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14 days agoGod vs Satan doesn’t leave room for nuance.
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The best I saw reporting in was a town of 800 in deep red Trump country with a turnout of 400. Wish I could remember the town. Faiy certain it was a rey on Lemmy but may have been bluesky.
Believing police in the USA are anything near well trained or disciplined is naive at best. This incident is only one amongst many of the police using their firearm irresponsibly.
According to the state Department of Safety and Professional Services, applicants for a cosmetology license must complete at least 1,550 hours — or about 39 weeks if you assume 40 hours per week — of training at a licensed cosmetology school. The program must last a minimum of 10 months.
As of 2016, anyone who applies to be a law enforcement officer or tribal law enforcement officer in Wisconsin must undergo 720 hours, or 18 weeks, of training — even less than what the Facebook post claimed. The training curriculum for jail and juvenile detention officers is 160 hours.
As always please read the articles for the full picture and nuance.
Wisconsin is not an outlier in this. There are many jobs in the USA that take more training than the police which do not carry deadly weapons and have blanket immunity to use them.
That’s what the protests are the beginning of, the US population has not had a very successful popular progressive movement since the 60s. We’re rusty and the younger generation are inexperienced at this but we’re gathering momentum.
Same for finance. They’ve successfully socialized the risk of stock investing, why not governmemt coups?
I’m more concerned with the Russian and Israeli yokes around the necks of members of congress.
I didn’t say you were wrong, either. :)
Vaguely related: I wasn’t a fan of the Hogsbreath nickname folks were using. It wasn’t targeted enough. I like Pete Kegs’n’Death.
I hate to defend the turd at all, but he was in the military.
That only means he can follow orders, though, which he is doing phenomenal job of doing.
That was the acceleration point of the downward slide we’d been on since Reagan.
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Lots of great results so I didn’t pick just one but this helps, too.
1·28 days agoAs another person replied, sounds like the Faro Plague from Horizon Zero Dawn.
That thing which runs Tesla seems like just the megalomaniac that would let that happen. I have a dark future prediction that he’ll repurpose the gigafactories for drone production. Unless something stops him I don’t see a future where one of his businesses isn’t rededicated to war manufacturing in some way.
Also: I felt thick as hell when I connected Faro and Pharoh.
Edit: I was wrong below and am corrected in replies to this comment.
The moniker Tankie is a reference to the Tiananmen Square Massacre because of their minimalizing or outright denials regarding the incident.
1·28 days agoThat’s actually a trait of the conservative mindset and not humanity writ large.
Imagine living in the midwest where neither coast gives a shit about you. :)
Autonomous warplanes “that fly missions alongside human pilots”.
I’m sure they’ll keep the humams involved. No way they’re trying to build a drone army that won’t question orders.
It’s not hyperbole to say they’re working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.
But a great panda.
I’m sure mossad has kompromat on everone in the administration.