• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    “Disaster tourism.” It’s like when people would set up picnics on hills above Civil War battlefields and have a jolly good time watching men shoot each other.

    There is something fundamentally wrong with America at its core.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    7 hours ago

    Not new. Rittenhouse had actually been told to go home, but was allowed to stay because he told police he was an EMT, and they believed this teenager without a uniform on, no medical supplies, and a gun, was a medical worker.

    Glad lying to a cop isn’t a crime in and of itself!

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      No no, failure to protrate before a raging cop is resisting arrest and the penalty is a 10-minute delayed “shots fired” call

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    7 hours ago

    As someone whose family is LACoFD, this is repugnant, LARPing during an ongoing crisis.

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    12 hours ago

    Okay so the solution is easy. Give them a title of some kind - official sounding, but made up is okay - And then send them into the worst parts of the fire zone and tell them to get to work. It doesn’t matter if it’s safe or not.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      And when they’re finished, hide the bodies on the wrong side of the fire break.

      It doesn’t take a lot of skill to dig a ditch or clear brush, so they can be put to work.