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Biden Condemns Trump as Dire Threat to Democracy in a Blistering Speech (www.nytimes.com)

President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power....

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The answer is less populism, not more.

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I could definitely see Trump supporters doing shit like this. I find it unlikely anyone at the Capitol, who has also been prosecuted, and given a light sentence, doing it again.

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The irony is, the Trumpers want to be able to deploy this style of harsh and unjust justice at will.

So do people here arguing for harsh sentences because they don’t like them.

Mob Justice isn’t justice regardless of who the mob is

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Aggressive prosecution is the precisely how you don’t let it happen again.

This has literally never been true about any crime

Are you for real.

Yes, Republicans notably used those riots to demand harsher penalties. You don’t remember the mythical burning cities?

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No, I don’t think it’s a good thing that traitors got less than they deserved

The vast majority of people on J6 were idiots in a mob situation, not traitors.

As OP said, fuck all of them, but aggressive prosecution here is not the way you want the law to work, the same way there’s no gain for imprisoning everyone who acted out of pocket during the Floyd protests.

You throw the book at the worst offenders, and you let people caught up in mob mentality off with a lesser sentence. That is justice working.

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It’s because the vast majority of offenders are first time offenders, and are unlikely to repeat their actions.

This is a good thing, and should happen a lot. Our criminal justice system is fucked up.

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This is literally turn-of-the-20th-century huckster bullshit lol

How do his people fall for this

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The reason we haven’t had a redo of the French revolution, despite having a more fucked up tax system and higher economic disparities, is because the massively rich wised up. They don’t go in public very much.

That’s not why. It’s because of 2 things.

1: the average person doesn’t agree with you about murdering a bunch of people

2: mob rule is stupid and the French revolution gave rise to a literal emperor.

Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule (www.kut.org)

Almost three years since the deadly Texas blackout of 2021, a panel of judges from the First Court of Appeals in Houston has ruled that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the crisis. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market....

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Worth noting this ruling is explicitly based on statewide legislation, meaning this could be changed at any time, if the legislature cared at all.

You really do get exactly what you vote for.

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This current melt is also due to localized factors, like the El Nino event we are going through, making the climate-change-induced ice reduction greatly exacerbated. Ice on the Great Lakes has been declining for 50 years.

Just as no Congressperson should be bringing in snow alls to refute climate change, we should also keep in mind that weather and climate are vastly different things.

Remember to bring this up in a couple years when Republicans are talking about how the ice is back so climate change isn’t real.

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I don’t care if he likes to be peed on or whatever, but seriously try to imagine saying this to someone

she told me how he kept going on about how he liked her ‘pert nipples’,” she testified.

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In reality, I of course see companies raising the barrier to entry through vertical integration and regulatory capture, among other things.

This article is about this happening less because it isn’t profitable.

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This is not what “consumer choice” means in this article, and per the article, the consolidation of retail choice at major retailers carves a spot for smaller businesses to offer the variety you’re looking for.

In a sense, this is a damper on the thing you don’t want - it’s a slight nullification of the “Wal-Mart effect”

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As this wasn’t a terrorist attack, a closer analogue is a recent war.

One estimate puts civilian casualties in the Battle of Mosul at around 40,000

google.com/…/why-the-human-toll-of-the-battle-for…

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Almost none of the arrests have ended up in convictions.

The data does not bear this out

www.justice.gov/…/30-months-jan-6-attack-capitol

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What is ironic is that the civil war could have been avoided by the South just realizing they’re wrong, and letting slavery be banned. Instead they freaked out and attacked US military installations while declaring secession.

So he’s right, but not in a way any conservative would want to hear.

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Yeahhhh these people aren’t poor, they just want puppies, not dogs.

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If they wanted to just leave they probably shouldn’t have bombarded Fort Sumter - would’ve still been a war but the narrative may have played to their dumb Lost Cause bullshit better.

Also they turned traitor because new states joining wouldn’t be slave states, and thus they would become a minority and slavery would disappear.

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Best thing Putin has done, in his entire life, is help grow NATO. Pity it had to come from actual war and not just saber-rattling.

Tech CEO Forced Assistant to Sign 'Sex Slave' Contract, and Tormented Her With Sadomasochistic Bondage, Lawsuit Alleges (themessenger.com)

A former Bay Area tech CEO was fired earlier this year after allegedly enslaving, torturing, and sexually abusing his assistant. He claims the pair had a consensual relationship that people would “celebrate” if it were fictitious....

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More specifically, “this person enjoys being abused as can clearly be seen by the fact that they engage in contractual BDSM, a well-known device that kinksters use to negotiate BDSM power exchange.”

The only unethical thing here was hiring the person he was dating - this article is exactly why you don’t do that.

Everything described her aside from their unethical relationship is a sign of a loving kink relationship - like being collared is generally considered a big relationship step in BDSM. This looks like stupidity biting him in the ass more than it looks like abuse.

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This is “gold fringe on the American flag” level of nonsense

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The referendum required a simple majority to pass, and it did indeed pass, bringing relief to children’s health advocates and the public health community. Consequently, SB 793 became effective on January 1, 2023. Violation of the law will result in a $250 fine per infraction and subject the retailer to any local regulations within their jurisdiction that may be more stringent than the state law.

This was passed via referendum, though, so describing it as just a revenue thing handled by the state without voter input is a bit misleading.

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All the more reason to give them better paying jobs and enable them to build strong institutions.

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This is a perfect meme because Marxists still believe it’s the 19th century

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I absolutely love that someone put in this kind of effort for this. This speaks to me.

Thank you for sharing.

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