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Are you actually comparing being taken to church with “conversion therapy?”

A private prison health care company accused of substandard care is awarded new contract in Illinois (apnews.com)

Illinois has awarded a more than $4 billion prison medical care contract to the same company it’s used for three decades, despite multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the firm and statewide complaints alleging substandard care....

FlyingSquid ,
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That’s what public prisons are. Everything has been contracted out so it’s almost the same as a private prison. It just doesn’t have a minimum capacity contract.

FlyingSquid ,
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Calling him just an actor is sort of unfair to him though. He was basically Ukraine’s Jon Stewart. He does a great job as a politician because he spent years satirizing them, so he knows how the sausage is made and he knows how they totally fuck up and how to avoid it. That’s why he’s so successful at his job.

And, I imagine, if Jon Stewart ever ran for office, he would do similarly well.

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My dad, who was a socialist until the day he died, told me proudly about how he booed Churchill when Churchill came to visit his high school after the war, but when he was still PM. He was Jewish, so he appreciated Churchill’s war leadership that kept the Nazis from invading, but otherwise thought he was a shit leader.

FlyingSquid ,
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Israel is one of the major weapons manufacturers that are exporting weapons for Ukraine to use against Russia. I would love Zelensky to take an anti-Israel stance, but I don’t know that he can afford to right now.

politico.eu/…/israel-turkey-and-south-korea-big-w…

FlyingSquid ,
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If yer Scruffy, yuh pronounces it ‘terlet.’

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FlyingSquid ,
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Wait, there are consequences to Brexit and things have changed?!

FlyingSquid ,
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Fucking ridiculous. The kid didn’t speak English. He didn’t even speak Spanish. He was an Indigenous Mayan from Guatemala that only spoke a Mayan dialect. And this asshole cop decides to start searching him even though this poor teenager had no idea what was going on because of a lack of communication. The kid resists, the cop and two other cops knock him down, put him in a choke hold and taser him six times, then cuff him and put him in a squad car. At that point, the cop has a heart attack and keels over. Not during the struggle, but after the kid was choked, tasered, cuffed and put in a car. And yet the kid is facing murder charges.

FlyingSquid ,
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Even the coroner admitted the kid wasn’t responsible:

The ABC reporter, who obtained a copy of Kunovich’s autopsy report, wrote that it said, “These cardiac changes, while recent, predate the struggle with the subject. The circumstances do not fully meet the criteria for a homicide manner of death.”

But this is Florida and the kid isn’t white…

FlyingSquid ,
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Exactly. It’s Florida and he’s indigenous. That’s the only explanation here. He did nothing wrong except struggle. There’s no indication he physically harmed any of them. The cop claimed he went for a knife, but the knife he had on him was a small pocket knife that couldn’t have hurt the cop much even if he was attacked with it. Unless he started tasering the cop back while handcuffed in the squad car, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t responsible.

FlyingSquid ,
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“The tree got closer and closer and hit my car.”

FlyingSquid ,
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I can’t wait for these cowards to back down. And they will back down. They have nothing to fight the U.S. government with.

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Let them strike. This isn’t between Texas and the border patrol anymore. This is between Texas and the federal government. The next step is to federalize the Texas National Guard just like Eisenhower did in Arkansas to support racial integration in schools.

Edit: Also, wow, that union Twitter page is just openly shilling for Trump.

FlyingSquid ,
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Why would Mexico trade with a seceded Texas? Would they want to end all commerce with the U.S.?

FlyingSquid ,
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Are you under the strange impression that Benjamin Franklin wrote the U.S. Constitution?

FlyingSquid ,
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Ah yes, the well-known, reliable, unbiased source known as jewishpress.com.

FlyingSquid ,
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So a typical Sunday for Lindsay?

FlyingSquid ,
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Really? How many Peabody awards has it won? Because Al Jazeera has won four.

FlyingSquid ,
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You said this source is “Far better than AlJazeera that gets posted here.”

I just showed you that Al Jazeera has won one of the world’s top journalism awards four times. What are the accolades jewishpress.com have gotten? Because this post was literally the first time I had ever heard of them. You clearly know about them, so please do tell me about their journalistic bona fides.

It’s odd that you care so much about Al Jazeera’s ownership and biases but have said nothing about jewishpress.com’s ownership and biases. Are they bias-free and owned by an unimpeachable company? Do tell me since you must know.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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Raptors are notoriously allergic to coffee.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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They mean velociraptor, but they’re called raptors in Jurassic Park multiple times, so…

FlyingSquid OP ,
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I know, the real ones were the size of turkeys. I still wouldn’t want to run into one.

FlyingSquid OP ,
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There are other coffee shops.

FlyingSquid ,
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Are you saying your taxes aren’t taken out of your paychecks? Because they’ve always been taken out of mine. Seems like it’s pretty easy for them to bill you based on that. And they can send the bill to whatever address is on your W-2.

FlyingSquid ,
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Even if it only took you 15 minutes, and it sure takes a lot of people who get W-2s a lot more than 15 minutes… that’s 15 minutes too long. Why should you have to do the government’s job for it?

FlyingSquid ,
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The government should already have a record of how much you’ve been paid every year. Why do they not have that record in your case? Do you not declare your income in whatever job you have?

FlyingSquid ,
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Oh well. Guess you don’t get to benefit from something everyone who isn’t self-employed should benefit from.

Nah, let’s leave the tax code impossibly complicated and easy for rich people to game on behalf of the handful of self-employed people in this country.

Tell you what, you keep doing your 15-minute taxes and the rest of us won’t have to waste those 15 minutes. How’s that?

FlyingSquid ,
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No. I answered your question. They bill you based on your W-2. Except for the handful of self-employed people like yourself who will have to do it the hard way.

FlyingSquid ,
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Why does it take a lot more than 15 minutes? I’ll let this 30-page document from the IRS explain. www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p501.pdf

And the U.S. population is 339.1 million, so you expect the tax code to revolve around less than 1% of taxpayers.

FlyingSquid ,
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It’s because they need information they don’t have to properly assess your taxes.

What information?

And how is it that many other countries are able to accomplish what I’m talking about?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-as-you-earn_tax

FlyingSquid ,
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I like how you’ve gone from ‘we can’t possibly do this’ to ‘other countries do it, but I don’t know how, so we can’t possibly do this.’

Michigan case offers an example of how public trust suffers when police officers lie (apnews.com)

Brian Chaney says he asked for a supervisor during his arrest in Keego Harbor, Michigan, and Police Officer Richard Lindquist told him that another officer present was in charge. The problem: That second officer was not a supervisor or even a member of the Keego Harbor Police Department....

FlyingSquid ,
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And how many of those confessions were of innocent people coerced that way?

FlyingSquid ,
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And in all the other states?

FlyingSquid ,
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Sure. No I don’t agree with a premise when it is not feasible.

FlyingSquid ,
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Insulting me will not make me accept a ludicrous premise. If you told me that Martians are eating my eyeballs, why would it be hypocritical or cowardly for me to say I didn’t accept that premise when you asked me?

FlyingSquid ,
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Ah, I see, so if people are able to change laws, they won’t get kicked out and it’s Biden’s fault those laws aren’t changed. Got it.

FlyingSquid ,
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What am I dodging? In specific?

FlyingSquid ,
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I was asked if I agreed with the premise. I answered. The answer is no. What am I dodging?

Do you disagree with this basic premise?

lemmy.ml/comment/7824769

FlyingSquid ,
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Are you able to talk to people without being rude? Because I just won’t respond to you again if you’re going to talk to me this way.

FlyingSquid ,
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Once again, I answered the question. I linked to the question. I told you the answer.

FlyingSquid ,
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Yet again, she asked me a question. I answered it. I linked to the question. The answer is no. Do you want me to change the answer to yes? Because that would be a lie. Sorry, I’m not going to lie to make you happy.

FlyingSquid ,
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She asked me one question. I responded to that one question. You want me to do something I already did.

FlyingSquid ,
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Oh for fuck’s sake, I have to literally use the word ‘disagree’ for you to get that I don’t accept the premise to begin with? Are you really that pedantic?

If you don’t like the answer because it isn’t “honest,” too bad. That is the answer I gave to the question that was asked.

If you are, I’d love to know why you think that way, truly?

And I don’t really care what you’d love to know after you’ve called me cowardly and intellectually dishonest and repeatedly insisted I answer the question that I answered over and over to you. After all, if I told you, you’d continue to berate me and just not believe me anyway.

So I think we’re done here.

Feel free to insult me some more.

FlyingSquid ,
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It’s not about empathy. It’s about not giving the state the right to control the life and death of its own citizens. Maybe you’re okay with the state having that power. Many of us aren’t, especially when innocent people have been executed.

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