Badly trimmed shrub = dystopiary
― Jeremy Ironist (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:50 (two years ago) link
Dropped the clay - dyspottery
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeu3iH0R_GM
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link
I mean, pulling up the forecast today and seeing tornado warnings for Chicago in mid-December doesn't make me not think it's a dystopia.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
not imagined, authoritarian rather than totalitarian and pre-apocalyptic instead of post IMO
so maybe it's not a dystopia but merely dystopic
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 10 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
dystopic? I dunno. but ilx is def dyspeptic today.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 10 December 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
I did not remotely intend this thread to be serious, but there's an argument to be made that 1492 counts as the apocalypse
― rob, Friday, 10 December 2021 22:30 (two years ago) link
Can the apocalypse be local?
Americans rly struggle with not being the world and i think its quite telling tbh
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 December 2021 01:10 (two years ago) link
let it beatles
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 December 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
Climate catastrophe is going to be pretty universal IIRC.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 11 December 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
which is v little to do with the point about 1492 is it
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 December 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
you can get with dystopia, or you can get with datopia
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 December 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
just throwing this out there but maybe dystopia fans are blind to dystopias
― let's make lunch and listen to five finger death punch (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 December 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
I dunno I think most fans of the crust punk band Dystopia probably would agree that the USA is a dystopia fwiw
― bovarism, Saturday, 11 December 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
let me see, is the US a dystopia.
the republican party is trying to actively KILL a lot of people. let me just see how that plays in the polls
The approval rating among those who voted for [Biden] has dropped from 80% to 69% in the April survey. There have been notable declines among Americans 18-34 and suburban residents, both of whom, in dramatic swings, now register net negative views on the president.As bad as Biden’s number may be, the polling data for Democrats in Congress is far worse.Republicans now sport a historic 10-point advantage when Americans are asked which party they prefer to control Congress, holding a 44%-34% margin over Democrats. That’s up from a 2-point Republican advantage in the October survey.In the past 20 years, CNBC and NBC surveys have never registered a double-digit Republican advantage on congressional preference, with the largest lead ever being 4 pints for the GOP.“If the election were tomorrow, it would be an absolute unmitigated disaster for the Democrats,″ said Jay Campbell, partner at Hart Research Associates and the Democratic pollster for the survey.
As bad as Biden’s number may be, the polling data for Democrats in Congress is far worse.
Republicans now sport a historic 10-point advantage when Americans are asked which party they prefer to control Congress, holding a 44%-34% margin over Democrats. That’s up from a 2-point Republican advantage in the October survey.
In the past 20 years, CNBC and NBC surveys have never registered a double-digit Republican advantage on congressional preference, with the largest lead ever being 4 pints for the GOP.
“If the election were tomorrow, it would be an absolute unmitigated disaster for the Democrats,″ said Jay Campbell, partner at Hart Research Associates and the Democratic pollster for the survey.
yes it's a full blown dystopia
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 December 2021 02:23 (two years ago) link
nah but rich people have never had it better tho
― let's make lunch and listen to five finger death punch (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 11 December 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
A 4 pint lead is difficult to overcome tbh. sorry
― bovarism, Saturday, 11 December 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, December 10, 2021 8:10 PM (one hour ago)
I was addressing "the apocalypse" that it could be argued helps to confirm the US as a dystopia, the subject of this important poll. So I guess I do think it can be local, idk, why not? Anyway Columbus never even entered future-US territory, it's more of a symbolic hinge year for everything being terrible from then on
― rob, Saturday, 11 December 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link
I'd figure most people using the term think in the sense of dystopian science fiction and I kinda think 2021 has quite a few elements that seem like out of such.
― earlnash, Saturday, 11 December 2021 02:35 (two years ago) link
There's no utopia that's not someone's dystopia, and vice versa.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 11 December 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
The notion of local dystopias is an interesting one. Could be that there was an egalitarian paradise unfolding just a continent or two over from Mad Max.
― Rep. Cobra Commander (R-TX) (Old Lunch), Saturday, 11 December 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
If the US ticks all the boxes- and there's a case- then clearly plenty of very nice places to live in exist besides so id say thats a clear yes
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 December 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
Have we ever not been? Slave state — apartheid state — Vietnam/Watergate — Corporate state — Fury Road (2016-present)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 11 December 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
the people in the mayfield candle factory that collapsed worked 12-hour shifts that paid $8 an hour. 110 ppl were inside. 40 ppl are still unaccounted for. they haven’t recovered a survivor since 3 am. pic.twitter.com/CsIIfLw3Pc— Tracy Moore (@iusedtobepoor) December 11, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 12 December 2021 05:12 (two years ago) link
it’s legal in kentucky to fire someone for refusing to work mandatory overtime— Tracy Moore (@iusedtobepoor) December 11, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 12 December 2021 05:14 (two years ago) link
― coombination gazza hut & scampo bell (wins), Sunday, 12 December 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
Zardoz is another one. Although The Eternals are mainly a bunch of insufferable bores and their egalitarian paradise is pretty lame, but you wouldn't complain about it if you were being held captive by Charlotte Rampling.
― calzino, Sunday, 12 December 2021 13:16 (two years ago) link
Slave state — apartheid state — Vietnam/Watergate — Corporate state — Fury Road (2016-present)
We didn't start the fire, etc.
― ma dmac's fury road (PBKR), Sunday, 12 December 2021 14:04 (two years ago) link
Let's see what all we have...you got this one.
US combined laissez-faire capitalism on it's drug industry and combined with heroin blow-back from the 'war on terror' created the opioid epidemic for fun and profit killing over a million Americans since 1999.
― earlnash, Sunday, 12 December 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
Getting back to the topic at hand, Le Guin wrote a book about a moon. Also was there some Cold War global political framework in her gender-bender book? I don't recall.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, December 11, 2021 1:14 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Saturday, December 11, 2021 1:17 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
It is though (unless I'm misreading). The USA is the biggest historical contributor to the climate crisis. An argument could be made that if 1492 never happened, there would be no global crisis. Same for much of global environmental destruction -- Amazon forest all gone? Thank Ronald McDonald.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 12 December 2021 18:51 (two years ago) link
Local teachers in South Dakota “Dash for Cash” to help their classrooms by fighting over $5,000 in $1 bills while the crowd hoots and hollers. pic.twitter.com/azwGJKhaKU— Eoin Higgins (@EoinHiggins_) December 12, 2021
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
they're going to remove that rug at some point
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link
and then charge them for it!
― calzino, Sunday, 12 December 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
An argument could be made that if 1492 never happened, there would be no global crisis.
Are we talking a world where Europe never came into contact with the Americas?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 13 December 2021 10:32 (two years ago) link
I can’t live without potatoes
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 13 December 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
-LL McCooljay
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
It would have happened eventually.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 13 December 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
OTM
― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Monday, 13 December 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
Lol, Neanderthal.
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 13 December 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
NEW: Drone startup BRINC, which just pulled a $25 million VC round, says it was inspired by the 2017 Vegas shooting to build non-violent robots. I obtained a video showing their original mission was a border patrol drone system designed to tase migrants https://t.co/TclkWOO3eM— Sam Biddle (@samfbiddle) December 13, 2021
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 December 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
Right but I'm saying the timeline where America turns the Earth into a toilet wasn't necessarily predetermined.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Maybe ecocide is the dharma of the human race idk.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
this is all god's fault. god put the oil in the ground, fully formed, 8000 years ago
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
it was all predetermined
idk these guys predicted it pretty early
https://i.ibb.co/f4P96K0/index.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/cFmrLPX/index.jpg
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 December 2021 18:50 (two years ago) link
Yeah I never loved the band but those album titles stuck with me.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 13 December 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CczFit6tGhs
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 December 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 00:01 (two years ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-tornado-factory-workers-threatened-firing-left-tornado-employ-rcna8581
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Tuesday, 14 December 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
personally idgi. fresh produce in american supermarkets is quite bad and expensive, every major city in the world has decent markets, etc. i guess it's better if it's brightly lit and you can listen to an instrumental soft jazz version of after the gold rush? https://t.co/g3b5LOgBcD— joolsd (@joolsd) December 14, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 December 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
Most teachers I wouldn’t worry about them having guns aside from incompetence but there were a couple who strike me as potential problems on their own. The Vietnam vet who trapped a wasp and then proceeded to cut it up on his desk…
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 25 April 2024 03:12 (one month ago) link
I used to be like well, at least we’re not Alabama and Mississippi. But now we are
I know, and a lot of Tennesseans have a hard time believing it. I have to keep telling people that we're the actual literal worst state for a lot of this neo-confederate hateful shit, and close to the worst for the rest of it. There's still a tendency to think we're "normal" or something, we are really extreme. Bill Lee is the worst, the Legislature's terrible, and all of these people are so so so dumb.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 25 April 2024 03:53 (one month ago) link
oh yay, on to the next school shooting, when by the time they realize what's happening, panicked armed teachers will successfully take down a window, a wall, and a desk, while people still die all around them as before.
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 April 2024 03:56 (one month ago) link
next you know they'll be deporting people to rwanda
― mookieproof, Thursday, 25 April 2024 bookmarkflaglink
That's right
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 25 April 2024 07:52 (one month ago) link
Most teachers I wouldn’t worry about them having guns aside from incompetence
See why anyone on this boards listens to you on any topic after saying shit like this is 100% a mystery to me
― a (waterface), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:42 (one month ago) link
Do you think those last three words mean I believe the idea is just grand? Incompetent people with guns - generally not good, I think most would agree.
The point was that some teachers are psychos and it won’t surprise me when one shoots a student for misbehaving down the road.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:42 (one month ago) link
Which is not, as of yet, a problem since the psycho football coach being forced to teach geography has to make the conscious decision to break multiple laws by bringing his Glock to school on a regular basis. Not just removing those decisions but encouraging him to do so will inevitably result in new tragedies.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:47 (one month ago) link
Much more worried about competence with guns.
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:48 (one month ago) link
i look at where i live and i see a sort of "laissez-faire" dystopia, where people do all kinds of fucked up shit and nobody does anything about it because what are you gonna do? talk to the cops about it?
alabama, tennessee, are they like that too? i don't really _know_ what the rest of the country is like these days. i don't know what "normal" is supposed to be.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:51 (one month ago) link
stochastic incompetence doesn’t count the same
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 April 2024 00:07 (four weeks ago) link
ahhhh, i don't feel that way. _334_ is a perfectly good dystopia if you ask me. for that matter stochastic incompetence is _part and parcel_ of any true dystopia, the way that incompetence is weaponized against marginalized people without even _needing_ any overt exterminatory action to be taken. that's what makes something a dystopia, when something is enshrined as an institutional norm.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 00:43 (four weeks ago) link
Milo and I often don't see eye to eye but even I know what he meant
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:16 (four weeks ago) link
(my own 'stochoastic incompetence' comment was pure, unfunny in too too many ways, dark wise assery, sorry all).
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:39 (four weeks ago) link
no worries, that's one of those instances where the 'tism flared up and i literally didn't recognize the layer of sarcasm lol
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:56 (four weeks ago) link
Zeno of Elea: "bye, Hon, I'm just running out to the stoa for a few things."
Zeno's wife: "careful, bro - you'll never get there if your plan is to repeatedly travel half the remaining distance."
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 April 2024 09:00 (four weeks ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/flint-michigan-water-crisis
Years after the emergency, the Michigan city is yet to replace all lead pipes and affected families are still awaiting justice
― rob, Friday, 26 April 2024 13:01 (four weeks ago) link
replace this whole thread with one of the pictures of SWAT snipers setting up at campus Gaza protests
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:05 (four weeks ago) link
otm. I'm trying not to spam the board with stuff about the protests, but it sure feels like a police state this morning
― rob, Friday, 26 April 2024 13:12 (four weeks ago) link
It's simple. pic.twitter.com/M6pHdOA4YU— President Biden (@POTUS) May 1, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:02 (three weeks ago) link
I no longer have a Twitter account but that seems destined to become the most-ratioed tweet since Elmo's
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:06 (three weeks ago) link
I used that exact four-word phrase the other week in a discussion of assisted suicide (I'm very pro-, and think depression is just as valid reason as, say, ALS to pull the plug on oneself). Wonder if President Joe shares my feelings.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:18 (three weeks ago) link
quick, it's international workers' day and the cops are busy tear-gassing students protesting genocide, now's the perfect time to overthrow capitalism
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:10 (three weeks ago) link
going to a rally in a bit, will bump thread later if capitalism overthrown
― rob, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:12 (three weeks ago) link
"To Hatzifotinos, such tragedies were avoidable. “ ‘Don’t have money’ is not an excuse right now,” he told me. “I don’t know why people are choosing to get evicted. It never used to be a choice. Now I believe that it is.”"
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/04/the-eviction-experts/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:52 (one week ago) link
"Can American Policing Be Fixed?"
"Lunch with the QAnon Shaman"
https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HA0424-0C1DS_001.png
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 19:48 (one week ago) link
NC legislature votes to ban the wearing of (medical) masks in public, with a carve-out for members of secret societies, aka the fucking klan
texas governor pardons a convicted premeditated murderer (who also sexted 16yos) but it's okay because the murder victim was a black protestor
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 May 2024 01:30 (one week ago) link
Good luck with chemo in NC.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 17 May 2024 02:42 (one week ago) link
https://www.newsweek.com/jasmine-crockett-marjorie-taylor-greene-diss-track-1901743
― BrianB, Friday, 17 May 2024 11:27 (one week ago) link
The US world has always been a dystopia, with snatches of something slightly less horrible occasionally emerging from the morass for the sake of contrast
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2024 11:42 (one week ago) link
The US world has always been a dystopia, with snatches of something slightly less horrible occasionally emerging from the morass for the sake of contrast― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch)
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch)
fuck this manichean blackpill shit
we can have better
we _deserve_ better
no personal offense to you OL
fuck it i'm just gonna post the thing i wrote here instead of the autism thread, #onethread
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I mean the thing is it's not accidental, you know? The "top shortage" here isn't accidental.
With or without an autism diagnosis, people gotta find ways to get by. I went off to college when I was 18 and I didn't have the skills, social or practical, to take care of myself, so I moved back in with my mom. I moved out again to get a job, and again, I didn't have the practical skills or the emotional support network to function, so I moved back in with my mom. I spent a couple years addicted to drugs, cold turkeyed them, was fortunate enough to survive. Met someone who had low enough self-esteem to become my caretaker despite my, like, not having the skills to treat other people with basic kindness and respect, married her, and the trade-off with caretaker relationships is that it... Like you have a job that sucks and you steal office supplies, right? Being a caretaker is a shitty, demanding job. I don't blame my caretakers for doing the things they did. Judging them as beside the point.
I spent a long time trying to learn skills that I the people in my life didn't have the skills or support to teach me, and so I'm out here living on my own, taking care of myself. It's really hard, and I'm not really good at it. And it's not just me. I have dozens of memes humorously expressing the sentiment of "God, taking care of myself is so fucking hard." And some of them are puppygirl memes. I do know a fair number of people who are autistic puppygirls. The shit the right-wingers say on TV, that there are people out there who identify as dogs, who wants to sleep in a cage and drink water out of a dogbowl, that's true. That's not me, I'm not like that, but I understand where that comes from. I've looked at a guy out in public with his dog and looked at how he treated her and sighed and said "God, I wish that was me."
But it's not, and you know, I'm proud of myself and I'm happy about what I've been able to accomplish. I'm better off where I am now, to be able to live on my own, live independently. I buy my own groceries. I do my own laundry. I pay my own bills. I sweep my floor occasionally. I check the mail. I'm able to take the bus to and from medical appointments. I'm able to manage, by myself, the large number of medications I'm taking to be able to function independently.
I mean all this is a lot. Maybe for some people it's like "Oh well of course that's just normal people stuff" and for me it's not. It's work, it's really hard work. And I've learned to celebrate that for myself, what a good job I'm doing, how hard I'm working, because nobody's going to go out there and say "Good job, Kate! You checked your mail today _and_ you took a shower even though you really didn't want to!"
The hardest bit right now for me is holding down a job. Because, I know this is a very autistic thing to say, the job I am working for is meaningless and stupid, it has no value, provides no value to the world at large, and knowing this, it is very hard for me to do this job. I'm work from home, I'm isolated, I live on my own, and this is I guess supposed to be a "privilege". With autism, though, there's this thing called "parallel play", which means that when I'm around other people, it's easier for me to do things. Having friends is important for me for a number of reasons, and one of the main ones is that I can invite them over to my place. There's this assumption that when you invite someone over it's for, I don't know, immoral purposes, unnatural acts, and that's not how it is for me. I have someone over and once they're over it's a lot easier for me to do functional tasks to take care of myself.
Or even, like... just having a good time by myself, it's not something I can do. I mean like. I got a TV and a video game system and thousands upon thousands of movies I could watch. I want to watch these movies, they seem really cool, but it's just not something I can do by myself. So I have friends and I say "Hey why don't you come over, we can watch anime". Or not anime. I've been meaning to watch Jacques Tati's _Playtime_ for over a decade, and I had a friend over a couple weeks ago and I said "Hey, why don't we watch this?" And it is, in fact, a great fucking movie. Also I guess maybe a little relevant to autism, isn't it? These systems, these machines made of people, these small absurdities. And they're funny, but these little meaningless routines, walking slowly down a wall to press a button and pressing slowly back... sometimes it's how I make meaning of things. It's how I make sense out of a chaotic and overwhelming environment.
I mean I do get overstimulated by my environment and people act like that's, like, a functional deficit, and Christ, I don't understand how someone can _not_ be. There's _so much shit_ going on around me _all the time_. For me it's sound, I focus on sounds, and there are airplanes and drag racers and ambulances and shit that I don't even know what it is. Yes I have a hard time looking people in the eyes and it's not because I don't _feel emotion_ it's because there's so _much_ there. So much of everything.
And holding down a job I'm supposed to do ten thousand stupid things at once, and I'm supposed to do them by myself with a boss who makes frequent immediate and factually incorrect demands of me, and I'm supposed to do it while I'm sitting alone in my apartment by myself. Except for the lesbians and puppygirls and fetish artists and I don't even know who, the ones who I alt-tab over to. Because if I'm going to be by myself of course I'm going to want to be by myself with _them_. I don't even know how to talk to a lot of the people at my workplace. I'm sure they're fine people but they have no idea what my life is like. They want to understand, but they have no clue about how to go about it.
Which of course what people say about my "functional deficit". I don't think we're, like, equal. Me and allistic people. I don't think that the way I go about things is _equally valid_. I'm glad I've learned the social skills I've learned. I think it's necessary to... I mean when I was younger someone would say the stupidest thing I'd ever heard and I'd just say, without thinking, "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." I mean now I know it's not helpful or valuable or _kind_ for me to say that. I know how to not say that, and I know that it's not _lying_ just because it's true and I don't say it.
It's a lot of work, though, to be kind, because a lot of people in power say and do things that are very stupid and cruel and I say nothing because there's nothing I can do about it. I radically accept it, is what I've learned.
But it's hard and yeah I'd drink out of a dog bowl and sleep in a dog cage and wear a collar if it meant I didn't have to do that. Even though none of those things are really things I want to do. I just want someone to care for me. Sometimes. And so does, like.... everybody else here. And that's how you get a top shortage.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 May 2024 12:07 (one week ago) link
ahh cool, cool cool cool
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/harris-county-election-challenge-180th-district-court/
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 May 2024 13:41 (one week ago) link
xpost That was just the inky sludge festering inside of me briefly escaping into the world, my apologies. Just getting harder to keep it tamped down these days.
― Great-Tasting Burger Perceptions (Old Lunch), Friday, 17 May 2024 14:03 (one week ago) link
no worries OL we all get that way sometimes, it wasn't about you personally
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 17 May 2024 18:58 (one week ago) link
Billionaire CEOs didn't just reach Mayor Adams in a private chat urging him to arrest pro-Palestine Columbia students, they also offered PRIVATE staff to help NYPD. The Mayor accepted.Members of the group also coordinated with Israel's war cabinet, UN ambassador and former PM. pic.twitter.com/r54yv87eqy— Rafael Shimunov (@rafaelshimunov) May 17, 2024
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 17 May 2024 23:20 (one week ago) link
Go Bernie... I've felt this way for years
A bill introduced by the US senator Bernie Sanders would dramatically expand access to oral healthcare by adding dental benefits to Medicare and enhance them in Medicaid, public health insurance programs that together cover 115 million older and lower-income Americans.
Despite Americans’ reputation for the flashy “Hollywood smile”, millions struggle to access basic dental care. One in five US seniors have lost all their natural teeth, almost half of adults have some kind of gum disease and painful cavities are one of the most common reasons children miss school.
“Any objective look at the reality facing the American people recognizes there is a crisis in dental care in America,” Sanders told the Guardian in an exclusive interview. “Imagine that in the richest country in the world.”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 24 May 2024 16:43 (yesterday) link
An extraordinary case of police "psychological torture" in Fontana, CA: When Thomas Perez reported his elderly father missing, cops brought him in for a 17-hour interrogation + coerced him to falsely confess killing his dad. His dad was alive. 🧵https://t.co/3WLOUQ3lnB— Sam Levin (@SamTLevin) May 24, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 May 2024 09:55 (four hours ago) link
absolutely horrifying. one especially dystopian part: they settled out of court because the victim feared the case would not ultimately succeed due to the qualified immunity doctrine.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 May 2024 10:21 (four hours ago) link
From another article.
Perez agreed to the settlement rather than take the case to trial out of concern that a jury award could be overturned on appeal on grounds of qualified immunity for police. Generally, qualified immunity protects law enforcement officers unless they violate clearly established law arising from a case with nearly identical facts, according to the Legal Defense Fund.
So essentially they can get away with anything as long as it's bizarre enough?
― jmm, Saturday, 25 May 2024 10:54 (three hours ago) link
yes - the "clearly established" thing comes early in a string of bad Supreme Court decisions on this. ime the episode of the 5:4 podcast on Qualified Immunity was an informative and sobering listen.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 25 May 2024 11:14 (three hours ago) link