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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Just wait until instead of merely keeping Trump's draconian border policies, Biden goes even further than Trump in order to secure funding for more bombs to slaughter Palestinians.

The 2024 election will be brutal.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Huh, I'm starting to think that the guy who hung a portrait of a mass shooter in his living room and who was exempted from mandatory IDF service for his far right political background, might not be the good guy here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itamar_Ben-Gvir

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm looking. Is something supposed to stand out about Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, and the UK?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What does Substack plan to do with the profits that it makes from hosting Nazi content?

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (11 children)

A vote for not killing their babies is a vote for killing our babies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Writing a blank check for genocide

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And then Democrats get so overconfident that they think they can help carry out a genocide and still win the next election.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Unfortunately they've either learned nothing, or are more than happy to let it happen again - this time with the military. By 2026 or so there's a very real chance that the military will be full of far right appointees that have no qualms about using nuclear weapons on population centers, carrying out genocides, employing the military against the American people, etc. etc. Just like the judiciary in 2014-2016, the military is full of vacancies waiting for the next far right president to fill overnight as soon as he takes power.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An AI can't be fined or imprisoned.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Here's a reminder of all the stuff Democrats gave up back in June and got absolutely nothing in return:

  • Defunded the IRS by $21 billion
  • New work requirements for SNAP and TANF
  • Defunded Covid relief by $30 billion
  • Restarted student loan payments
  • Severe 1% cap on budget increases for the rest of Biden's presidency (meanwhile inflation is near 4%)
  • New natural gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia
  • Major weakening of NEPA environmental reviews
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's the thing about felony murder. If her death occurred as a result of their commission of a felony, then they should be on the hook for felony murder. It doesn't matter that they didn't directly kill her.

Felony murder isn't a phrase to disambiguate between a murder that's a felony and some kind of nonexistent misdemeanor murder. It refers to a very specific type of "murder" where somebody dies as a result of somebody else committing a felony. The commission of the felony is enough to make the person liable - they don't have to have intended to kill anybody in the process or be directly involved in the death.

Four unarmed teenagers break into a house. The homeowner shoots and kills one of them. The three survivors are all liable for felony murder for the fourth's death, and can face life in prison or even a death sentence.

A group of criminals break into a house. One stays outside as a lookout, completely unaware of what is happening in the house. The elderly homeowner tries to stop the criminals in the house, but slips and falls and hits his head and dies from a brain hemorrhage. The lookout is liable for felony murder.

Two cops are having a disagreement at work. They get a call of a burglary in progress and drive out there and start chasing the suspect. One of the cops shoots at the suspect, but "accidentally" misses and fatally wounds the other cop they were fighting with back at the station. The burglar is liable for felony murder for the cop's death.

If the same standards were applied to the criminals who raided the journalist's house, then they'd all be charged with felony murder.

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