[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Maybe not 100% of the time but at least 80-90% of the time it's always the police, or DA failing to do their job properly. If you're pending a felony trial you cannot own/buy guns until you're proven innocent, and they should be confiscated. I cannot imagine how this man would not be chargeable.

Similar goes for many shootings, they plea down to a lesser charge or the cops just don't do their job and let go obvious crimes.

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's what I've done when attempting at my workplace via the postal workers union.

Get in contact with an organizer, they are there to help guide you or who ever wants to be the main leader of this effort. I will say, as the lead organizer in my attempt, it's just talking a lot, and getting people to a meeting, it kinda sucks but isn't a huge ordeal to do, and takes maybe 2 hours in a busy week.

I went through the AFL-CIO website aflcio.org/formaunion and filled out my information, during my major attempt it took half a week to get in contact with an organizer, though it could take a bit longer.

You'll get in contact with an organizer and they'll get a rundown of your workplace and what it looks like.

After that there's about an hour's worth of training to know your rights and what works for your union.

Then you'll be pretty much ready to go to start talking with coworkers to try and get an organizing committee (10% of your workplace) which will be your main coworkers who should be all about the idea, after that 10% then you'll start convincing everyone in your workplace and soon after that collect signatures.

Then you'll go to an election, sadly I do not have much information to get beyond here as the movement fell apart in my workplace during signatures due to a weak organizing committee.

Hope this helps ya out and if you want any additional information I'm happy to share, we need more unions especially in IT!

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 84 points 1 year ago

Love that most of the world's governments came together and said "collective punishment is bad, we should make it illegal during times of war" and shit like this can still fly within any first world country.

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

if only they were this serious about actually completing their "new" "game"

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

You are by no means wrong. But outside of ancapistan types, I think everyone can say the governments job is to protect it's citizens from would be invaders. With world tensions rising along with various other crisis' it's just the best move, being prepared for the worst and taking precautions.Trained vs untrained soldiers could be the difference between 500 casualties and 2500 (the infamous German school battalions of WW1 for example)

It's one of the few actual necessary evils, unless your country is on the offensive of course.

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

To be fair, Austin has to be not far behind LA as some of the worst. Everything in Texas is made for cars only basically.

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I do still lose by having to over pay the bloodsuckers either way 👉😎👉

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General financials:

I can afford to pay them off in full and have plenty left over for general life needs

The interest rates on them should be 4.53% according to their chart of when it was awarded.

If I do hold onto the money and pay off monthly I can put everything into a CD but I'll still be losing .03% if I lock in the student loan money maybe I'll beat but .07-.43% so not a ton of upside unless there's sudden political will to actually follow through on student loan forgiveness.

Is there anything else I'm missing when considering this? I am leaning towards just pay off as I've been planning for this, but I want to make sure there isn't something else to do.

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Damn. Maybe he should run again so we can at least get a good old man in office

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

There's plenty of 2010-2015ish cars with dogshit radios that are hard to find, expensive to get or literally impossible to find good replacements for, thanks to vehicle manufacturers killing of the DIN system.

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

If they're willing to make sacrifices why not ~1-2 hours a week dedicated to unionizing their workplace

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Hope this is what he wanted

[-] giantofthenorth@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

This isn't a trump 5d chess thing or whatever but it might honestly be the smarter move for him to just keep riling up his base and make it a guarantee riot if he gets jailed.

Seems pretty likely he's fucked legally so he's put in a situation that breaking law and order is probably his best move.

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