So, I used to work at 911. I also used to work at DirecTV tech support (not at the same time, thank god.) When I worked at 911, people would yell at me, cuss at me, call me names, etc. And I hated it, but most of the time they were afraid and in a serious situation and pumped with adrenaline. When I was at DirecTV,…

They are supposedly able to be impeached and then removed, but I’m not sure the standards for doing so and I don’t think it’s ever even been thought of, much less tried. I mean, we’ve impeached three presidents and been unable to remove any of them from office, so I don’t see a lot of luck when it comes to a SCOTUS…

“Oh, I’m not filming. They don’t make film small enough to fit inside a cell phone. I’m recording.”

That last part is attempted murder. I mean, I guarantee it would be in Oklahoma and it probably is just as bad, if not worse, in Florida. Geez! Just the 5 minutes it takes for my car to start cooling down when I get in after work feels like death is imminent.

They want it to be specifically about filming because they want an excuse to take away the recording device and to deal with people who are filming. They don’t want to have to deal with every person who is within 8 feet of them when they are doing something. Also, if they don’t mention the filming, they probably can’t…

I was wondering about this and security cameras on houses. Turn them to face the action before the officer gets within the prescribed distance, then let it to its thing. Technically, no human is recording within that space. And you can’t arrest a camera.

I mean, you’re right. The people who are for these things don’t care about fair, honest, true, consistent, any of that. They are fine with hypocrisy. But, I read the comment as stating how it should be.

Yeah, I was totally thinking this because I started with thinking they would declare it unconstitutional because a few of these judges have talked about how important previous decisions are and how they are loath to overturn that kind of thing. And then I remembered they overturned Roe and realized they have no care…

That right there is the part that proves this has nothing to do with interfering and everything to do with cops not wanting to be filmed.

I’m really going to need them to be forced to articulate, in detail, exactly how the person filming was interfering with their work. Especially in the case of a person sitting in their car but not in the crime scene or the person totally not involved filming from their house. (I guarantee something happens on my…

Please tell me that gun is not legal. Because, if it is, it needs to not be yesterday. Holy shit! I didn’t even use anything like that in the military and I was in a job where I handled a lot of guns. 

She didn’t get on him. She didn’t even get on the one who shot (although she would be justified in doing so.) She got on their training (or lack thereof.) And she is right.

Not only hasn’t she harmed anyone, but she is saying she wants to harm herself. This is a person who needs empathy and someone to listen to her. Sure, she has a gun, so have one or two people ready if she does turn it on someone else, but they need to be out of her sight so that she can focus on the person trying to…

This this this this this. It’s one of the biggest issues (outside of the lack of knowledge of/disdain for proper use of force) I see when these things happen.

People who paid attention to politics and foreign policy and such were not the same people who were paying a lot of attention to pop culture.

I have studied, read about, and heard about so many atrocities that the British Empire committed, but this is one that I only peripherally knew about, so it’s good to see this. In the same way it was good for a lot of the country to see the depictions of the Tulsa Race Massacre in shows like The Watchmen and Lovecraft…

I’m a woman. I’m also menopausal. No law about abortion affects me in any way. I can’t get pregnant, therefore I will never need an abortion. So, if people want to talk about those affected by these laws and call them “people who can get pregnant” or something like that, then I’m cool with it. Because I can’t be…

The group that these phrases are meant to include are trans men and non-binary who were born female. See, those are “people with a uterus.” If you say “women” they get excluded because they have a uterus, but are not women. If you say, “people with a uterus” every person on the planet who has a uterus is included.…

Oh, for fuck sake! No one is doing that. These phrases are not what anyone has decided that trans people should be called. These are phrases meant to include all people who are affected by things like the recent overturning of Roe and are used specifically in those instances. No one is going around calling people…

Or menopausal women. Women over a certain age already get erased in many ways. Yay. Here’s another.