octopus_ink
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- Comment on Every morning 1 week ago:
Oh there is no worse shift. I feel you.
- Comment on Every morning 1 week ago:
Such my fucking mood right now. Last half of the last day of the holiday weekend was ass, and sleep was absolute ass, as if the world conspired to ensure I could not be allowed to start the week with a good night’s rest.
As a result, after several interruptions, have been awake since long before my alarm went off, and just sitting here with a black cloud over my head. In precious few minutes, the weekly grind will begin.
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- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
You had me at the start. 😁
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
Yep, I spent all of 2020 watching police escalate and beat protesters, all with maga yip yapping about cities “burned to the ground” and insisting that what I saw with my own eyes was not what I saw with my own eyes.
Won’t ever look at cops the same again. I was already beginning to realize they weren’t like I was raised to believe (in the bubble of privilege I grew up in) but 2020 made a lasting, permanent change.
I treat every single interaction with police, no matter how casual, like an event to be exited as soon as possible, and as if it could turn violent at any moment.
Police testimony without bodycame will = hearsay when next I’m called for jury duty.
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
They gotta feed the “he was no saint” narrative. (Not that I, nor anyone else, ever said he was…)
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
100% acknowledged! I did momentarily struggle with that, but it’s a high traffic community and doesn’t have a rule disallowing such posts, so I tried to focus on that.
- Comment on George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around... 1 week ago:
Loose fit for this community? Maybe. Never hurts to have a reminder though, given that Trump is undoing all the federal police reforms proposed as a result.
- George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. Floyd's death became the catalyst for protests around...slrpnk.net ↗Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 21 comments
- Comment on Just a reminder... (with thanks to Ice Cube) 1 week ago:
There seems to be some debate on that, but he definitely wrote a song in 2017 that should have been released a couple of months ago. 😁
- Comment on Just a reminder... (with thanks to Ice Cube) 1 week ago:
Uh, thanks?
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- Comment on Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do 2 weeks ago:
That’s dedication to one’s self-sabotage.
Self-sabotage? This will be the best sex that person ever had, or, something.
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- Comment on this lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The publishing world 2 weeks ago:
It’s literally the reason the cover exists. To entice you to judge it positively and pick up the book for a closer look.
Whenever I hear anyone say that, I conclude it’s one of those things that somehow meant something slightly different when the phrase was coined. Either that or we’re all just a bunch of goobers.
- Comment on Something something far-left 2 weeks ago:
- I love that maga will get the day they voted for and deserve. I hate that they dragged all the rest of us in with them.slrpnk.net ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to [deleted] | 23 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Regardless, if he had someone in his life to guide him in any way, I can bet that’s not the approach he’d be taking. This kid landed here by neglect, I guarantee it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I kinda feel like this is a sincere attempt to improve his chances, and while yes I see the creepiness, I feel a bit sad for him also.
Willing to bet a makeover would help him more than anything he puts on a shirt, and no one in his life to tell him that.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t suggest there was, but I’ve rephrased my point about as many times as I’m willing to already.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
While that fight should continue, society has more mundane tools to ostracize & make people’s lives hell.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
I’m not a defender of the concept of Qualified Immunity, my point is that it’s not an absolute shield. Even if it successfully shielded them from 100% of civil rights cases (which it objectively has not) it provides no protection from criminal charges.
I won’t argue against the idea that it covers them far more than can be rationally defended, I’m just saying it’s not an absolute shield, and (in my opinion) there is every reason to imagine that the specific group we are discussing here will routinely violate the rights of the people they detain in such an egregious fashion as to satisfy even that narrow range of criteria in a higher than you might expect number of civil cases once this is all said and done.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
I’d settle for fair prosecution using the body of US law that existed up to the inauguration of Trump47.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
Qualified immunity specifically does not apply in cases where someone’s clearly established civil rights were violated, though the criteria for that is specific. Further, it applies only to civil cases, not criminal cases. It may certainly help them in some instances, but it’s not going to be a blanket shield.
1 Was a constitutional right violated?
2 Was the right clearly established at the time of the alleged violation?
www.justia.com/…/qualified-immunity/
Under this doctrine, government agents—including but not limited to police officers—can never be sued for violating someone’s civil rights, unless they violated “clearly established law.” While this is an amorphous, malleable standard, it generally requires civil rights plaintiffs to show not just a clear legal rule, but a prior case with functionally identical facts.
In other words, it is entirely possible—and quite common—for courts to hold that government agents did violate someone’s rights, but that the victim has no legal remedy, simply because that precise sort of misconduct had not occurred in past cases.
www.americanbar.org/groups/…/qualified-immunity/
While yes, IANAL, I’m exceptionally doubtful that clearly established constitutional rights aren’t being violated by the behaviors of ICE under Trump, in many, many circumstances.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
Just so we’re clear, this isn’t Truth Social or X. Folks only engage with the bigots and racists here for fun. When it’s done being fun you just get blocked. If that’s an entertaining way for you to conduct yourself online, go right ahead.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bingo 5 weeks ago:
Not very damn much it would seem. I still think you’ve got some misdirected hostility though.
