5th Cir., 2-1, holds that George Floyd protesters that were "subdued" by PepperBall rounds did not sufficiently plead that City of Dallas should have known about the officer's propensity for violence bc his 19 prior incidents were not sufficiently similar.
www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
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Like most of our politicians, the filibuster is a nonfunctional relic of the 1970s that will not retire or die
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āThe idea that we are going to slow-walk into fascism because we donāt want to hurt somebody that we respectās feelings ā I cannot even begin to tell you how angry that makes me,ā said Representative Adam Smith of Washington.
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I, personally, would be too embarrassed to make this line of argument. I sincerely hope that someday you learn how to read :)
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Personally I actually really do not like the government agency that touches my junk when I am trying to get on an airplane and I will not under any circumstances defend its continued existence
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"Republicans want to abolish the TSA" is probably the least effective argument you could make against project 2025
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I'm gonna mute you before I get negatively polarized over this. Fuck you and fuck the TSA
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The government doesn't do jack shit to oversee the TSA, the guy touching your junk is literally government policy
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If was a job that needed to be done I'd be mad about it
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I think private airport security probably just won't give a shit about doing their pointless job and will just wave people through because the airport wants shorter lines
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"privatize the TSA" could mean a lot of thingsāabove all it looks like they didn't really think about it very hard
Fuck the TSA though I personally do not enjoy getting groped to get on airplane. It's happened to me more than once
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Private (or public insofar as it was airport employees and many airports are publicly owned), lax security was the norm before 9/11, right?
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I'm not in favor of private security in general but in this case I think it's a backdoor cut which is good because airport security is stupid
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Weird seeing TSA privatization (ACAB, private security will be less invasive and have a longer pipeline to prisons) and elimination of DHS unions in here (cops are not workers). What am I missing?
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VP Kamala Harris visited the USA Basketball men's national team today
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"Reagan was old too!" Reagan's approval rating was 60%, not 35%
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Hear me out: make the announcement during the RNC to drown it with more interesting news
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If Biden were to win an election where the available data looks like what we have now, then the conclusion is that almost nothing we know about elections in the US works any more. Itās not impossible and Iām not sure Ds have or had a better way forward, but we do have to face this fact.
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Why would I bother writing new skeets for you when you're refusing to read the ones I have already written that address the exact thing you're saying
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Communications tip: don't say "Project 2025" say "Trump's Project 2025." He's trying to run away from it, tie it to his neck like an anchor by making the words "Project 2025" naturally follow the word "Trump" in people's heads.
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"I won't do your assigned reading" is a hilariously pathetic response to being told that your point was answered in the next couple skeets
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"I won't do your assigned reading" is a hilariously pathetic response to being told that your point was answered in the next couple skeets
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What's it called when you look at the polls and they're bad
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Nah just kidding instead I'll ask the least representative sample in existence by wishcasting what I want to happen and posting it on blue sky
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Polling is broken! In search of the real truth I'm going to talk to a demographically representative sample of 1000 of my closest friends and ask who they're going to vote for
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This is bad. t.co/hxRQunsvoD
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What we need to do is get over that hump, the hump being building a self-replicating machine (really a self-replicating network of machines including some small human components) that works in space.
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If you imagine a physical economy as a self-replicating machine (mines, factories, power plants, and the rest), you should at least be able to see how such a machine could replicate faster in space. That's the benefit.
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A ton of engineering development is going to be needed to get all sorts of processes "space ready" but that's a (very large) one-time cost. The ongoing benefit is plentiful energy, unclaimed materials, and unlimited space.
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