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Well, I dunno. Pardons are good when the justice system fails and locks up innocent people for decades. The burden of proof on appeals is set so high that the appeals system is broken in and of itself. Think about all the racially motivated prosecutions throughout the years, the unjustly prosecuted anarchists, the bribed juries, the kangaroo court shenanigans, etc. How many stories have we heard of cops badgering the wrong person for dozens of hours in interrogation until they got false confessions? All because cops’ egos are so absurd that they refuse to admit they might have come to the wrong conclusions with incomplete information. I’m all for pardons in crimes against individuals. The problems isn’t in the case structure, it’s in the person doling out the pardons.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump fan dismisses Epstein files because it's 'human nature' to molest kids
5·1 year agoYes, that is what I came to fucking talk about. I’m shocked you’re the only one. How fucking deluded. And people hear “74” and think flighty and only partially lucid, I think. But that is not that old. This is a fully conscious, thinking, feeling person and she has the most brainwashed thinking ever. Literally bartered woman syndrome it seems. Just so completely gaslit that it’s delusional.
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politics @lemmy.world•ICE chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks during arrest raids
242·1 year agoRemoved by mod
Hm. I dunno. That’s such a weird statement lol
I mean, the entire interview is for viewers and not interviewees, right? A “gotcha” moment in a debate between people at a lunch table still makes the gotted (lol) person start to panic and stumble over their words and start vomiting nonsense much like we saw here. If you have two opposing views and one person gets the upper hand, both people know it (even if the other person absolutely refuses to admit it, which they almost never do)
At least it’s just one yike and not multiple yikes
A reasonable yike ratio
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Political Memes@lemmy.world•In both cases, useful idiots say "If we just let them win, it will be easier to defeat them by the Spontaneous Uprising Of The People(tm)!"
11·1 year agoIsn’t that ISIS, not the taliban?
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politics @lemmy.world•CBS will end 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' next year
4·1 year agoTorrent shit
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politics @lemmy.world•‘Burning Hatred’: CNN’s Scott Jennings Gets NY Democrat to Admit He’s Being Targeted Because He Supports Israel
1·1 year agolol sorry for suggesting you read something that could benefit you and your community. But if you want an elevator pitch, sure:
Anarchism is all about mutual aid. The system (yes, it’s a system. It’s not “anarchy is chaos” like you seem to be implying—and like the centuries-long conditioning has made people believe) runs on community, and rejects not order, but hierarchy. You are living proof that anarchism is possible and works. You aren’t waiting for a system to tell you that you need to donate to feed the poor, you’re feeding the hungry yourself. Food Not Bombs is anarchism.
In short, anarchy isn’t the absence of order, it’s the absence of hierarchy. It’s the existence of mutual aid, and relying on community to exist and thrive. Capitalism runs on hierarchy and insists that’s natural. Nature runs on need. Just like we could.
Read Anarchism and other essays by Emma Goldman, it’s a good introduction.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘Burning Hatred’: CNN’s Scott Jennings Gets NY Democrat to Admit He’s Being Targeted Because He Supports Israel
1·1 year agoWell apparently you’ve never listened to Against Me! back in the day and in your early 20s having fun talking about anarchy you never read anything on the theory behind it.
You really should.
Because all of the things you described you and your wife doing are the cornerstones of anarchism. Literally the most basic building block. So you are seriously uninformed and you don’t realize how much you actually agree with anarchism.
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politics @lemmy.world•Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’
92·1 year agoHaven’t seen him since Jan 21, 2009
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politics @lemmy.world•Mamdani appoints top DNC and Obama adviser in bid to secure Democratic Party establishment support
9·1 year agoThat is a massive oversimplification and seemingly a blatant misunderstanding.
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politics @lemmy.world•'Veterans on Patrol': Inside MAGA's new assault on reality and bizarre conspiracy theory
10·1 year agoYes. That’s exactly what the article concluded.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump Insults ‘Evil’ Reporter Who Dares to Ask About Floods
21·1 year agoDon’t denigrate bitches like that. He’s a fuckin cunt.
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politics @lemmy.world•‘Burning Hatred’: CNN’s Scott Jennings Gets NY Democrat to Admit He’s Being Targeted Because He Supports Israel
2·1 year agoBaby, I’m an anarchist. And you’re a spineless liberal.
We marched together for the 8-hour day and held hands on the streets of Seattle. But when it came time to throw bricks through that Starbucks window, you left me all alone! (All alone)
You watched in awe at the red white and blue on the Fourth of July. While those fireworks were exploding, I was BURNING THAT FUCKER AND STRINGING MY BLACK FLAG HIGH
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politics @lemmy.world•AOC Calls Trump ‘Rapist’ in Brutal Epstein Files Crisis Dig
43·1 year agoOr the court docs from the victim of he and Epstein when she was 14. Who then withdrew her lawsuit after she received a tidal wave of death threats
lol you’re thinking of the people who are now fully supporting the fascism. They were the ones literally threatening to kill me for being against the patriot act and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and George fucking bush. Those people will still tell you all of those things—in the same breath that they tell you the country is going down the drain because brown people exist.
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politics @lemmy.world•Jon Stewart Tears Apart Dems’ ‘Idiotic’ Project 2029 Plan
465·1 year agoEh. I get what you’re saying, but so much of the disillusionment from the potential dem base is coming from their constant promises and constantly arriving at the obvious conclusion decades late and then acting like they’re the most progressive politician in human history. While in reality it’s a half step toward the policies we should’ve enacted forty years ago.
It’s not that people are like “so what.” It’s the deep seeded knowledge in all of us that the party will try to throw us crumbs and claim like they’ve always been on our side and are the most righteous policy makers that are saving us, when in reality they’re walking hand in hand with people that are pushing us to absolute limit of barely acceptable and then dangling what they’ve known they should’ve done forever ago in front of us when we’re finally at our breaking point.
They don’t care about us. They’re not beholden to us, and it shows. They’re beholden to money and are performatively throwing us scraps when they have an opponent so far right that it’s literally the threat of fascism. And they are very much responsible for the continued rightward march of the entire country.
Oh my sweet summer child