I volunteered for a congressional candidate who was a boring moderate Democrat. He very actively campaigned on his experience as a “Yale Law grad” and “former 9th circuit clerk.” I’ll never forget that because those things only matter to the most deranged freaks around. Terrible strategy. He lost.
You know, my daddy was a gangsta
And father before him was a damn thug
Ima learn to escape up out of these handcuffs
I ain’t going to court to see no damn judge
“Aaron was the kindest, gentlest, silliest little kid in the Air Force. He was one of the most principled comrades we’ve ever known, he was always trying to think about how we actually achieve liberation for all, with a smile on his face.”
This isn’t a free speech “battle of ideas” thing. “Deplatforming” someone, say Milo or Alex Jones, is an institutional response via public pressure. “Platforming” someone, as in giving them exposure, is not mutually exclusive with deplatforming them and the exposure often helps that process along.
How is she platforming anyone, she already has a massive following that commands insane amounts of media attention. At this point you can’t just ignore the most vicious transphobe in the country out of existence. There is value to making these people look bigoted outside of their own platform.
How is she platforming anyone, she already has a massive following that commands insane amounts of media attention. At this point you can’t just ignore the most vicious transphobe in the country out of existence. There is value to making these people look bigoted outside of their own platform.
If you or a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis, never call the cops. Even if it’s really bad, help is clearly needed, still don’t call the police. They won’t help you. They have never helped anyone in that situation. It’s a mistake, and potentially a deadly one.
It’s interesting watching Elon Musk become more and more of a fascist. Kind of clashes with his whole “Tony Stark future man” brand that he’s cultivated (which is entirely fake anyway). It’s also more in line with the brutality and immorality inherent in being the richest man on the planet.
The fact that you can’t convince a significant percentage of Americans that our police are a problem is so fucking infuriating, especially because that includes one of my siblings.
In my experience every time I have a client charged with battery on an officer/resisting arrest/obstruction its what you get charged with when the police beat the shit out of you and then make it your fault after the fact.
Same. In twenty years of indigent criminal defense, the battery and assault on LEO cases were almost always justification for the police beating up or shooting my client. In the rare instances that weren’t brutality, the charge was officer retaliation for resisting and making things hard for the cop
In my experience every time I have a client charged with battery on an officer/resisting arrest/obstruction its what you get charged with when the police beat the shit out of you and then make it your fault after the fact.
In my experience every time I have a client charged with battery on an officer/resisting arrest/obstruction its what you get charged with when the police beat the shit out of you and then make it your fault after the fact.
