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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:here is the point I was trying to make yesterday: I want to live in a world where cops treat everyone the same way they treat nazis. The right spends a lot more time signing up then the left.....maybe if some of you commies would also sign up or volunteer to dispatch or be a fire fighter there would be opposing voices but as it is it's a sea of red hats and apathetic fuckheads. I'm mean hell I'd love to hear something other then some tin hat qanon conspiracies at work but hey it dosen't look like that's going to change any time soon cause when one side does nothing but say ACAB over and over again it makes good people hesitate to sign up. Also this isn't ment to be a personal attack mearly my take on the situation, I firmly belive if more leftist would actually try to be the change they want to see in the world instead of talking poo poo from the side walks the bad apples would have a much harder time in life.
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Does Donnie's hair look especially lovely today?
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You're just paying too much attention. It always looks like a heap of white elephant poo poo on his head.
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https://twitter.com/mistermegative/status/1138806505116000256?s=19 Local vet gets mad at Infinity Ward for trying to decide how much punishment you get for shooting babies based on whether it was intentional or accidental
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Well are you playing as a SEAL this time? Cuz I'd so wouldnt it be none?
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Stravag posted:Well are you playing as a SEAL this time? Cuz I'd so wouldnt it be none? https://twitter.com/mistermegative/status/1138806507229843461
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:You're just paying too much attention. I prefer the description of it as "diabetic piss thrown in a cotton candy machine"
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They usually remember to tan his eyelids before there's a closeup.
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I thought about trying to get on with a police dept. when I separated, but the pay is laughable, and frankly who wants to do shift work for 40k* a year? Especially when the job requires at least two years of formal education. I think if they upped the pay and made it more competitive, then you would probably get a better police force, but why would you want to take that job when you couldn't even pay your mortgage (out here at least)? *pay could be higher, and probably is, but when I was thinking seriously about it, that was the average starting salary at most depts. in Colorado, in 2011.
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:Thank God we'll spend a record amount of money on a piece of poo poo plane It's a good airplane.
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bengy81 posted:I thought about trying to get on with a police dept. when I separated, but the pay is laughable, and frankly who wants to do shift work for 40k* a year? Especially when the job requires at least two years of formal education. Several state waive education requirements to vets for police, fire, and EMS, if you can pass the written test and practical your good.....its why there are so God drat many vet cops.
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I think the issue here is the perception is that the institutions of policing In the US are largely immune to internal reform. By now we’ve all probably heard of what the NYPD did to Adrian Schoolcraft, and I would think that there’s more than a few people who would make great cops who look at that and think “yeah, I’d rather not be thrown in a psych ward and get legit gang stalked by my former peers for crying foul on hosed up policies.” And if this is in one of the largest departments in the country, imagine how it could be in a small town where the officers are the sons or close friends of the chief, and have direct influence on your career or whether your backup shows up when you call for it. By no means are you wrong. Society in general would be better for if everyone had some base participation in its institutions a la national service and so forth. Maybe part of that could be receiving some basic police training like the explorers program and have the trainees do rudimentary stuff that doesn’t require specialized knowledge or afford them a badge, gun or arrest rights. At least there’d be a greater understanding of policing. You could even expand the program to include firefighting like Cal Fire, etc. Also, as an aside, I’d be interested in hearing from Smiling Jack about what Schoolcraft’s reputation is within NYPD these days; I’d imagine there’s probably at least a few cops who listened to those episodes of This American Life.
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Eej posted:https://twitter.com/mistermegative/status/1138806505116000256?s=19 I took away a different msg. I took away, "Look, don't loving bother, because it's pandering and it doesn't add anything to the game, and belittles the actual moral injuries caused by war"
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bulletsponge13 posted:I took away a different msg. I took away, "Look, don't loving bother, because it's pandering and it doesn't add anything to the game, and belittles the actual moral injuries caused by war" Pretty much this, don't bother to attempt to depict war realistically, because it is impossible to do so. It is a uniquely horrifying and terrifying experience that pray you never have to experience. Nothing good comes from war, only more dead bodies.
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Melthir posted:Several state waive education requirements to vets for police, fire, and EMS, if you can pass the written test and practical your good.....its why there are so God drat many vet cops. This just compounds the police's imagined victimhood even further.
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bengy81 posted:I thought about trying to get on with a police dept. when I separated, but the pay is laughable, and frankly who wants to do shift work for 40k* a year? Especially when the job requires at least two years of formal education. Even after putting myself through academy and graduating I got dropped from San Jose hiring process for smoking too much dope 15 years prior. San Francisco dropped me for being 200lbs at 5’ 11. Reapply when you weigh 165. Too many busted knees. It’s a tough job but the hiring process favors military and kids right out of 2 college with next to no life experience. Doesn’t seem like the best way to police a community.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:This just compounds the police's imagined victimhood even further. Yeah, but it's a symptom. If decent applicants were clamoring to get in the door, you wouldn't see these incentives. Just like the military...the in-demand/awesome jobs don't get the huge signing bonuses.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I took away a different msg. I took away, "Look, don't loving bother, because it's pandering and it doesn't add anything to the game, and belittles the actual moral injuries caused by war" I don't see how the message is different at all but yeah 
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I had Baltimore PD try to recruit me because I was a vet and I politely told them to gently caress off because no way would I be a cop in a city I didn't grow up in. Baltimore PD also has a huuuuuge image problem. They're like the poster child for hosed up police.
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I took a class called "Ethics in Peace in Conflict"- it mostly Just War theory. I'll be frank- I loved combat. I've never been unafraid in my life EXCEPT for combat. I'm broken, and hosed up, and I know it. I'm also a troll, so I took every opportunity to gently caress with people. At the end of class, we had to talk about our perspective on war, how it changed, blah blah blah. I have done nothing but talk about how great combat is from a personal perspective, so everyone was expecting some hosed up poo poo from me. My response was simple: "War is always an immoral act. You are sending your children to kill other children." It's the truth. No matter how you dress it up, it's kids killing kids in the name of... Whatever.
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orange juche posted:I had Baltimore PD try to recruit me because I was a vet and I politely told them to gently caress off because no way would I be a cop in a city I didn't grow up in. Baltimore PD also has a huuuuuge image problem. They're like the poster child for hosed up police. Yeah but you could reenact The Wire.
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Flying_Crab posted:Yeah but you could reenact The Wire. If he got recruited for BCPD, he already knows The Wire is a doc.
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orange juche posted:I had Baltimore PD try to recruit me because I was a vet and I politely told them to gently caress off because no way would I be a cop in a city I didn't grow up in. Baltimore PD also has a huuuuuge image problem. They're like the poster child for hosed up police. Every time I ended up talking to BCPD, wether it was working event security or just regular bouncing and some kid was about to spend a night in the drunk tank, it never failed that they'd start talking up the salary and benefits. gently caress that. I might look county but I grew up in and around the city, I know better than to stick my dick in that hornet's nest. Told them I already made one really loving stupid decision and I'd learned from that, thank you very much.
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"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -Isaac Asimov
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RFC2324 posted:"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." "shoot first, ask questions later."
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RFC2324 posted:"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." "gently caress off with that hippie human being talk." -some Squad Leader, somewhere, at this exact second. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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bengy81 posted:
Colorado Springs has post-training, starting wage around $52k now. El Paso county, a little better. Denver cops are clearing around $60k and Pueblo is pulling up the suck somewhere around $45k. So not that bad anymore. Still not great. I somehow remember that from when the local news ran a piece on it after an officer was shot last year, like publicizing the pay is gonna make people jump all over it.
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LingcodKilla posted:Even after putting myself through academy and graduating I got dropped from San Jose hiring process for smoking too much dope 15 years prior. San Francisco dropped me for being 200lbs at 5’ 11. Reapply when you weigh 165. Too many busted knees.  SJPD cares too much about weed bros
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RFC2324 posted:"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Asimov was well known to be a serial groper and women attending science fiction conventions were warned to not let themselves get in a situation where they were alone with him, and he used his position within the SFF community to have their husbands/boyfriends thrown out of conventions if they complained or tried to stop him. adds a certain *in an extremely nerd voice* '"violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" i continue to insist as i corner a woman in a elevator' spin to it.
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Golden age sci-fi can be hard to read these days because we've moved past thinking that technology is neutral and by default a force for good. And I guess also because so many of the authors were revealed to be rapers.
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Current event: just got back from dinner at Fogo de Chow. It was absolutely delicious and I'm never going back there again for as long as I live. When they recover my body, tell them the cause of death was meat overdose.
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BigDave posted:Current event: just got back from dinner at Fogo de Chow. Those Brazilian steak places are the only restaurant that gives me the meat sweats
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bulletsponge13 posted:I took away a different msg. I took away, "Look, don't loving bother, because it's pandering and it doesn't add anything to the game, and belittles the actual moral injuries caused by war" It's just the logical progression from the CoD where you go to your Marine buddy's funeral and press F to simulate grieving.
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McNally posted:More movement on HR 553 since I last posted on it. The bill is up to 342 cosponsors and is on track to be added to the Consensus Calendar sometime around July 15th. These are the congressfuckers who have cosponsored since May 31st: Ugh. loving Ernst still isn't on board? She spends 99% of her time at home wailing about how she's a vet and we need to take care of ARE TROOPs, goddamnit.
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BigDave posted:Current event: just got back from dinner at Fogo de Chow. Its Fogo de Chão, o imbecil.
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 https://sports.theonion.com/st-louis-officials-encourage-celebrating-blues-fans-to-1835468347
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Bloomberg: Trump Offers to Negotiate Price of J&J Anti-Depressant for VA. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-12/trump-offers-to-negotiate-price-of-j-j-anti-depressant-for-va Goddamnit. Why. Awful app is moving at the pace of an octogenarian three way.
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Two oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman Desktop version currently runs like crap as well Syrian Lannister fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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