Yeah we would’ve had it already too if the government didn’t get fleeced. It was about 2010 when the “National Broadband Plan” was unveiled. Part of its goal was 100Mbs to 100M people by 2020.
ISP received $200 Billion in subsidies and tax breaks to run nation wide fiber in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. They didn’t do it, kept the tax breaks, and the government didn’t care.
I know, he was in the military and so he might know things North Korea wants to know, and therefore it's better to get him back before it's all tortured out of him.
At this point, the Federal government should offer relocation services to anyone who wants it, and all who stay do so at their own risk. Republicans love bussing people out, so makes total sense, right guys?
Aww c'mon now, it was just a little whoopsie-doodle! We all make mistakes! Surely, it's not fair to hold those who enforce the violence of the state upon the rest of us to the same standard we hold regular people to!
Like when one ACCIDENTALLY leaves their wallet at home, or ACCIDENTALLY forgets to turn the porch light on, or ACCIDENTALLY beats their wife unconscious. Y’know, things we all have in common with cops, right??
I just want to stop and appreciate that we can all take it as a given she wants to kill a human being but have to think twice about her wanting to destroy the car.
Steinke faces a felony charge for criminal attempt to commit manslaughter…
How can you have “attempted” manslaughter? I thought one of the defining characteristics of manslaughter is that there isn’t a deliberate intent to kill.
It’s probably specific to the jurisdiction. For instance, some states consider assault and battery to be two different things, whereas other states call them assault and aggravated assault instead. So in those states you’d be charged with aggravated assault instead of being charged with battery. But they both mean the same thing in the end.
Also, the article states the officer walked across the tracks AT LEAST five times. The picture shows that the crossing is clearly visible, signed, and possibly lighted (though it’s at-grade, which is something a lot of rail people have been saying is incredibly dangerous for JUST THIS REASON). I don’t see any way this could have been an accident unless the officer was SERIOUSLY impaired in some way, and even then there’s a case to be made for serious negligence.
It’s America. They trust baaically anybody with basically any gun.
The Ulvade shooter was a teenager, with a history of sending death and rape threats, who earned the nickname “school shooter” after abusing a dead cat.
He bought two semi-automatic rifles from a company that markets to young, internet connected edgelords, posted pictures of them to social media, then used them to mutilate a room full of children beyond recognition.
The pro-gun crowd rushed to blame the police but the reality is that police and hypothetical “good guns” can only react to shootings, meaning its always going to be too late for someone.
Which is why braver police at Sandy Hook were too late to save anyone, despite being on the scene and breaching within minutes.
It’s a pattern repeated over and over again. Look up the history of a mass shooter 3 months after their act, when their history is known, and its usually the same story; a parade of red flags, often far-right and radicalised online and deeply damaged and not shy about it.
People capable of these acts are not just normal people (and legal gun owners) who wake up broken one day and decide to see if murdering children and minorities fixes it. People could already tell they were dangerous.
But if you ask those pro-gun cultists what they’d have changed, it’s never the guns.
They’re genuinely more upset by the idea of waiting 6 months for a gun – something routine in the rest of the world – than they are by children dying terrified and screaming on their classroom floor.
After blaming video games and rap music didn’t work, they’ve finally opted for “mental health” and while it sounds reasonable on the surface, it’s no less bullshit.
It’s not at all reasonable to insist that America fixes the mental health problems of every man, woman and child in America, for free, no matter how deeply violent, curing them to a degree far beyond the most cutting edge medical treatments available, with no relapses ever, in less time and with less effort to the patient than buying a gun and doing a murder suicide.
All so it’s safer to indiscrimately sell the public guns.
I hope Lemmy communities don’t give give them space. They’re propaganda spreading, self-absorbed scum.
(P.S: Sorry for hitting you with this rant but I know I’m going to have to copy and paste bits of it 100 times on Lenmy, so I may as well get it all out now)
Those same people also tend to oppose using public money to pay for mental health treatment, or really any programs to improve the lives of people with mental health issues or other problems that can lead to breakdowns. Best they can think of is prison, which is very expensive for the government, but that’s always fine for some reason.
There’s people who actually believe that literally everyone should have a gun at all times. I expect to see actual deification of guns by the end of the decade.
And if you point them to that, they say that illegal immigrants don’t have to that and that Europeans are killing civilization. Conservatives are really beyond saving.
Even if there was no such program, it’s EIGHT DOLLARS. Who gives a fuck? If you’re traveling to Europe from the U.S., the plane fare alone will be exponentially higher. Hell, we renewed and expedited our passports a few months ago and it cost us $500.
Hey instead of charging us regular people 8 dollars for exercising the right of migration why don’t they just raise taxes on all those shitheads flying on private jets? No?
Obviously its way past time for us to leave NATO and let the Europeans finally start paying the bulk of their own defense instead of the US taxpayer. I also think we should write our congressmen to insist they pass a law requiring the same VISA app for the EU to come to America.
Lol.
The more comments I read the sadder I become. They have no information outside their own little fantasy-filled bubble.
Try living amongst them. They are dumb farm animals with anger management issues and don’t give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves and “owning the libs”. I’m convinced they’re all sociopaths.
If her excuse was “i didnt know i parked my car on the tracks”, she needs to have her drivers license confiscated. Someone with such little awareness of their surroundings has no business operating heavy machinery (car), let alone the responsibilities of her job.
She would not have even have had to leave the car. The railroad crossing signs are very obviously visible. And unless she had the most amazing shocks ever, she probably felt the very bumpy tracks when she went over them.
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