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I think it's fine to discuss the morality and practicality of capital punishment in a topic about someone being sentenced to it.

Definitely his wife's fault that the most cable-obsessed man in history supported the doctor from teevee.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I'm not okay with them dying. It's a problem.

It's a problem that cannot be solved, is the thing.

Secret bragging topic

https://twitter.com/alexvtunzelmann/status/1590601806660636672

Don't fetishize fascists

Corey Robin's "The Reactionary Mind" is a good book to read on conservatism

I've had my criticisms of the guy, but it consistently turns out that Americans love Brandon

Actually it's good for a political party to instill a belief that the world is changeable, rather than an immutable status quo.

Movies, books, games, what do you like?

Zikten posted...

I grew up catholic and have never been to a protestant church service. But any Priest or pastor who is political, under the law, is supposed to lose tax exempt status

The law is not real. There is only enforcement.

Is it good for anyone else

1337toothbrush posted...

Isn't it illegal to take a photo of your ballot and say how you're going to vote?

Depends on the state

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It's not a tantrum; he really believes that the "objectivity" his profession strives for requires him to not have beliefs

Non-pedos in districts where Republicans aren't such a majority of voters, mainly

https://twitter.com/DaveOrrick/status/1590073618603868160

Have democrats considered trying someone other than former Republican Charlie Crist?

Is this true?

Hold Back The Rain

Being a picky eater

There are lots of things in Trump's logic that are impossible to square, but this isn't one of them. His claim is that he's been unfairly denied the ability to serve a second term

Gross!

Love hurts

KhlavicLanguage posted...

a supermajority of its population

Citation needed on this one

argonautweakend posted...

Greene and Boebert are the two most do-nothing politicians I have ever seen. All they do is talk crazy stuff but I don't know if they have actually gotten anything at all done.

Unless my timing is off, they've also never served in a congress controlled by the GOP.

Games designed for the PS5 are reliant on the speeds of the internal ssd, which external drives can't replicate.

God knows I have issues with the Democratic Party, but there's no Democrat who could win most of the districts in question here. And at any rate, the quality of the Democratic candidate is irrelevant to people to who only ever see them through the prism of right wing media.

Me, personally, I do not want the GOP to win control of both houses. I think that would be bad.

IdiotMachine posted...

uh Biden would definitely lose against him. People dont like Biden.

I've heard this one before. I might even have said it before!

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Just because someone has been on GameFAQs 20 years doesn't mean they aren't trolling.

It's imperfect and I, personally, would prefer if the old MLS shootout were to be adopted more widely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRITqS6WEn0

Related:
https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1589786085781274625

Halo478 posted...

Republicans are vile man why are the allowed to get away with this?

This is not unique to Republican states, nor have Republicans always been the ones overseeing those states.

https://theappeal.org/2022-election-prison-slavery/

Curtis Davis knows what its like to be forced to work while incarcerated. Davis, who helped place measures to ban forced prison labor on ballots in five states this year, served more than 25 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola.

While there, Davis told The Appeal, he was forced to pick cotton, okra, and other crops but was paid only 2 cents an hour. It was grueling work: He was forced to walk miles to and from the worksite, arriving at 7 a.m. and leaving at 5:30 p.m., frequently laboring in the hot, humid summers of New Orleans.

It was like I was teleported back in time, Davis said. Once cleared for work by a prison doctor, people incarcerated at Angola can be legally forced to workand subject to severe punishment, including solitary confinement, if they refuse. At least as of 2012, most imprisoned people at Angola were required to perform field labor for at least 90 days.

Davis said he saw people suffer from dehydration and exhaustion. Prisoners have complained of a lack of water. When he tried to refuse the work, he was told he could be compelled by force. Desperate, one day he purposefully dropped a weight on his foot to avoid the labor, he said. But when he went to the doctor, he said he was charged with destruction of state property.

I was like, I know my rights, Im not a slave, Davise said. And they say, But yes, you are.

The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections did not respond to multiple messages from The Appeal seeking comment on the working conditions at Angola and Daviss time at the prison.

The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution bans slavery, but has a loophole that often goes unnoticed: Slavery is still allowed as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Many state constitutions, including Louisianas, include similar carveouts. Thats legal jargon for, if we can get you convicted of a crime, we can put you back into slavery, Davis said.

When Davisnow a founding member and executive director of the grassroots criminal justice reform organization Decarcerate Louisianawas released from Angola in 2016, he swore to do everything he could to repeal the 13th Amendment. But a change to the U.S. Constitution requires approval by two-thirds of each chamber of Congress, as well as ratification by 38 states. To make progress toward those goals, Davis and other advocates are waging a state-by-state campaign to alter state constitutions so that they no longer enshrine slavery for people in prison. Now they face a big test of their efforts: On Tuesday, voters in five statesAlabama, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, and Vermontwill weigh in on ballot measures to amend their constitutions and eradicate slavery.

The language for each measure varies significantly by state. Some proposals appear to be stronger than others. In Alabama, residents are being asked to vote in favor of a much larger revamp of the state constitution that includes eliminating the provision allowing slavery in cases of conviction. A yes vote in Oregon would repeal language allowing servitude for the punishment of a crime, but allow a court to order people into education, counseling, treatment, community service, or other alternatives to incarceration[.] Tennessees ballot measure proposes amending the constitution to say that slavery and involuntary servitude are forever prohibited, but the proposed language contains a carveout noting that the section would not prohibit an inmate from working when the inmate has been duly convicted of a crime. Vermonts language is the cleanest: Voters there would amend their constitution so it simply states that slavery and indentured servitude in any form are prohibited.

Davis is the lead organizer for Louisianas Yes on 7 campaign, which refers to Amendment 7 on that states 2022 ballot. The ballot language there is arguably the most complicated, following efforts by organizers to bring Republican lawmakers on board by trying to clarify that people wouldnt be able to use passage of the ballot measure to challenge their convictions. Louisianas current constitution states that slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited, except in the latter case as punishment for a crime. The updated language, if passed, would still state that slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited, but would include the caveat that the section does not apply to the otherwise lawful administration of criminal justice.

Some are concerned a judge could use that to sentence people to slavery or otherwise expand its use. Democratic state Representative Edmond Jordan, who represents Baton Rouge and initially sponsored the proposal, has since turned around and disavowed the measure.

The way that the ballot language is stated is confusing, Jordan told the Associated Press. And the way that it was drafted could lead to multiple different conclusions or opinions.

Davis disagrees with these arguments. This is disingenuous at best and intellectually dishonest at worst, he said at a virtual press conference in October. If slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited period, then the otherwise lawful activity of the criminal justice system would be something other than the two outlawed first parts of our amendment.

Davis and other advocates have lobbied the state legislature to act but have faced repeated defeats. A bill first introduced in 2021 did not make it out of committee. One state representative, Republican Alan Seabaugh, called it one of the most dangerous bills he had seen that session.

Now advocates want to let the people decide whether or not Louisiana should be a slave state, Davis said.

If the ballot measure passes and accomplishes what Davis hopes, it will be a particularly potent symbol. Louisiana has the nations highest incarceration rate. And anyone convicted of a felony and sent to prison there is also technically sentenced to hard labor. Prison work in the state dates back to before the end of the Civil War, when Louisiana built its first penitentiary and then leased out the prisoners to work for slaveholders. Angola itself is on a former slave plantation, and when the state took control in 1901, those incarcerated were housed in old slave quarters and forced to work in the existing cotton fields.

I've pooped that big before

I think I'd go with Mother, by Danzig

Abolish ICE was the moderate position; DHS as a whole doesn't need to exist.

Question: who makes the AI?

Godbe-Bryant posted...

Hate seeing fare evasion from people who can clearly afford it so I hope they are getting punished at least

Congratulations, you're spending more money to address the problem than the problem actually costs

Holy_Cloud105 posted...

I wish I could say I was shocked but I'm not. I live in NYC and the police just watch and don't interfere. They want these things to happen.

The more crime happens, the more money and leeway they're given.

Of course he does. He has tens of billions of dollars and a company reliant on its labor abuses being overlooked by those in power.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/is-it-safe-to-ride-the-new-york-city-subway-after-a-surge-of-more-police

New York City has a new strategy to make riders feel safer on the subway: Alerting people at certain stops that police are stationed there in case they want to get off the train and report a crime.

The move is part of a plan announced by officials in late October to improve safety in a transit system thats recovered 65% of pre-pandemic ridership, but theres little evidence to suggest the tactics will work to reduce crime. And so far, the added police presence has only led to more arrests for low-level crimes like fare evasion, particularly among people of color.

Increased policing on the subway has not led to increased safety on the subway, said Ileana Mendez-Peate, a program director with Communities United for Police Reform. Continuing to use that strategy is really failing to understand many larger city issues.

Back in February, Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul promised to reverse the crime rates that roared back to the transit system as the pandemic dragged on and ridership began to recover. The plan included blanketing the system with 1,000 more police officers, aggressively pursuing low-level offenses and providing more services for people experiencing homelessness and mental illness.

The efforts didnt make a dent in stemming a rise in crime.
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Transit crime across many categories including grand larceny is still lower than before the pandemic, when the city shut down for Covid and ridership nearly evaporated. The difference, though, is far fewer people are on the subways now than they were three years ago.

Prior to the pandemic, average weekday subway ridership exceeded 5.5 million people. While the system hit 3.8 million riders last month, average ridership per day in 2022 stood at 2.7 million.

Worth noting that even with this increase, NYC remains safer than pretty much all large US cities, and a great many small ones, too. You're more likely to die driving to work than riding the subway.

Roast beef
Provolone
Mayo

Tunic
OlliOlli World
Triangle Strategy
Bayonetta
Mario+Rabbids 2 (not far into it yet)

That's like, 1.1 bottles of soda

Humble_Novice posted...

It makes me wonder why leftists haven't created their own media platform or outlet by now.

Outlets like Jacobin or In These Times exist; the difference is that left-wingers tend not to have barrels of cash to burn on ideological projects.

IMO the president should do good things

The man has a serious case of what doctors call "doo doo for brains"