conditional_soup @ conditional_soup @lemm.ee Posts 83Comments 2,926Joined 2 yr. ago
Well, if you ask firefighters if firefighting should be privatized, you'll usually get a "lmao NO!" And also a "but that's different!" And that's the escape hatch of every conservative ever. They think that everything they believe applies to everything else but themselves. Every other government service except the fire service is corrupt, wasteful, and backwards. They don't believe that the fascists could ever possibly be talking about them, because they know that what they're doing is actually important.
Yeah, seen my share of people getting their faces blown off and basically rationalizing it away because it was Trump that did it. "If you think about it, it's somehow Obama's fault". There's probably a good many reasons for this, and I think one of the big ones is that nobody likes accepting that they got suckered.
Me too. We've got a pretty good department here, and I hope we can keep it that way.
"Illegal" Navajo-man??????????
Wealthy protestant cis white male.
There really is no limit to refining the in-group, because at the end of the day, every conservative imagines themselves as the very center of the in group.
Sound advice. I know that after a bunch of locals voiced concern about it, our chief said that they are absolutely not working with ICE, and their duty is to serving the whole community first and foremost.
They more than likely were with ICE. The agency has massively and rapidly expanded its enforcement personnel, and has done so in a haphazard way that has (deliberately) not given them an opportunity to properly train personnel up on procedures and rules and stuff. Nobody who wants to do good in the world is going to work for ICE right now. So, they've basically just done a presto gestapo, and a lot of times these guys really are just out there doing the sloppiest, shittiest, and most bully-like law enforcement you could possibly conceive of. I know where I'm posting this, I know what we all generally think of cops here, the current state of ice is about ten rungs down from that. We're talking real amateur hour shit, and they'll get away with it if people let them.
The good news is that apparently none of these fucking jokers seem to know or care how to cross t's and dot i's. You absolutely can send them packing, just like these folks did, and if they don't leave, then call your local sheriff's office or police dept. This is really dependent on your area, metro PD tend to be stocked full of major league assholes, but my local PD is actually pretty chill and has a good working relationship with the community; in my experience, sheriff's deputies tend to be people who got into law enforcement because they're true believers in the ideals of law enforcement (protecting life and property, accountability, etc) and constitutional justice, not because they want to flex on minorities. YMMV.
But if you think you can trust one of your local law enforcement agencies, absolutely call up 911 and tell them that you've got some people here that are trespassing (they've been told to leave and aren't), seem to be impersonating law enforcement (since they won't provide proof of ID), and you're worried that they're trying to kidnap someone, that you think these people are an imminent threat to your life or someone else's. That'll generally get the cops out there in a hurry, and they will likely be not very happy at all that ICE is out here putting on a fucking circus. That, or the agents will hear you and fucking split so that they don't get clowned on by local law enforcement. There have been plenty of instances of federal agents getting arrested while fucking around; mind you, they're almost never charged, but nobody walks away from that particularly happy.
Behold, the power of "No."
I love to see it.
Do not make the mistake of taking fascists at their word. They're lying to you; like when they talk about being very concerned about the budget, but then turn around and blow money out of their ass to all of their pals and donors and on special vanity projects that benefit nobody. They're bullshitters, almost all of them; you can tell the true believers, like Lindell, because they're the ones that get thrown under the bus. They know the election wasn't stolen, they just hope that you'll take their bullshit in good faith.
Thank you, Ted Neeley
Holy smokes, how did I not think to turn the temperature down?! That's smart! Thanks for getting back to me!
Idk, homie. I'm constantly turning between "progress takes time" and "we don't have time". You've probably recently seen the meme I just plagiarized. I'm in local office now, making a plan to run for a higher local office to try and make things better however I can. I'm working with local activist groups to push the city to make things better. I'd launch the revolution if I could, but I haven't been able to find it. I'm trying to do whatever I can.
Yep, RIP
How well? Bet your life on it well, or "fewer hallucinations than we would have guessed" well? I've considered and toyed around with openAI models for logging supply room check offs in a JSON format and it went better than I hoped but worse than I needed.
Real answer: hilldawg is ancient and has the caloric intake requirements of a lichen. Carbs would probably fuck her shit up. Which, tbh, makes it all the more baffling that our special McDonald's boy is still kicking.
Oh boy, I can't wait for Obey Lawful Orders 7
1v1 me irl
The client wants to drag and drop their own personalized excel file with no guaranteed formatting or column order or data contract in order to import their data into our system <3
This is why cops should support police reform. Otherwise, stuff like this is the only path people will see to getting justice when the police overstep, and it's going to become a lot more commonplace. Accountability, it turns out, is a good thing.
I don't see why tankies turn people away more than Nazis. Do you think it's that Tankies don't bother with hiding their power level?
I am stor- uh, Gaia
