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On July 22 2026 07:32 Introvert wrote:


I haven't read the report yet, though I hope to find the time. But Cuban/American left-wing crossover is not a secret or something unknown, and many union organizers are very left-wing and love the Cuban "system." Teachers unions in particular seem to have an affinity for that sort of crackpottery.

On July 22 2026 08:52 Jankisa wrote:


Insane that neither of you guys will answer a simple question.

Also insane that you are basically going along with "communist infiltration" story. Amazing.

It is a crazy scenario: corporate employees you've never met watching live feeds of your child's gymnastics class, not for security, but to impress potential customers. That's exactly what happened in Dunwoody, Georgia, where Flock Safety workers accessed cameras in children's spaces at the Marcus Jewish Community Center as part of sales demonstrations.

Despite learning about these intrusions, Dunwoody's city council renewed their surveillance contract with Flock anyway.

The Access Logs Tell the Story
Public records reveal specific dates when Flock employees viewed sensitive locations for commercial purposes.

The details, uncovered through public records requests by resident Jason Hunyar, are unsettling. On July 23, 2025, Flock's Randy Gluck viewed cameras labeled "Gym Mendel – 1" and "Main Pool Right." On September 30, 2025, Vice President Bob Carter accessed the "Gymnastics" camera.

These weren't security emergencies or system maintenance. They were sales pitches—Flock showing off their surveillance capabilities to prospective police department clients by streaming live footage of children.

The Fallout Didn't Stay in Dunwoody
Georgia kept finding new problems with Flock even after the contract was signed.

Dunwoody wasn't an isolated case. In the weeks after the council vote, departments across Georgia started auditing their own Flock use after the company rolled out a new tool built to flag suspicious search patterns. That audit turned up more trouble. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced arrests of several more officers accused of misusing license plate reader data, adding to a string of similar cases that included five officers fired from the Albany Police Department.

By July, some Georgia residents had stopped waiting on public records requests and started going after the hardware directly. In Barrow County, about an hour northeast of Atlanta, someone took a saw to three camera poles along Double Bridges Road and cut the solar power lines feeding them. A fourth camera near Apalachee High School was damaged the same weekend. The sheriff's office called it a felony under Georgia law and opened an investigation, but no suspects have been identified.

On July 22 2026 08:36 Billyboy wrote:

Source?

On July 22 2026 08:52 Jankisa wrote:


Insane that neither of you guys will answer a simple question.

Also insane that you are basically going along with "communist infiltration" story. Amazing.

On July 22 2026 09:34 Introvert wrote:


For which part? How much do you know of Cold War era left-wing activism?



Joe Biden won. You need better gotchas.

On July 22 2026 09:48 Billyboy wrote:

The teachers being communists, or your definition of communists. Because it’s strange that the most right wing democracy around has this communist problem that none of the much more left wing European countries have.

Also, you lose all credibility when you call Biden a communist.

On July 22 2026 09:53 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:

What exactly is the Cuban "system" that teachers/unions have an affinity for?

On July 22 2026 09:59 LightSpectra wrote:
Introvert uncritically believes universities indoctrinate people with leftism, so it shouldn't be a surprise he has McCarthyist opinions about teachers' unions.

Kids should graduate believing the Epstein class deserves more tax cuts and you need an ID to order pasta, anything less is godless and unpatriotic. /s

On July 22 2026 10:38 Introvert wrote:


I didn't say the teachers are communists. I said many union leaders are lefties with sympathies for Cuba. We'd be totally screwed if the average teacher was like the union leaders.

Remember when, during COVID for example, the head the LA teachers union said that learning loss wasn't real, that it was OK that the students didn't know time tables because they knew oppression and "coup"? That's the sort of thing I'm talking about.

or things like this

https://x.com/CTULocal1/status/1971749649951142009?lang=en

Are we actually going to pretend teachers unions are led by normal center left liberals?



Same as the usual BS they all say, praising its education and healthcare system.

Edit: btw it's often framed as supporting Cuban union members or calling on the US to lift restrictions. Harder to find out and out praise for the Cuban regime as time has gone on. Fewer people gushing over the Castros. But there's no reason for a US union to take a position on a topic like that. Nevermind how, since so much over there is government run, it's not like you are finding actual free assocations of workers instead of state associations.

On July 22 2026 11:10 ETisME wrote:
I distinctively remembering in one of my final's assignments, I wrote about prioritizing economic growth over concerns in climate change, arguing about we need the growth to fund and build tools to adapt and solve climate change.
I got multiple review sessions from the tutor to suggest me to find another topic to write about.

Look at where we are at now, China got the growth, the manufacturing, the tech to do so.

Right wing/conservative views are always going to be harder to be taught, especially with moral blackmail is easier to throw around. (Oh you think we shouldn't save immigrates? Or USAID cut is killing billions, you think human lives are worth less than money?)

On July 22 2026 12:33 LightSpectra wrote:


Your professor was 100% correct. Climate adaptation technology isn't going to do jack shit in a world with runaway global warming. And while the exponential growth of solar manufacturing in China is the one thing we can be positive about, every other industry is overwhelmingly behind hitting their 2⁰C targets.

The USA picked growth over mitigation and we haven't gotten anything for it except fossil fuel executives quadrupling their wealth.



You should look up the reason USAID exists. Saving millions of lives is almost an unintentional side effect. It exists for soft power and a subsidy to American farmers who now need a bailout. You don't really sound like you know what you're talking about.

On July 22 2026 12:51 ETisME wrote:

Professors aren't meant to mark papers based on their belief.
Professors are meant to encourage students to present arguments / statements / data, and back it up with sources.
This has always been the case since junior school, and what education is about.

On July 22 2026 12:53 WombaT wrote:

What do you dispute about that data?

On July 22 2026 12:51 ETisME wrote:

Professors aren't meant to mark papers based on their belief

On July 22 2026 11:35 Billyboy wrote:


Saying something is good in another system with way lower reasources doesn’t make you a communist, it makes you able to look at things without bias. Certificate strange to call people who are likely not nearly as close to communism communist when you get so pissed at trump being called a fascist when he hits almost all the main features.

Out of curiosity you have always bristled at being called far right. What positions are right of yours? Feel free to pick abortion, or taxation, or whatever floats your boat.

On July 22 2026 13:01 LightSpectra wrote:


A professor of science is absolutely supposed to prevent people from promoting or defending factually wrong claims.

A professor of language/rhetoric might let you argue something factually wrong as some sort of intellectual exercise, but it would be grossly unethical if they let people promote harmful myths and pseudoscience in earnest.

On July 22 2026 13:06 ETisME wrote:

You can't be serious.
this has been a topic of research and debate. Imagine you being a professor telling researchers they are doing pseudoscience. just get out

On July 22 2026 13:11 LightSpectra wrote:


In your opinion, should flat earthers, Holocaust deniers, and antivaxxers be allowed to obtain degrees in geology, history, and applied medicine, respectively, from an accredited university?

On July 22 2026 13:15 ETisME wrote:

We literally using medicals derived from inhumane medical research conducted by Japanese imperial soldiers on humans, do you think the researchers are wrong because they are Japanese imperial soliders?

There were researchers against mask wearing in WHO questioning their effectiveness during early COVID too, do you want to brand them anti masker and stop them practicing medicals?