The Shrekvolution*

And per the school’s own admission, teachers recognized her as a former student and didn’t say anything at the time.

If you’re drawing that from:

Since our first communication, our initial investigation determined that this individual involved was a former student recognized by staff. [emphasis mine] She was not a substitute teacher. We did involve our Milwaukee Police Department school resource officers (SROs) the day that this occurred. The district’s Title IX coordinator was also notified. In addition to any police actions resulting from this situation, the district is continuing with its own investigation.

It seems extremely clear that what the letter is saying isn’t that the staff saw her impersonating a substitute and looked the other way; it’s that once the students reported her, staff who worked there were able to identify her as a former student.

If this isn’t what you were talking about and I’m missing something, I apologize.

If she had a gun, there would be a lot of dead students right now.

Milwaukee public schools use metal detectors.

This video specifically shows what Rufus King (this high school) does. You’re assuming her having a gun wouldn’t have changed this, but it would’ve. Because part of that “so much security theater” is scanning people who enter the school.

Do you know what schools have implemented in the effort to cut down on school shootings?

Yes, see the video above.

So much security theater just to allow someone like this to waltz into a classroom to openly berate children.

I don’t see the “so much” security theater you’re referring to, and it seems like she got very lucky. She appeared young enough to blend in with the other students but also appeared old enough to be a substitute teacher and had attended the high school not that long ago (and conveniently lived right across the street).

During her scouting the week prior, she “heard other staff in the main office talking about the substitute teacher agency and told the secretary she was a substitute”, so she had that established ahead of time. On the day she went into the classroom, eight of the approximately 70 teachers were absent, and one of those positions happened to be unfilled by a sub (something she couldn’t possibly have foreseen).

Incidentally, unrelated to your comment, here’s the local news source instead of the trash tabloid Metro.

Back in '07, I was in an unsuccessful TV show…

Well first we have to draw blood. I think we have a couple artists here who make OC.

You summoned?

I’ve figured it out: this is part of a poll test to see how well I respond to a politician gaslighting me about the things they’ve said.

Beautiful, well-played. Can I get my ballot now please?

"Not pushed” to vote, as I just described in my previous comment is what I’m after. You know what I’m saying, and you seem to be deliberately pedantic just because you can - while completely ignoring the issue I’m trying to address.

No, I actually don’t know what you’re saying. Because at first, you said “not permitted”, then in your second comment, you retained that position by saying: “I think there may be ways of addressing that potential problem if we try hard enough to find a way, but we haven’t for fear of repeating that issue.” You’re still, in that second (“previous”) comment, going on about how we can use tests of people’s political understanding to bar them from voting if we’re just clever about it.

Now you’re just claiming it “may have not been the best choice of words”, abandoning the position you took in those two comments and then lambasting me for, like, taking you at your word that what you said is what you meant.

That’s not what “not the best choice of words” means; going from “People who don’t pay a certain minimal amount of attention shouldn’t be permitted to vote, IMHO” to “not pushed” and then crying “pedantry” is being comically dishonest to save face. You completely changed positions mid-argument and then got offended that I addressed your first position before you changed it. I’m actually kind of stunned at how brazen this is.

but it’s a single example

No, it isn’t. In fact, the South wasn’t even the first in the US to do this for the express purpose of disenfranchising a minority – more evidence that you aren’t paying sufficient attention to the policy you want implemented. Some decades earlier, Connecticut implemented literacy tests to specifically (and successfully) disenfranchise Irish immigrants.

Even if you ignore that:

1. Jim Crow-era literacy tests happened over a period of 75 years. That’s not “one example”; that’s a bunch of states over the course of nearly a century disenfranchising millions.
2. It’s so blatantly obvious once you examine that “one example”™ why this system fundamentally cannot work and will be abused. If you can’t see that, then I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to turn you away from the polling station, because you’re clearly unequipped to vote.

People who don’t pay a certain minimal amount of attention shouldn’t be permitted to vote, IMHO

Ironically, you’d have to not be paying a certain minimal amount of attention to checks notes middle school US history to not understand how catastrophic this is in practice. Incidentally, that SPLC quiz isn’t even nearly the extent of the questions.

I would bar you from voting for this statement alone on the merits of “paying attention”.

Thanks!

Surprisingly, my main takeaway from this was a moment of reflection over what a comic strip even is. Like at first I was thinking “well this doesn’t really seem like a comic strip, but I think avant garde OC should get more leeway”.

But then I considered the individual elements and realized that I’ve seen them before in works I definitely consider comic strips. Like the joke will just be someone singing song lyrics, or (like in the Dolan comics) the characters will just be memes. And there are kind of quasi-panels to this, which historically weren’t separated by lines.

That was refreshing, OP; thank you. And it was funny too.

Hi, OP. Per Rule 4, please provide credit or attempt to find the author if you don’t know who they are. If you can’t find them after searching, that’s fine, especially given this artstyle has been repurposed over and over again. We just like to make sure the author gets credit whenever possible so people can enjoy more of their work.

I mean, from the same article I have to keep reading on your behalf:

This year, police arrested a 45-year-old Swiss man for using his phone to film under a German woman’s dirndl. Last year there were 10 arrests for upskirting and seven in 2024.

I don’t think I can compile enough statistics on the niche crimonology of “people who take upskirt shots at Oktoberfest” to satisfy “do they follow through on that?” – nebulous enough that the goalposts could be anywhere, especially for someone who can’t be bothered with the bare minimum effort to inform themselves on the topic – but it’s enough that I hope you’ll consider researching the topic further if you want to justify being this obnoxious.

Why are you always defending stupid shit lol it’s always you

I don’t know what you’re talking about – specifically or generally.

In this case, I just read the article, came to the comments, read the things you said, and remembered parts of the article that contradict it.

They do.

Filming under skirts is illegal in Germany, and carries a two-year sentence in jail. […] The Teufelsrad tent is hung with signs and police posters in German and English warning against filming under people’s skirts, but Polaczy[, the woman handing out shorts,] says it is impossible to control everyone filming with smart phones.

Brother, the article is talking about Element Pro.

Not Central Standard Time Mom (she’s in Pennsylvania).

NO!