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Yes another difference is what trump did was way worse. Far more info that was far more secret.
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Main Paineframe posted:Presumably, the outside team they hired to go find the documents has as many of the correct clearances as it's reasonably possible to have. I'm not sure that "contacted a complete stranger to tell them all about the crimes" is something Trump didn't do
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World Famous W posted:mah god, they got a strike needle 
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Jaxyon posted:Yes another difference is what trump did was way worse. Far more info that was far more secret. Chelsea Manning wasn't just prosecuted for taking documents home with her, she was prosecuted for sending those documents to a foreign national with the intention that they be publicly revealed to the entire world. If there's any hard evidence that Trump has done that, it hasn't been publicly revealed yet.
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We have Maura Healey’s first official action as governor elect https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/12/nantuckets-topless-beach-bylaw-gets-ag-healeys-ok.html?outputType=amp
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pencilhands posted:We have Maura Healey’s first official action as governor elect I'm actually kind of surprised that so many places still have this as unsettled law. People sued in NYC and a bunch of other states over this 20 years ago and they all determined that making it illegal for only women to be topless was a violation of the 13th amendment.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I'm actually kind of surprised that so many places still have this as unsettled law. People sued in NYC and a bunch of other states over this 20 years ago and they all determined that making it illegal for only women to be topless was a violation of the 13th amendment. which, I mean, is fair Idris Elba's rack is both gorgeous and scandalous
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I'm actually kind of surprised that so many places still have this as unsettled law. People sued in NYC and a bunch of other states over this 20 years ago and they all determined that making it illegal for only women to be topless was a violation of the 13th amendment. unless the 13th amendment has some really unusual interpretations I’m not familiar with, I think you mean the 14th
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evilweasel posted:unless the 13th amendment has some really unusual interpretations I’m not familiar with, I think you mean the 14th lol, yes. Typo'd on the phone.
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evilweasel posted:unless the 13th amendment has some really unusual interpretations I’m not familiar with, I think you mean the 14th boobs and moobs must be free
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Well Ted Cruz’ daughter attempted suicide tonight. She apparently came out as bisexual earlier this year. No wonder she always acted like she didn’t want to be anywhere near him, the man probably made her life a living hell. She’s apparently ok. Thinking of donating to the Trevor Project in her name.
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Oracle posted:Well Ted Cruz’ daughter attempted suicide tonight. She apparently came out as bisexual earlier this year. No wonder she always acted like she didn’t want to be anywhere near him, the man probably made her life a living hell. I hope she gets the help she needs. Even if he didn't make her life a living hell, just knowing that your father supports making life harder for people like you is sure to mess with someone's head. Some random tweeted that cruz is staying in DC, so while I can't say that's for sure what he's doing, it would be the Ted Cruz thing to do. vvvvvvv well, that's good to hear. Meatball fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Brittney Griner is finally free https://twitter.com/potus/status/1600841306560937986?s=46&t=3BMoJWBD6wkjdHyEyp9P8A
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Good, now release everyone in US prison for similarly bullshit drug charges.
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Well that's awesome. Completely unrelated but I was just wondering, Trump still hasn't tweeted since being unbanned, right? My hope is that's a harbinger of things to come. I feel like he's dug himself further and further into this very specific niche whereas the rest of the alt-right still kind of wants to be mainstream. They generally saw Musk's takeover as a victory, but Trump refuses to accept it because he's still nursing some weird vague grudge that nobody else really cares about (or just an investment into his own platform I guess). Twitter may be on its deathbed, potentially, but people are still using it. It seems way more attractive to the alt-right at the moment than whatever Trump is doing. Although I still have plenty of fears about DeSantis or whoever else they might come up with, I will still be very satisfied if Trump never gets anywhere near the White House again.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Brittney Griner is finally free Did they end up trading the merchant of death for her? Seems like a big flip from Russia who was refusing to trade prisoners or talk about it before. PT6A posted:Good, now release everyone in US prison for similarly bullshit drug charges. Everyone in federal prison is out. They haven't actually jailed anyone for simple possession on the federal level since the mid 2000's. Plus, Biden pardoned everyone with federal weed possession charges and let everyone with non-violent drug offenses stay on house arrest permanently from Covid. State prisons are where 99% of the bullshit drug charges are nowadays (specifically, about 12 states in the SE and plains).
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PT6A posted:Good, now release everyone in US prison for similarly bullshit drug charges. Federally, they already have.
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Federally, they already have. with respect to Biden's clemency order for marijuana-related crimes, it released no one from prison because no one was in federal prison for simple possession of marijuana. Cases involving simple possession being prosecuted federally are comparably rare, because they have to happen in areas under federal jurisdiction. Otherwise, it's for local authorities. Those prosecutions shouldn't happen at all, though. Cranappleberry fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Sir Lemming posted:Well that's awesome. I think Trump is just smart enough to know that now isn't a good time to want to be associated with Twitter. Once the fallout from Elon finally settles down and every other tweet isn't "In case Twitter gets shut down, lol I'm so witty...", basically once the status returns to quo, he'll slip back in and claim that Twitter started improving again once he returned.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Did they end up trading the merchant of death for her? Seems like a big flip from Russia who was refusing to trade prisoners or talk about it before. Yeah, literally the dude the movie Lord of War was based on. It's the biggest trade in WNBA history.
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nerox posted:Yeah, literally the dude the movie Lord of War was based on. Yeah, I know. Even though it was probably the right thing to do, it still feels kind of funny/crazy that they traded someone named "The Merchant of Death" for a WNBA player who got arrested for a vape cartridge. nerox posted:It's the biggest trade in WNBA history. Brutal, but sadly probably true.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yeah, I know. Even though it was probably the right thing to do, it still feels kind of funny/crazy that they traded someone named "The Merchant of Death" for a WNBA player who got arrested for a vape cartridge. What's the likelihood this dude will continue his previous career? Every CIA-esque TV show I've ever watched convinces me he would be seen as tainted after spending so much time in US custody. Just doesn't seem like there was any risk here.
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skylined! posted:What's the likelihood this dude will continue his previous career? Every CIA-esque TV show I've ever watched convinces me he would be seen as tainted after spending so much time in US custody. Just doesn't seem like there was any risk here. No clue, it's just kind of a weird/funny situation where someone named "The Merchant of Death" is being traded for a WNBA player that got arrested for a vape cartridge with a small amount of THC in it.
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nerox posted:the biggest trade in WNBA history. New thread title?
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Discendo Vox posted:New thread title? Done
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PT6A posted:Good, now release everyone in US prison for similarly bullshit drug charges. Should probably do something about all the people locked up in our own brutal labor gulags on other charges, too. That would be nice.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1600583313370255360 It’s a real shame rail workers had this option stolen from them.
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Meatball posted:Some random tweeted that cruz is staying in DC, so while I can't say that's for sure what he's doing, it would be the Ted Cruz thing to do. Cruz has probably never had so many people say nice things to him. He’s not going to fly away from that.
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Nucleic Acids posted:It’s a real shame rail workers had this option stolen from them.  This is certainly good news for everyone except the airlines (actually its good news for them too in the long run).
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Fister Roboto posted:Should probably do something about all the people locked up in our own brutal labor gulags on other charges, too. That would be nice. I think any federal drug charge should be vacated. We’re so past the ability to maintain even a shred of credibility on drug laws, cocaine is just basically legal for rich people, and yet people still get arrested for pot. Just rip the klan good off this nation already and accept what we are: druggies
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More shots fired at a power plant in SC.CCBS News posted:An individual opened fire near a Duke Energy facility at Wateree Hydro Station in Ridgeway, South Carolina, on Wednesday, CBS News has learned.
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Sounds like a person doing a copycat situation, but... why copycat that when you don't even know who did it and then run away? Someone was just mad, saw this on the news, assumed it was someone on their team, and then just went out and did it? Usually, the copycat people want fame or think they are part of the movement that they are copying.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sounds like a person doing a copycat situation, but... why copycat that when you don't even know who did it and then run away? Someone was just mad, saw this on the news, assumed it was someone on their team, and then just went out and did it? Usually, the copycat people want fame or think they are part of the movement that they are copying. Maybe another chud who may or may not be associated with the first attack, and is testing police response times?
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Queering Wheel posted:Maybe another chud who may or may not be associated with the first attack, and is testing police response times? There's no info on it yet and it happened in a different state. Seems like "crazy person saw something on news and went to copy it," but we don't really know.
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Nucleic Acids posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1600583313370255360
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FlamingLiberal posted:It’s crazy how poorly we pay airline pilots considering the responsibility they are given and the long hours/ridiculous amount of training required to become one.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:There's no info on it yet and it happened in a different state. Seems like "crazy person saw something on news and went to copy it," but we don't really know. Seeing people getting away with it is going to cause an uptick in them, there's a lot of far right freaks who have been shaping their ideology and consumption patterns for decades around some "grid-goes-down and finally the Real Americans can clean this place up" scenario because it's one of the most common tropes in media targeted at them. I don't know if it qualifies as copycat but this is likely the world that whoever did these attacks lives in and there's tens of millions of them. I think we'd better start hoping the people doing it will also brag about doing so on social media so they actually get caught. Keeping attacks from getting media coverage isn't something to rely on anymore.
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Democrats are nearing a deal with Republicans to reimplement the expanded the child tax credit in exchange for reimplementing a bunch of research and investment business tax credits from the Trump tax cuts + Covid stimulus bills. The new child tax credit would be fully refundable, but would not be paid out monthly like it was initially. It would be one lump sum at the end of the year when you file your taxes. Other things that there are still no agreement on for the spending bill: - Extra money for Covid, Ukraine, and Hurricane disaster relief. - Extending certain healthcare measures funded by the stimulus bill. - Lifting the caps on defense spending and non-defense spending. - More money for the NIH, CDC, and NCI for Biden's "cancer moonshot" research program. Problems that may prevent a deal: - Kevin McCarthy is telling Senate Republicans to not agree to any deal until he has control of the House in January. - There isn't agreement on how high non-defense and defense spending should increase for government agencies. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1600858257140207616
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sounds like a person doing a copycat situation, but... why copycat that when you don't even know who did it and then run away? Someone was just mad, saw this on the news, assumed it was someone on their team, and then just went out and did it? Usually, the copycat people want fame or think they are part of the movement that they are copying. You really dont have to worry about "motive" or "reason" or "what they were thinking" with these sorts of things. They were given the programming "shooting up power stations owns the libs" and so they did it. Same as buying Goya beans or burning your Nikes and putting it on Facebook. "Why" isn't really part of it.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Sounds like a person doing a copycat situation, but... why copycat that when you don't even know who did it and then run away? Someone was just mad, saw this on the news, assumed it was someone on their team, and then just went out and did it? Usually, the copycat people want fame or think they are part of the movement that they are copying. There's flavors of American right-wing extremism that say that high-profile violence or breakdowns in public order (such as mass shootings, major infrastructure breakdowns, or natural disasters) would snowball into a collapse of American society as we know it, and that they would somehow thrive in the post-collapse America. This can range from preppers thinking they're going to be living like kings in the post-collapse society to white supremacists thinking it's going to kick off a final war of racial annihilation for control of the country. And there's a sub-group of that which adds in some accelerationism, tacking on the idea that it's better to go out of their way to try to cause that collapse in society so that they can usher in that period of far-right domination sooner. The right-wing militia plots are usually more dramatic than this, but after seeing someone cause this much damage without being caught, it's not shocking that there'd be copycats even without an explicit connection.
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