• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 hours ago

    Seen elsewhere: you get more paid time off for killing children in this country than you do for giving birth to them

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      16 hours ago

      Yep, its a trip to disneyland. He should be in jail just like every other murder suspect.

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    19 hours ago

    Murdering. The offer murdered the baby while attempting to murder other black people in cold blood. I fucking hate seeing this passive voice used for fucking racist murderer cops.

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      I don’t think that’s “passive voice”, it’s intentionally choosing a softer word, (though even that may be more of a liability one. Same concept as the media using every word but “children” to describe people killed in Palestine.

      Passive voice would be.

      “A baby in a car was shot while police were responding to a shoplifting report”.

      Or if they wanted to dial it up to 100.

      A male black baby was involved in a shooting with police responding to a shoplifting report.

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        You are correct. They said he killed the baby. Active voice. Accurate. Not softening the blow very much, arguably a little, but it’s also very easy to argue that their word choice is justified in the pursuit of covering facts.

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      Just in case someone here didn’t get the memo: the American corporate news journalistic establishment failed catastrophically in 2016. Everything since then has been wallpaper.

      (And yes those of you particularly fussy about this, it was that way for many decades previous, but it hadn’t resulted in an obvious literal russian asset being placed in the presidency before.)

  • |IlI|lIIl|IlIll|Il|IllI|@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Random thought : Anyone here ever seen the excellent 1996 film that takes place in Mississippi starring Samuel L Jackson - A Time to Kill?

    It’s a movie about a man who is accused of doing something to racists who seem like they’re going to get away with doing something terrible.

    Anyway… Good movie.

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    18 hours ago

    Even if they were stealing diapers that does not justify fucken deadly force. Its a box of fucken diapers. Let them take it. This poor baby had his life stolen for no reason.

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    18 hours ago

    It’s always fun if you play madlibs with the title and see if there should be more or less outrage:

    Mississippi day care worker put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

    Mississippi Walmart Worker put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

    Mississippi mass child murderer put on leave after killing baby in car outside Walmart

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      16 hours ago

      I wish I got a paid vacation every time my malicious negligence killed a child.

      I would still have no vacations, but I could sleep easy knowing that I could have one if I really gave up my humanity.

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    17 hours ago

    I don’t know for a fact but there’s a non-zero chance they can’t just jail him or fire him immediately because of the fascist police union, the only union that shouldn’t have any power.