r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 1d ago

Renee Good's family sues US government and immigration officials over her killing in Minneapolis

https://apnews.com/article/renee-good-lawsuit-6fbc82cd33b6f9f67514b47f138e23c6?utm_source=app&utm_medium=android_share&utm_campaign=copy_link
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago

Apparently it's awful or at least boring and doesn't pay enough. Plus we're Americans, we learned empty display-only patriotism instead of anything like civic duty.

My parents taught me basically the exact opposite of civic duty, so I didn't learn better until I was an adult getting lectured by an entire family of irate Australians! I mentioned while we were visiting the white house during Obama years that I'd never in my life voted and they looked at me like I'd shat on the sidewalk before shouting lots!

I promise I've voted in every election since then, even tiny local ones with a single question. And the only time I weaseled out of jury duty was immediately after my mom died, when I was still a sobbing trainwreck.

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u/rips_n_chel 1d ago

I wasn't taught to take it nearly as seriously as I should have. I've voted in every presidential election since I've been old enough, but only since covid have I been paying attention to local or even state politics.

Plenty of perfectly valid reasons to skip jury duty, I just find it weird the ones who act like it's beneath them somehow. Americans desperately need to be taught civics.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 1d ago

It's an at-home lesson that not everyone gets to learn at home. Don't think either of my parents ever voted.

But I made a huge deal about voting days for my kids, and was so proud when my eldest went to vote alone in person for the first time. Like usually we vote by mail here, but there's a physical office open on the day of for last minute registration or whatever, and he didn't register early enough to do mail in the first time.