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[KaraBulut]

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

In memoriam of Tucker Carlson's slimy run on Faux News

*hobbies typically include domestic violence, discreet gay sex, emotional bromances from men who are "too macho to express their feelings to the opposite gender," shady financial dealings and hurling the word "'victim" at black people like chinese stars, also more domestic violence cuz these dudes REALLY hate wommenz.

 

[rareboy]

Surprised anyone in the US ????????????

 

[TX-Beau]

That was the entire point.

 

[KaraBulut]

"Teeing up the next SCOTUS case to overturn another precedent they don't like."

 

[KaraBulut]

 

[TX-Beau]

"Teeing up the next SCOTUS case to overturn another precedent they don't like."

They're after Obergefell. Uncle Thomas already said so.

 

[cityboy-stl]

More bricks laid every day in the road to the Fascist States of America.

Do you STILL think there is no conspiracy, and they are not working together to turn the U.S. into an authoritarian Nazi dictatorship?

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[smokeshadow]

in that same vein

 

[rareboy]

 

[opinterph]

Stop Cop City

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

^ I don't get what exactly the opposition to Cop City is. From what I can see, there seems to be no particular substantive objection; it's just "fuck the police." ^

Police aren't going away (and every time someone calls for defunding the police, it drives more voters into the Republican camp), and the Atlanta police have to be trained somewhere. And if the training at Cop City is actually good and police from other places are sent there to learn (as is the plan, I've read), then that ought to be a good thing, right?

 

[KaraBulut]

From the Biden campaign...

 

[KaraBulut]

^ I don't get what exactly the opposition to Cop City is. From what I can see, there seems to be no particular substantive objection; it's just "fuck the police." ^

Police aren't going away (and every time someone calls for defunding the police, it drives more voters into the Republican camp), and the Atlanta police have to be trained somewhere. And if the training at Cop City is actually good and police from other places are sent there to learn (as is the plan, I've read), then that ought to be a good thing, right?

Opinterph probably knows the issue better but from a report that I saw a while back, it's a combined protest between environmental activists who want to keep the green space and activists who oppose militarization of the Atlanta police department.

The same militarization issue has come up with DerSantis' State Guard, which was sold as a volunteer corps to assist with public disasters but has been accused of being a training ground for a militia-style police force.

 

[KaraBulut]

I had to fact check this to make sure it wasn't a parody from the folks at The Daily Show.

 

[opinterph]

I don't get what exactly the opposition to Cop City is.

I am merely the photographer. I found it interesting that an activist used a piece of scrap wood to create a political message. The location of the photo is along Atlanta’s Freedom Trail, which helps people explore and connect with ten historic landmarks that commemorate FREEDOM. Those landmarks include the Carter Center and the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park. A portion of the trail runs parallel to John Lewis Freedom Parkway as it meanders through Freedom Park, which celebrates the city’s hard-won civic activism. The park is also known as Atlanta’s Art Park and is more precisely where the photo was taken.

“Resistance is futile.”

– The Borg

Atlanta Petition Drive to Stop 'Cop City' Is 'Futile,' City's Attorneys Argue (US News; July 17, 2023)

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

I am merely the photographer.

Oh, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise; your post simply provided the occasion to ask a question I've had for some time and that I knew you or KaraBulut or someone else here could answer.

(By the way, I think that JUB has surprisingly erudite and articulate administrators for a gay porn site ...)

From the US News article (and also KaraBulut's post):
"opponents, who have been joined by activists from around the country, say they fear it will lead to greater militarization of the police and that its construction will exacerbate environmental damage in a poor, majority-Black area."

I understand the environmental objection, but it seems to me that "fear [that Cop City] will lead to greater militarization of the police" is, in effect, basically "fuck the police" phrased in a more altruistic-sounding way. It seems to me that "greater militarization of the police" would happen or not happen based on the wishes of elected officials and police chiefs, regardless of whether or not a new training facility was built. And opposing Cop City means opposing a training facility for firefighters, too, and that's not a great look.