• Flax@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    Here in Northern Ireland you get education welfare officers instead. No idea what they do. But this is not a police job.

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    4 months ago

    It’s another attack on families on the margins of society. I am sure Kier will abstain from doing anything.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah because it’s clearly the person who’s not in power who is at fault.

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        I believe the implication is that he soon will be in power but that we might not see as significant changes in policy as we’re hoping for.

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          4 months ago

          I prefer to be outraged about things that have actually happened, rather than perceived injustices by randoms who have an a potentially unwarranted agenda.

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        4 months ago

        I am also in the UK. The police are a bunch of bullies. The fact they are not routinely armed means they murder less people than in other countries but don’t think for a second they are anything other than bastards

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          4 months ago

          Some British police forces are routinely armed, and use firearms significantly less than their American counterparts

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            America is an outlier at the high end. Doesn’t change the fact we must assume all cops are bastards. There may be a few good apples who ruin the barrel, but one bad one can absolutely ruin your life on a whim with no comeback on them, so we assume they’re bastards to protect ourselves

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              4 months ago

              Not everyone has the lack of accountability America has. Being a cop doesn’t make you a bastard.

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                4 months ago

                There is not nearly enough accountability in the UK. Reread the last sentence of my previous post for clarification

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                  4 months ago

                  The police here rarely draw their personal protection weapons nevermind use them

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    4 months ago

    This is dumb unless the kids or being held against thier well. I literally miss half of HS and graduated top 20 of my class of 300. Forcing me to go would have been needless cruelty.

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        Lol bane of my existence. I write stuff down Then move on. I tend to write things like “went to space” instead of “spain”. I will say it was English that sunk my GPA. Maybe I shouldn’t have skipped those classes but would it have significantly improved my life?

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        Doubt it. those were the acutal try hards that went to summer school to advance courses. I want to min max life as much as possible. Like what would have top 5 give me? Nothing extra. Better off doing things I wanted.