Settlements are meaningless horseshit. It's literally a way to avoid any accountability, while not angering the police union, and the penalty is paid by ... oh yeah, you the taxpayer. Congratulations, sucker, you just agreed to paid the expenses of a rogue cop who still has his job and pension.
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supreme court is actually a really good model for why creating tiny groups of people that are solely responsible for [very important thing] with little oversight, no accountability, and only a superficial expectation of reasons-giving is a bad idea bc these groups will always stagnate into cowardice
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And if they can do it once, they'll do it again. Now, they have more authority to do it more brazenly.
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They expect they won't get sent packing like their forebears. They'll lose, it's just a question of how much of humanity dies with them.
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"17-year-old rising badminton star Zhang Zhijie died after he collapsed on court while competing in a match at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships"
"Zhijie suffered a sudden cardiac arrest, Indonesia’s badminton association PBSI later said"
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Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum
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What do you alarmists think is gonna happen? The Supreme Court acts politically and maliciously against the will of the people thereby handing the presidency and decades of political power to right wing wackos??! ok, crazy
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And in a turn of events that surprised absolutely no one:
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I’ll cheer on this country when it stops trying to kill me.
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No one is coming to save us.
We need to build working-class power, we need to build a movement that can crush fascism, we need to organize like never before.
Because we don't have a democracy to save, but we do have one to build from the ground up.
www.jphilll.com/p/the-suprem...
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the fact that the left and centre in France have both said that the third place candidates will drop out is getting basically no play in a US press going full apeshit over Round 1 results and yes it is so that you think fascism is inevitable globally so why not here
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A few people have argued that there isn’t enough media with leftist ideologies and. That’s only true if you don’t want to interact with art that’s outside of the mainstream.
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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
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The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them
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US: COVID is surging right now—This is the #1 symptom to look out for, according to infectious disease experts.
🔹COVID cases on the rise in 39 states
🔹The most common COVID symptoms currently seems to be a sore throat with or without a mild fever
Source: archive.md/2iy4a
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Honest answer: we don’t fucking know. The discarding of Chevron, coupled with the determination a rule may be challenged from the moment of harm and not from the moment the rule was made, throws more or less the entirety of administrative law - the basis of a regulatory system - into flux.
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They're illegal to set off in the county where I live, but we still get plenty of idiots lighting them off every year. Plenty of personal injury from it, too, all preventable.
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