That's not far off it if were functioning properly.
But in your example, they would just call that "hate crimes" which break Federal laws and then charge you with both. Like that guy in Charlottesville who was fleeing an attack by a violent mob.
The state charged him with first-degree murder, malicious wounding, assault, and hit-and-run. Unreasonable in the circumstances, but passable on paper, except for the 419 year sentence obviously.
The feds charged him with 30 "hate crimes" and sentenced him to life in addition.
As if 419 years + life for self defense was not enough, then he got sued in civil court for $12m in damages.
Americans aren't exaggerating when they say the Civil Rights Act completely destroyed the nation's entire justice system.
Yeah but they couldn't close threads to prevent discussion. Most they could do is threaten to ban you from the channel if you didn't stop talking about something.
The problem with SO and Reddit is the empowered assholes prevent the non-assholes from having their conversations anyway.
Can't help but think taxing the individuals 80% share at 50% and not addressing the company's 20% cut is missing part of the problem.
It would still be worth it to them at half the income because the effort is so low. It doesn't do much to discourage them. That plan just gives the government more money, which leads to bloat. You have to go after the cooperate side if you want to kill the platform.
$36 taxes to food stamps
$4000 to corporate subsidies
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Bums receive a fuck ton more government money than food stamps alone.
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You can only come up with the $4k number if you're counting tax credits, deductions, etc. They're claiming that every $1 a company isn't taxed is an extra $1 tax from the pool of individual citizens. Then they count things like loan guarantees as an "implicit subsidy" to get such an inflated number.
Direct spending alone is less than a quarter of that number and even then, that's counting grants: you know, like "Clean Energy" programs that the left pushes, or public transport programs that the left pushes, or the COVID bailouts that were a result of policies the left pushed, or... Noticing a pattern yet?
Though something like half of that direct spending is USDA risk mitigation stuff. Of course, we could get rid of all that. Who needs farmers? Food comes from Doordash, right?
Seems California went and did something even more Californian. AB 1440:
...(a)California is experiencing a new reality under the current federal administration, with particularly concerning tactics and strategies being employed by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the enforcement of federal immigration orders.
(b)The concerning tactics and strategies include ICE officers misrepresenting themselves as peace officers or police officers to persuade and compel friends, family members, and associates of suspected undocumented immigrants to reveal information about, or the whereabouts of, a suspected undocumented immigrant.
(c)These tactics undermine the trust and faith Californias local law enforcement works to develop with local communities every day to provide for the publics safety.
(d)Additionally, ICE officers are not trained as California peace officers, they are not required to undergo the rigorous training required to become a California peace officer, and the training received by ICE officers in the course of their official duties is not as comprehensive as, and thus not equivalent to, the training required to be a California peace officer.
(e)As a result, California must take any and all necessary actions to disassociate the actions of ICE officers with those of state and local peace officers, make it clear that federal immigration officers are not California peace officers, and appropriately ensure the public knows the difference.
SEC. 2.Section 830.85 is added to the Penal Code, immediately following Section 830.8, to read:830.85. Notwithstanding any other law, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and United States Customs and Border Protection officers are not California peace officers.
They really need to start charging that state's lawmakers.
We agree that it doesn't matter because it's self-defense in face of a deadly threat. I'm just talking about timing and physics.
Your ability to evade an oncoming vehicle in 1 to 1.5 seconds, including the time your brain takes to recognize the threat is effectively zero.
Why do you include reaction time as a factor in evading, but not in drawing and firing? I assume you've seen the video. Assuming the same reaction time, jumping to the side would be faster than drawing and firing. Even if we assumed they take the same amount of time, shooting the driver does not guarantee the threat goes away.
If you want to say it's to stop the threat for benefit of others or public safety or whatever, then fine. Neutralizing the threat has additional value beyond evasion. But I still say from a purely "don't get killed by the car" standpoint, from his starting position, evading was equivalent or faster and more reliable.
Huh? AC-4 is just the newest compression. Because the stream can have multiple audio channels, it seems like they're thinking of including different audio sources from the event as different channels and letting the customer choose the mix instead of premixing and sending one stream of audio.
Maybe I'm wrong, but if that's the case, this is as "abusable" as right/left stereo balance.
Anything you're worried about the broadcaster muting or adjusting, they can already do in the mixing booth before it's sent to you.
He has pocketed $190m in HHS funds
Do people even stop to think about plausibility before they rush to make retarded videos repeating nonsense? The $190m number is the entire amount of Federal childcare funds sent to Maryland.
Gateway Pundit's original headline:
REPORT: Lt. Michael Byrd, Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Dead on Jan. 6 in Cold Blood, Allegedly Operates Unaccredited Home Daycare in Maryland Tied to $190M in HHS Funds
New headline:
Questions Grow as Lt. Michael Byrd, Who Shot Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, Operates a Taxpayer-Funded Home Daycare as $190 Million in Federal Child Care Funds Flow to Maryland
Editor’s Note: The $190 million referenced reflects the total amount of federal HHS child care funds received by the state of Maryland, not funds received by a single daycare provider. Additionally, child care accreditation is optional in Maryland and is not required for state licensing. The update does not alter broader questions surrounding oversight and transparency.
Now the actual underlying story is going to be hidden by the discussion about the shoddy reporting.
Remember that leftist who self-immolated? And the people he was virtue signaling on behalf of were tweeting things l like, "Saying RIP for someone should be reserved for oppressed peoples."
You're not an "ally." You're a tool.
A fast accelerating vehicle, a short distance from you, traveling towards you is nearly impossible to avoid easily by feet alone.
There is a bone to pick with this one, albeit not significant to make a difference. Shooting a person stops their advance. Shooting the driver of a vehicle does not necessarily stop the vehicle's advance.
If you have enough time to draw and fire, that effort would have better spent on evading if your goal is survival. At short range anyway. When the vehicle is far enough away that they could deliberately keep steering towards you, then it makes more sense to shoot the driver. Then even if the vehicle continues to accelerate, you more easily evade.
It makes them pirates: those committing illegal acts at sea without flying a national flag.
No. A trade embargo with Venezuela is a sanction. Freezing Venezuelan assets inside your own country is a sanction. A blockade that prevents a country from trading with third parties is an act of war.
The US has no legal jurisdiction to physically inhibit trade between Venezuela and other nations. If they were sneaking it into the US, that would be a different story.
I'm not even saying it's bad but they aren't pirates for shipping oil.
It's kind of weird if you start from the premise that murder is worse than rape, because we have capital punishment.
We try to make capital punishment relatively painless. The equivalent of punitive rape would be putting someone under general anesthesia and subjecting them to a micropenis.
Compare to when capital punishment is a slow beheading. I'd say that's worse again. The level of brutality determines which is perceived as worse.
It's reasonably likely she was paying attention to the ones she was struggling with through the window and wasn't looking ahead when she accelerated.
But that's a distinction without difference here. If she were being charged with attempted murder, her intent would have been more relevant.
Not even activist judges have the ability to return him to power. You just keep the charges and trials (with different judges) coming until your new regime is in solidified. They already got him to waive his right to a "speed trial."
Even if somehow he walks on all of them, none of the Venezuelans in power by that point will want to step aside to let him back in.
And the thing the meme neglects is that in the right option, 193 other countries have been saved.