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treasured8elief
Jul 25, 2011

Salad Prong
https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/920011063860572160

quote:

One of the University of Florida’s top doctors recently told the Washington Post that the security operation to protect Richard Spencer on October 19 involves closing a major outpatient clinic and surgery center, disrupting students’ ability to access medical services. No student group at the University of Florida has invited Spencer, who is simply renting space for his own private event

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JUST MAKING CHILI
Feb 14, 2008

Javes posted:

https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/919930273533440000

Is there any precedent regarding a phone's pass code? If I'm not mistaken that is still protected by the 5th amendment?

FYI IOs 11 allows you to press the lock button 5 times rapidly to bring up the emergency SOS screen. That disables touch ID to unlock and requires a typed in passcode.

Talmonis
Jun 24, 2012
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.

Nevvy Z posted:

I would think not or what's the point in having it at all?

Apparently Griffin v. California argues that a refusal by invoking the fifth amendment cannot even be commented on by a judge or the prosecution. It doesn't seem to make much sense outside of the constitutional context though. It seems to allow a defendant the ability to hide evidence via omission without any logical consequence of doing so.

But then I remember that the justice system is typically a weapon used on the vulnerable, and to prevent as many miscarriages of justice against the innocent as we can, illogical rules are the price we pay.

Talmonis fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Oct 16, 2017

LITERALLY MY FETISH
Nov 11, 2010


Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

Talmonis posted:

Apparently Griffin v. California argues that a refusal by invoking the fifth amendment cannot even be commented on by a judge or the prosecution. It doesn't seem to make much sense outside of the constitutional context though. It seems to allow a defendant the ability to hide evidence via omission without any logical consequence of doing so.

But then I remember that the justice system is typically a weapon used on the vulnerable, and to prevent as many miscarriages of justice against the innocent as we can, illogical rules are the price we pay.

It's not illogical, it's having a different goal. If your goal is to reduce the amount of power the justice system has over vulnerable individuals and prevent abuses, it's very logical. That's why saying something is "illogical" doesn't mean anything and why leaving behind that kind of thinking is necessary to understanding the justice system. And also to not being a lovely person.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod



cool, gotta defend those poor nazis from justice

spencer led a flash mob of murderers to charlottesville to say "we'll be back" and the florida gov is here to say "and we'll make sure you can kill again unobstructed!"

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Condiv posted:

cool, gotta defend those poor nazis from justice

spencer led a flash mob of murderers to charlottesville to say "we'll be back" and the florida gov is here to say "and we'll make sure you can kill again unobstructed!"

Lord Voldemort is a white supremacist yes.

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice
I'm visiting Florida for work and all I can say is gently caress this place I hope it drowns. Sorry Florigoons, take one for the team.

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON
I spent many years there as a child.

Jacksonville, Florida is the closest I've seen to a city simply being a large featureless grey box.

I truly believe that there is a Hell mouth somewhere in that drat state, and I hope one day is gets sucked in, never to be seen again.

But like all nasty gnarly penises of the world, it's not going anywhere and you're just gonna have to figure out how to deal with it, even as the crusty scabs falling off make you gag.

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

bird food bathtub posted:

I'm visiting Florida for work and all I can say is gently caress this place I hope it drowns. Sorry Florigoons, take one for the team.

This is always appropriate

Edit. drat bug bunny florida gif won't load.

Heck Yes! Loam! fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Oct 16, 2017

Paradoxish
Dec 19, 2003

Will you stop going crazy in there?

The country is being run by a child and all of the adults in the room are monsters.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

He has moderated the administration and brought a sense of professionalism to the administration.

silence_kit
Jul 14, 2011

by the sex ghost

JUST MAKING CHILI posted:

FYI IOs 11 allows you to press the lock button 5 times rapidly to bring up the emergency SOS screen. That disables touch ID to unlock and requires a typed in passcode.

Lol I bet that's just for good press and that in addition to the lock 5x combination Apple also added another secret combination for the FBI/police to break into your phone.

Rent-A-Cop
Oct 15, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

bird food bathtub posted:

I'm visiting Florida for work and all I can say is gently caress this place I hope it drowns. Sorry Florigoons, take one for the team.
gently caress you! You can't drown us our air is already basically water. While the global warming super-storms devastate the rest of the country we will be barbecuing and bullshitting about how it's nothing compared to Irma/Ivan/Andrew.

NewMars
Mar 10, 2013

Rent-A-Cop posted:

gently caress you! You can't drown us our air is already basically water. While the global warming super-storms devastate the rest of the country we will be barbecuing and bullshitting about how it's nothing compared to Irma/Ivan/Andrew.

You can't barbecue underwater.

Javes
May 6, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT APPEARING OFFLINE SO I DON'T HAVE TO TELL FRIENDS THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY VIDEO GAME TEAM.
I shudder to think of how insane the corporate welfare is going to be from the city that wins the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes.

KiteAuraan
Aug 5, 2014

JER GEDDA FERDA RADDA ARA!


NewMars posted:

You can't barbecue underwater.

Tell that to Spongebob.

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Magnesium lends the meat a nice tang

DaveWoo
Aug 14, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/SecretsBedard/status/920292130203095040

Area Libertarian Endorses Guy Who Wants to Ban Certain Religions

Rockopolis
Dec 21, 2012

I MAKE FUN OF QUEER STORYGAMES BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY LIFE THAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE CRY

I can't understand these kinds of games, and not getting it bugs me almost as much as me being weird

Main Paineframe posted:

Maybe not, but there are absolutely 200 million racists, which is what I was talking about. The fact that you hear "racist" and immediately think of neo-Nazis waving swastikas is pretty striking. What about the millions of judges, teachers, and hiring managers quietly dismissing black people as just somehow not as good as white people? What about the tens of millions of wealthy white suburbanites who just "wouldn't feel safe" if black people moved into their neighborhood? If you think the only racists out there are people wearing KKK hoods, you're closer to being part of the problem than part of the solution.
-snip-
Best to break up a large problem into smaller tasks, and the goose-steppers are a subset of racists that lack the self-control that keeps the others from flinging poo poo everywhere.
It's also a look at the larger question of how to deal with people this loving broke-brained. I mean, death-to-fascists rhetoric aside, you're not supposed to just shoot all of them or advocate for that, there's no magic pill or psychosurgery that will solve the problem, how else are you supposed to treat people this far gone but with institutionalization and aggressive therapy?

Rockopolis fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Oct 17, 2017

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014

nobody cares


Rockopolis posted:

I mean, death-to-fascists rhetoric aside, you're not supposed to just shoot all of them or advocate for that

Why not

Rockopolis posted:

I there's no magic pill or psychosurgery that will solve the problem,

I can think of a few calibers

Rockopolis posted:

I how else are you supposed to treat people this far gone but with institutionalization and aggressive therapy?

Indeed

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


DaveWoo posted:

https://twitter.com/SecretsBedard/status/920292130203095040

Area Libertarian Endorses Guy Who Wants to Ban Certain Religions

not at all surprising. it's always hilarious to see libertarians that worship ron paul cause he's not even close to the standard of a libertarianism. or maybe he is if you consider libertarianism to be "freedom for me (white guy), but not for thee"

Caros
May 14, 2008

Condiv posted:

not at all surprising. it's always hilarious to see libertarians that worship ron paul cause he's not even close to the standard of a libertarianism. or maybe he is if you consider libertarianism to be "freedom for me (white guy), but not for thee"

You just described libertarianism.

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
There was a brief moment where libertarianism was more than just "i'm a republican but young enough to know republicans suck", but they've been absorbed into democrats/bernie/new republicans since.

I mean, in all practicality the democratic party is the Libertarian party, seeing as they're relaxed on social issues, favor privatized solutions, and tend to stress themselves on Balanced Budget-ing welfare programs. So the odds of an independent libertarian being libertarian based on actual libertarian ideology is super-slim

Faustian Bargain
Apr 12, 2014


Libertarians are just people who want to look intellectual but still want to enact monstrous conservative policy that only benefits them, so a standard republican with a coat of paint.



edit: oh yeah also they are mostly cool with weed.

Faustian Bargain fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Oct 17, 2017

BarbarianElephant
Feb 12, 2015
The fairy of forgiveness has removed your red text.
Libertarians want the freedom to take the liberty of others.

Condiv
May 7, 2008

Sorry to undo the effort of paying a domestic abuser $10 to own this poster, but I am going to lose my dang mind if I keep seeing multiple posters who appear to be Baloogan.

With love,
a mod


Caros posted:

You just described libertarianism.

well yeah, but they pretend to be about more and care about everyone's freedom

Majorian
Jul 1, 2009

BarbarianElephant posted:

Libertarians want the freedom to take the liberty of others.

Yup, and so do Republicans. That's why what you wrote here needs to be the standard Democratic response whenever they bloviate on about liberty.

Javes
May 6, 2012

ASK ME ABOUT APPEARING OFFLINE SO I DON'T HAVE TO TELL FRIENDS THEY'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MY VIDEO GAME TEAM.
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/920314267412418561

And this is on the heels of that Massachusetts chemist that falsified the evidence of tens of thousands of cases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Dookhan

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Rockopolis posted:

Best to break up a large problem into smaller tasks, and the goose-steppers are a subset of racists that lack the self-control that keeps the others from flinging poo poo everywhere.
It's also a look at the larger question of how to deal with people this loving broke-brained. I mean, death-to-fascists rhetoric aside, you're not supposed to just shoot all of them or advocate for that, there's no magic pill or psychosurgery that will solve the problem, how else are you supposed to treat people this far gone but with institutionalization and aggressive therapy?
"People with bad opinions need to be forcibly institutionalized and re-educated" is not a road you should be going down. I seriously hope this entire conversation is an attempt at ironic humor.

Majorian posted:

Yup, and so do Republicans. That's why what you wrote here needs to be the standard Democratic response whenever they bloviate on about liberty.
Frankly, that is an equally asinine framing. "I don't care about your rights because they keep me from exercising my rights" vs "I don't care about your rights because I'm worried that they might infringe on my rights."

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

Neurolimal posted:

I mean, in all practicality the democratic party is the Libertarian party, seeing as they're relaxed on social issues, favor privatized solutions, and tend to stress themselves on Balanced Budget-ing welfare programs. So the odds of an independent libertarian being libertarian based on actual libertarian ideology is super-slim

Libertarians don't want balanced budgets they want to destroy the state except for a few core functions, you turd.

Really there's no difference between Ron Paul and FDR because they both worried about the deficit. :rolleyes:

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012
Few libertarians will admit in-person to a desire to destroy the state, because there's too many debate pitfalls involving bipartisan programs everyone supports. Instead they attempt to point to budgetary issues that they believe could be solved via privatization.

Instant Sunrise
Apr 12, 2007


The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.
it depends on if we're talking about bush-era libertarians or obama-era libertarians.

bush-era libertarians were people who held republican positions on economics, but also didn't like the iraq war and liked weed. their positions would have destroyed the government, but they didn't really push them that hard, and the bush-era credit bubble made that kind of "privatize literally everything" conservatism palatable to mainstream audiences because the crash hadn't happened yet.

obama-era libertarians were more along the lines of "ron paul, audit the fed, purestrain gold, ayn rand is basically jesus, etc..." these people got radicalized and became part of the tea party movement and later the alt-right.

the 2008 meltdown caused libertarians to either reexamine their beliefs (and become socialists) or double down.

Rockopolis
Dec 21, 2012

I MAKE FUN OF QUEER STORYGAMES BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH MY LIFE THAN MAKE OTHER PEOPLE CRY

I can't understand these kinds of games, and not getting it bugs me almost as much as me being weird
OSHA regulations on maximum occupational noise exposure.

It just seems that it always ends up as "yes there's a pile of fascists and no, there's not much to be done about it other than try to ignore them and hope for the best :shrug:
Same problem for the vanilla racists, whether or not you think that includes Main Painframe's two hundred million. How do you deal with that poo poo? I don't think the previous status quo of "pretend nothing's wrong" is workable anymore.

Dead Reckoning posted:

"People with bad opinions need to be forcibly institutionalized and re-educated" is not a road you should be going down. I seriously hope this entire conversation is an attempt at ironic humor.
See, the framing is an attempt at ironic humor to make things less sound less depressing, but the issues at hand are serious and longstanding.
I mean, when they're pretty much objectively bad opinions, there's a bunch of people like that, how do the rest us deal with them?
Aren't we approaching a point where we will have to decide whether we actually have any self-confidence in our own morality, when we'll be pushed into choosing between "this is right and that is wrong" and "I actually have no opinions"?

Sorus
Nov 6, 2007
caustic overtones
Do we have a thread for 2018 gubernatorial elections? Just got an email from Maya (Rockeymoore Cummings) for Maryland and I guess it's time to start thinking about throwing Hogan out on his rear end.

Heck Yes! Loam!
Nov 15, 2004

a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Sorus posted:

Do we have a thread for 2018 gubernatorial elections? Just got an email from Maya (Rockeymoore Cummings) for Maryland and I guess it's time to start thinking about throwing Hogan out on his rear end.

I would be interested in this if someone wanted to put in the effort.

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich

Neurolimal posted:

Few libertarians will admit in-person to a desire to destroy the state, because there's too many debate pitfalls involving bipartisan programs everyone supports. Instead they attempt to point to budgetary issues that they believe could be solved via privatization.

Gary Johnson ran on abolishing the department of commerce, HUD, DoEd, and literally "any other department" that congress voted to abolish.

Maybe this gambit to smear democrats with a facile comparison was a mistake?

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Sorus posted:

Do we have a thread for 2018 gubernatorial elections? Just got an email from Maya (Rockeymoore Cummings) for Maryland and I guess it's time to start thinking about throwing Hogan out on his rear end.
There's the 2017 State-level Elections thread, but nothing for 2018 that I know of.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

Neurolimal posted:

Few libertarians will admit in-person to a desire to destroy the state, because there's too many debate pitfalls involving bipartisan programs everyone supports. Instead they attempt to point to budgetary issues that they believe could be solved via privatization.

Their arms must get tired pointing to every single one of them

Neurolimal
Nov 3, 2012

JeffersonClay posted:

Gary Johnson ran on abolishing the department of commerce, HUD, DoEd, and literally "any other department" that congress voted to abolish.

Yes, and that's why he lost steam. He fell into the trap of having to defend the idea of defunding things people liked, rather than sticking to "Balanced Budget" rhetoric.

"Balanced Budget" of today and "Privatize everything" are exactly the same in modern times. Trying to point to FDR despite the fact that we literally have debt that decreases with time and mountains of studies showing that the targets people who tout Balanced Budgets aim for would in fact lose us money by being defunded, is the equivalent of the republicans' "Lincoln was a republican!" poo poo.

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marathon Stairmaster sesh
Apr 28, 2009

ALL HAIL CEO NUGGET
1988-PRESENT

NewMars posted:

You can't barbecue underwater.

There's no food being cooked but it's close enough. :colbert:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQJ2jKz0umI

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