Biden says he's concerned 2024 election won't be 'peaceful' after Trump, Vance comments
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    or he’s going to win (or be handed the win by the Supreme Court Rubber-stamping Service),

    I agree with your comment in general and apologize for what may sound like a bit of a flippant reply, but I actually think what would worry me the most is if it it goes to SCOTUS and they somehow do NOT install Trump. I think the super-faithful deep-state-believers would lose their effing minds at that turn of events - this is where I would expect to see the violence ramping up the fastest.

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  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?
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    Let me just say I love an effing Payday. And recently I discovered this, which is kinda like a Payday if the center part was hollwed out into a tube and filled with peanut butter. So damn delicious.

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  • Short Memories =T
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    The people asking that question with a straight face won't believe you that those morgue trucks existed, just like they didn't believe Covid existed or was worse than the flu.

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  • J.D. Vance Lashes Out After the Smallest Fact-Check in V.P. Debate
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    I’m not sure if there’s a way to know without checking.

    There's not, but I still had a post removed for it. (Worse, after I'd agreed to change it when notified, but not cheerfully enough or something.)

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  • Letters to the Editor: Your 'protest vote' for Jill Stein is really a vote for Donald Trump
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    Hmm maybe. I agree it should be a national holiday and I agree that the current situation provides far more barriers for some groups than others.

    Do I think those things are solely or even primarily responsible for that map? No, I do not.

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  • Kamala Harris signals she'll go further than Biden on marijuana legalization "we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior"
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    I haven’t heard that, do you have a source?

    I went looking for one, and it seems not as cut and dried as I thought.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-record-marijuana-prosecutor-173249390.html

    But it is fair to talk about Harris’ complex relationship with marijuana.

    As a senator, Harris championed marijuana decriminalization and eventually legalization. She signed Senator Cory Booker’s marijuana legalization bill in 2017, and she also introduced her own bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.

    But as an attorney general, her record is much more complicated. Harris oversaw roughly 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for “marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale,” according to Reuters. However, defense attorneys and prosecutors in Harris’ office told Mercury News that most of the people convicted during this period did not serve jail time. And convictions for marijuana did go down under Harris’ tenure as district attorney.

    At the end of the day, calling Harris out on her previous role in convicting folks for marijuana crimes isn’t entirely unfair. But it’s also pretty misleading to pretend that she pulled a switcheroo on the issue just in time for the midterms.

    This article spins it slightly differently, IMO, but still not solidly stating what I believed to be true. Bold added by me.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/five-takeaways-from-kamala-harris-s-all-the-smoke-podcast-interview/ar-AA1rumR4

    As district attorney in San Francisco, however, she had enforced cannabis laws and opposed legalized use for adults. She defended its usage for medicinal purposes, but her prosecutors convicted over 1,900 people on cannabis-related charges. When she was running for reelection as attorney general, she opposed legalizing marijuana for recreational use, which was supported by her GOP opponent.

    That aside, it remains true that at this point it's nothing but a campaign promise.

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  • Georgians get fast Hurricane aid from Biden and Harris … and it’s driving Trump crazy
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    They'll never hear about it.

    I guarantee the media they are listening to showed them this:

    “The governor’s doing a very good job. He’s having a hard time getting the president on the phone,” Trump told reporters. “The federal government is not being responsive.”

    But never showed them this:

    “The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back and he just said, ‘Hey, what do you need?’ And I told him, ‘We got what we need. We’ll work through the federal process. He offered that if there’s other things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that,” Kemp said.

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  • Kamala Harris signals she'll go further than Biden on marijuana legalization "we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior"
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    So he promised to decriminalize, but did nothing to make good on that promise until most of his term in office had passed, and that's why we aren't done with the lengthy process to get there yet. Your answers throughout the discussion seem to keep glossing over the bolded part. (unless I have some misunderstanding, which is possible)

    And that is the part that makes me doubtful Kamala will be any different.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/43424862 > Police in a majority-Black Mississippi city **discriminate against Black people, use excessive force and retaliate against critics**, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathing report detailing findings of an investigation into civil rights abuses. > > The Lexington Police Department “has created a system where officers can relentlessly violate the law” in one of the poorest counties in America, according to the Justice Department. Investigators found **police also sexually harassed women and kept people behind bars for minor offenses because they couldn’t afford to pay fines**. > > “Today’s findings show that the Lexington Police Department abandoned its sacred position of trust in the community by routinely violating the constitutional rights of those it was sworn to protect,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19963910 > JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into a Mississippi sheriff’s department whose officers [tortured two Black men](https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-goon-squad-sentencing-6d0fb2b195ec319411a2ee2333b5f5d6) in a racist attack that included beatings, repeated use of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth, officials said Thursday.  > > The Justice Department will investigate whether the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force and unlawful stops, searches and arrests, and whether it has used racially discriminatory policing practices, according to Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke. > > Five Rankin sheriff’s deputies pleaded guilty in 2023 to breaking into a home without a warrant and engaging in an [hourslong attack](https://apnews.com/article/rankin-mississippi-deputies-civil-rights-brutality-2c2154e67cc6cd3b9a28cb16686f2a5c) on Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker. A sixth officer, from the Richland Police Department, was also convicted in the attack

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    Medina offered two puzzling excuses for leaving his camera off. He "cited intermittent conversations with his wife, who was a passenger in his unmarked patrol vehicle at the time of the collision," Ortiz says. "He claimed there was a right to privileged communication between spouses, which specifically exempted him from mandatory recording requirements." But the relevant policy "does not provide for nonrecording based on spousal privilege." Even more troubling, Medina said he "purposefully did not record because he was invoking his 5th Amendment right not to self-incriminate." Since "he was involved in a traffic collision," he reasoned, he was "subject to 5th Amendment protections."

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    cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13349939 > cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13145612 > > > (edit) Would someone please ship some counterfeit money through there and get it confiscated, so the police can then be investigated for spending counterfeit money?

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19678700 > The New York Police Department has tossed out hundreds of civilian complaints about police misconduct this year without looking at the evidence. > > The cases were fully investigated and substantiated by the city’s police oversight agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, and sent to the NYPD for disciplinary action. They included officers wrongfully searching vehicles and homes, as well as using excessive force against New Yorkers. > > In one instance, an officer punched a man in the groin, the oversight agency found. In another, an officer unjustifiably tackled a young man, and then another officer wrongly stopped and searched him, according to the CCRB. > > The incident involving the young man was one of dozens of stop-and-frisk complaints the NYPD dismissed without review this year — a significant development given that the department is still under federal monitoring that a court imposed more than a decade ago over the controversial tactic.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031755 > My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album. > > There's a remix that actually *has bells*, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.

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    My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album. There's a remix that actually *has bells*, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031449 > I have the unpopular opinion that aside from a couple specific songs I've been lukewarm to every LL Cool J album later than *Radio* (which was such a banger), but this is so eyebrow-raisingly off the path of what I tend to expect from LL Cool J that I had to post here. > > I literally came blind to this new album, and just before hitting play I thought - well unfortunately I can predict I'm not going to get any hard social commentary like from dead prez or etc... > > 30 secs later it felt like that thought had personally offended him. Track 1 no less. > >

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