LibertyLizard
@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 12 hours ago:
The courts usually give an obscene amount of deference to the police. In a high profile case like this it’s possible they’ll be slightly more by the book… but usually they wrote the book to allow police to “reasonably” violate our constitutional rights, so that only goes so far.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 12 hours ago:
Yeah that’s my concern. The courts and the police are besties and they usually have each other’s backs unless something happens that’s so blatantly criminal that they can’t find a way to excuse it. Imperfect custody of evidence doesn’t sound that way to me, but I’m no expert.
The good news for Luigi is his case has a lot of public scrutiny, which can force the courts to behave a bit better in some cases.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 13 hours ago:
You’re saying the backpack was ruled inadmissible? If so that is certainly a big deal, maybe bigger than possible jury nullification.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 17 hours ago:
Ah well I haven’t followed all those details. Prosecutorial incompetence is always a possibility.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 17 hours ago:
Right, and I think we are seeing increasing cases of jury nullification, especially for civil disobedience against ICE. However, the reality is that Lemmy is a bubble. Luigi and his alleged murder are nowhere near as popular among the greater population as he is here. So that’s why I think the chance of a hung jury is higher than nullification. Hung jury can happen if there is just one or a few people who refuse to convict. But jury nullification requires unanimity. There’s bound to be at least a few law & order boomer types on the jury. But only time will tell.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 day ago:
Not guilty seems very unlikely based on the publicly available evidence. I could see a hung jury happening though, as there are a minority of people who strongly want him to go free.
- Comment on Two women, in their own driveway, had assault rifles pointed at them. ICE agents broke their car window with a rifle stock and dragged them out. 2 weeks ago:
They’re always ready to shoot us.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Most insects don’t have a strong odor. It’s all types of ants as far as I’ve noticed.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I usually only smell it after they are agitated. I assume that’s what they meant? But usually when I’m smelling ants they are agitated.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It smells so weird and strong. I’m surprised not everyone can smell this. I wonder how common this is?
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 3 weeks ago:
Well I believe this has happened. Wasn’t brachiosaurus found to be a mashup of multiple species?
- Comment on Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat 3 weeks ago:
I’m assuming the research more meant that there were 3 cryptic species lumped into what we today call t-rex
- Comment on Are there any cultures where kissing is taboo? 3 weeks ago:
I’d say even outside of MAGA this isn’t really done. Maybe no one would object but I can’t say I really see it.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
OK, I understand your position but again that’s not what I meant. I just meant the free dissemination of information is largely legal.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
OK so it depends on what you mean by free press. I meant you can report the truth and that (usually) won’t get you arrested. I did not mean the mainstream press is always fair or honest.
There’s been a huge growth of independent journalists that give far more accurate accounts of leftist perspectives in protests, etc. Though you have to be careful because there’s plenty of dishonest independent journalists too. But if you have good media literacy and fact checking ability the information is still out there. As opposed to places where if you speak certain facts aloud you may be arrested.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell, people can still report on these facts without major safety risk. Yes, the free press is under attack but it hasn’t succumbed yet.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this is an open question to me. How many people are being sent to foreign prisons and what becomes of them there? There has been very little coverage since Kilmer Abrego Garcia was freed but my understanding is this is still ongoing.
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
We still have a (mostly) free press though. Eventually families and counsel would find out and the news would get it. Unless it started very recently I don’t find this credible.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah the first is just expressing a sentiment but you’ve taken no action to make it happen. Once you are offering people money that’s an actionable plan and you could be arrested for that.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 4 weeks ago:
I agree. To have civil war you need multiple opposing armed forces of somewhat similar military strength. I don’t really see that happening because of the purges of military leadership but an insurgency is very possible.
- Comment on [US] How are so many people able to protest? (Logistically) 4 weeks ago:
There was a very raucous council meeting in my city where a woman said she had walked out of work to be there and expected to be fired. I hope they forgave her but if not that’s fucking bad ass.
We definitely need more networks of support to help people show up because it isn’t easy.
- Comment on The fifth pocket 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry but you’re just totally ignorant on what you are talking about. I recommend reading Tending the Wild by anthropologist M Kat Anderson to educate yourself.
- Comment on The fifth pocket 4 weeks ago:
I’m not saying they created issues, but I am saying they also had a fairly intensive system of land management. So if we move to a system of little or no human intervention, that’s not a state that has existed for tens of thousands of years and we don’t know what that looks like. Could involve major ecosystem shifts, species extinctions, major fires, who knows.
- Comment on The fifth pocket 4 weeks ago:
I’m talking about indigenous land management practices.
- Comment on The fifth pocket 4 weeks ago:
So you think do nothing and hope the fires even out? I have wondered about this but it’s not clear what would happen since our ecosystems have not operated that way for tens of thousands of years–and had dozens of now extinct megafauna engineering them back then.
- Comment on The fifth pocket 4 weeks ago:
While I’m sure that would work, I don’t support conscription.
- Comment on The fifth pocket 4 weeks ago:
I love this topic but I feel like no one has a realistic solution for how we’re going to manage huge ecosystems in a very labor intensive fashion. I don’t think it’s really possible in the current socioeconomic context.
The natives did it by having the entire community involved. We may need to move towards something like that.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 5 weeks ago:
I mean there’s like pictures of the sun out there… how old is this person?
- Comment on Lab anxiety 5 weeks ago:
Are you telling me I could get paid to hand-crank my centrifuge? I’ve been doing it for free all these years.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
Leave it to Musk to make Sam Altman seem like a reasonable adult.