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Who wants to bet that the county commissioner is raking in massive paycheques from flock?
I don't. I think that the wealthy just collectively decided that the poor are the cause of all their problems.
TL;DR: They are all Cryptofascists.
That’s giving them way too much credit tbh, these guys are too far down (technically “up”) the totem pole. They’ve offloaded their critical thinking and public responsibilities to the first company that said the right keywords. And now that they’re entrenched, they defend them because their ego says they must.
It’s fascism via the convenience-stupidity pipeline.
Yes, we will.
Sounds like someone's losing the next election
It's more reasonable than the headline makes it sound. The commissioner pointed out that he's not in charge of the decision to use Flock cameras and told the group of people who wanted to express their opposition to him anyway to pick one representative who would do so.
I've been to meetings where people repeatedly express the same negative opinion of a policy to someone with no control over that policy and I guess that's what the commissioner wanted to avoid.
No, it's public forum and you get to say what you want regardless. You, as a citizen, shall not be silenced, no matter the topic.
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The commissioner pointed out that he’s not in charge of the decision to use Flock cameras
But he had to approve the capital expenditure to purchase them. Thats how almost all local government budgets work- normal operations are appropriated in a full budget and individual capex outside of that budget is approved project by project.
But he works for the people. It's not his call to tell the people what they want to talk about. It's his fucking job to sit there and listen, AND THEN SEE WHAT ELSE HE CAN DO TO HELP.
Because in this moment, the listening IS the help. People need to be heard and it's his job to listen.
I've also been to a county meeting like that. The topic at hand was expanding a greenway, but one Karen took up most of the meeting complaining about (what I have to assume is her imagination) people smuggling hookers into the city by canoe.
oh please find us the minutes of this meeting….
That can't be an efficient way to smuggle.
Meh. Not a single thing should get done there until those cameras are gone. He certainly knows who is in charge of those cameras so he can listen again for the 121th time and so he can relay the message for 121th time. I mean what else can you do if the camera dipshit isn't attending these meetings?
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Leave it up to some southern shit-ass state to stifle free speech. Public forums are just that, public, and shall not be censored or restricted in any way. Fuck this crooked ass panel / board/ whatever.
fascist