Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit

Post by joe_mamba » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:41 PM UTC

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Another huge problem with our times is that local media is completely hollowed out. Voter awareness was never amazing but now there is no local paper to highlight abuse or corruption. Every problem becomes a national problem with no accountabillity. Lots of people in the state I live in vote for their sheriff. I would be shocked if one in one hundred even knew who that was.

most local tv news stations being owned by two right-wing conglomerates doesn't help either

Post by jrflowers » Thu, May 21, 2026, 8:42 PM UTC

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Police are trained to lie to you in the course of investigation so “they could choose not to do their job (by conducting an investigation)” doesn’t refute the notion that it’s their job to lie to you, it affirms it. It’s like saying “it’s not cops’ job to lie to you, some of them are dogs whose entire job is sniffing out cocaine with their extraordinary sense of smell”

It's like saying it's a pilot's job to wear a uniform. The uniform may be required by their employer, but it's not the job. A law banning pilots from wearing uniforms would not result in jail time for doing their job.

Post by ceejayoz » Thu, May 21, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC

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Report that he committed misconduct - in this case, a clear civil rights violation. Are we playing dumb?

Report it to who? The Trump Administration? The arrest is public information already.

Post by cco » Fri, May 22, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

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Their pension is funded by tax dollars, this doesn't change the incentive structure. You'd need to have it either impact their pension payments in a way that cannot be backfilled or more directly force the police officers themselves to carry liability insurance (far better). Of course tax dollars pay their salaries as well, but if an officer became uninsurable then it weeds them out eventually.

Right, but taking from their pension directly reduces their payout when they retire. Not sure what you mean by "cannot be backfilled"; the budget is the budget, and the tax dollars only go where the (non-police) elected officials say.

Post by jrflowers » Fri, May 22, 2026, 2:05 AM UTC

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A job is a thing an employer trains you and requires you to do hth

So if I proposed a law banning pilot uniforms, you’d say a reasonable response would be “Are we expecting jailtime for doing their job?”