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TheCleric@lemmy.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK this is Susie Willies. She is the most powerful woman in the United States.62·21 days agoI mean, praising ignorance is never that cool of a look
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Airbnb guest says images were altered in false £12,000 damage claimEnglish13·21 days agoWell, he is a super host.
Though I’m sure that didn’t weigh into their lenient decision at all no sir
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.12·23 days agoOh my sweet summer child
Well, I dunno. Pardons are good when the justice system fails and locks up innocent people for decades. The burden of proof on appeals is set so high that the appeals system is broken in and of itself. Think about all the racially motivated prosecutions throughout the years, the unjustly prosecuted anarchists, the bribed juries, the kangaroo court shenanigans, etc. How many stories have we heard of cops badgering the wrong person for dozens of hours in interrogation until they got false confessions? All because cops’ egos are so absurd that they refuse to admit they might have come to the wrong conclusions with incomplete information. I’m all for pardons in crimes against individuals. The problems isn’t in the case structure, it’s in the person doling out the pardons.
Yeah, but the question ultimately lies in how many bad and straight up harmful policies are worth the small step toward an egalitarian society? Where does it become ignoble to vote for one policy, when there are ultimately many more harmful ones outweighing the positive? Because it’s kinda rare that we get to vote on policy. We vote for people, with the vague promise of policy ideas that face an uphill battle and watering down— not to mention the straight up bastardization of those good policies, turning them into terrible ones.
I wish it were so black and white as us getting to vote on policy. The policymakers surely seem to be unable.
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto News@lemmy.world•Trump 'troubled' by images coming out of Gaza, prompting him to push for more aid4·25 days agoExactly. He’s even trying empathy and basic humanity as means to change the topic
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto memes@lemmy.world•Remember Kids, Electricity Is In Your Room As You Sleep, WAITING18·26 days agoYeah, the character never held a switchblade to a child, that is a modern satire of the old campaign, especially popular among electricians
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto News@lemmy.world•Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents7·26 days agoIt was meant to be in the courts, civil and criminal, and in the most outlandish cases, the FBI and ICC.
But…that’s not where we’re at. So we have to decide what a new world looks like without these systems to protect us from the system itself.
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•CIA Pete explains why Zohran Mamdani is popular4·26 days agoIt’s neither. It’s pre-approved Party Thought. They will do anything they can to keep the status quo, and we will see if mamdani starts a demsoc movement in the US, we will watch the DNC very quickly embrace fascism.
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Ireland parliament member says high-visibility jackets should be mandatory for all pedestriansEnglish5·26 days agoPunishing pedestrians for the danger of cars. Classic car-brain-rot mentality.
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Ireland parliament member says high-visibility jackets should be mandatory for all pedestriansEnglish31·26 days agodeleted by creator
I fucked nialv7’s mom, does that help? I was just trying to be helpful
I feel like I’d be embarrassed to still listen to the same music I listened to at 14. 14 year old me didn’t have terrible taste, but goddamn there has been so much music since. I’m nearing 40 and I’m still finding new and more interesting or challenging music to listen to
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto News@lemmy.world•Trump Continues Evading Questions About His Child Sex Trafficking Friends24·1 month agoNEVER stop talking about this. Every time he has a press conference, ask him about it.
TheCleric@lemmy.orgto Progressive Politics@lemmy.world•Thank god the debt got blown up so that suppressors are tax free18·1 month agoThose systems were forced into city budgets even though they’re highly prone to mistakes and mostly useless. It was basically some sweetheart deal for the company that manufactures it, and placed almost entirely in lower income neighborhoods. Fuck that stupid ass bloatware—not to mention fuck the eavesdropping machines that they really are. Sensitive microphones and you think the cops are only using that access to listen for gunshots? Fuuuuck no.
https://www.lehighvalleynews.com/school-news/higher-education/muhlenberg-educator-was-fired-over-pro-palestinian-speech-professors-group-says
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-wins-major-case-defending-texass-anti-boycott-israel-law
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/09/27/tenured-jewish-prof-says-shes-fired-pro-palestine
A lil late on that