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- Comment on ICE Responds After Sanctuary City Releases Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Child Molestation 1 month ago:
You don’t have to imagine. Just ask a question: why would a court release someone with an immigration detainer on them?
Now, if you’re so inclined, you can research that answer. No imagination required!
- Comment on Joe Biden Hands Out Obamacare to Illegal Immigrants 1 month ago:
the law that determines citizenship. Not identifying.
Which is funny, because these folks are probably more American than I am.
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 2 months ago:
Companies that buy single-family homes say their businesses provide renters the opportunity to live in desirable neighborhoods where they otherwise couldn’t afford to buy.
That’s true, because companies buying SFHs make it unaffordable to buy homes in desirable neighborhoods. They are the solution to the problem they created.
- Comment on 'Illegal and Not Constitutional': DeSantis Slams Biden For Flying Immigrants into Florida 2 months ago:
Eran_Morad: Warning for violation of Rule #1.
- Comment on 'Illegal and Not Constitutional': DeSantis Slams Biden For Flying Immigrants into Florida 2 months ago:
This is clearly false, but let’s assume it’s true…how is this different DeSantis’s own dumping of immigrants into Martha’s Vineyard?
- Comment on Why is this sub so ban happy? 2 months ago:
Can confirm.
- Comment on Americans are getting more worried about jobs 3 months ago:
There is nothing in the article that supports the headline. As far as I can tell, it’s just another way of saying ‘Americans are worry about the economy’.
I’m specifically worried about jobs, though. We need more jobs with better conditions and higher taxes on them. That *sounds *like a recipe for disaster, but that’s only true if we continue to allow the 1% to own more than the entire middle class.
- Comment on Google Gemini refuses to say pedophilia is wrong. ‘Individuals cannot control who they are attracted to’ 4 months ago:
All the science agrees; being sexually attracted to children isn’t something a person has control over, any more than a person can choose to be straight.
Okay, does it really say this? Where?
- Comment on Supreme Court stays out of fight over transgender student bathroom access 5 months ago:
Boba
Warning: Violation of rule #1 and #3
If they don’t clarify, don’t put words in their mouth.
- Comment on William Shatner says Paramount is ‘erasing’ Captain Kirk, blames those ‘threatened’ by the character 5 months ago:
Captain Kirk never backed down from a challenge, no matter how many red shirt guys had to die.
Idk about your preferred leadership qualities, but mine don’t include a lack of disregard for my life to look like a real man.
- Comment on In Taiwan they count the vote publicly. They hold up all the ballots and show them to everyone. 5 months ago:
Next time just don’t respond.
- Comment on Author Calls for Return to Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass’ Vision of Colorblindness 5 months ago:
PrincessEli: Warning for violation of rule #1 and #3.
Don’t automatically assume something is beyond someone’s mental capability, and provide reasons for your disagreement.
(I’m gonna have to start putting names in my warning so I know how I’ve warned previously…)
- Comment on California Law Now Covers Free Sex Changes For Illegal Immigrants 5 months ago:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan:
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[c] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Jesus is too liberal for y’all. Definitely don’t go and do likewise.
- Comment on Velvet Ropes 5 months ago:
That’s because they were tired after doing all of this. Where velvet ropes had some mysterious power over the seditious insurrectionists, actual law enforcement didn’t. After all, velvet ropes can’t shoot people in the shoulder for breaching a broken window after they’ve been explicitly told to not do it.
- Comment on Biden makes impassioned argument Trump could destroy American democracy as he opens 2024 campaign | CNN Politics 5 months ago:
Warning for violation of #1.
We’re still going to insist on treating people not like they’re mindless idiots, but rather as having experiences that lead them to believe what they do.
- Comment on NYC Mayor Adams sues Texas bus companies for transporting migrants to sanctuary city, seeks $700 million 5 months ago:
Warning: Violation of Rule #1.
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- Comment on The Scapegoating of Derek Chauvin, Pt. I 5 months ago:
Stated plainly: Floyd chose to commit a crime. He was apprehended for that crime and became belligerent during that apprehension. The arrest resulted in additional physiological stress and the release of adrenaline. This stress was not excessive by ordinary standards, though it was excessive for Floyd because of who he was and the bad choices he had made. According to Baker, “it was the stress of that interaction that tipped him over the edge given his underlying heart disease and his toxicological status.” It is in this limited sense that the arrest “caused” Floyd’s death—much as riding a roller coaster might have done.
Let’s just set aside the despicable, subtle racism of “who he was” in that paragraph…
The article basically argues that, because Floyd’s physiological stress was his own doing, then Chauvin should not have been tried for second-degree murder, or the intent to kill Floyd without premeditation.
Fine.
That still leaves open the possibility that Chauvin was guilty of involuntary manslaughter, or causing his death by failing to behave with the level of care a reasonable person would have exercised under the same circumstances. That’s what the second part is about: “As I’ll explain in Part II, the body camera footage proves that the arrest was conducted in a professional and dispassionate manner.”
Still fine.
I can concede all of that, and still dress down the practice of policing generally and that of the Minneapolis Police Department specifically, even of Derek Chauvin specifically, according to the Department of Justice’s investigation of the MPD (PDF).
On December 15, 2021, Mr. Chauvin pleaded guilty to federal criminal civil rights violations, both for the murder of Mr. Floyd and for holding a 14-year-old teen by the throat, beating him with a flashlight, then pressing his knee on the teen’s neck and back for over 15 minutes in 2017.
The MPD had a record of being a shitty department and Chauvin contributed to that by being a shitty police officer. That the prosecutor’s office was “struggling under the weight of unfamiliar public scrutiny” was because regular people experience the documented civil rights abuses long before they’re documented and what accountability.
In the same way that the physiological stress of Floyd, coupled with Derek Chauvin’s behavior, caused Floyd’s death, the public anger against police that Derek Chauvin and his fellow officers generated also caused the prosecutor’s office to publicly flog Chauvin for his crimes.
- Comment on The Scapegoating of Derek Chauvin, Pt. I 5 months ago:
Warning for violation of rule #1.
- Comment on Vivek or Trump? 5 months ago:
Trump.
He’s already demonstrated that he’s a washed up fascist and is significantly easier for Biden to beat.
Haley is the real threat. Her target audience and Biden’s are largely the same, and Haley has the advantage.
In any case, regular working class and middle class people are going to be screwed.
- Comment on Dershowitz: Maine Ruling Like Letting Ex-Confederate States Decide Who Can Run 5 months ago:
Dershowitz said, “The 14th Amendment provides in Section 5 that Congress, not the states, Congress can enforce this provision. Now, remember who wrote the 14th Amendment, Radical Republican reconstructionists who didn’t trust the states. They would never have left the decision [on] who can run for president to South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama, members of the Confederacy. Of course they left it only to Congress. The idea that states, one at a time, can decide who’s disqualified is the most absurd reading of a constitutional provision I have ever seen.”
…okay, that’s actually a plausible argument.
- Comment on Stolen from reddit 5 months ago:
Warning for violation of rule #1.
Simmer down…
- Comment on Opinion: The 14th Amendment gambit is breathtakingly foolish | CNN 5 months ago:
From the article:
But for a politician like Trump, an indictment can be an opportunity because it confirms the populist narrative: See, they view me as such a potent threat that they’re threatening to throw me in jail just to get me to stop fighting for you. But they can’t scare me. Together, we will achieve vengeance!
Ostensibly for BoaT, Enforcing the Constitution is corruption because Trump did all of those things. No one ever says he didn’t do those things; they just say those things don’t constitute insurrection, and thus Trump is “innocent”. Talk about staggering mental hoops…
- Comment on [Nigeria] Christmas Massacre: 160 Nigerians Killed by Jihadists in Strong Christian Community 5 months ago:
All Christians? Absolutely not.
Murderous Muslims? Absolutely.
Overzealous Christians that believe in Dominionism? Also absolutely.
- Comment on [Nigeria] Christmas Massacre: 160 Nigerians Killed by Jihadists in Strong Christian Community 5 months ago:
The atheist that attack religion do it out of spite. Otherwise they wouldn’t care what others do. It’s wildly insecure.
Do you think the Church of Satan is full of a bunch of insecure people?
- Comment on [Nigeria] Christmas Massacre: 160 Nigerians Killed by Jihadists in Strong Christian Community 5 months ago:
Well, being absolutely certain there is no god is going to far for me.
But criticizing and strongly opposing religious beliefs because they have influence in our lives seems reasonable to me. Opposition to Christianity makes far more sense to me generally than opposition to Islam, because the former has people trying to Biblically define when life is conceived and impose that particular definition on everyone; the latter are half a world a way.
Nothing screams little dick energy more than attacking something you claim not to believe in
I mean…we spend a lot of time attacking different political ideologies we both claim not to believe in…so…I guess you can be Li’l Johnson, and I’ll just be Johnson Jr.
- Comment on [Nigeria] Christmas Massacre: 160 Nigerians Killed by Jihadists in Strong Christian Community 5 months ago:
“Nigeria led the world in Christians killed for their faith in 2022, with 5,014, according to Open Doors’ 2023 World Watch List (WWL) report,” according to the Christian Post.
This reinforces why many of the more ardent atheists believe religion generally is the greatest force of evil in the world.
Meanwhile, an exceptionally zealous slice of Christians in the U.S. think
world conquest passes as a struggle for “religious freedom” and opposition to it as “persecution.”
That just so happens to also reinforce that Christianity specifically is perhaps most relevant evil.