Miles O'Brien

I think most genuinely don’t understand what it’s like living in a country the size of a continent, with hundreds of millions of people scattered all over, with a heavily militarized police force that has been trained to see anyone but themselves as a threat, surrounded by a significant portion of the population that would love the opportunity to murder you without legal consequences and the tools to do so, with your healthcare, shelter, food, and basically everything tied to your employment that could end on a whim, in a system designed to keep you perpetually exhausted so you can’t even begin to imagine a world where you are fairly treated, let alone have the energy to fight for it in any meaningful way.

I mean most Europeans live in countries the size of a single state, with relatively high population densities (comparatively speaking). “Americans think 100 years is a long time, Europeans think 100km is a long distance” and all that. I’ve traveled daily for work what some of my UK friends won’t travel to see family on holidays. The US is insanelt large, and any sort of organization is already an uphill battle from that alone. Get into the fact that most people can’t take a day off work without risking their livelihoods, and that opposition is armed and begging to be let loose, and protesting alone is hard to do.

Historically, any left-leaning organization that arms themselves gets heavily targeted by the Alphabet Squad (FBI, NSA, BATFE, etc) and individuals get harassed and tossed into prisons for the smallest infractions simply due to association with the leftist group.

Anyone who doesn’t look at the history of government opposition in the US when they demand action, all while saying we aren’t doing enough because protesting isn’t enough, is (hopefully ignorantly) telling you to go kill yourself.

There was once an emergency medical flight coming into the hospital I live next to, but someone noticed that a person had parked dead center of the helipad.

The hospital was undergoing some construction, and the crew was on site at the time.

To my understanding, nobody saw what happened and no cameras caught it, but the car miraculously ended up about 40ft away from where it was parked, with orange-yellow paint scraped along one side and heavy equipment track imprints in the grass next to the pad.

The helicopter was able to land, and someone had to decide whether they wanted to admit to blocking the helipad and try to blame the construction company for damages, or let it go and drive around with a big dent in one side of the car.

I’m a big fan of “fuck quitting, make them fire you” and collecting a paycheck while doing basically nothing until they actually do it themselves. I’m not making their job easier when they deserve to get fucked over.

English IS my first language and it still tripped me up. It’s an easy thing to swap, especially without much context.

I read it as “to break off” not “to temporarily interrupt”

It worked so well in the 1930s and 40s!

demented rapist felon and a pathological liar.

It’s insane to me how little this narrows it down to someone who doesn’t already know who you mean.

And I’ve seen people on lemmy going on about how it’s all the US’s fault because some reportclaimed us arms and supplies were discovered, but like…

You didn’t HAVE to kill thousands of people for what you still call a protest movement.

Whether protesters are backed by the west or not, the response to murder everyone at a protest is unquestionably wrong.

By all means, inform us of all you are doing to help so we can also support things.

Otherwise you’re just trying to feel morally superior

Is… Is he straight up just planning to do Holocaust Part 2?

Because it really feels like he’s not even trying to hide his desire to recreate world war 2.

I think that’s just a properly funded IRS

“And besides, according to all known laws of aviation…”

Lol I love when the bee movie script shows up in unexpected places

I feel personally attacked.

I’m sorry everyone, I just like commenting and talking to people more than trying to be creative.

I’m sure their wallet appreciates your separation.

Good question! I doubt it. I tried to show it to the 3 idiots in front of me, and two completely refused to even look at it, going so far as to hold their hands so they literally couldn’t see the screen, and the one who was being loudest was saying it’s OBVIOUSLY not the same incident, then it’s OBVIOUSLY fake when it became obvious she can’t refuse to see it’s the same car and people and setting.

At that point I walked away while she was still trying to talk. I tend to get angry when people who voted for a child rapist, actively and vocally support a child rapist, and tell me I’m wrong about the 8 different angles I’ve seen start spouting idioic bullshit around me.

Wait until you hear about county and city laws.

Fbi can cut local authorities out of federal investigations, but at the state level hes still guilty of murder

Oh, so the US should have claimed Venezuela was US property, then they aren’t playing world police!

A coworker was trying to tell me she clearly intentionally tried to ram him and she watched the video proving it.

Weird, because the videos I’ve seen all show a cowardly piece of shit trying to block a car so he can justify cold blooded murder.

Random thought just popped into my head for no reason I can think of: if you know someone’s name, and the county they own property in, you can visit their county records (many even have publicly accessible websites) and find the exact plots of land tied to their name!

I managed to track down the former property owner of the place I live now to their new house in another state, since they intentionally hid a bunch of issues from the buyer before the sale that ended up costing nearly half the price of the house and the realtors decided to ignore me when I attempted to get in contact.

All I did was look up “[County I knew remembered they were moving to from overheard conversations during the buying process] county property records” and the rest was super straightforward.