• Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    The district agreed to pay Mickens $270,420 for “alleged emotional distress” and $17,080 to her attorney to cover legal fees, according to a copy of the settlement agreement obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution through an open records request.

    Not enough. They destroyed her fucking career. Apologies to Georgians, but it’s really an awful place.

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    Wish they’d fire the incompetent snowflake supervisor who wasted 4 teachers’ salaries trying to pursue a personal vendetta.

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    Archive link: https://archive.is/FpxaW

    On the day Kirk was shot and killed while onstage at an event at Utah Valley University, Mickens posted a quote from Kirk on her private social media account after work hours from her personal computer, according to the lawsuit.

    “‘I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. — Charlie Kirk,’” the post read. It did not include any commentary from Mickens.

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      21 hours ago

      Lol. Gotta love conservaflakes violating citizen’s 1st amendment rights for verbatim quoting a conservaflake icon.

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      “I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

      — Charlie Kirk

      — Michelle Mickens

      — floofloof

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      21 hours ago

      Right? I talked all sorts of Charlie Kuck shit. Where’s my payout?

      It’s the one time I’m not proud of keeping myself anonymous online.

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      You can remove the /s, that number is pretty close to accurate.

      People constantly complain about how public education is lacking. And yet public school teachers are continuously paid fucking horribly low salaries and expected to perform miracles in the classroom in the form of students becoming well educated upstanding members of society.

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          The success of capitalism. A hostile felon is looting our coffers to the tune of billions and we are giving a fucking teacher the side eye for getting a pittance.

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          Do you live in the Georgia county where she was fired? I bet the answer is no. Then why do you think it is your tax money funding the payment? Do you even live in the US?

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              What percentage of your tax dollars ended up in that Georgia county to fund a 300k settlement. Probably zero. Assuming it was 100% was funded with federal dollars, let’s do the math: about 50% of the federal tax revenue (5 trillion) came from individual income taxes (2.4 trillion). The average us taxpayer pays 14k in taxes each year. Do the math on a 300k payout and that equals .000875 cents came from each taxpayer. With that said federal monies to school districts are typically earmarked… So the most likely scenario is zero money came from the poster.

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                An injustice to any is an injustice to all. Even if you didn’t personally pay taxes, you should still be outraged at government censorship if you call yourself an American.

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                  I didn’t say i wasn’t outraged. However I’m not falling for the trite little ragebaiter’s argument about “myuah taxes!!!”. I can’t imagine a person that looks at the situation and says “please…not my taxes!”. That’s like a"christian" getting mad at a trans library reading, but merely tut tutting when the pastor sexually assaults a 5 year old. Stop clutching your goddamn pearls instead of actually doing something!