• celeste@kbin.earth
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    A New Jersey police chief has come under fire after colleagues accused him of defecating on the station floor, attempting to drug co-workers by putting Viagra and Adderall in their coffee, and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.

    And shitting on the floor’s just the start of it! If this was a sudden behavior change, dude needs to get looked at, but he should not get to have his position while he does so.

    edit: misspelled shitting

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    He makes around 19k/month. Dude, just behave and enjoy life. wtf?

    In a statement on the North Bergen police website, posted after he became chief in February 2024, Farley, who reportedly earns more than $228,000 a year, said he was “proud” to lead the community.

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      He has to assert his dominance. At home there’s a competition between him and his son. Their kitchen looks like there’s been a mudslide but smells like a pig farm. Most of his salary goes to Mom’s therapist.

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      I kinda feel like…I’m mourning for the USA?
      I’m German. The US made it possible for me to grow up in a functional democracy.
      Hundreds of thousands of Americans died so I could have that privilege.
      Fortunately, my grandparents weren’t involved in killing them, but that was pure chance.
      Growing up, the USA was the shining beacon in the west.
      The country that was so much better, freer and cooler than mine.
      I listened to American Forces Network, the radio station of the armed forces in Germany, every night.
      Literally my main goal in life was to be able to one day move to the US and become a citizen.
      I lived in the US for one year pre-9/11 and could hardly wait to finish my studies and maybe one day acquire a Green Card.
      But after 2001 (damn, that’s already 24 years ago), it started to turn.
      I celebrated when the German chancellor refused to support the US in the invasion of Iraq.
      Then I stayed up every night, watching the live footage from the reporters embedded with the invasion forces.
      It was awesome. It was awful.
      Nowadays it’s just the latter.
      Trump v1 was a fluke, Trump v2 put the US on the same level as Russia for me.
      (I know enough Russians to know the situation is comparable. Russians aren’t one single bit more evil or more complacent than US Americans in 2025. And neither are Chinese.)

      tl/dr: Trump’s second term has absolutely obliterated my belief in the US.
      Sorry for the rant, I’m a bit drunk and frustrated with…vaguely gestures at everything.

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      Yes, I’m afraid we’ve had the mirror of our worst selves in our collective face for some time, and keep pointing into it while shouting, "No, YOU!”

      We need to do some serious, deep introspection on who we are, as a nation, who we want to be, and develop a strategy for getting ourselves on that path.

      If anyone is triggered into shouting "that’s not me, that’s probably a good indication of where we are as opposed to where we think we are. All of us have room for improvement.

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    I bet if you looked back to his behavior in school, there were signs already.