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[–] wattt@feddit.org 21 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Reminds me of this photograph.

The mother of the woman was imprisoned in a concentration camp by the nazis. The guy later killed a Jew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm glad this is on Lemmy.

Reddit would put you on a list, send it to DHS, and give you a 3 day ban...just for up-voting.

[–] LibertyLizard@quokk.au 2 points 16 minutes ago

I often wonder if DHS is aware of the threadiverse. I would assume so but who knows? At least I don't think our admins would cooperate with them for the most part.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 hours ago
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 80 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Anyone got some background on this? I'm outta the loop

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 38 points 2 hours ago

Some asshole going around his school filming and announcing "I support ICE!". He passes this guy who responds "I'm gonna punch you", the filmer says "you'll get in trouble", to which the guy pictured replies "okay" and starts swinging

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 54 minutes ago (2 children)

That many ACAB in a school, that country is wild! And OF COURSE they're all cool with the fascist, lol.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 23 minutes ago

Law enforcement requires fascism and power.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 43 minutes ago

You can never be too careful with all those doors around.

[–] EtAl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago

There's a link called Context in the post.

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 hours ago

Yep, he sure is. I hope he never has to pay for his own meals for at least the next six months to a year.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 37 points 3 hours ago (6 children)

WTF are all US schools like that? With all that security it looks like it was filmed in an airport

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 3 points 38 minutes ago

Granted it's been a bit since I've been in highschool but mine didn't remotely have that level of security. We had a rent-a-cop show up maybe twice a week who did breathalyzer tests as people came into the school. There were two entrances though so people just went to whichever one they weren't at. They also tried having a drug dog come in every so often but we revolted and all the students started putting open bags of poppy seeds and dog treats in our lockers so that didn't last long lol

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Overpopulated schools with underpaid teachers and a broad culture of "radical individualism" and a school system designed more to occupy children with preparing for work instead of teaching them anything, along with rampant, petty lawsuits from families of children over utter nonsense have led to the US having an abysmal, almost prison-like aesthetic for public education.

Combine all this with a culture that revolves around violence as a glorified solution to problems while also reinforcing division between people and everything's a hotbed for tension and hate and shootings.

We could probably legitimately solve a LOT of America's problems if we used our schools for actual teaching and paid the staff and teachers properly so kids could get actual knowledge, free meals and a sense of safety, but that's not what the corporations want - they want us dumb, numb and isolated from each other.

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Because we have school shootings all the damn time. It still won't stop them from happening but it's not like we're gonna go after the source of the problem and ban guns anytime soon. Security theater is the best thing administrations can do and the kids are those who end up suffering the most out of it.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 hour ago

And we can't go after the guns because patriots are going to use them in case the government ever starts doing tyrannical things like grabbing people off the streets without due process, killing protesters, breaking into houses without warrants, or threatening the voting system.

If any of that happens sometime in the future the good ol' boys will be ready to protect the Constitution and we'll understand that all the dead kids were worth it.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 33 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (3 children)

Cops at schools often escalate problems and use excessive force on children.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 points 23 minutes ago

Cops ~~at schools~~ often escalate problems and use excessive force ~~on children.~~

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They're part of the youth control complex. They exist to criminalize children, creating a new generation of victim they can use to justify their continued existence. Fuck the police.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

They're just another polyp spurting from the tumor that is our current system. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

America has had cops in schools for 20 years and school shootings have only gone up. Save the money, defund useless cops.

[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago

School Resource Officers became common before Columbine, starting in black schools in the 1980s. (It’s America, did you think this history wouldn’t be racist as hell?)

Cory Doctorow has pointed out that if you want to see what is planned for white middle income people, look at how prisoners are treated; the same thing can be said about schools in poor neighborhoods. Now having cops handle disciplinary issues at schools is just the standard.

Largely because the only version of government spending Americans are okay with is for cops. Police spending takes up 30-45% of most municipal budgets in the "land of the free".

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

My schools were not but I'm a 30-something year old man. I want to tell you no but there was a shooting at my nephew's school. Granted his school is in quite close to Columbine so that may have been a factor.

[–] MooseWinooski@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Doug Ford is trying to get that into Ontario schools.

[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I wish a high schooler would punch Doug Ford.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 points 1 hour ago

This kid is going places.