jakee
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Sure - but his point is about what the reality is, not what we would want it to be. And that's not to say that many police officers wouldn't do that, but it is not in fact their duty or legal responsibility to do that.
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Sure, but what are we saying here? You have armed guards with a view of every entrance to every school in America? You search every bag of every person who goes in, everyone with a long coat, everyone with baggy clothing, all day every day? Does anyone picture that and think to themselves "yes, that's what it looks like when society works"?
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He’s now complaining that he was tortured when he was arraigned in Georgia. But since he (checks notes) repeatedly called for the police to beat people up while arresting them, shouldn’t he be happy about it?
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You may be making the mistake of thinking he has political beliefs. He just wants money, and there’s no one on Truth Social to give it to him. No doubt the very few people on there are all suckers, but Trump is already bleeding them dry.
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They’ll just look at that and say ‘well at least we gave them a chance at life’. The only thing that’ll make them pause is enough white, Christian, photogenic, suburban, family wanting women dying of sepsis because their doctors waited until it was undeniably clear that the immediate abortion of an already doomed foetus was needed to save their lives. Of course it’ll only give them pause for a moment, they’ll just come back and say “the law we wrote didn’t explicitly tell the doctors to do that, it’s all their fault!”
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Honestly I assumed he was comparing himself to Jesus on the cross. The evangelicals would let him get away with it.
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Yeah, but he’s still up. He’s put nothing into that company except the random late night all caps ranting he’s have been spewing on Twitter anyway and he’s still in a position to make a huge amount of money when he’s allowed to sell. If it’s still worth something at that point then I’d imagine it’ll crash to nothing almost as soon as he starts selling, but anything he clears before that happens is pure profit, baby. The MAGA morons who bought their shares with real cash money though, yeah they’re all screwed. Never going to see that retirement fund again.
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I'll have to take your word on that, but it's frankly an esoteric point compared to the fundamental issue. You don't need any level of legal, political or historical scholarship to realise western law isn't based on the Ten Commandments. You just need to read the Ten Commandments and go "hey that's weird, this stuff ain't in the law". I suppose it takes a fractionally deeper understanding to recognise that government can't be based on them either since the First Amendment is an explicit rejection of the First Commandment, but still I'd hardly call it research.
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The number of states planning similar laws just demonstrate the enormous impact that the radical right wing Supreme Court is having. It's happening in the US, right? It's never not an election cycle in the US. But this is happening now, and it's happening all over the place. Clearly it's because something has changed and it;s pretty obvious what that is. As an aside, it;s always funny when a right wing so-called christian (Landry, not you) claims that the law or the government of the US is based on the 10 Commandments. There's no surer way to demonstrate they've never even read them!
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Person, man, woman, camera, who are you again?
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The Continent’s Consensus on Climate?……Crumbling
jakee replied to brenthutch's topic in Speakers Corner
Best not to describe a surge of support for facist, ultra right, ultra nationalist parties as ‘waking up’. You might give people the right idea about you. -
Or to put it another way, Trump presided over the crash and Biden is presiding over the recovery.
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I'm really sorry that I'm definitely going to lose this lawsuit, and is there any chance you could take this free apology and drop the damages claim?
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Well you see this case isn't actually about having the gun, it's about lying to the Feds to get the gun - and lying to the Feds is absolutely and always completely unacceptable! There, that shouldn't cause the Republicans any cognitive dissonance should it? Oh wait...
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They can also be - oh what’s the word - fucking insane. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks Since October 2022, David Sacks has been increasingly commenting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, typically taking an anti-US involvement in Ukraine, and especially US military funding for Ukraine.[67] Some of his claims include the "US dispatching an Army General to assume de-facto command of the Ukrainian Army".[68] In an article for Newsweek, Sacks argued that continued military support for Ukraine could lead to “Woke War III”.[69] Sacks' posts on X are often countered by the platform's Community Notes, which he believes are subject to being "gamed by the Ukrainian info war op" against him.
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And Hunter Biden has been found guilty on Federal gun charges. But hang on, the official position of the Republican party and its commentariat has been that Joe Biden has personally taken control of the Justice Department, his totalitarian tentacles extending so far that he's even directly responsible for the State prosecution and guilty verdicts against Trump! So it's going to be really interesting to see how they talk about how that point of view conflicts with a clearly independent Federal Prosecutor securing a conviction against the President's direct family. Just kidding, they'll just steamroller their way ahead pretending both things are true at the same time.
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Sure sounds like you’re explaining to the class how inflation wasn’t caused by printing money then.
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Why do you do this to yourself? What is the benefit of making yourself look this bad?
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So where are we at now? Inflation was caused by Russia and OPEC deciding to print lots of new petro-dollars and that’s Biden’s fault?
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But that’s just, oh what’s the word, not a fact. Global food and energy prices soaring wouldn’t have been water off a duck’s back under a different administration. The fact remains that the US hit lower peaks and recovered more quickly than most of the rest of the developed world.
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Many countries took advantage of the pandemic and printed lots of dollars? How did they manage that?
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And you're happy that they're there because?
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Ethics is tricky. He's only a Supreme Court Justice, you shouldn't expect him to be able to read a form.
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Come on man. Just let the mask slip once and acknowledge the reality of the situation instead of the party line.
