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[–] 78 points 10 months ago
[–] 107 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I know that many departments have a maximum intelligence limit, but is "too dumb to be a cop" really thing?

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  • [–] 80 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Didn't it come out that some ICE goons don't know how to read or write?

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  • [–] 40 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Half of the country reads at 5th grade level or below.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    I'd put that down to atrophied reading skills. Actual illiteracy is usually a sign that someone never learned, there's also functional illiteracy wherein someone can technically read and write but they aren't interacting with it beyond parroting the words.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    That factoid keeps getting pulled out.

    It's literally untrue, or at the very least misrepresented.

    Half of the country of the USA have only passed 6th Grade English exams.

    That does not mean they are incapable, just that they've only got a little piece of paper somewhere saying "I passed a test!" up to that point.

    https://porchroot.substack.com/p/why-half-of-americans-read-like-theyre

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    If you can find it the Murphys’ St. Patrick’s Day show from 2024 was amazing. Billy Bragg played and Woody Guthrie’s daughter came on stage.

    Best concert I’ve moshed alone to in my living room since 2020

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Using them as actual slaves. This guy is sick.

    Does your sister condone this or is she complaining to you about it? Take video of these threats, consider sendimg them to ProPublica or AP.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago*

    Knowing that information, and not making it public, makes you complicit.

    Figure out a way to safely and publicly disclose that information.

    If I had to guess, he's a Florida landscaper or contractor, because that's their MO, but just because it's commonplace, doesn't mean you're not complicit for choosing not to share the information.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Cops are too dumb to be cops

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    And yet...ICE agents are even dumber

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    For basically as long as they've been around, I've mostly dismissed the Murphys as "too Boston" (which, in this sense, means dickish Boston Irish). But these last few years have really shown me I was just an idiot and they are exactly the kind of Boston Irish I want around.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    I recently learned there was a Trump-supporting bar near me with one of those TouchTune jukeboxes you can control remotely. Me and some other people started commandeering it with requests, but sadly a lot of picks were not available— namely Nazi Punks Fuck Off.

    If this could make its way into the TouchTunes library, I would be soooooo happy.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I drove a Nazi out of a bar that way a few weeks back

    My friend works security there and sent me a pic of a guy wearing a shirt with SS lightning bolts on it

    Manager wouldn't let him kick the guy out because he wasn't otherwise causing an issue, and I wasn't available to go help cause a scene to give him an excuse, but I was able to queue up every anti-fascist song I could find on there and he up and left within an hour

    I consider those touchtunes credits to be money well-spent

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    "Schrei nach Liebe" bei Die Ärzte is a good options if they have that.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Oh fuck yeah:

    Deine Gewalt is nur ein stummer schrei nach Liebe
    Deine springer stiefel ziehen sich nach zaertlichkeit
    Du hast nie gelernt wie zu artikulieren
    Und deine Freundin/Eltern hatten niemals fuer dich seit...
    (Ooh-ooh-ooh)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    In my youth my friend and I literally chased a pack of 6 or 7 Proud Boys out of a pool hall by just singing this song really aggressively at them lol… I highly recommend calling them out irl, they're a bunch of tough talking pussies

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    That song is beautiful and I love Dropkick Murphys!

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  • [+] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)
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    Saw these guys at Louder than Life in 2024. It was muddy as fuck because it basically monsooned the day before, and was still drizzling on and off that day. I was soaked to the bone, covered in mud up to my thighs, and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Definitely one of the funnest, most high energy performances of the whole weekend.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Anyone got the audio link? They all are dead atm for me.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Kinda slept on them for a while tbh, I'll have to check em out properly

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They pulled an Elton John. It’s a reworded version of a song they already played.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I know it's pedantic, but many of them are ex-military. It's part of why they're so primed to shoot anyone they find inconvenient.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    yep unfortunately even people criticizing ICE often refuse to critically examine the military which is much much worse.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The thing is, the military is America's largest wellfare program. Reducing or cutting the military could directly lead to a localized demand-side recession in areas with large numbers of military recruits and/or contractors

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Soldiers aren't brave other than that good to trash ICE.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Some branches don't accept GEDs either.

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