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Zombiepirate , in Trump classified documents trial set for May 2024
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Seems like an own-goal to start the trial after he’s potentially secured the nomination.

iesou ,

The goal is to set the trial as l late as she can get away with, then stall, stall, and stall some more in hopes he can get reelected before it ends and then just pardon himself.

Zombiepirate ,
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I hope I don’t eat these words, but I don’t see how he could possibly win the general election after his other trials conclude.

It’s a pretty pathetic state of affairs that I fully expect him to win the GOP nomination because of his legal issues.

pelespirit ,
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They’re going to try to cheat and they’ve been working on that since last time to make that happen. They’re putting their side in charge of elections, redistricting, etc. While the press talks about Bobo & the clown and trump, they’re working on stuff behind the scenes.

Jaysyn ,
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Generally speaking, they were already in charge of elections & redistricting for a lot of states. The "Independent Legislature" thing the SCotUS kicked to the curb was their only real shot they had for outright "legally" stealing an election. Mathematically speaking, you can only gerrymander a given area so much & that hardly matters for Senate & Presidential elections.

They "caught the car" with Roe vs. Wade & don't know how the fuck to recover from that mistake.

"Wokeness" is about 3 times more popular than the GOP.

The GOP has lost 10 of their last 12 special elections, some of those in areas they were never supposed to lose.

Last time I looked, COVID was still killing 100 very likely GOP adherents every single day in the USA.

Millennials hate the GOP, almost monolithically. Demographics are going to crush the GOP in the next two elections.

iesou , (edited )

Gen Y Z is the same. I hope all of that matters

rjc ,
@rjc@lemmy.world avatar

Only matters if they vote

iesou ,

They voted in record numbers last presidential election. Hopefully that carries over.

lolcatnip ,

Millennials are Gen Y. Are you thinking of Zoomers?

iesou ,

Yes

iesou ,

I hope you’re right, but I know a lot of these state legislatures are doing their best to gerrymander, and otherwise rig elections. Some states are fighting that (Michigan is majority dem for the first time in forever because of a separate, non-politician run redistricting committee and expanded voting rights bills), but there are a lot (see North Carolina, and Alabama’s refusal to create a second majority black district even though they have been ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

He won last time when everyone wrote him off. We shouldn’t make the same mistake again.

He’s not just a GOP candidate, he is the champion of grifters and fearful white people. I have lots of people who live near me with trump paraphernalia outside their houses and prominently displayed in their places of business. They are so invested in him that logic takes a back seat to the need to win.

iesou ,

I hope you’re right, but I know a lot of these state legislatures are doing their best to gerrymander, and otherwise rig elections. Some states are fighting that (Michigan is majority dem for the first time in forever because of a separate, non-politician run redistricting committee and expanded voting rights bills), but there are a lot (see North Carolina, and Alabama’s refusal to create a second majority black district even though they have been ordered to do so by the Supreme Court.

He won last time when everyone wrote him off. We shouldn’t make the same mistake again.

He’s not just a GOP candidate, he is the champion of grifters and fearful white people. I have lots of people who live near me with trump paraphernalia outside their houses and prominently displayed in their places of business. They are so invested in him that logic takes a back seat to the need to win.

kbity ,
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All it takes is enough people who aren't fully committed Trump voters in swing states finding it difficult to vote, or ending up not voting out of apathy. Or those states picking electors who will give the votes to Trump regardless of who wins the vote. A Trump victory can't be ruled out even with what should be several major disqualifying factors running against him. That's more an indictment of America than a credit to the strength of his candidacy, frankly.

be_excellent_to_each_other ,
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I dunno I still see this helping Democrats in the end. R will give him the nomination with all his fans proclaiming with great sureness that a presently campaigning former president who is trying to be re-elected cannot be convicted, then BOOM he gets convicted <6 months prior to the election. Then what?

Zombiepirate ,
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My thoughts exactly.

@pelespirit mentioned that there are behind-the-scenes machinations to disrupt the process, and that’s a very valid concern, but I don’t see how it could be close enough to make a difference though if Trump is convicted of any charges that have been brought.

I’ve been wrong before though.

dag06001 , in Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown

Cancelled and three users who used my password didn’t sign up. Doubt Netflix would announce this was a failure so here we are.

zarquon ,

I had the opposite experience. I canceled and then my moochers signed up for their own.

AFaithfulNihilist ,
@AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world avatar

Did they decide to share their passwords with you?

zarquon ,

I’m sure they would if I asked. I could probably even guess it as the sharing was already both ways with other services.

We would still be in the same problem with Netflix blocking other locations though.

partial_accumen ,

I canceled and then my moochers signed up for their own.

This was where Netflix planned to make their money back from folks that cancel. I’m sure they ran the numbers and arrived at the “more money” answer when they enforce sharing crackdown.

atretador , in Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown

I rolled back to stremio.io

Spacebar , in Fulton county prosecutors prepare racketeering charges in Trump inquiry
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Trumps Lawyer Sydney Powell directed people to break into a voting machine for its data. Trump asked Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” 11,780 votes and threatened repercussions if he didn’t.

That’s racketeering under Georgia law.

BossPaint , in Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order

So what happens when people in government don’t follow court orders? Do they just get sued again?

Fugicara ,

If it’s anything like Ohio in 2022, they just ignore the court order to redraw it and there’s no recourse.

Menel ,

They are politicians, nothing happens.
We’ve had politicians coordinate openly in public with armed insurrections, no response.
We’ve had politicians trafficking humans, no response.

captainlezbian ,

When Alabama refused to desegregate it’s schools after a supreme court order Eisenhower sent the national guard to do it. The job of the executive branch is to carry out laws and rulings

whatsarefoogee , in Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown

An uptick after these changes make sense. People want to continue their comfortable routines. However now that it’s draining their wallet, they will probably be on the lookout for cheap/free alternatives.

It’s the same with increasing prices. Short term your revenue will spike, but it will bleed as you slowly lose customers because you offer less value.

But the people who were previously paying is where Netflix is playing with fire. They released the customers who were paying only because they were sharing it and didnt want to cause an inconvenience.

I think it’s a pretty big gamble by Netflix, it will take time to see how it played out.

tjhart85 ,
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I did that for years. Checked usage and found out the other couple people I was sharing with weren't using it anyways.

Cancelled after 10 years.

Sure they might have gained a few subscribers short term, but are they the type to just let the sub roll for a decade straight or will they just watch what they want and cancel until they can re-sub and binge again?

Crackhappy ,
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I wasn’t sharing my password with anyone but the complete 180 they did on their own policy to chase dollars pissed me off so I cancelled. Been a subscriber since the first year they came out. Oh well.

Greenskye ,

Gotta edge a bit closer to that trust thermocline. I feel like it’s pretty much guaranteed for at least one of the major streaming services to all but collapse in the next 5 years. There’s just too many and something will happen to push people into leaving them.

Tenthrow , in Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order
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Imagine packing the court with conservative stooges, doing something SO unconstitutional that those stooges tell you to stop, then defying the orders of your lopsided Supreme Court, that you built yourself.

goforliftoff ,

ThE cOuRt HaS a LiBrUl BiAs!!!1!1

The Alabama legislature, probably.

Spacebar , in Fulton county prosecutors prepare racketeering charges in Trump inquiry
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The Fulton county district attorney investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia has developed evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Georgia grand jury selected in Trump case over attempt to overturn 2020 defeat Read more The racketeering statute in Georgia requires prosecutors to show the existence of an “enterprise” – and a pattern of racketeering activity that is predicated on at least two “qualifying” crimes.

In the Trump investigation, the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, has evidence to pursue a racketeering indictment predicated on statutes related to influencing witnesses and computer trespass, the people said.

Willis had previously said she was weighing racketeering charges in her criminal investigation, but the new details about the direction and scope of the case come as prosecutors are expected to seek indictments starting in the first two weeks of August.

The racketeering statute in Georgia is more expansive than its federal counterpart, notably because any attempts to solicit or coerce the qualifying crimes can be included as predicate acts of racketeering activity, even when those crimes cannot be indicted separately.

The specific evidence was not clear, though the charge regarding influencing witnesses could include Trump’s conversations with Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, in which he asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes, the people said – and thereby implicate Trump.

For the computer trespass charge, where prosecutors would have to show that defendants used a computer or network without authority to interfere with a program or data, that would include the breach of voting machines in Coffee county, the two people said.

The breach of voting machines involved a group of Trump operatives – paid by the then Trump lawyer Sidney Powell – accessing the voting machines at the county’s election office and copying sensitive voting system data.

The copied data from the Dominion Voting Systems machines, which are used statewide in Georgia, was then uploaded to a password-protected site from where election deniers could download the materials as part of a misguided effort to prove the 2020 election had been rigged.

Though Coffee county is outside the usual jurisdiction of the Fulton county district attorney’s office, the racketeering statute would allow prosecutors to also charge what the Trump operatives did there by showing it was all aimed towards the goal of corruptly keeping Trump in office.

A spokesperson for Willis did not respond to requests for comment.

kescusay , in Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96
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What an absolute legend, and an incredible life. RIP, Mr. Bennett.

Iwasondigg , in Alabama GOP refuses to draw second Black district, despite Supreme Court order

Don’t you dare call them racist though.

photonic_sorcerer ,
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This isn’t about racism, they’re simply trying to protect their majority.

I mean, they are racist, but that’s not the no.1 reason they’re doing this.

captainlezbian ,

They’re inherently tied to each other. What do they want their majority for? To do racism. How are they protecting it? Racism. It’s like when we ask “states rights to do what”.

photonic_sorcerer ,
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Huh, good point. Guess I was being too literal.

fucking_polite , in Judge: West Virginia can't require incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
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As a Latin American, it seems to me that Christian fanaticism is so wide spread in the US it almost feels cartoonish, like the sort of general impression one gets from any cult or fundamentalist religious group. And I’m from Latin America!

damnYouSun ,

It always reminds me of North Korea, or China. No matter what else you do, you must be seen to believe in the right thing or else you are some kind of evil deviant.

What the religion or belief system is actually is is about is almost irrelevant. The important thing is to believe, understanding it is entirely not required and almost frowned upon.

NotASucker ,

The United States was founded by people who were already upset they couldn’t be as fanatical/evangelical as they wanted.

grue ,

No, a few North American colonies were founded by people who were already upset they couldn’t be as fanatical/evangelical as they wanted.

The United States was founded mostly by Deists and folks influenced by Enlightenment philosophy, several hundred years later.

jungekatz , in Tony Bennett, US singer with seven-decade career, dies aged 96

Cant believe it ! He was a gem

sexy_peach , in A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students

You don’t have to have patience with it you just have to deal with it.

I also think that it’s a problem that teachers spend to much time on their phones and have mental health problems.

Nepenthe , (edited )
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"I may have mental health problems, but you also have mental health problems" does not...strike me as an argument against lessened social media use....

If the instructors were doing this, they'd need to be fired because they are not doing their job. If the students are doing this, well, you can't fire them from learning, so it needs to be handled at the source.

Would also be pretty neat if we gave the educational system perhaps a money, and the problem is probably exacerbated by all that future the students tangibly don't have. But a heavy increase in counseling won't make anyone listen. I vote for addressing both, both is good.

I also forsee a handful of court cases when parents inevitably make their kids' "non-minor" accounts because they just want to be left alone.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Unfortunately teachers don’t “have to deal with it”

When they get fed up they quit, and then random unqualified people get hired to fill the needs and they end up being the ones who don’t give a shit either way and spend their day on the phones.

You won’t get good teachers if the working conditions are shit, and students these days are the main problem creating the shitty working conditions.

AlGoreRhythm ,

I’d place my bet on administrative bloat hogging too many resources. Making teachers move on to more lucrative professions because teaching isn’t worth all the headaches it entails for what they are bringing home at the end of the day.

stopthatgirl7 , in German police end hunt for lioness and believe creature was wild boar
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Ok, a wild boar makes much more sense than it being a lioness, although I’m a not at a loss as to how you confuse the two.

idoubtit OP ,
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Here is a breakdown of why it’s not a lion. tetzoo.com/blog/…/kleinmachnow-lion-not-a-lion

_haha_oh_wow_ , in Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdown
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I sure didn’t: I’d been a loyal customer since the DVD days but this was the final straw. I cancelled as soon as it was announced and will not ever be renewing. Netflix jumped the shark and is dead to me.

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