And I’m sure if not for that they’d be kind and professional. /s

US cops don’t need foreign training to murder dogs and scoff at any possibility of legal consequences. They didn’t just start being violent unaccountable assholes because Israel. The rot is home grown from at least the time of the Klan.

Why bring Israel into this? US cops do this exact thing all the time and then declare they did nothing wrong.

Because the hierarchy of society that most politicians support demands employees who are terrified of leaving their exploitative jobs. Money is a powerful motivator, but even more powerful is the health of you and your family.

And at the same time, a very sick citizen does not generate economic benefits to them, so there’s no reason to make serious care available and/or not crushingly expensive. Better to drain as much as possible from them before the dead weight succumbs to those pressures than direct any revenue that could given back to “job creators” as tax breaks of subsidies.

It’s also why political and media personalities will brag about how quickly the county recovered from COVID. It wasn’t an economic miracle, it was sacrificing lives at the altar of capitalism. It went hand in hand with our absurdly disproportionate number of deaths.

Why we don’t storm their houses and string them up from lamp posts (or, I suppose, vote them out), I don’t know.

No one got him. He called 911, confessed to the crime, and turned himself in.

He reportedly had mental health issues and had stopped taking his medication.

I think Shapiro is a shitty liberal Zionist, but there were politicians who actually had a role in the genocide if this was a sober minded political attack.

As someone already mentioned, federal takes precedence when there’s a conflict between the laws. Federal agents don’t just have immunity from local law. They still get arrested when driving drunk, even if they’re on the job at the time.

This article talked about how what ICE was doing was illegal, but didn’t ask anyone on the police force if they’d enforce the law against them.

Step one, appoint a Cobra Commander.

And the Nobel committee is sanctifying her as a saint of peace and democracy and her positions as inherently moral.

It seems like a very classical liberal move to shy away from outright embracing the fascists, but thinking if they just support them where their interests converge they can guide them from the shadows to deal with their problems.

They really shouldn’t, and it’s been a problem for a lot longer than Trump. BLM didn’t come about because there was a functioning justice system willing to cast a critical eye to its operatives. The idea that certain individuals are just trustworthy by default is what breeds a culture of unaccountability.

It also just feels weird to make a choice that itself is likely to promote war. Trump is seemingly too stupid to immediately capitalize on this, but raising Venezuela’s dictatorship up to being the most important dictatorship in the world and then praising someone in favor of military intervention by a country currently trying to spark a war for repressive purposes seems incredibly irresponsible for a committee seeking to promote “peace”.

This trailer gave me basically no information about what the show will be about. Is it a coming of age school drama? A slice of life about up and coming Starfleet officers? A story about an improbably young group of protagonists situated in the heart of a galactic superpower saving the day?

One of the interesting things Disney Star Wars has tried, to varying levels of success, was trying out new genres within the universe to justify running many different shows simultaneously. Why set this at the Academy unless you’re going to do something different?

If ICE was a legal organization simply pushed to extreme action by the legions of antifa supersoldiers continually attacking them (10000000% assaults!!!), you’d think priority #1 would be recording everything that happens to them. That would be a good tool to get the general public on their side and show that they aren’t just roid-raging Nazi incels. But somehow that’s just slipped through the cracks. It’s almost like having reliable footage of their activities would be a bad thing for what they want to do. Like a criminal organization.

What I appreciate most here is not that they told them to stop, which may be challenged and rejected by fascists in the judiciary, but that they stated that ICE and the government in general aren’t credible. They’ve just been making things up and being given a default of assuming good faith. It’s like the courts that just take “I feared for my life” at face value, despite the fact that saying that magic phrase regardless of the situation is taught in courses and their fears are based on fantasies. A court that’s unwilling to judge the credibility and rationality of a defendant isn’t a functioning court.

Not in his district, but this feels like something that would make more people want to vote for him. I have more trust in someone that sees and hears Stephen Miller and has an instinctual desire to beat the shit out of him than anyone who wants to engage him in spirited debate.

Also, if he’s elected to Congress, that drastically increases his chances of being in an elevator with Stephen Miller and I want that to happen.

Billionaires don’t buy media to make a profit. If they ruin their reputation with half their audience, but get to disrupt a pathway to mainstream criticism while also still smuggling through propaganda for the ones who stay, that’s a good investment.

The “law doesn’t matter” fatalists forget that the people who would be needed to implement a court ruling are the same group being threatened with their pay being withheld. The core of legal fatalism is that few people will risk their own personal best interests to stand up against tyranny, but in this case they’re not standing up for someone else, they’re writing checks to themselves and all their work friends for thousands of dollars. They’re in a better material situation by writing the check, getting fired, and filing a lawsuit than just meekly going along.

The option is right there in the article:

Under provincial law, Ontario has the power to seize the whales to ensure their safety – recouping any costs incurred when the park is sold.

No, a court temporarily barred national guard from being sent to Portland. Going there is currently an illegal order.

This sounds like one of those clear cut “illegal orders” the military oaths are supposed to protect us from.