• CreativeShotgun@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I am american, moreso than most realistically. My family has been texan since before even texas was american. I am brown and have a Latin last name, there’s a ton of us the same here in texas. In my family the generation before me was the last that inherited spanish from the family and none are fluent (texmex spanglish at best), at least not without schooling.

    This is all to say that my drivers license is on me at all times outside of my house. I carry it everywhere, even on my smoke breaks at work, even when I’m washing my car, even when I’m checking my mail.

    I shouldn’t be living like this, I don’t deserve to live like this, my rights as an American citizen say I should be protected against this, but here we are.

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    6 hours ago

    I feel like there is a couple a constitutional amendments specifically for this situation. One in particular.

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      For this reason they mostly avoid states with high gun per person rate. Like Texas. Also, I think that they do not actively target citizens with registered guns.

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        7 minutes ago

        What makes you think that’s the reason? Could it not be that high gun ownership states mostly vote Republican already?

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    Ex Wells Fargo employee here, back in the early 2010s we used to have unrealistic sales quotas for bankers and high pressure to meet them, with sales phone meetings at the end each shift. The result was the scandal we’re familiar with, millions of fake profiles and/or authorized accounts opened by those that couldn’t take the pressure. I think something similar is happening, Miller had given them a very high arrest quota, and you can see how this could lead to them arresting whoever they can

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      Off topic but the fact that anyone still banks there, and that they’re even still allowed to operate, is just crazy to me.