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Michael

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there are a lot of ways for the state to suppress dissident speech. one particularly bad one is by having armed agents of the state stand by and do nothing while partisan-aligned thugs or paramilitary groups beat you because of your speech, and then have the DA decline to prosecute the assaulters.

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Matt Swift's avatar Matt Swift @mswift.bsky.social
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They couldn’t charge him because his defense would have been “yeah my homies on the police force called us up and told us to go beat the shit outta some libs” and if you don’t think that’s what happened you are very naive.

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Sue his ass. Keep this in the news, and keep the heat on Gascon for supporting vigilante violence in the city he was elected to keep safe.

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Neuralink QA Lead's avatar Neuralink QA Lead @helios-daedalus.bsky.social
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Sounds like post-reconstruction.

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Corbett 's avatar Corbett @corbettcummins.bsky.social
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“Just Vote!” - Person in position of power thanks to massive unreported donations from corporations profiting from demise of society.

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Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board's avatar Chair of the Sewer Maintenance Board @sidewalkslam.bsky.social
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Eventually people decide "oh the law doesn't protect me? Fine, it doesn't protect you either."

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amdiamanti's avatar amdiamanti @amdiamanti.bsky.social
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A great example of the problem with a formalist approach to civil/human rights (and why CRT is superior 😏). There are many circumstances where state inaction *is* action.

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Liza Mazel's avatar Liza Mazel @lizamazel.bsky.social
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I could've sworn everyone was pounding the pavement for Gascon because he was supposed to be so progressive and was therefore the underdog and etc.

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Stranger In The Alps's avatar Stranger In The Alps @strangernalps.bsky.social
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This kind of shit can ONLY redound to the persecution of Jews in America. If you don’t see it, you are blinded by Zionism.

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Tay's avatar Tay @kauantai.bsky.social
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Oh for—

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Frisky Dingus 🍉's avatar Frisky Dingus 🍉 @friskydingus.bsky.social
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Wonder if my mom and her Facebook friends will be anywhere near as upset about this as they are about the migrant kids who beat up a cop and are gonna end up in jail even w plea deals but that's not enough suffering for them or whatever

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Connor Lynch's avatar Connor Lynch @connorlynch.bsky.social
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this particular DA declining to prosecute is probably more complicated than that. He showed up and pissed off pretty much the entire DAs office and all the cops w aggressive, no-discretion policies banning all sentencing enhancements (legally questionable). He is as left coded as prosecutors get.

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Jacob 's avatar Jacob @raoulduke1976.bsky.social
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Time for some locals to do the right thing

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Rafael S. Calsaverini's avatar Rafael S. Calsaverini @rafael.calsaverini.me
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That's exactly what the black shirts, brown shirts, blackhundrists, integralista militias and so on, are for. This is an old strategy of plausible deniability. The police doesn't need to beat up progressive protestors if there are thugs to do that for them.

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POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀's avatar POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerfulcrabfart.bsky.social
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So what recourse in available? Would they have to charge the DA with violating their civil rights?

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DrGeophysics's avatar DrGeophysics @drgeophysics.bsky.social
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Rich kid.

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TomNookYankees's avatar TomNookYankees @tomnookyankees.bsky.social
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Hopefully some good vigilante neutralizes On then.

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Father Draven 🥘$0/50🚛:$132/400 🏳‍⚧♿👩‍👧‍👦's avatar Father Draven 🥘$0/50🚛:$132/400 🏳‍⚧♿👩‍👧‍👦 @willowdraven.bsky.social
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District Attorney George Gascon seems determined to embody a systematic clear and present danger to the community and their physical safety.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)'s avatar Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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Fascist thugs all — the attackers, the cops, the DA

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