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Chief justice Roberts pushed for quick immunity ruling in Trump’s favor – report
  • I would argue that this sort of logical path wouldn’t be too shocking for the founders and they would just count on civility or elections to keep this from happening. The executive pardon itself is a fairly indefensible and corruption-facilitating loophole in the justice system.

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    Israel says ‘highly likely’ its troops killed Turkish-American activist
  • Due to the very real and observable ratchet effect, the outcome of your strategy is that things actually get worse… just slightly slower than they otherwise would. Voting for the “lesser of two evils” will never, ever make things better. You need to take a risk and vote for a non-evil to even have a shot at making things actually better.

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    Why were Democrats afraid to hear a Palestinian?
  • I think that Israel’s habit of constantly fucking with its neighbors makes it more of a liability to the interests of the US. It leads to more local hostility towards US troops in other regions in the area and attacks on US people and interests both abroad and at home (9/11).

    A better approach would be to ally with indigenous democracies and help them maintain stability. First, our allies should be at least mostly compatible with our own national values (not theocracies, monarchies, apartheid states, etc). Secondly, allying with an indigenous nation instead of a bunch of settler colonists is less likely to draw the ire of every common person in the region.

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    Israeli forces kill local Hamas commander in West Bank
  • He’s a hardcore Zionist who thinks that Palestinians are subhuman and he’s trying to say that indiscriminately slaughtering civilians is good for Israel.

    It’s basically like talking to a cartoon villain Nazi without any self-awareness and I congratulate you for not taking the bait.

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    Wells Fargo employee found dead in cubicle 4 days after she clocked in: ‘She was just lying on her desk’
  • I did that because 2 minute screen lock plus crazy long password requirements made working hell. The alternative was going to be an arduino usb hid device that typed the password when a button was pressed.

    Having unrealistic, bad security rules are counterproductive.

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    Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot
  • So you’ve waded into an article about the criminal behavior of an American policeman, found a comment calling for police accountability in the US and posted some unverifiable anecdotal “evidence” that only qualifies their statement in the vaguest sense, but is aimed to plant uncertainty and doubt in the sentiment that police as a whole are bastards and need better oversight and accountability…

    You very much appear to be one of the “good” cops that will do anything to minimize the crimes of his bad brothers. I would say that maybe ACAB only applies to the rotten societies like ours, but you are falling over yourself to cast yourself in the same lot as the bad cop in the article and to defend the profession. That’s not making the statement you think it is.

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    Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot
  • I’m not sure how things work in your country. You’ve helpfully neglected to even state what country that is (which conveniently makes it difficult to find examples of the state of policing in your country).

    This article is discussing American police and so that’s the context of my statements. We don’t do police accountability or oversight here, so your counterpoint doesn’t lend much weight.

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    Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot
  • Think the following question over yourself. Don’t bother answering it here.

    As the enforcer of the law, how many times have you casually broken the law and felt ok doing it? How many times have you seen a fellow police officer break the law and failed to hold them accountable or even helped them cover it up? In your experience, these events may have only involved minor crimes - not murder or rape or anything - but you almost certainly still operated in an environment of willingness to break the law and fraternal duty to protect your colleagues at any cost. The same situation is too common with serious crimes, as we see in the news on a regular basis.

    Good cops don’t help cover up the crimes of bad cops.

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    Maryland police officer convicted of tossing smoke bomb at police during Capitol riot
  • Once police throwing out/locking up the bad ones starts to become the norm, instead of circling the wagons and covering up each others’ crimes, we’ll start to see that distinction. In our universe in the present, however, the police, their unions, the prosecutors, and the judges all act almost in lockstep to prevent police from ever being accountable for any of their actions in almost all situations. Thus ACAB.

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    India police rescue American woman chained to tree in jungle who claims husband left her there to die
  • Because it’s a wall of text bot-spam from a self-appointed arbiter of truthfulness with questionable methodology.

    And it’s spammed to every posting on some subs giving the disappointing appearance of actual human activity.

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    'She called for help and we failed': Sheriff asks forgiveness for Sonya Massey shooting
  • Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.

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