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Police Are Harassing Mom Who Pulled Kids from Uvalde School Shooting

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>> "She was pulled over for a traffic stop and falsely accused of having illegal immigrants in her vehicle, he said. About a week ago, a police vehicle parked outside of her home for about 45 minutes and flashed its lights at her and her mother while they were going for a walk."

Damn, USA looking more and more like a third world country.

Wait until you watch 2000 Mules

I don't think I'll waste my time with that.

[0] https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/evidence-gaps-in-2000-mule...

I mean, you could just watch it and form your own opinion instead of letting the ministry of truth do it for you. I watch documentaries that are obviously biased and that I disagree with to challenge myself and to give me an opportunity to evaluate their claims. This is the open minded approach.

The sheer volume of bullshit flying out of the world of conspiracy theorists makes this untenable. And I did try! You need to increase your hit rate above 0 before anyone other than a professional fact checker will invest the time. For the rest of us, these summaries are helpful.

I seriously doubt you have the resources available to effectively evaluate all the claims for yourself.

No one is an expert in all topics. We are literally not qualified to evaluate all claims.

E.g. Joe Schmoe is not qualified to personally evaluate the the safety/effectiveness of seatbelts/vaccines/pesticides. At some point they will need to trust someone else's evaluation.

People pushing an agenda can also choose to include all the indisputable facts that support their agenda and omit the ones that don't. Evaluating claims without the full picture doesn't give you the truth.

So I ask you, how did you "evaluate" the claims in 2000 Mules?

How do you evaluate your own beliefs and any claim you hear? Sorry, but this sounds like a roundabout way of calling your political "opponents" dumb for believing the things they do.

I'm sorry but that's a damn foolish approach. Do not deliberately expose yourself to known propaganda! You are NOT too smart to be manipulated. Nobody is! The people who make this stuff are well aware of how "open minded" you are. The only safe thing to do is to boycott information from sources known to be operating in bad faith. Fact checking is not enough, even - it is possible to lie with facts.

If we did what you suggest, the only right thing to do would be to not believe any information source, including our own eyes and ears.

Why do you think you aren’t already being exposed to constant propaganda that you aren’t aware of (or refuse to admit the possibility of it being propaganda?)

> The only safe thing to do is boycott information

You do realize how it sounds when you say things like this, right? You're not going to convince anyone to your way of thinking by describing the way you respond to challenging ideas as "boycott the bad information."

Dinesh D'Souza is a scam artist. Do you also still believe that the MyPillow guy is going to release that evidence of voter fraud he's been holding onto for two years? You've been conned.

I think it's understandable for an officer to freeze up the first time they're in an active shooter situation, you don't know how you'll react until you're there. But for the entire department to fail so uniformly suggests the entire thing needs to be gutted. This harassment is just further evidence of the same.

As if the cops didn't offer enough reason to despise them, here they go again, offering yet more reason.

If only they put this much effort toward actually protecting and serving the public...

From everything that I have seen, the police now protect and serve the State, not the people.

Police started out as slave patrols, and that's what they've continued to be. The shift from chattel slavery to wage slavery has not changed this.

I don't think that's new. Rather the veneer is basically dissolved at this point. The police are not your friends.

At this point, their cowardice and inaction and malice needs to be treated the Zhukov way.

American cops, for all their pride in their warrior mentality, are nothing but cowards fattening themselves at public expense. Their courage deserts them in the face of armed opposition.

I agree with all of you. It's frightening and becoming ever clearer that there is no protection for us

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