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- Comment on Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court? 2 weeks ago:
Pretty simple. A jury is 12 rrandom-ish people (ignoring the Voir Dire process where lawyers argue about who deserves to be on the jury).
If you openly are for jury nullification, then the prosecutor will try to throw you out in the Voir Dire proces (its unfair to the prosecutor if you think that you can ignore the Prosecutor’s argument entirely). Then they select someone else to be part of the jury.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Basic psychology.
Anyone who has already decided that they like Elon (or MAGA) do not want to believe that they are the bad guy. So they will reach for even the worst of arguments to make themselves believe they aren’t the bad guy.
Remember: Nazis themselves refuse to believe the Holocaust happened. Same same really. No one wants to think of themselves as the bad guy.
- Comment on Did people experience doom scrolling with newspapers and magazines? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the non-existent Deep State. These fuckers are firing important people looking for ghosts and goblins.
- Comment on What ever happened to QAnon? 3 weeks ago:
They became the Government and are using their power to mass fire everyone to get rid of the Deep State.
Why do you think MAGA is so willing and ready to fire huge swaths of the US Government?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Did you forget about the election?
Immigrants from Springfield, Ohio are eating cats and dogs.
And now Trump is moving for mass deportations.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The fucker paid for Pennsylvania votes last election. Literally paid for them.
He grew up in Apartheid South Africa and calls his African American workers ‘Plantation’ and none of them can move up the ladder in any of his companies.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
See for yourself.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Biden was a Charismatic leader?
- Comment on Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture 2 months ago:
He’s pretty good at buying out the election and consolidating power.
- Comment on Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture 2 months ago:
Did you see it?
- Comment on Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture 2 months ago:
Hitler looked better at doing it.
Elon Musk was incredibly uncoordinated in his display.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What we have here is Elon Musk helping out on Trump’s branding.
Even Team Trump, as fascist as they are, are being run by entire teams of teams. The spokespeople are just that, speakers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If there is a leader, any leader at all, who’d try to lead the progressive cause? And one that people would really behind?
That’d be a good first start. Even celebrities like Jack Black.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
No. I’m just aware of the need for a charismatic leader.
Civil rights had Martin Luther King. Among other leaders. The idea of doing this without leadership is the fundamental flaw.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Cool.
Give me a name.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
And who will lead this revolution? Biden? Kamala?
Go on. Who is the leader?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Frustrating but predictable.
Personally I’m pretty happy with how fucking awkward Elon was while doing it. The whole gif is really cringe.
- Comment on The more you know 4 months ago:
Abe Lincoln famously warned us about how people make up shit on the Internet.
- Comment on The more you know 4 months ago:
Well it wasn’t good enough for her.
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 4 months ago:
It’s pretty simple really.
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 4 months ago:
The big reveal is a huge wtf to my brain.
- Comment on Why did the pope announce anime mascots? 4 months ago:
The Jubilee is a time of celebration for Catholics.
Traditionally, the Jubilee is held every 25 or 50 years and is a time to celebrate progress, free slaves (back when slaves were legal), forgive sins, etc etc.
In a great celebration, it makes sense to add a bit of pop culture flair. It’s also common to focus on children and youth outreach during the Jubilee and an anime character does a lot for that.
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 5 months ago:
At least in the USA, it is known as the Robber Barron period as the extremely wealthy monopolized everything.
- Comment on Do you agree with my unpopular opinion about height in fencing? 7 months ago:
Foil here. Tall people suck to fight against. Skilled tall people were straight up impossible.
And I at least have right-of-way to deal with tall people. Eepee don’t got that, its all stupid hand-jabs or foot-jabs (as far as I can tell as a Foil-ist, lol).
- Comment on Do you agree with my unpopular opinion about height in fencing? 7 months ago:
that short fencers are usually quicker and dodge easier.
Lulz.
No. It’s that shorter fencers must doge quicker to compete.
In my days in College, as a 5’9" average guy, I wasn’t much faster than anyone else. And without any reach I couldn’t keep up vs the taller people either.
Just being shorter doesn’t make you faster.
- Comment on What is the conservative view on how intersex people should live their lives 7 months ago:
Something that’s turned me off of “modern” conservatism is that “modern” MAGA assholes simply refuse to believe that intersex people exist.
A reasonable Conservative following Jesus’s word should note that Jesus hung out with the leapers, Jesus not just condoned but celebrated heretics like the Samaritans, and Jesus always favored the “outsider’s opinion”. A true Christian should always be accepting of others, including Intersex people. Especially intersex, they are creations of God and if you believe that God is good then the creation of God is good.
The problems occur when the assholes start to think that Intersex is bad, anti-conservative, anti-religion or some shit. Then all of a sudden you trigger the fight-or-flight response and Conservatives lash out. There’s also a degree of historic anti-gay writings in the Bible (ex: Sodom, as well as some writings from Paul), that somehow get wrapped up into intersex issues (somehow gay == intersex in some unstudied people’s brains?!?!? Or something).
In any case, I feel like the religious interpretation is clear. Every person is holy, outsiders are welcome. If you need to denegrate Intersex individuals and call them diseased (like the Leapers of Biblical time), whatever, that’s still a group of people Jesus explicitly called out as holy, as the Leapers were more ready and willing to accept Jesus’s preaching than the Pharisees.
- Comment on Big booty meteorologists are best meteorologists 10 months ago:
I thought I’d share with you that someone really liked your post and shared it on a sublemmy I moderate: lemmy.world/post/15449701
I also like your post. I realize you’re in a shitposting topic so maybe everyone else is just… well… shitposting. But its still good to see experienced posts like yours.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 10 months ago:
Only after the Delaware court forced him to.
