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zoux posted:Court costs and fees are a massive problem for low income people who get put into the criminal justice system, often putting them in jail for missing payments and fines. These are how governments pay for CJ rather than through a progressive tax system, and if you bring up just how punishing and onerous these fees and fines are on the people who bear them they just say "well maybe they shouldn't commit crimes then I was out with my sister and some friends of hers in Manhattan and we got ticketed by a cop because we were shooting the poo poo with him while we were drunk at 2am and then he accidentally slipped over a curb and fell on his rear end. He got mad and wrote us tickets for drunk and disorderly. We didn't even laugh, and one of our guys offered to help him up, but he was just pissed off and fined us for being in the general vicinity. So, yeah, that's my story of bullshit tickets in NYC.
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Neeksy posted:Honestly I feel a bit conflicted with the Charlie Hebdo stuff. Context matters in satire. Maybe that cartoon is lampooning French racism, or maybe it's lampooning French politics, or maybe they're just trying to be shocking for the sake of being shocking. Taking a single cartoon from a body of work can give you a distorted view of an artist. 
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Cloud Potato posted:
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Nosfereefer posted:Why is the manhole on fire? Yours aren't? We've had flaming manholes here in Minneapolis since at least the late-70's. What primitive shithole are you living in?
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Sandpuppy posted:Boehner looks like he came straight from a Gorillaz video. They all do. I've never seen Telnaes' work before, she's really talented.
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I never looked into the history of why Muslims decided that depicting Mohammed is blasphemous, but I always figured that it was a part of Orthodox Christianity's Iconoclast leanings that the Turks absorbed into their DNA after they conquered Byzantium. The veil was certainly popularized by the Ottoman court.
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Xenochrist posted:Also, why is there an elephant on that trash-heap? Represents the GOP-establishment who turned their back on true conservatives in order to empower themselves in our godless secular liberal society. They are secret liberals, but there is no where to hide. No, really.
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Ague Proof posted:For some reason I read this comic as 'vote against Obama by assassinating him'. I'm assuming it's not that. He's referring to the Fredrick Douglass quote, "A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box."
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Rorus Raz posted:Especially hated in this thread. That was the first time that I've seen it. I actually growled a tiny bit.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:I don't get this one. Lawmaker is in favor of a bill, and therefore should recuse themself from voting on decisions regarding it? Doesn't that imply that everyone should recuse themselves from all votes on bills since they'd have to be in favor or against it to make a decision anyway? I'm not seeing the conflict of interests here. Elena Kagen is a Supreme Court justice.
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minimalist posted:There is precisely one Supreme Court justice who has been literally caught napping during oral arguments, but gently caress if you'll ever see Rameriz mock that one. To be fair, Clarence Thomas has said many times over that he considers oral arguments to be a complete waste of his time and that he wouldn't attend them at all if he didn't have to.
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WarpedNaba posted:Are we supposed to dislike this chap? How are we supposed to dislike Wallace of W&G? I don't make many absolute pronouncements, but anyone who doesn't like Wallace of W&G is a bad person through and through.
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PrBacterio posted:
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I know it's Muir but it still bears being asked, where the gently caress do these people even come up with this poo poo? This is what strikes me about the right these days, they don't even have any real grievances even within their own warped worldview so they have to make them up out of thin air in order to be able to even complain.
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Selachian posted:I'm ... not really sure what Bell is trying to say here. Boomers are fat and self-indulgent? Oh no! He only lived to be 84. Man, fatty foods sure kill 'em young.
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Eight Dollars posted:The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. might be releasing Jonathan Pollard guys. Get ready for Kirschen to explode. Well, now we know how far Obama will go to calm the Israelis down. The CIA is going to poo poo bricks though.
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Mordiceius posted:
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Jethro posted:Jonathan Pollard to be released I hope he dies in agony on November 19th.
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RyokoTK posted:I wonder if anyone in Israel actually gives a gently caress about Jonathan Pollard. They really do. News that he's going to be freed is all over the front page of the Jerusalem Post.
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Rorus Raz posted:Please nobody actually try to look up Brian and ask if b-list political cartoonist Ted Rall eviscerated him with a drill press. Alternately, someone look up Brian and tell him that Ted Rall was the guy who boobytrapped the drill press.
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