Not The Onion

12314 readers

583 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

419

Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town (reason.com)

submitted 6 days ago by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

145 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I really gotta arm myself for the eventually of a sheriff disagreeing with me.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Had the same gut reaction. And I am armed and skilled. FFS, the state is going to arrest me in front of my family for this bullshit?! Hard no. I'll turn this house into a political SPECTACLE.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

If enough people draw the line, the line will exist. It's just a hard personal sell and everyone generally will think that others just want them to draw the line and not themselves. Getting large numbers of people to "not let that slide" to discourage something is difficult AF

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I am hoping that this is in the figurative sense. I don't think that a shootout would have improved her situation.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

It's not about helping the situation. It's about drawing a line and making it known that we are not to be abused.