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Get a grip. That's a ridiculously ignorant statement. Just curious which highly enlightened state are you from? Because if people there behave like you I'm avoiding it.

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There's something called a search engine where you can find out the answer to anything

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN NOT BEING IGNORANT.

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In New Orleans police officers review the traffic videos and issue tickets. Still sucks.

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How do they afford it? Ridiculous $700/ yr per capita tax for one. $500/yr occupational privilege tax for another. To be exempted you have to prove you have less than $7,000 yr from all income sources. Seniors here are being forced to sell their homes to predatory real estate people, who typically pay about 60% of the appraisal . The mayor and all the town council members are serious MAGA types who usually run unopposed. Stand against them and you are a godless commie like me. Fortunately I am well off enough to pay the blood money. unfortunately, they are constantly after me for minor code violations One Democrat ran last year and got 6 votes I'd sell and move but I spent 40 years building my home to my exacting specifications so I'll keep fighting

One of the latest requests is for a $1.7 million mobile command center like the neighboring town has. i'm sure it will be approved.

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no, have weighed many nickels they’re 5 grams +- 0.1 gram, google it …

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Everybody notices the crap Republicans are pulling on a national level but not the obnoxious bullshit they are pulling on the local level

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For once the truth. I think that "dark tint" is exactly why the police pulled over this family and took their kids.

Also, what was the probably cause for the extravagant search?

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Red States have given us a new Dark Ages.

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It sounds as though this particular black family definitely should have stayed the F away from TN.

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100% true. The Dark Ages is precisely where their policies belong, not 2023. I honestly don't know why anyone would want to live in any red state. I understand some are very scenic but that's the joy of the internet....I don't need to go there to smell the oil stained waters or the sulfur in the air.

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LMAO. Red states have the most air pollution, most covid deaths, most oil-laden waterways and about the dumbest students in the entire world. "Dumbing it down" for the clueless and ignorant, is the red state's philosophy. The Nazi's banned and burned books too. Just like the red states are. Red states aren't woke, they're sound a-fn asleep.

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Police reaction to open carry laws? How so? It seems like most police officers are Republicans and Republicans want to make it easier for more guns on the street. The prison pipeline is mostly to corral a black on a drunk driving, weed or a minor charge and ensure the DA's prosecute and imprison them, so they never get a decent paying job or an education to ensure a better life. And Republicans made it easier to obtain firearms. Many police officers (not all) are Republicans. So their own GOP politician's approved laws enabling others to obtain guns to kill them! They don't even want mental evaluations before ownership.

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Wow. Must suck to be you. My world isn't that black and white. That's an extremely conservative point of view, and your inaccurate generalizations don't help. There are plenty of good people fighting the good fight in those states that don't deserve your ignorant derision. We're supposed to be the good guys, remember? Inclusion and diversity, not exclusion and insults. That is the way.

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I am extremely conscientious and take myself seriously as a vehicle. Stop signs, lights, the whole schmeer. A lot of cyclists are unsafe, but nothing like the unsafe drivers out there.

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Well I find I get neurotic after one accident with one child. I am really bad on rainy nights in an urban street with parked cars lining the street. I had two kids run out in front of me 50 years ago in dark costumes on Halloween. I have people beeping at me when driving the narrow city streets, once you almost have a heart attack for almost hitting children, you really never can speed again. But my now old hippie Nephew prefers riding a bike instead of a car and he has people deliberately opening doors to hit him.

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Black while driving through a state. Black folks get phuc over so much in the u.s. This is beyond words. Another example of rogue cops and now the state being an accomplice.

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