Seems reasonable, but Republicans would have spent decades capturing that system and we’d end up in a similarly bad position. The problem is conservatives have shit ideas and want them to be law. Unless we fix that, any system will be corrupted.

That grand jury should have refused to indict.

I don’t think this is a safe assumption. The victim may not have free access to hardware. The police/etc may not believe them. They may be afraid of being murdered if they try to record something. Just off the top of my head.

You can read “why does he do that?” by Lundy Bancroft for fascinating and depressing information about abuse. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/224552.Why_Does_He_Do_That_Inside_the_Minds_of_Angry_and_Controlling_Men

I mean I assume they had like metal detectors and stuff. You probably can’t pay $500 to go to a fancy dinner and just shoot a supreme Court justice. Right? Someone would’ve already done that.

Normally I’d say something like “nothing will change until conservatives suffer personally”, but lots of kids have been shot and that didn’t do it. So I don’t know man.

In groups to protect, outgroups to bind. That seems to be all conservatism is.

DeSantis is a dangerous idiot that should be removed from power.

Friend of mine never got their driver’s license. They live in NYC and don’t need one. They also were concerned about safety- they have ADHD and are prone to inattentiveness, and they didn’t want to be driving a car when that manifested.

I have a license but I also live in NYC. I don’t need to drive. It’s pretty great. It’s expensive in time money space and externalized costs, and it’s often less effective than just taking public transit.

Unfortunately most of the US is resistant to investing in mass transit and density, so it’s going to be shitty car-first spaces for a while.

What word would you prefer? I considered “Republicans” but that doesn’t catch people outside the US. “Contemporary Republicans or people who would vote for them” isn’t very catchy

Conservatives have bad ideas about nearly everything. They should under no circumstances be allowed to have any power. I’d even say they’re an existential threat to the US and the rest of humanity.

It’s far past time to stop treating them as just folks with a different opinion. This is not “oh well they wanted to paint the bedroom walls green and I wanted blue.”

Someone announcing themselves a conservative should be taken as a declaration of a threat. Removing them from power is self defense.

A verbal secret passphrase to identify yourself to your family would be pretty smart.

Most of the subway smells fine.

Trump appears to be fundraising off of his hush-money pre-sentencing interview on Monday

Republicans are stupid. Unfortunately, they’re not quite too stupid to live. They might drag us all down with them, though.

Wow those people are scum bags. They call it “so called climate change”

In groups to protect, outgroups to bind.

Cool. Unfortunately, facts and studies typically have little effect on the kind of people who oppose gay marriage.

There are some lemmy communities/instances that are very pearl clutching / boot licking. There’ll be a story about like a billionaire eating live puppies or a cop murdering someone and getting away with it, and anything along the lines of “maybe someone should forcibly stop them” is removed.

Probably pull justices from the lower courts at random to hear individual cases. Much harder to bribe all the judges than like two well known supreme Court justices.

I always assumed scumbags like Alito lived somewhere in secret. Like in a bunker. Not just a regular house.

This is one of those communities that you can’t advocate for violence on, though, no matter how much politics do violence to you. Cool. Very enlightened.

A significant amount of republicans probably sincerely believe that this tragedy is worth “saving the lives of all the other babies that would have been murdered.”

Their moral calculus is foolish and predicated on questionable-at-best axioms. They are well meaning but functionally bad people.

Another significant chunk also adheres to “the cruelty is the point.” They are bad people.

Unfortunately, for various reasons, republicans have a disproportionate amount of power in the US.