• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    3 days ago

    “These charges are outrageous and should be alarming to every American. This indictment reflects the administration’s efforts to shift blame from their own failures,” said attorney Norm Eisen.

    You know, I happen to be rather exhausted so I was thinking “how would I respond to this now if it were happening to me?” and I realized I’d probably understand that the charges won’t stick and that reacting like this only makes Trump stronger.

    When I was younger I sometimes had bullies try to provoke me and what I figured out is that just ignoring them or not letting them see you react was enough to shut them down.

    Part of me thinks all this 24/7 media attention isn’t really helping anything.

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      3 days ago

      I was told by the grade school principal for years to “just ignore it”.

      It stopped when I started fighting back. Sometimes violence is the answer.

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        Yup. My grade school bully left me alone after I saw red when he was hitting me with a tree limb and it took 3 other kids to drag me off him.

        But when I elbowed him in the stomach in the cafeteria because he was choking me with my necklace from behind, I got in trouble for not getting a teacher. While I was being choked. In full view of the staff.

        Zero tolerance policies are bullshit.

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          Teachers deserve to get punched at this point. Stupid fuckwits dont give a shit.

          And dont go off at me for generalizing and absolutist attitudes. Its the same attitudes a lot of you apply to cops.