This is settled law. It’s been this way for a long time. Multiple people have had huge monetary settlements in multiple states for being arrested for flipping off a cop.
Ironic how if something is your job to care about, that it often leads to the opposite reality. Sure, cops are especially shitty but I have a lot of lax coworkers. Feels very common
Historically? No, not really. Arpiao was losing millions of dollars for his contracted cities before they started dropping contracts with him and forcing Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to operate only in unincorporated areas.
My father-in-law smiled and waved at a CHP cop when driving through California and got pulled over and told that was illegal, but was let off with a warning. Which I always thought was bullshit. Sounds like it is.
But the guy liked cops. He was literally just saying hi to a cop because he liked cops.
He was a white evangelical (but never preachy) Republican from Indiana who was born in 1931. So not even a boomer, someone who had kids who were boomers. He died loving cops. He didn’t even hold it against that guy because he assumed he’d broken the law and was glad the nice cop let him off with a warning.
He was an old man and had some very archaic ideas about the world. When he was home, he watched old Westerns, sports, or Fox News. I assume he voted for Trump in 2016. But he was also super nice to everyone no matter who they were. He was just not a judgmental sort of guy on an individual level. He was the sort of person who would would have a friendly conversation to find out when the restaurant waiter got off their shift and what they were planning to do that day and said he hoped they had a good time doing it.
So he probably (I never asked) believed in the “gay agenda,” but would also be happy to have a friendly chat with some people hanging outside a gay bar if he happened to walked by and saw that people were standing there. Even if he knew it was a gay bar.
[It’s his birthday today, so he’s been on my mind.]
That’s the biggest thing this country is missing right now. It’s OK to disagree with other people, but for some reason, people seem to think they are enemies because they disagree. We are all individuals, with our own views on everything. There isn’t a single person in the world that I agree with 100% on everything. To assume that anyone I disagree with is somehow evil, or my enemy, is insane.
Definitely one major reason has been that there’s been an incredibly effective propaganda machine constantly telling people that’s the case. It started taking off in the 90s.
Part of the problem, and I don’t remember who summed it up this way but it’s as accurate a description as I’ve ever seen, is that the conservative mindset is exactly this: “I’m allowed to tell you what to do, but you are not allowed to tell me what to do.”
These better be fake, because I’m so unbelievably disgusted at the hundreds of thousands of jobs of all professions at all experience levels offering $17-22/hr.
I honestly don’t know why anyone would manufacture/paint vehicles in a place with VOC regulations in the first place, and with their history of smog California has some strict VOC regulations.
You can use low VOC paint and institute capture systems all you want, but if you’re doing it on an industrial scale that “low VOC” paint will add up real quick.
AIPAC was created because it’s predecessor had to register.
There’s no logical reason AIPAC doesn’t have to register, it’s just one of those things where a company changes their name and claims they don’t know who that old company was.
Citizens United would have made all of this a hell of a lot harder if SCOTUS hadn’t ruled the other way. Now basically an unlimited amount of money can flow in from anywhere. It’s more complicated than that obviously, but essentially, that’s how it is now.
Yeah, but the New Testament says everyone who doesn’t worship Jesus is going to burn in hell forever, so that kind of lessens the whole Jewishness of the first half.
The owners, “Stop being aware, go back to being a cog in the machine. Stop reading the founders intent that we can overthrow them. That’s against the law and the law is what we will use to enforce our ideologies upon you.”
The “war against woke” is a war against awareness.
I would say it’s a war against knowledge and critical thinking. Those two things threaten their control and reasoning. Why else fear books or competing ideologies?
It’s one thing for the deer to see headlights coming at it. It’s another for it to know what it means and what it should do.
It’s deeper than that for some. You could allegorically describe that awareness as the fruit of the tree of goodness and evil. Temptation from Satan and they will burn in hell if they accept it.
Too bad the system is designed by the founders so that 70% of the people are guaranteed in perpetuity to always have less than 50% of the power, and thus never get what they want.
I don’t know that this is the case. It’s roughly like 33% of the people say the judges are too liberal because they’re liberal, another 33% say the judges are to conservatives because they’re conservatives, and another 33% don’t have a clue. That ~66% of conservative + liberal aggregated are the 7/10. I wouldn’t call it woke, I would call it opposing opinions on what side the judges are one and the perspective of the respondent.
A couple of days ago I watched a tiktok vid about a lady being arrested for flipping the bird to a cop and then proceeding to turn without signaling… yep that was the charge.
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