crosswind

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[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"I was not in my uniform, and at no point in my interaction with the staff did I identify myself as a member of the law enforcement community," Sheriff Owens said. "At no point did I indicate my position, nor did I ask the responders to do anything that they would not, had not, or have not done for anyone else who makes a business dispute call."

I don't even know if he believes this or not. I would have assumed he was getting off on bringing the force of the state down on a service worker who dared cross him, but can severe cop-brain really make you think this is a normal and reasonable thing everyone does when their order is wrong? Is it both?

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

It's really never a choice of 'which planet should we work on'. The problems on Earth can be solved, but not under capitalism and the current global power structure. Under a different system that could actually address the problems, there would be such a massive global effort underway to improve life on Earth, that some human exploration of Mars would be a tiny expenditure in comparison. As things stand, the problems aren't permitted to be solved, so even if all space exploration was ended tomorrow, all that labor and resources would be redirected to the military or industrial research to boost the profits of corporations.

This only applies to the actual material reality. Billionaires and Musk-worshipers who delude themselves into thinking that Mars will let them escape climate change exist outside of that.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

Does it really help much for your house to have power for an hour if you're counting on a cybertruck owner to act as an electrician and not fry your wiring and then leave his truck dead, blocking your driveway?

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why would a vertical crane cast a shadow in a different direction than an angled crane? Shadows always point in the same direction, obviously. smuglord The sneaky ccp must be up to something...

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

It's a magma/lava type thing. Once the trans person walks out of the ikea store with it, it's pronounced blah-hajj

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

If you take the test after seeing this post, that was a reaction. It's too late for you, regardless of the result.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

He's got that hide-and-seek bible

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

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[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

trump-who-must-go TRUMP kevlar ear covers now available folks, I wear them, they're the best. People said I shouldn't wear these, they showed me a diagram of a plane with all these red dots on it, and they told me I couldn't put armor where the dots are, can you believe that? They said you can't put armor on the red dots because people might get offended. Well folks I don't care what they say I'm putting the armor where the bullets go.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

My theory is that deplorables is based on outrage, and was part of the 2016 strategy of the dems making a show of how shocked they were at all the norms trump was breaking, which was completely ineffective. Weird has an air of just pointing out the obvious, and can be done in a detached way when appropriate, and that's spreading much better.

And I think 3 is a big part of it. Not that the chuds weren't unhinged in 2016, but at the time the moment they were having was getting to say the extreme parts of standard conservatism out loud. What was a fringe position then still generally had a short pathway back to well worn conservative talking points if it got too much attention. But they've been chasing the feeling of taking the presidency for eight years, and they've spun themselves out into positions that they really can't explain to anyone who didn't go on that journey with them, so weird works now in a way it wouldn't have then.

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

crushing up six genders and snorting them, then spending the next morning trying to remember what happened so I can figure out where I left my pronouns

[–] crosswind@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago

ONLY Beetle_O_Rourke GETS TO DO THAT NO ONE ELSE

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