How does the World view America these days?

[EdamAnchorman]

On 4/13/2024 at 1:05 AM, ignatius said:

Wow. Gel-mullet + troglodyte chin + flannel + dumbass shades. Tell me you're a redneck moron without telling me you're a redneck moron.

[ignatius]

super disturbing video in the spoiler of a guy getting carjacked. he fires point blank several times at the carjacker and misses then the carjacker backs up and gets a head of speed and runs the guy over. jfc wild west bonkers type shit. people are crazy. it's a sad video to watch but this is america. 

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also.. jfc can't make this shit up. 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-awards-23-5-million-194112114.html

Judge awards $23.5 million to undercover St. Louis officer beaten by colleagues during protest

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis judge on Monday awarded nearly $23.5 million to a former police officer who was beaten by colleagues while working undercover during a protest.

Luther Hall was badly injured in the 2017 attack during one of several protests that followed the acquittal of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis officer, on a murder charge that stemmed from the shooting death of a Black man.

Hall previously settled a separate lawsuit with the city for $5 million. In 2022, he sued three former colleagues — Randy Hays, Dustin Boone and Christopher Myers — for their roles in the attack.

 

 

Edited April 16 by ignatius

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[iococoi]

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[ignatius]

6 hours ago, iococoi said:

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starting to really love the satanic church so much

[usagi]

I wonder which would cause more of a moral panic, ST ministers or imams.

[ignatius]

57 minutes ago, usagi said:

I wonder which would cause more of a moral panic, ST ministers or imams.

i think it would be really interesting water cooler situation.. or breakroom etc.. in the teacher's lounge.. ha.. teachers would be like "you all need to get the fuck out of here" 

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Roaring Kitty is back!  

 

[Nebraska]

 

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[Nebraska]

incoming freedom:

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The governor of Louisiana signed a bill on Friday that adds two medications commonly used to induce abortions to the state’s list of controlled dangerous substances.

The legislation makes possession of the medications without valid prescriptions or orders from medical professionals punishable by up to five years in prison. Pregnant people who obtain the medications for their own consumption would not be subject to prosecution, according to the legislation.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/louisiana-law-abortion-pills-controlled-dangerous-substances-rcna153937

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The National Park Service is effectively prohibiting uniformed employees from marching in public events that “could be construed as agency support for a particular issue, position, or political party,” according to internal memos and documents shared with NBC News. This effective ban would extend to Pride marches, according to those documents.

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/national-park-service-effectively-bans-uniformed-staffers-pride-marche-rcna153370

 

next: they'll ban the consumption of all anheuser busch beverages for government employees 

[EdamAnchorman]

13 hours ago, Nebraska said:

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/national-park-service-effectively-bans-uniformed-staffers-pride-marche-rcna153370

This sucks, but to be fair, the gov't has always been like this.  They're not saying that the employees can't march, just not while in park service uniforms.

I worked at a gov't lab from 2008 - 2010 and there were multiple emails regarding what you could / couldn't do with respect to the 2008 & 2010 elections.  IIRC, you couldn't put any specific candidate or party signs on your office door or endorse any specific candidate or party in any official email.  You were allowed to have endorsing stickers / magnets on your car.  Can't remember the rest.

Edited May 25 by EdamAnchorman

[auxien]

3 minutes ago, EdamAnchorman said:

This sucks, but to be fair, the gov't has always been like this.  They're not saying that the employees can't march, just not while in park service uniforms.

I worked at a gov't lab from 2008 - 2010 and there were multiple emails regarding what you could / couldn't do with respect to the 2008 & 2010 elections.  IIRC, you couldn't put any specific candidate or party signs on your office door or endorse any specific candidate or party in any official email.  You were allowed to have endorsing stickers / magnets on your car.  Can't remember the rest.

yeah, NPS is on their Insta bragging about/promoting Pride events for June. same goes for wearing a military uniform under specific circumstances, etc. mostly reasonable.

13 hours ago, Nebraska said:

Pregnant people who obtain the medications for their own consumption would not be subject to prosecution, according to the legislation.

curious how long before that gets challenged in courts. i'm sure someone here's going to try and use the courts to ban the meds.