pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 66%
If only you had spell check and the motivation to fix your broken society instead of complaining about having to learn shit.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 100%
People need to start eating healthier in general, but they feel like they're having their boundaries stepped all over when people tell them that. That's one of the reasons you got downvoted probably.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 30%
Yeah, people make claims in debate, not points.
I don't list reasons because it's self-evident and very blatantly obvious why. Go to the news subs on any Lemmy server and you'll see why.
You're just angry I am not giving you the fight that you want because you saw me saying something that opposes your little political agenda, and so you came here to proselytize.
Literally no one said anything about punishment at all but here you are, peddling your enabling crap, just like I knew one of you would. You're here proselytizing, like a Jehovah's Witness.
Well, I'm not playing along. I said societies can't function under Blackstone's formulation and my stance is not gonna change because you don't like it. You can't bully me into submitting to your dogmatic cult bullshit.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 100%
You might not, but I do.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 50%
Which pretty much proves my point, thanks.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 37%
The claim I'm making is that systemic flaws are unavoidable and therefore Blackstone's formulation is a pile of horseshit.
It literally doesn't even matter what system I think would be better. I claimed that societies can't function under Blackstone's formulation and our present circumstances prove that point handily.
Just because you are happy with it doesn't mean it's good or that other people should just accept it.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 23%
I'll take the bait. Blackstone was wrong and no society can actually function under that kind of a premise.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 100%
As opposed to, say, actual democracy.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 100%
You actually do likely have enough space to have a vertical aeroponic garden, or at least a window box.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 50%
She's absolutely right.
She just understands America is in actual fact an authoritarian, racist shithole that requires beating its citizens' spirits into the ground so they can be enslaved and exploited for their masters, that's all. And she's being more honest about it than most.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 66%
Doesn't using straw in roofing or insulation spread bed bugs? I remember reading how the little monsters used to spread in medieval Europe that way, and in their straw mattresses.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 100%
You misunderstand what I mean. The reason taxes don't work is because governments are inherently corruptible and thus can't be trusted with our tax money. We need a decentralized, incorruptible system that can't be wrecked or stolen from before we can talk about putting our money into anything substantial.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 60%
No it isn't. There's nothing stopping us from, for example, growing our own crops and trading them to each other. And we can do that whether or not it's legal.
Point in fact, triggering them into outlawing something so harmless would kind of be the point. Then it would force a confrontation they would lose because so many people would be negatively affected -- especially the right wing which already does this in their rural communities.
🤔 Come to think of it, it might be one of the better ways to solve the problem than any other idea anyone has come up with...
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 100%
Why would sovereign citizens participate in court proceedings at all? 🤔
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 75%
Cars shouldn't require cell phone towers to function. It's a CAR.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 50%
Literally anyone who is not a white male here IS living in a despotic dictatorship where they are oppressed with overt violence. And your tax dollars pay for that.
The systemic violence isn't actually possible without tax dollars, especially at the state and local level.
🤔 Maybe that's the answer to our problems. Just to not pay taxes and starve the beast.
pinkdrunkenelephants Now • 100%
It's the only way we'd be able to organize and fight a revolution to get them off of our backs though.
Plus it can be decentralized so that they can't take it down by force.
apnews.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10963396 > Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher said Friday. > > Mike Wiggins vowed to get to the bottom of it, posting Thursday on X, formerly Twitter: “If you hoped to silence or intimidate us, you failed miserably. We’ll find out who did this. And another press run is imminent.” > > The newspaper posted the story on social media and [removed its website paywall](https://www.ouraynews.com/2024/01/17/girl-rapes-occurred-chiefs-house/) so people could read about the felony sexual assault charges filed against three men, including a relative of the police chief, for actions that allegedly occurred at a May 2023 party in Ouray where drugs and alcohol were used, according to court records. The suspects were ages 17, 18 and 19 at the time, and the person who reported the rapes was 17, records said.
truthout.org
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/778012 > “I’m just ashamed that this bill even came into fruition,” a Lexington council member said.
www.jsonline.com
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/777530 > Whose responsibility is it to protect unhoused when it's freezing outside? An Ohio pastor opened his church to the homeless and was charged by city.
www.cnn.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10685418 > Three migrants, a woman and two children, drowned Saturday in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas – very recently the epicenter of the migrant crisis – just days after state authorities blocked the US Border Patrol from accessing miles of the US-Mexico border, according to a post on X by Rep. Henry Cuellar. > > “This is a tragedy, and the State bears responsibility,” Cuellar, a Democrat from Texas, said on X, formally known as Twitter. > > The congressman said Border Patrol learned a group of six migrants were in distress in the Rio Grande at about 9 p.m. on Friday. > > Border Patrol called the Texas Military Department, the Texas National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety but “were unsuccessful” at relaying the information by phone, Cuellar said in the social media post. Federal agents then went to the gate at Shelby Park, set up by Texas authorities, to provide the information, Cuellar said. > > “However, Texas Military Department soldiers stated they would not grant access to the migrants – even in the event of an emergency – and that they would send a soldier to investigate the situation,” Cuellar said on X.
slate.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10533741 > _Red states would rather let a patient die than let her terminate a dangerous pregnancy. And they’re barely pretending otherwise._ > > For many years before S.B. 8 passed in Texas and was then swept into existence by the Supreme Court, and before Dobbs ushered in a more formal regime of forced childbirth six months later, the groups leading the charge against reproductive rights liked to claim that they loved pregnant women and only wanted them to be safe and cozy, stuffed chock-full of good advice and carted around through extra-wide hallways for safe, sterile procedures in operating rooms with only the best HVAC systems. > > Then Dobbs came down and within minutes it became manifestly clear that these advocates actually viewed pregnant people as the problem standing in the way of imaginary, healthy babies—and that states willing to privilege fetal life would go to any and all lengths to ensure that actual patients’ care, comfort, informed consent, and very survival would be subordinate. > > We are only beginning to understand the extent to which pregnant women are dying and will continue to die due to denials of basic maternal health care, candid medical advice, and adequate treatment.
www.propublica.org
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11214131 > At least 1,201 people were killed in 2022 by law enforcement officers, about 100 deaths a month, according to Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit research group that tracks police killings. ProPublica examined the 101 deaths that occurred in June 2022, a time frame chosen because enough time had elapsed that investigations could reasonably be expected to have concluded. The cases involved 131 law enforcement agencies in 34 states. > > In 79 of those deaths, ProPublica confirmed that body-worn camera video exists. But more than a year later, authorities or victims’ families had released the footage of only 33 incidents. > > Philadelphia signed a $12.5 million contract in 2017 to equip its entire police force with cameras. Since then, at least 27 people have been killed by Philadelphia police, according to Mapping Police Violence, but in only two cases has body-camera video been released to the public. > > ProPublica’s review shows that withholding body-worn camera footage from the public has become so entrenched in some cities that even pleas from victims’ families don’t serve to shake the video loose.
