So like what does it take for people to revolt? are they just going to stand idly by while their fellows actually die, waiting for their own turn to stroke out from overworking and dehydration?
That’s actually a common misconception. Protect and serve was never the police motto, it was a slogan written on the side of los angeles police cruisers back in black-and-white television days. People picked it up through shows like Adam-12 and Dragnet. LAPD (no PD in america that I know of, actually) no longer write that slogan on any of their items, specifically to avoid the impression that they might be supposed to protect and serve if they don’t want to.
Edit: I’m told that some unspecified police departments do keep this “motto” on their vehicles, despite not being beholden to or, generally speaking, acting upon it.
Police departments aren’t that smart. They are blatantly and openly willing to lie to the public on a daily basis. Why would they care about how that “slogan” makes them look when they’re willing to publicly shelter murderers and kill over a thousand citizens a year?
The freedom to criticize our leadership is cherished. This professor should never have been suspended for legitimate and legally protected behavior. I hope she seeks legal remediation for this.
This seems to imply that most professional educators actually think shoving biblical references into the lessons is a "lifeline " that is going to fix their schools.
Have you seen how little a professional educator gets paid these days? Most of the smart ones have been forced to move on as Texas continues to try to kill free public education.
In a vacuum I could see this being a very positive endeavor. However judging from the listed backers of this scheme and their explicitly stated goals I can't see it being anything but a horror show.
Normally, I would never dream of bringing up someone’s disability but I feel it’s appropriate in this case…because Abbott is one of the biggest shit stains in America.
It feels pretty shitty to be a disabled person scrolling by and seeing comments like this. I don’t think that Abbott being a shitty person makes your statement any less hurtful to non-shitty disabled people
What is the LeopardAteMyFace equivalent for Lemmy? Because this belongs there.
Guaranteed that the same people complaining about this water break issue now are also people who in the last election either couldn’t be bothered to go vote, or voted for that clown Abbott. You vote for fascists, you get fascist policies.
It’s clear the Texas Tribune has picked a side from inserting an adjective into “The Oct. 7 terrorist attack, and ensuing assault on Gaza …” I have very little remaining faith in U.S. media, corporate or otherwise. If you need a narrative with a clearly defined “good” and “bad” side, you probably aren’t going to get much out of a Gaza story in the first place.
Imagine! “Extended political discourse” on a university campus. Can’t have that!
has picked a side from inserting an adjective into “The Oct. 7 terrorist attack, and ensuing assault on Gaza …”
How is that “picking a side”? It’s possibly the mildest neutral way of writing about what happened, as opposed to something like “The Oct 7. freedom fighter operation, and ensuing pacification of Gaza”, or similar.
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