Cheer up a little. The article's timing is just poor. There was a news story a short while ago that the new reformist President has ordered the morality police to curb their enforcement of the dress code for women. No, it's not release of past protesters, but it's a step in the right direction.
Most Iranians hate the religious police, but democracy is weak in the country. The Supreme Leader and the religious council have frequently removed reformers from the ballot. It's practically one party rule like China.
Adult lgbtq people are jaded enough against this, but I think about the lgbtq kids who don’t understand why this is happening. And will learn the hard way.
It was Matthew Shepherd’s death that made me an activist, but it’s shit like this that keeps me going.
Knife, belt buckle, light reflecting off a window - who can say what they really saw? All I know is they won’t serve any prison time and that’s fucked up.
Who’s getting the money paid for these cadaver parts? Clearly, a big part of the problem is perverse incentives; the money should be going to the estates of the deceased, never the medical facility.
I think many of us, and many Important People, give a fuck. It’s just that we know to take our time and gather information before making any strong proclamations about exactly what happened. We all know that Trump would lie about everything, and initial reports from police and neighbors are notoriously unreliable.
Finally now, more than a day after the event, it feels like maybe we’re able to put together the beginning of a reliable picture about exactly what happened.
If you want to know how people feel about assassination attempts on presidential candidates, just look at what they said two months ago.
I wanted to see how many assassination attempts needed to happen for Trump to have the most. I thought 4 would do it after getting past Lincoln, who had 3.
“I’m sorry for the offensive language. That’s all it was. It does get me upset when I listen to the news and they attack President Donald Trump. He’s a good person and he’s done a lot for this country and the veterans.” After his sentencing, Grant C. Jaquith, the United States attorney for the Northern District of New York, said in a statement, “Racist threats to kill present and former public officials are not protected free speech, but serious crimes.”
Who would have guessed that she’s corrupt? Strange that she’s acting just like her right wing anti-Constitution bosses on the Supreme Court. I wonder how that kind of corruption trickles down.
In the same way that Elon Musk and I have a shared 100 billion + $ networth, so to are both sides have shared blame and responsibillity to mitigate this situation that the Left created /s
Fucking love this comment. If only we could charge people for being ignorant, or willfully dumb, or just racist. Amazing how folks wanna throw their individual right to free speech away instead of holding “news” corporations accountable. One is much easier to do and has actual precedent, the other being a collapse of our democracy.
From my understanding, and please, someone correct me:
Hate speech has to be tied to a crime. If you knock someone’s mailbox over it’s destruction of property, if you do it while yelling a racist phrase at the person then it may be considered a hate crime which depending on the state can carry additional, often heavier punishment. Racism isn’t illegal, just bad taste.
As far as American free speech is concerned, outside of inciting violence or injury (rallys that turn violent, yelling fire in a movie theater) you can pretty much say whatever the fuck you want… Unless it’s towards a corporation or rich person who can sue you into the floor for years debating your use of “satire, irony, fantasy, parody” if they kinda choose to. Legal system is beyond fucked, and with all the deep fake shit coming and going it’s most likely give more power to these kinda cases. Also, it feels like there’s a rise both legally and socially for thought crimes. A whole new bag of fun.
Edit: Obviously, threatening someone with violence is indeed illegal. Can’t tell folks you’re going to kill them.
Free speech can exist perfectly fine with rules against this kind of stuff. In a lot of western countries where racism and hatespeech can get you in trouble, you are still totally allowed to criticize cultures, immigrants and other stuff like that.
A few out of the top of my head: France, Belgium, UK, Netherlands, Germany, Canada, Australia.
In all of these countries free speech is a right, but blatant racism, hate speech, or propaganda based upon such basis, can all get you fined and possibly even jailed.
Yeah, that’s pretty general. If you’d like to pick a country and a few example cases I’d love to actually be specific. Burden of proof on the prosecution? Can I just say my neighbor said racist shit and they go to jail? Context? Set list of phrases/words? Past precedent and public opinion? Warnings vs fines? Etc?
Pretty sure a lot of these places let a lot of questionable people gather and say a lot of questionable shit publicly without any consequence. Not just the US.
Also, besides the last few years (i think because of immigration), racism was almost non existent, and most people only talked shit behind closed doors, but didn’t even really mean it. Police for example are more into profiling than racism. And the fact that racism is not allowed, also makes it very taboo to be racist.
And also a very weird “every country allows extremists” comment. I’ll just point it out and not go into it any further.
Bro, you haven’t even made a fucking point. Get out of here with this fucking bullshit. You obviously can’t explain much of anything outside of how you “feel” about these things. You showed your age with the “racism was non-existent”, obviously haven’t been around for too long. Never used the word extremist, but honestly it’s not bad. Yeah, every country has them.
Do me a favor, and try to only reply to comments where you actually have a fucking point. You’re gumming up the works for the people looking to have actual discussions.
What the hell are you even talking about? You ask questions and I answer them. Your intentions are fucking selfish and negative. Get the fuck out of here yourself you miserable asshole.
Go do your own resource for the stuff I said. I don’t have to prove shit.
And there it is! Glad we could boil it down to your superiority over AmErIcA. Fucking nationalists.
Glad to see the rest of the world is just as fucking stupid as the majority of this country.
You challenged my response, I questioned your stupid premise and asked for actual fact, you couldn’t provide (probably due to your laziness, you’d probably fit in better here than you’d like to believe…) a single point of argument except your feelings. Learn what debate and conversation actually resemble, or don’t, you’ll fit right in with the masses.
So they fired, chief Maddrey, right?? Since he’s the one who actually abused his position. Otherwise, what the hell is the point of this payout? It’ll just happen again.
They’re not trying to stop it from happening again, they’re trying to get us all to shut up about it until the next person tries to assassinate Trump so the media cycle can sweep this under the rug. That’s what the big settelment is for.
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