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Ok story time. I played a set with my band at a house show the other night, and had a great time. Afterwards this woman comes up to talk with me and compliment my set. We have several drinks together, dance to the next bands songs and talk. This person is extremely straight presenting, and yet even i can tell I'm being flirted with. I figure that she is quite attractive and I'm enjoying her company, so I guess I'll give it a chance. Night ends, we exchange numbers... And she gets into a company truck of a local rapacious logging company to drunk drive home! bear-despair

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[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Right after I asked my wife to marry me she accepted a new job with a police department. Then she upheld truth and justice while in the lion's den for more than a decade.

When I asked my wife to marry me I was trying to fill the hole in my heart with booze. Soon after she said yes I had the strength to stop.

I think you should give yourself a chance to understand why she's choosing her what.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 32 points 2 days ago (31 children)

Then she upheld truth and justice while in the lion's den for more than a decade.

I understand how childish and sensationalist this sounds, but the only plausible way for this sentence to be true involves a bomb vest.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago (15 children)

ACAB includes your wife. When you become a lion it's not too hard to be in the den.

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[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Then she upheld truth and justice while in the lion's den for more than a decade.

Lol

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Truth and Justice are her .45s she used to execute shoplifters

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 31 points 2 days ago

The lion was a neighbors small dog

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

This person's wife? dorner

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey so what job did your wife do at the police department anyway?

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She led the civilian administrative group. She made sure that cops didn't lie to the courts on their written reports by comparing it to mandatory body cam footage. She also made sure they didn't lie to the statisticians or in response to Freedom of Information requests.

By COVID, near the end of her tenure, she'd also acquired the authority to annihilate their IT and communications infrastructure, and gained access to the means of making the physical facility unusable. But, it was not our time to strike. And, we couldn't keep sacrificing to maintain that position anymore.

In her new position she's an HR Director. In six months she's somehow convinced leadership to change healthcare providers to far more expensive Kaiser. Her reasoning is that they've far fewer restrictions on care, including denying the lowest percentage of claims.

I've never seen chapo hate as they hate us below. It reminds me of being a communist in /r/politics during a POTUS election. So, thanks for asking. I hope it was in good faith.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your story is interesting, as I suspected given your reaction to the ACAB reception your post provoked. Thanks for sharing, sincerely.

I know the frustration of being in a position to crash a system but recognising the futility of causing temporary minor disruption at the probable cost of your whole future.

Your wife sounds like a decent person. I can empathise with the intensity of your responses, even as I am amused at the absolute spiral into talking past each other that happened (and perhaps is still happening) elsewhere in the thread. I already know the fact that she's moved into HR could provoke even more hostility and shitposting and I suspect you do too, so I respect your transparency in sharing and urge you not to take the bait even if it looks particularly juicy.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I think you're perceiving my past and present quite well. It feels good to be understood. That makes it much easier to heed your advice and not take the bait.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey man don't let these people get you down! The fact that there's no ethical consumption under capitalism means that there isn't any ethical production under capitalism either.....too bad cops don't produce anything.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I appreciate you. I'm not easily bullied away from my principles and reason.

What I feel now is disappointment. I remember when we first were banned from reddit. The users themselves would moderate the foolish. It wasn't the first time I found such a culture. They all scale and fail. But, I thought chapo would sustain because they implemented solid communist ideology.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I appreciate you. I'm not easily bullied away from my principles and reason.

What I feel now is disappointment. I remember when we first were banned from reddit. The users themselves would moderate the foolish. It wasn't the first time I found such a culture. They all scale and fail. But, I thought chapo would sustain because they implemented solid communist ideology.

yea