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  • Very similar in law enforcement as well.

    I personally worked alongside three people who committed suicide for years in our tiny district of maybe 50 patrol deputies over the span of about three years. Kirk Keithley was my zone partner for a long time, then it was Terry Strawn, and then finally Daniel Leyden.

    Of course, they also murdered their S/Os and other family members as well, so I'm not exactly pouring one out for them, but it's an undeniable trend more broadly - that spaces that theoretically require the utmost in mental health often paradoxically result in mental health crises because of the stigma and practicality of undermining your paycheck; when the problem is still solvable, it's "not big enough of a deal to risk my job over it."

  • Ah okay. Barely related but I read recently that Vietnam is one of the countries that thinks highest about the US. Super strange, considering.

  • I don't think that's part of why I can't read anyone's mind, but okay.

  • Huh, never considered that.

    It's hard to get into the minds of a sea of semi-anonymous voters to determine their motivations. I'm sure they all had their own reasons, and yours may be one of them.

  • A lot of people include "I don't give a shit about anyone else" in their "I don't give a shit [about myself]" suicidal thoughts.

    Ex-cop, dealt with lots of suicide-by-cop attempts and investigated a lot of suicides

  • I don't know what that is, but it looks like Vietnamese script so I'm inclined to agree that's probably relevant.

  • Looks like I misread it because I remember a completely different sentiment from the comment I replied to.

    Ah well, the folly of multi-tasking.

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  • Yeah, one thing I've learned about human genetics is that the markers for skin color are wonky and unpredictable.

    I just feel like it'd be safer to assume she was a lot darker given the recency of African diaspora, but again I am far from an expert so I could be totally off.

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  • I'm no anthropologist but wouldn't her skin be a lot darker? This feels like people making depictions of Jesus look like a modern European person.

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  • I'm a sidelined former passionate Ally, can you explain to me how an enby can be "gay" and not "pan?"

  • Most Americans do not support the Republican party, no.

  • They say "every accusation is a confession," but I think it runs a bit deeper than that.

    They've been propagandized into believing the Democrats did the same and worse. So if they feel they've been kicked in the balls against the rules during a boxing match, they feel it's time to start ball-kicking even harder because it's time to fight dirty.

  • Clock out time is clock out time, especially if you get in trouble for overtime.

    Me, fired over an overtime dispute

  • You're probably being dogpiled for perceived Ameri-centrism.

    The irony, in my mind, is that while you were kinda veering the discussion in a different direction, per your edit you explicitly did so because you have no knowledge of mental healthcare in Argentina which is very much not Ameri-centrism.

    If I had to put words to most of the downvotes, they would probably say "fuck you, this is a discussion about Argentina's mental healthcare, not mental healthcare more broadly," which again in a bit of irony, detracts from the discussion of how to address mental health crises.

  • Incredibly cruel. What a monster.

  • But then VC started throwing money at it

    I had no idea the Viet Cong was still active in 2026.

  • No worries. Where I posted it on Reddit, I had it where the more granular detailed sections were blacked out spoiler-style so people could read less of it if they wanted to, but I don't think Lemmy supports that function (yet).

  • Then that's the comparison we/she should be using, because it's far better.

  • One of the biggest deflating sentiments that ruins the ACAB meme is the one-two question:

    "Do you think you are a good person?"+"Do you want to be a cop?"

    If they're answering truthfully, most ACABers would answer: "Yes."+"Of course I don't."

    The reasoning behind the latter varies, in my experience with them, from "Because there are too many bad cops (therefore I am afraid for my personal safety)." to "Because I qualify for better jobs."

    The former is, frankly, an argument from a place of cowardice. Imagine a world where nobody put out fires because fires are dangerous. Sure, it's totally rational for one person to avoid danger, but if everyone avoids danger we are all screwed. Further, though no group is a monolith, you also see "Cops always protect their own no matter what," come from ACABers, at which point wouldn't that person trying to be good be one of those cops that is above any adverse action?

    The latter is an argument for incentivizing good people to join law enforcement, most directly with better pay, and indirectly with not shitting on every cop just because one/some/most/etc. of them are shit.