Billionaire giga-donors. They don’t give a fuck about stupid voters. “Find me 11,800 votes” speakers for itself how much they care about elections and voters.
This fucking sub-human murdered an innocent woman at random because she was having a temper tantrum after being kicked out of a city park. And she only gets 8 fucking years?
So, if I understand this right, it’s mostly OK to kill people at random in NYC? That’s the message this extremely light sentence conveys.
I always found the thought alone scary. Imagine losing one year of your life locked up. Everything around you would just ‘move past’ while you’re caged in. Now imagine eight years of your past life and how much happened in that time and what you would have missed.
I don’t think any country should have lifelong (timely unlimited) sentences, they’re incredibly cruel, maybe worse than death.
Yeah, I think prison should be reserved for people who are an immediate danger to society. She probably qualifies, but I’d say that any continued imprisonment should be determined by a parole board, including a professional psychologist or something.
that's exactly what i am saying lol.
prison should be used much more conservitavely and be seen as a measure to protect the victim/public, not to punish the perpetrator.
We actually did have a ruling like that in Germany, so our highest available punishment, “lifelong” prison sentences aren’t what the name implies. They are long, always more than 15 years and usually above 20, but eventually you get out.
There is another measure available to keep people locked up indefinitely, “Sicherheitsverwahrung”, which keeps getting extended if they are considered to remain a large threat to society. But it’s not supposed to be a punishment, so they get more commodities at least.
She gets to have a life after those 8 years. The woman she killed doesnt. Her family never gets to see her again. She’s GONE because of this bitch and there’s no bringing her back.
You clearly have no idea what life with a serious criminal record is like if you think she’s going to be able to just pick up where she left off when she gets out (nevermind the lost 8 years).
Don’t get me wrong, what she did was fucked up, but an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, and it sounds like the only sentence you’d have been happy with is more or less life in prison. She didn’t set out to kill this lady, even in the heat of the moment. It’s beyond fucked up to shove an old lady in any case, and every single day of those 8 years is well earned, but I don’t agree that it’s light.
As a society we need to get over this idea that the goal of prison is to punish the perpetrators. The point should be to rehabilitate them so that when they get out they can be decent law abiding, productive members of society. A person rotting in prison for the rest of their life does nothing but waste tax dollars and cause misery. A person rehabilitated can go on to make the world a tiny bit better, and maybe even help someone else from going down the same fucked up path she did.
Its a fact that countries whose prison systems are centered around rehabilitation have lower repeat offender rates
Her family is wealthy, she’ll be fine when she gets out. If we were using an eye for an eye she’d be executed.
As for rehabilitation, there are 8 billion people on this planet. We can afford to dump the shitty ones in dark hole for the rest of their lives. There’s more than enough good people that need help and aren’t getting it those resources could go to.
I’ve worked with several ex cons. They were doing okay. The last place I worked hired a fucking convicted child molester OF HIS OWN CHILD. If that dude could get a job anyone can.
It wasn’t murder, because it wasn’t pre-meditated and she likely didn’t intend to kill when she did it. Manslaugher and assault seem the correct charges. I’m not making excuses for her, she deserves jail over this. But all those mitigating factors matter when you compare this case with murder cases that get 20+ years.
It must suck to be a judge, and have to decide that taking some lives are worth more or less than taking others.
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Kind of a shame it’s just weird lighting on a normal-looking dude, versus being the sign that this is all a fever dream you can wake up from. I say you because my coma delirium wouldn’t involve this many false starts. Comey’s gonna charge him, whoops, nevermind. Mueller’s gonna charge him, whoops, nevermind. We’re going to war with Iran, whoops, nevermind. We’re holding cops accountable, whoops, nevermind. The plague means UBI, whoops, nevermind. Roger Stone’s going to jail, whoops, nevermind. A mob invaded the capitol, whoops, nevermind. Russia’s seizing Ukraine, whoops, nevermind. Ukraine’s expelling Russia, whoops, nevermind. Wagner’s conquering Moscow, whoops, nevermind. The last seven years have been like a story told by a toddler. “And then… and then… but nuh-uh… and then…”
Seeing the figure of highest ridicule - whom I remember reading about in Bloom County collections when they were far from new - fail his way into the clumsiest autocracy imaginable, would not be followed up by this much inaction. Hallucinations don’t start with “Carrot Top became the Pope!” and then level out. He’s declaring a crusade on Gallagher, the Swiss Guard develop laser-pikes, and your childhood dog kills the emperor of Australia. So whichever one of you is having this nightmare, I want you to know your subconscious is fucking boring.
I don’t think the to are related if it only presented itself in rural America and no where else. If a similar thing happened in either urban US, or rural Russia, it could be more easy to link it to it being drinking that causes that. This study has to many variables
At least 41 people have died in stifling, uncooled prisons of either heart-related or unknown causes during Texas’ relentless and record-breaking heat wave this summer
At least another 29 have died of what are still unknown causes pending autopsy results. The death count is likely higher, as prisons have 30 days to report a prisoner’s death to the state.
TDCJ has reported 35 employee heat-related illnesses this year, but only 14 among prisoners
And that’s just heat related over the past few months.
I think you knew exactly what idea they were saying. Agency, the ability to control your own life, varies. Clearly and obviously a regular person in the West has more agency than say a regular person in North Korea. It is not an one-off switch. The ever growing wealth inequality is making the population shift more and more to the slave side of things. That doesn’t mean that you are a slave it means your papa was less of a slave compared to you.
This is why being a lolitarian makes you stupid. It bifurcates slavery and freedom. It defines force to be a specific term, that no one else uses, and declares victory in the game it is playing with itself
It’s really disingenuous to compare US-only data to unrelated generalizations of other countries that function under different cultural and economic systems. But I feel like you already know that.
I think the stat you’re referencing is for people aged 65-69. That means 30% of those people are still working. That number should be much lower, like 0.
Fish accumulate toxins and heavy metals as you move up the food chain. This is well-known.
Even though swordfish swim in waters that have perfectly safe mercury concentrations, eating swordfish everyday is inadvisable because of their high mercury contents.
But he does think that non-tritium contaminates missed by the ALPS system could build up over time near the shore.
“Nearshore in Japan could be affected in the long term because of accumulation of non-tritium forms of radioactivity,” he says. That could ultimately hurt fisheries in the area.
Ah yes, because the only danger of nuclear meltdown industrial wastewater is tritium.
One big concern is that the ALPS system is imperfect: it supposedly removes other radioactive contaminants to within legal limits, but those legal limits ARE higher than that of seawater. The ALPS has also been custom-designed for this project: it is a bespoke system that hasn’t been tested in production.
Plus, this is coming from the same private entity that mismanaged the Fukushima plant enough to cause the disaster… How much faith do you have in them to not fuck up again? Tepco’s optimizing for their bottom line, not for what’s best for society.
Everything is imperfect. The ocean contains 4.5 billion tons of uranium and that only contributes a small fraction of the natural radioactivity of the ocean. This is not a public health concern and insisting on some stupid demand for perfection when the water you’re exhausting is less radioactive than the water you’re putting it into is fucking idiocy
US psyops trying to gaslight the content of the article. There are trace elements of other contaminants… Of unknown concentration, and we have to take TEPCO’s word that it’s “like, totally safe man, just like our nuclear reactors”
I recommend reading the article again. They got anything but the tritium out of the water. Which is comparable easy to accomplish, and also important. The remaining tritium is as harmless as radioactive things can get in the first place.
A radiation scientist here reminded people of those radium-based glow-in-the-dark wrist watches, and compared the radiation caused by this wastewater release to adding about 70 to 80 of those watches to the pacific ocean.
Guy who writes a song bitching about obese people on welfare is both stupid and an asshole, shouldn’t be a surprise
Holt said that it’s typical for political movements to latch onto cultural artifacts like music or movies to broaden their reach. But in this case, Holt warned that the individuals seizing on the song may lead unsuspecting audiences into their extremist spheres.
Among the early online boosters of the song were Matt Walsh, a far-right commentator who has fanned anti-LGBTQ sentiment. Walsh posted the song to his X account, to 1 million views. Jack Posobiec, a rightwing activist who promoted the false Pizzagate conspiracy theory and has documented ties with white nationalists, shared it on his X account to more than 5 million views.
Also, on the subject of this song being “breakout/viral” - how hard is it to manipulate streaming numbers? Harder than buying palettes of right wing political screeds to get them onto best seller charts? Because that’s definitely happened before and it’s all the same people involved here
Also, on the subject of this song being “breakout/viral” - how hard is it to manipulate streaming numbers?
It's seemed like the numbers there are 'semi-'manipulated in the way that Kpop can be - hugely inflated by deliberate rewatching and multi-platform streaming, but by individuals who genuinely want the song to do well, rather than bots or purchased fake stats.
It's really seemed like 'the right' sees Oliver Anthony as "their guy" and rallied behind him and his song in order to push it up the charts as an imagined way of 'owning the libs' - and I think OA's industry backing worked hard to seed that narrative among those circles in order to elicit that sort of boosterism from them.
Guy who writes a song bitching about obese people on welfare
It’s one piece and everything else in the song is widely believed among voters of all political parties. The guy seems to be an honest to gosh hill billy and his song is resonating because it speaks to the beliefs of well more than half the country. Politicians are corrupt and too powerful, the dollar isn’t worth shit, people don’t paid enough for the work they do, taxes are arguably too high, and Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself.
I’ve heard those same opinions expressed by Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, and even Communists for YEARS now.
So good job pretending the whole song is about the probelmatic part, then unleashing Ad Hominem on the Singer / SongWriter, and finishing up the trifecta with a Fox News worthy “Just asking questions…” aspersion regarding its rise in popularity.
His message obviously isn’t for you, so climb back in your Ivory Tower and go back to staring at your art collection while sipping a nice glass of Chardonnay.
The problem with the song is that all those complaints could be fixed by proposals the Democrats have been trying to get through for years.
Inflation is way down because of the Biden administration and the Democrats have been trying to get the minimum wage raised for a decade to address poor pay. Taxes in the US are lower than any other first world country, but what we do pay we get jack shit for it, which the Democrats are also trying to improve with interesting projects, public transit, healthcare, and energy initiatives.
The singer is pandering to a Republican audience that still and perpetually believe the Democrats are to blame, when it’s Republicans holding back any real improvements.
The problem with the song is that all those complaints could be fixed by proposals the Democrats have been trying to get through for years.
Please. Political corruption, homelessness, food scarcity, suicide, mental health issues, and declining wages (in real terms) exist everywhere in this country. Even in the Bluest of Cities located in the Bluest of States.
The singer is pandering to a Republican audience …
I disagree for two reasons. First he has a video where he goes through the meaning of “Rich Men North of Richmond” and he’s pretty clear about who he is, why he wrote the song, and his personal political leanings. Second he has other songs where he goes after Republicans. He isn’t bitching about Democrats his anger is with the Political Class period.
“Rich Men” is a song written by a member of the American Proletariat, it’s really that simple.
I agree man! The shit that rappers can say is egregious but some of those songs are big hits. It’s not politically perfect but hits on countries roots. I’m happy to listen to it because he wrote it from his soul not some A I generated words with a corporate tune imo
What a weird choice of a song by the GOP. I mean, yeah, it makes fun of poor people who are overweight… but most of the song is about how bad the very people up on stage are.
Incumbent Republicans have been running on “Washington DC is terrible and everyone there is a horrible crook” messaging for decades, their voters “know” it’s not them the song is talking about (“know” in quotes because there’s no textual basis for that belief and the literal lyrics of the song taken out of context could be describing Mitch McConnell or whoever, but Republicans have never let pesky facts get in the way of a good hate and they’re not about to start here)
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