• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Except that we’re not talking rural Texas here. San Marcos is a college town and almost a suburb of Austin thanks to urban sprawl.

    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Oh, trust me; I know.

      I live in Texas, and specifically in Austin for a while.

      I don’t think the cops hide their contempt for Democrats, especially during the 2020 police riots. They were happy to do the bashing themselves, so they certainly weren’t going to stop some good ol’ boys from making it known that liberals aren’t welcome in their State/city.

      Just part of the culture.

    • BeautifulMind ♾️@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Since when are urban-area cops any different? Looking at Portland and Seattle cops- supposedly blue-country ‘liberal city’ and ‘liberal-run’, the venn diagram of blue-city cops to right-wing militias has a shockingly high amount of overlap. It’s as if both the police and right-wing militias recruit from the same pool

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        1 year ago

        Part of the problem here in Seattle is that we don’t require our cops to live within the city. Almost all of them commute in from other areas and hate Seattle/city people.