It’s telling that throughout the entire article, neither the author nor the quoted individuals make a single mention of the personal and societal importance of mental health.
I think that could be guessed without seeing the writing in the article as well, though obviously you're right.
Some killers are just psychopaths/sociopaths (like Ted Bundy) but the vast majority have some serious problems which have unfortunately been missed or more likely hidden and she's received no help for them leading to.... This. It's awful.
I work in a hospital. Management should have been all over this but it sounds very much like they didn't want any trouble so ignored it as much as possible.
Staff should have one to ones with their managers including checking up on their welfare which is done properly could have picked up on something in the killer's behaviour or mental health which wasn't right.
Wards should have high standards of monitoring and if there's an unexpected death the reason why should be fully investigated. If there was any room for doubt they should have at least escalated it to into an independent internal investigation - it's not like there were a lot of potential suspects.
This is a perfect example of just how completely useless the Left in this country are. We have REAL problems that we face and this is the type of utter nonsense that far too many on the Left focus on.
In Europe and other parts of the industrialized world, liberal groups have given the people universal healthcare, and paternity leave, and strong consumer and labor laws. Those groups have their heads on straight, focus on important topics that everyone faces, and eventually get results. Because those groups focus on things that actually matter and that people want, the people respond by actually giving them some level of political power.
What do we have in the US? We have blue-haired idiots screaming about an honest-to-goodness patriot because his cartoon logo has a musket and the fact that the image is of a man. No wonder that even in some of the most blue cities in some of the most blue states in the country, liberal candidates can’t win local elections.
Some school district decided to change their mascot, something that happens all the time, and you turn into some big, catastrophic issue while screeching about how other people don't have their priorities straight.
It's a legit problem when you look at the sum effect of all these local activists trying to "fix" local problems that should be waaaaaay down on the priority list. It pretty much paralyzed all grassroots activist groups for a good decade or so and let Trump run rampant most of his first term.
they went for the divisive political hotbutton a bit quick there, but I think I understand where the rant is coming from: we in the states seem to be more concerned with appearance of being supportive to people than we actually are supporting their basic needs and it’s pretty sad. for example, it’s insane how in LA they decided the long term solution for supporting people who lost their home during the pandemic was to call them the unhoused instead of the homeless to not use terms which may be sensitive for them. Meanwhile they continue to sleep in dangerous encampments on the street and have to shit in bags while being food insecure and getting no actual support from the people who drive by them in Teslas and Priuses every day. It’s pretty maddening as a bleeding heart liberal to be overshadowed by the the woke inclusive liberal who thinks rebranding the terms we use are more important than actually helping people by actually correcting systemic problems. Changing the mascot isn’t the problem, but I feel $200K can do a lot more good by funding programs to help the people struggling in the school who we assume are “offended” by this mascot.
I could be wrong but that’s just my interpretation of what they meant, minus the angry political rhetoric.
I am more left on most (but not all issues) than most people. I am embarrassed by the majority of people who also call themselves “liberal” in this country.
Schools often spend money on things that are only meant to make their students feel better, like pep rallies and school dances. If the students prefer their new mascot, I don’t think this is particularly stupid or wasteful in comparison.
Students don’t always ask for things that they benefit from. If the school improved the bus routes or auditorium and some random student exclaimed “I didn’t ask for this!”, that student would rightly be ignored.
These decisions are best left to parents, not students. And the parents elect the board. Considering how long this has been going on, parents have had plenty of opportunity to elect new board members if this wasn’t what they wanted.
What that republican senator is doing is immature but military readiness isn’t really that important considering our massive lead over every other country in the world, not to mention our extensive network of allies. Nobody is invading the USA.
Military spending needs to be cut by at least 25% and then maybe we’d have some money to spend on actually relevant concerns
But yes, it shows the partisan and regressive attitudes of the current GOP. It’s sad to see that the OC seems to care about making progress on important issues like public welfare only to get brainwashed into thinking it’s the left’s fault for being inefficient. There is some truth to that but the reason our advocates of social progress can’t get anything done is specifically because of the GOP’s zero-sum stonewalling.
Okay bye bye. It’s not like they suddenly take all the drivers and their cars with them. Are they forgetting what business they are in? All they do is match drivers with passengers. Some other scrappy startup can easily fill that gap when they leave. Uber became only big because of first mover advantage and cut throat capitalism. Their tech is not groundbreaking.
Good. I despise Trump, and look forward to seeing him and all of his crooked cronies behind bars. However, nobody has any right to threaten or attempt to harm anyone. This imbecile deserves the full weight of the law just like all of these morons threatening the judges and prosecutors overseeing Trump’s now numerous indictments.
Weird, the minutemen were an actual group so I dunno why anyone is confused about the genderization, and if they musket is a concern just change the logo. The minutemen is way more badass than the Bears. Should have changed the logo to a Watchmen or fallout reference, though I suspect the real reason for changing the name was because of the sexual context of the name.
Is this moron capable of thinking further than 15 minutes into the future? Did he think people would forget about this magical report that would exonerate him?
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Exactly. I envision them threatening to leave, but ultimately not taking the revue hit by raising prices for the end users.
I don’t agree with profits over everything. I anticipate the public narrative blaming the drivers or politicians for them exiting the market, but in my opinion its their own corporate greed thats pushing them out. This is unfair and people shouldn’t be vilified for standing up for workers rights.
It’s like when Amazon threatened to leave NY when AOC was campaigning for higher minimum wage over there or whatever it was. I forget the exact details, but the point is that it ended up being a bluff and of course they stayed.
Thompson, sitting in her minivan and surrounded by five officers, locked the doors and refused to get out, repeating, “It wasn’t me,” the district attorney wrote in the 2022 letter explaining their decision not to charge the officers.
One officer smashed the passenger window with a baton, and Thompson backed the car up, hitting a police vehicle parked behind her. She then drove forward over the curb and onto the road.
One officer began shooting, according to the district attorney’s letter, because he believed another officer was struck by the car or being dragged under it, and eventually shot and killed Thompson. Her unborn child also died.
When the suspect responds as all humans do to being terrified or attacked:
Ramp up the use of force, and if you don't kill them you at least get to add resisting arrest or assaulting an officer.
No worries if you've destroyed someone's life, permanently decreased their overall health, or killed them. The taxpayers will pay the inevitable settlement, and there's almost no chance of criminal charges.
And it’s so easy to get around that too. Just say “the Police killed a woman…” That is an absolute fact. Not saying murder which is a crime that they haven’t yet been found guilty of.
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