.