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[–] 113 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To every liberal government body, this is how you fight fascism.

Ffs...there are school board members who are being forcibly retired due to messages on social media.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    so... when you're a government employee you are supposed to uphold yourself with decorum that implies that you will treat all your constituents evenly and fairly. that extends to social media. elected officials and appointed officials are held to a different standard with i'm not 100% up on anymore because i've only ever been employee or appointed, but it is important to at very least project an image of fairness.

    now, in statesia have public servants from one major party been generally striving to uphold these values in the past, let's say decade or seven, while public servants from the other major party have been flaunting every opportunity they get to violate said norms whenever they feel they can get away with it, and using the legal system to punish their employers for proper dismissals when they their violate employment contracts? Well, it sure feels that way sometimes. like today.

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    Jon Green

    Jon Green

    Jon Green

    The 'left' needs to do a better job of finding, supporting, and nurturing the next generation.

    This guy gets it. He gets what his role as sheriff is.

    Mamdani gets it. He fucking knows what it's going to take to allow the next generation to not just survive as serfs, but to flourish.

    AOC has kept it real, she about not just her constituents, but all Americans

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  • [+] -45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    You were going well until you mentioned AOC. Try Bernie Sanders

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The same Bernie Sanders that's actively campaigned with and for AOC?

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, but let's say that Bernie has more fire in him. Mamdani too

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Are you letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, though?

    I get that you think Bernie and Mamdani > AOC and I'm not even going to argue with you on that. But your comment a few levels up made it sound like AOC was a genuinely bad politician to support/mention.

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    [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He's condemning murder!? What is he trying to do, get himself killed?

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    Well said. I could never go into politics because I am too volatile. That flag would already have wiped my ass by now. Don’t get we wrong, there is a time to wipe one’s ass with sacred cloth, but you gotta choose your battles.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago

    At least there are still public officials out there in actual police roles who understand what it means to take an oath

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Iowa City. They're fairly progressive up there.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Right there in the name: “City”. A dangerous place where you might be exposed to dreaded opposing viewpoints.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    my brother is scared to death of san francisco. he hates it, says there's poop everywhere and he's accosted by homeless people all the time. i dunno, i've been to his house and they leave dirty diapers on the floor and his children are children so they're needy and don't pay rent. which seems right. maybe he's a little confused? also, i have encountered human poop exactly once in san francisco over decades of visiting at least monthly. i'm just grumpy that the deli i got my char siu pork at (Go Duck Yourself/Hing Lung) moved and i haven't found a new one i like yet. also my brunch place went from five locations to one, and it's not the location i liked in the Castro. At least my beef with the city is real.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I miss Iowa City. It was such a diverse and wonderful island surrounded by by the monotony of white bread America. I'm scared to go back, because I fear it has been swallowed by the mediocrity of conservatism.

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  • I've met a shocking amount of sane people since moving to my close-ish to Des Moines small town. Including family I would have just assumed were conservative by virtue of living in IOWA.

    Then again, it used to be a battleground state, so maybe it shouldn't be so shocking.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is one thing that's messed up with the 'just split up' rhetoric. In almost every 'red' there are 'blue' communities.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, usually there large population centers.

    I love it when conservatives are all like, do you want some New Yorker telling you how to run your farm?

    Ummm, does it make more sense than a farmer trying I tell a New Yorker how to live in the city?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    This is a true hero.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    a proper patriot

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    That's a man I'd like to have pints with. What an absolute legend. Very well put.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Now this is a fucking man.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A strong man protects the weak. Not with guns, but with brains.

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    Listen, it's nice that he said this. And he seems like a good guy.

    But it is so fucking bleak that we need Old Bearded White Guy to say what anyone who looked less Trad Conservative would have been heckled for

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    He will still be heckled for this

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    True.

    I have a friend whose brother-in-law is a long-time Republican, evangelical, Trump voter. He listened to and agrees with Charlie Kirk's religious views. But he said that because of Kirk's more extreme positions on wider issues, he wouldn't let his young kids listen to Kirk ... and now he's a pariah in his own family.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Soon: DHS Deploys All of ICE to Johnson County Iowa. Governor to Hold Welcome Party.

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    That’s what a real man looks like

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)