Look, fuck Alex Jones, but the title of the Twitter Space was “Will the Deep State Assassinate Biden If He Refuses To Leave?”

Which is some crazy conspiratorial nonsense, but it is pretty far from a call to assassinate Biden. It does technically have the words “assassinate Biden” in it, so the headline is correct on a literal level, but this is some serious click bait…

You could just as easily say “Rawstory posts article with ‘Assassinate Biden’ in the title”, and be just as correct.

Alright, you’ve sold me. Let’s do it.

we google something like “trump is the best” which (along with our personalised algorithm, designed to tell us what we want to hear so we keep engaged) tells us all about how trump is the best.

Nobody googles anything like that, and googling “is x good/bad?” Isn’t really how you use Google unless you’re researching products or something. This is a lazy attempt at an example.

It seems to me that, if we’re using web searches as an indicator, that those on the left have no problem earnestly researching the answers to questions like “Is transgender healthcare harmful to children?”, or “what are the pros and cons of privatizing x?”, where some of the answers might not perfectly validate our existing worldview, but we still walk away with a nuanced opinion based on what we learned.

Conservatives on the other hand would never even consider asking questions like “are they cutting little boys dicks off because they like the color pink?” or “are half of all murders really committed by Black people?”, they will just believe it in their heart of hearts because they saw memes about it on Truth Social.

In fact, if they did muster the willpower to type such a query into Google, every single article that doesn’t validate them would be declared some sort of leftist hoax, and Google would be blamed as another woke tech company deliberately serving content that challenges a right wing view.

These people are completely brainwashed, and it is no surprise that they heavily trend Christian, since Christianity as an ethos demands that you be able to resist asking questions critical of God, as certain questions are an insult to God. It’s rather trivial to exploit this vulnerability in critical thinking, which is why so many Conservatives seem to have no line between their religious beliefs and their political beliefs, and both sets of beliefs end up being completely fucking unhinged and filled to the brim with magical thinking.

You should watch The Boys. It’s a superhero show that addresses this exact issue. It’s nothing like the Marvel universe, the superheroes are pretty sinister in this universe.

I have had a 12 year old flirt with me. It was cute, and I wasn’t tempted to molest her because I’m not insane.

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Oh wow man, great idea. Too many mass shootings? Just fire all the cops. Just like that, no more mass shootings.

ACAB, but if your first step in preventing mass shootings is police reform, you need to step the fuck out of the way and let the people actually interested in addressing the gun problem figure this out.

To my understanding, Trial by Judge Alone is allowed in part of Australia to protect defendants from jury bias in high-profile cases. Since it is designed to protect the defendant, the defendant has quite a lot of power to oppose that and request a trial by Jury. It doesn’t look possible for a Defendant to demand a Jury and be denied, especially if they had their lawyer in their side, as it would imply bias by the court against the defendant.

With 14 defendants, all refusing legal representation, I don’t think any of the accused are smart enough to survive even the most fair legal system.

Honestly, as a millennial, any friends I have in my generation that still use Facebook are the ones that sorta gave up on life.

I don’t see anyone age casually using Facebook. They’re either not using it all and have a dorman profile page, or they post 20+ things a day at all hours of the day.

What the fuck is wrong with furries?

The ultra rich will show up with close to zero income, because they don’t actually deal in cash. This isn’t the master plan you think it is.

Issuing a fine that is some multiple of the damages ensures that it doesn’t become a “cost of doing business”.

Issuing a fine based on the income of the person receiving it makes sense for a handful of civil violations, if you can keep it from being exploited, but it is very exploitable especially if you have a lot of non-cash capital that you can leverage without ever generating any legally recognized income.

If he broke the law for $800, I’m guessing $3,500 is probably more than 5% of his income. He’s the pastor of a West Texas church with less than 100 congregants. It took his church plus three others to shore up less than a grand. He probably makes less than $70,000 gross, so you’re likely actually suggesting that he be fined less than the $3,500 he was fined.

What I’d really like to see is his church and any other church that conspired to break the law for political ends be stripped of their tax exempt status.

They fined him more than 4x the total donations. How draconian does the punishment need to be?

Amazing that you would choose an example person that would absolutely be an issue if he showed up on the ballot.

Identity theft is really only limited to contract law, not social impersonation. This would still be libel / slander.

Well, if this were plausible, you would expect to hear a lot more complaints from people who live and work near datacenters. But we don’t, so I think it’s pretty easy to conclude that these computers aren’t emitting ultrasound, or if they are that it isn’t the source of the issue.

Do you know how loud ultrasound has to be just to travel a few meters through the air? People would basically have to be living inside the datacenter even if these things were converting half their energy input into deliberately generating ultrasound.

Oh is that right? Quick question though… Why?

Womp womp, thinking about all the women who divorced their husbands because they voted for a pussy grabber. Fuck around and find out.

It’s Wealth.

If you have more money than most people, you convince yourself that you are different and more important than other people. The way you are treated validates that notion.

So politically, you’ll vote for people who protect your wealth rather than people who will protect your identity, because your wealth already protects you better than any anti-discrimination law could.

If my kids did that I’d be perfectly fine with them getting kicked out of school or even if the teachers wanted to press charges.

Just a reminder that these are middle schoolers, if it were your kid, and a teacher decided to sue, it would be you getting sued for the behavior of a child you didn’t raise correctly.

So don’t try to take the high road here. If your kid did something like this, it would be because you were a shitty parent who didn’t teach them basic right and wrong.

“I’d let the state punish them on my behalf” is just revealing the issue: you expect other people to raise your kids.