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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Daniel Shaver?

Bodycam video: https://youtu.be/VBUUx0jUKxc

In August 2018, Brailsford was reinstated by the Mesa Police Department, staying for a further 42 days in what the department described as a "budget position". The department agreed to reimburse Brailsford for medical expenses related to his post-traumatic stress disorder -- the result of his shooting of Shaver and the resultant criminal trial. The reinstatement allowed Brailsford to apply for "accidental disability" experienced during the course of work. As a result, Brailsford was unanimously approved to be retired on medical grounds. Brailsford was also given a pension of $2,500 per month. The fact that Brailsford was ultimately medically retired instead of remaining fired was only revealed to the public in July 2019.

He just fucking executed him in the hallway and walked over his body, and he gets rewarded?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Literally Charles McGill

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

don't speak like the french

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The past participle of a verb is used as the passive participle (e.g. indicates the passive voice, where the patient of the verb is the subject and the agent is the indirect object). "She was killed" or "He was eaten" is in the passive voice, while "I died" or "I killed" is in the active voice. It's normally supposed to be preceded by an auxiliary verb (in this case "be"), but news titles omit the copula among other things.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This is literally the passive voice

Active voice would be "Israeli strike kills two twins in Gaza as [their] father goes to register [their] birth" or something

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

be trump, president when a massive pandemic was starting

cut taxes for the insanely rich, butcher most government functions and reduce government investment into the economy

have the worst possible pandemic response possible

blame the next president when the corporate bubble made by your hard-to-reverse policies bursts and tanks the economy

take credit for the economic boom caused by previous president's 8 years of outstanding economics which you completely tore down

profit(..?)

The policies of Obama + Biden dug us out of the recession that Republicans and "free-market" (tax cuts for the rich) advocates threw us in as a sacrifice, and gave Americans a break from shitty conservanomics. But people like you can't possibly realize that economic policies have long-term consequences, and that conservative economic policies in particular end up exploding in our face after a few years. The economy is too complicated for you to understand I guess, your understanding doesn't go past "tax = bad".

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

I see some periods and commas and an en dash in there but yes it is optional and Im disappointed you think otherwise whitespace will free us all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

ketamine

Is that why they call him Sleepy Joe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

"C'mon man! Where did you buy that thing? Here? Get me a receipt, or at least pull one off the shelf, then I can help. C'mon, give me something to work with here!"

When I worked in retail my manager would've written me up for talking like that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I hate that this is probably 100% true without exaggeration. How am I gonna manage being on the internet in 20 years...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Which person decided to domesticate that thing. Just like "hey I found this weird looking grass fruit wanna enslave it" and chief's like "hell yeah of course I wanna enslave it!" and then they just ate increasingly beady grass for a few thousand years

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