Guys, it’s possible for two things to be true at the same time. Hamas can be a brutal fundamentalist group that abuses and murders Palestinians while Israel commits genocide. Nuance needs to come back in fashion—or come back from the dead.
Not to mention hell for your blender. Bones…aren’t exactly “puréeable.” Any blade would get dull pretty fast when going through human body parts.
Some people.
Just saying. That specific framing at this specific time? I know it’s a fairly common way of referencing the admin—for an NYT story. But it was just very, very telling for some random internet comment to call it that in reference to this situation at this time. It just seemed very much like showing the commenter’s hand. Subtle, but painfully apparent.
You think the cost of eggs has something to do with defense spending?
Also, when one country just straight up invades another, it can be pretty easy to choose which side is the aggressor and thus less worthy of support. But that’s just me.
I just want to point out how interesting it is that this comment called it the “Biden-Harris administration.” Interesting.
I don’t think those are the ones you need to worry about—or, should I say, that are the more professional ones. The real ones are the ones who act like people, not businesses. You get random messages that say “hey! I lost my work phone and transferred the numbers, but I don’t remember whose number this is.” Or find a way to send a picture of a pretty girl and say, “remember me? We exchanged numbers a while ago!” Or some shit like that. I think those are the more effective and dangerous ones. I get a lot of those.
It’s not that they are victims. They are just useful idiots whose idiotic idiot views aligned with the political goals of Russia.
Dude can’t even cross his arms normally. Clearly an alien imposter trying to exert control over he human population.
We all get it. It’s a shit sandwich. But doing nothing isn’t a noble choice either.
Yeah, it’s not magical or flawless. Because the relationships between the wealthy prosecutors and the judges and the overburdened courts system lead to almost all poor defendants being threatened into taking a plea deal as opposed to going to trial, regardless of their guilt because a jury trial is expensive as fuck and also brings with it the chance to be put away for way longer. That’s how it works out when it doesn’t work out the way it’s laid out in the owners manual.
Not to mention cash bail. Or municipal violations literally only affecting those without money to make it disappear. And political judges. And groups like the heritage foundation.
I’m just saying, I don’t know how Romanian justice really works in practice, but in the US, we have quite the fucking shit system.
Well, it could be depending on how robust their anti corruption practices are. Because what really makes more sense, 12 citizens, uneducated in law and its application, getting manipulated by differing levels of millionaire depending on the wealth of the defendant/plaintiff? Or a legal expert weighing the facts to determine their strength?
Because, both are open to corruption. The jury of your peers is open to corruption in the ways I’m sure most people on lemmy are familiar with, but the other way, with robust anti corruption laws, would arguably be better.
Okay. So then prosecute the shit out of her. That’s my point. If she deserves it, don’t throw some sort of honorary sentence at her. She either deserves it because of her part, and you don’t sort of have some vague notion of her being guilty if she weren’t so old, or you don’t prosecute her. See what I’m saying? I’m not saying she’s surely culpable or not, it’s just that this feels so half-assed and performative. Two year suspended sentence? So they’re just gonna let this person guilty of being an accessory to 10,500 murders off on a light sentence. Get ere I’m coming from? I see the argument going both ways. This just felt like they couldn’t decide which way to take and they’re going for appearances and that’s all.
I mean, fuck all nazis, obviously. But a woman who was a secretary in the 1930s/1940s? And she got a two year suspended sentence? This just sorta reeks of performative.
I get it, she was a secretary at a camp. So it’s not like she didn’t know. But either do it for real or don’t because she’s old and gonna die soon. This sort of honorary prison time thing—especially for a woman in that era? It’s just a strange…way of for the cards to fall. I don’t know how to describe it. Nor how to really feel about it. Seems like, for 10,500 murders, it’s light. But for a woman under the Nazi regime? I mean…how much agency did she really have? I dunno. Like I said, just feels weird.
That image in the thumbnail looks like a perfect scene for an oil painting
Oh dip! Donkey Doug?!
I dunno. Seems like they’re just saying the nature of competing in sports isn’t political. But the fact that the flag they’re draped in is inextricably tied to that nation’s geopolitical actions means that there’s no way it can’t be seen as political. Makes sense to me.
All excellent bands. For something a little different than those more punk/post punk-ish bands, I present to you Camp Cope:
https://invidious.incogniweb.net/watch?v=S4ahiwPtHyI
https://invidious.incogniweb.net/watch?v=40nc_8ij3MI&listen=false
Another great Aussie band (well, they used to be. Broke up.)
I mean…can’t be that much of a surprise. Those are two of the most Russian looking parents I’ve ever seen. I’m surprised one of their kids isn’t just a gross ketchup and mayo dressing.
…we do understand. But solving it isn’t exactly easy. Why don’t we just dismantle a world superpower with the biggest military in the world and a massive landmass and a spread out populace? Oh, why didn’t we think of that.