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22 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:
Has a comedian handed him a sharpie and asked him to sign a meatball yet? Cause that would be fun. Just hand him a saucy one like it's completely normal and get his reaction. He might even throw it at the guy.
Nah...
He'd just slowly eat it with his fingers then after, look at that person like a psycho while he licked his fingers clean...
Then he'd ask for some pudding for dessert
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Couple of things...
First, Powell won't be able to take books to jail... they can only come directly from the publisher, or a store.
Second, sure clearly missed quot a few items on that list.
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3 hours ago, Sawbonz said:
My grandmother was half Choctaw. She and her brother were orphaned and spent some of their childhood w Choctaw relatives on a reservation. My grandmother hated indians her whole adult life because of the abuse she took from the neighbor adults and children and even her own relatives for being half white. She married my grandfather, a white son of a sharecropper who finished 4th grade before his dad made him quit to work on the farm and rent out to pick cotton for others full time, when she was 18 and they got the fuck out.
During residency I took care of a lot of Indians from the various reservations and one of my intern mates was a Cherokee who grew up on a reservation. He knew one other guy his age who wasn’t a full blown alcoholic, meth addict, or wetbrained from huffing paint. And several were dead or in nursing homes by mid 20’s
I’m glad my ancestors made it out of that situation and if there’s a chance to save a kid from growing up in it I’m on the side of getting them the fuck out
While I'm sure that this would be getting into crt... I'm pretty certain that we could trace these results back to certain aspects of historical abuses, like certain governmental abduction policies that we would call genocide were we examining it today (ex. Russia/Ukraine...)
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20 minutes ago, tchookem said:30 minutes ago, SKJ said:There's a podcast called "this land" by crooked media that goes into detail about this.
It's pretty fucking grossWilling to cliffs notes this? I'm not sure my soul can take listening to a full podcast about these people.
Quick synopsis from the pod site:
ALM – as referred to in court documents – is a Navajo and Cherokee toddler. When he was a baby, a white couple from the suburbs of Dallas wanted to adopt him, but a federal law said they couldn’t. So they sued. Today, the lawsuit doesn’t just impact the future of one child, or even the future of one law. It threatens the entire legal structure defending Native American rights.
In season 2 of This Land, host Rebecca Nagle investigates how the far right is using Native children to quietly dismantle American Indian tribes.
It's really fascinating, actually... They go through the whole thing beginning with the group that they kind of belonged to that started adopting native kids to basically save their souls, which is just a rerun of atrocities in the past, and showing how they got free legal work from a special interest group that keeps testing cases to try and undo Indian law...
It's not just about those freaks. It's fascinating in its hideousness, but makes some great ties to the overarching movement.
It's not a hard listen
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On 6/15/2023 at 9:47 AM, swraith said:
Its hard for me to understand why Chad and Jennifer Brackeen even challenged the Indian Child Welfare act.
There's a podcast called "this land" by crooked media that goes into detail about this.
It's pretty fucking gross
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On 6/10/2023 at 1:54 PM, TwiceHorn said:
I don't think it's special treatment. Butner is the hospital prison, such as it is, as is Carswell for women. If you're sick enough, you get sent to Butner. BOP has an obligation not to neglect (entirely) the medical care of prisoners.
Last i recall, Springfield, Missouri was the only medical facility that could deal with admax patients...
I'm not sure butner was rated for max security... But i could be wrong, it's been a long time.
By the way, there's like 6 medical facilities... They're designated as FMC, while Springfield is designated MCFP
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7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
He has to keep the Tesla stock price up, while at the same time selling off a shitload of it to meet the Twitter payments.
SpaceX?
If he finds himself booted out of Tesla like what happened when he was kicked out as PayPal CEO, I'd imagine the first thing that gets chopped is the fucking CyberTruck and then the CyberShovels.
So will he still be a billionaire if Twitter fails?
I mean, he'll still be a rich fuck, but billionaire? He's selling off his only assets to cover the dumbest acquisition in the history...
3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:Boring and hyper loop?
Boring has already basically failed. They pulled out of their sales with a few cities before starting...
Hyper loop doing anything?
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1 hour ago, Grade of D as in David said:
Exactly. I think he knows that if he caves then the Elmo fanboys that have been keeping Tesla's stock so overvalued will bail from both Twitter and TSLA and then it's all over. Meaning he will still be a billionaire but won't have his toys anymore.
Will he, though?
How much of that wealth is stock?
How much of that stock is leveraged in Twitter?
If that house if cards falls, what will be left over that is his?
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On 4/29/2023 at 10:50 AM, Stilicho said:Originalism is a deliberate interpretive choice. It's not the only the means of interpreting constitutional text and its relatively new compared to other forms of interpretation (Brennan / T. Marshall "living constitutionalism"). It really hit the legal mainstream under Reagan, championed by Scalia.
To interpret the Constitution under originalism is to disregard most, if not all, historical and legal context that has occurred in this country since its ratification. It seeks to enshrine law and the definitions of terms in the Constitution perpetually in 1783 or 1865 (ratification of the Reconstruction Amendments). There is no evidence, that I've run across, that any of the Federalists or drafters of the constitution were under the illusion that the Constitution was a static document. J. Marshall directly states that it is not, and since Madison wrote the damn thing, you think he would've argued the point in Marbury. He didn't.
In practice, originalism does not seek to protect civil rights. The only civil rights that originalism has successfully "protected" have been 2A rights (which are relatively new in historical interpretation) and putting its thumb on the religion side of the state / religion scale. I can assure that modern 4th Amendment jurisprudence does not reflect 1783 realities, for example. How the hell could it?
Most civil rights, as we know them, have been derived by judicial interpretation of the 14th Amendment (substantive due process). There are problems with the way the Court has defined those rights and where they "come" from (the first substantive due process case was actually Dred Scott), but originalism works against substantive due process, not with it. It's a legal response to the recognition of all sorts of civil rights under the 14th Amendment in the post-WWII era. It was "invented" strictly as a means of limiting constitutional scope and protections. It's a more educated Rush Limbaugh telling you the Constitution doesn't technically offer protections because they are not enumerated verbatim. That's not what the Constitution was, is, or was ever intended to be. At least not to my eyes.
Scalia, and others, have argued that it is meant to force legislative responsibility back on Congress, rather than have the judiciary be the final arbiter of what can be interpreted out of the 14th Amendment. In other words, Congress should pass laws or Constitutional amendments codifying interpretations of civil rights, so that they cannot be taken away by later Court opinions (like... abortion). That sounds nice in theory, but we have used the Court as a political proving ground going all the way back to Marbury. The amendment process is more or less dead in our current political gridlock (ERA been on the block for... 40ish years now?). It would be nice if we relied on judicial interpretation less, but its been baked into the system so to speak. There was never in any real chance that the federal government would suddenly become better legislators because a few hardcore conservative justices decided to be pedantic dicks about everything and go out of there way to make life for many Americans harder than it needs to be, and it's already hard enough for a lot of folks.
Originalism is the trickle-down economics of constitutional interpretation. It's spun up bullshit to keep certain interests in power perpetually. The shinejob that the Founders never intended the Constitution to be interpreted in a context outside of their own is a marketing ploy to conservatives to make them feel better about fucking people over legally.
Finally, the ultimate irony of originalism and its prohibition on substantive due process is that gets tossed out the window by Scalia, its chief proponent, when he goes looking for constitutional protections for the 2nd Amendment in Heller and and for religion in Hobby Lobby. Like every other weapon in the conservative's limited arsenal, it is not meant to be equitable. It's just another power grab under shoddy veneer.
It also completely ignores the plain text of the 9th amendment.
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At this point, it's almost that the conservative justices can't rescue themselves from cases due to entanglements because they'd have to do it in almost every damn case, which would negate their whole majority...
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6 hours ago, MillerEP said:
I wish this were true of our Georgia, too, but i doubt it
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16 hours ago, UpperWestside said:
That video was cringe-worthy, but more importantly it showcased what hate sounds like while invoking God’s name into the equation. When you meet people like that who espouse the things that absolute cretin said just walk away and realize you just dealt with a hateful religious zealot, because make no mistake, that video was pure hatred for your fellow human beings.
The worst part about people like that is that they believe they're supposed to be like that. They believe that to their core. True believers.
They reframe the arguments in such a way that they're the heroes. They're the ones with the knowledge and the truth and they're gonna fix us all with their righteousness... Because they think they're actually saving us from ourselves.
Mutilating surgeries? Banning sexually explicit materials? They believe they're right so much that they take those arguments to almost unrecognizable places so they can exist in their heads as love.
Pieces of shit want us all to be saved
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I would like to add one thing.
Nowhere in the bible does it say to force your beliefs on another.
Nowhere in the bible does it say to be political and try to mold the world into its morality.
In fact, this:"Giving to God what belongs to God means seeing the face of God in every human being and respecting the dignity of each person and defending his or her right to life...”
O Could go on, cut there's no reason
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I've said this a few times, but we need to start a PAC called GROOP...
Get Religion Out Of Politics
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I am currently microdosing.
I found myself in an unhealthy relationship with alcohol after going through something. During that time i was drinking too much i found myself needing to pass out to get sleep, or I'd have nightmares, or just general insomnia.
I started a few months ago. I buy an ounce every other month or so, turn them into dust, then make capsules. I do .5 g every day in the evening.
Haven't drank since.
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3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
My understanding is that many think they can talk their way out of the arrest. When in reality, they’re just helping the prosecution.
Well, to be fair, it is a tactic the cops use to get you to talk knowing that they wouldn't use any exculpatory evidence you even brought up.
It's a carefully crafted script so-to-speak...
You just have to know going on that anything you say that could exonerate you will never be used to help you.
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2 hours ago, Clarence Worley said:
Agree with you @SKJ. It is hard to get through life without friends though. There are times in your life when you need a friend to avoid absolute tragedy and you can never predict when that time will be. I’m learning that more and more as I get older.
If my friend had a criminal record, I wouldn’t believe him at all. Also, he wouldn’t be my friend. But he doesn’t have a criminal record. The dude is in his mid-50s. I can’t imagine that he would wake up one day as he is getting close the retirement and decide to be a pedophile. Anything is possible, but there is not a history of this kind of behavior.
Well, i don't have friends... And i do have a record...
The thing about addiction, and pedos and rapists, is that they get more bold as their need grows... So there's that.
Maybe he's on his way to being a serial killer? Maybe the government just caught him in a sting? Or maybe he was entrapped?
Or maybe he got more and more bold and got caught.
Occam's razor and all.
Maybe, since you like having friends, you get you some with a record so you can learn about life...
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Advice on friends: don't have them.
Advice on getting arrested: shut the fuck up and don't answer a single question without a lawyer present.
Advice on kiddie porn possession: it's probably not easy to come by
Advice on trusting a "friend" who gets knocked for having kiddie porn that's not easy to come by: don't do it... You shouldn't have friends, anyway.
I don't know much about pedophiles, other than knowing that they're going to be put in p.c. if they do any time, but i do know about criminals, and they always have a story about how it wasn't their fault, and how there is some crazy conspiracy to catch them... But what the fuck are they doing in the situation?
No one is ever guilty. But guilt doesn't matter in court... It's what they can prove. And dumbass is already taking so he's locked into his story, so it better be the one that saves him because he's there's no other alternative.
Just so you know, your lawyer can create doubt in a million ways and provide hundreds of stories that would tend to be exculpatory... But a defendant only gets one shot and that's how story forever on record.
But who knows, maybe he's the one innocent creep that got some random email that they clicked on?
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14 hours ago, hornmpa96 said:
Personally, I would also means-test for social security as it’s crazy that the government is sending checks to those who don’t need it.
Ha ha ha fucking means testing.
Let's make everything harder so we can have the appearance that we're going to stop the 1% of fraud that's going to happen anyway.
Fucking means testing
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3 glasses of champagne and i can't sleep. Happy fucking new years.
Haven't drank a drop since September, and kind of lamenting that
2022 was better than 2021... Here's to hoping that we're on the upswing.
Love this place and most of you assholes. Happy New Year's
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On 12/6/2022 at 9:09 AM, Gatorubet said:
Yeah, we should trade some rando holiday for Stanislav Petrov Day.
September 26th is Stanislav Petrov day
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Duke doing his share
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"Not so fast" says the Supreme Court originalists...
Originalism is working