Anytime there's a bad accident in my city that gridlock traffic, there's a guy at work who rants about how illegal immigrants cause it all. Apparently they can swim, but they can't drive.
Probably the same shit here. Some brown people crashed a couple planes into some towers when he was in middle school, ergo all brown people are bad drivers.
It literally doesn't even matter. The core anti-woke crowed openly do not care about reality or sense.
They have committed to their "side" and just go full shitpost circlejerk on it like these posters are doing and support other people doing the same, because all the "game" is to them is "other side bad" and that's literally it.
Note that Baltimore never defunded the BPD. In fact it got a funding increase and a marketing boost so that it promises to protect and serve better.
Considering an officer clip-dumped at an unarmed man in November 2023, the BPD seems as robustly killology-ready as ever.
Note that no law enforcement department or agency has been defunded since the George Floyd incident. Not even Minneapolis where the city council voted to do so. (They got cold feet after pressure from the police unions.) Some cities are creating new alternative responder teams to handle mental health situations. Oakland, California, for instance, now has a department of first responders trained to handle and deescalate mental-illness-related crises who are directed by 911 emergency dispatch, but this hasn't reduced the budget of the police. (Oakland is also one of the municipal areas with an elevated officer-involved homicide rate).
The bridge wasn't coloured in LGBTQ+ colours so the captain couldn't see it until collision was inevitable. The solution is to paint every bridge in the US in Pride Colours.
Not mine btw - and based on just one of the tweets being in dark mode, my source was probably already secondary.
One of the big reasons the downfall of birdsite is so disappointing is the significant value remaining in at least select niches. There are still some voices there not represented on the fediverse. Sad.
The one thing that I appreciate about twitter’s interface is how transient its information is. If people, twitter’s only actual commodity, can be convinced to move then very little is lost in the transfer. No clue why mastodon isn’t gaining ground faster considering its relatively massive userbase. It should have reached a tipping point already.
Yeah and besides, what the fuck are the cops going to do if they did respond to it? Swim out there and catch the boat? They'd have watched it hit the bridge just like everyone else.
I read somewhere that the ship send out a mayday when they lost propulsion hoping the cops could clear the bridge. If the poster was a steaming pile of shit I would assuming they were trying to imply something along those lines.
I'm suspicious of the timing of these posts, because I was bored enough to listen to "conservative" talk radio yesterday and I heard the repugnant outrage jockeys parroting the same stuff about DEI programs before the boat crash. They were talking about how everything is being ruined by diversity programs. They went on a tangent about how bad government websites are and one of them said "must have been a diversity hire" who built those crappy websites. I was a bit shocked at that blatant nonspecific racism.
It was baffling how they put so much energy into hating that stuff. Now I'm wondering if they were on a similar script to the trolls posted here.
I hope it was a bot, but only because I don't want to believe that actual humans are that stupid. Like, assuming it was even true that fewer cops showed up... What exactly were they supposed to do? Shoot at the bridge for resisting arrest?
As a Jewish person I can confirm that the right pretends to love us up until they actually meet us, then they realize how left wing we are and how fascist they are
Is [minority] why a ship crashed?
That being said, the USA has ceased to be a serious country as the bottom right post said, but not for the reasons they think
I just can't believe that after all this time, this a ship was finally able to hit and knock down a bridge. Its about time that we started building ships sturdy enough to sink a bridge instead of the other way around! I'm glad that after a millennia of supremacy, boats are finally fighting back against the bridge menace!
People can be stupid for free. In fact, they're the best people to sell right wing ideology to. And overpriced food supplements that will make you a real man.
These are actually new? I could have sworn they were the same posts from other stuff either last year or the year before with the place name changed. I know I've read that blm one almost exactly before this.