kryptonianCodeMonkey

Is this guy dumb or secretly anti-billionaire? Gathering a bunch of billionaires in a small area, walking slowly in public streets, specifically to rally in favor of billionaire in this political climate. I would be more surprised if a shooter DIDNT take the opportunity.

Could you fucking imagine?!

Richard Pinheiro was found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of fabricating evidence in 2018 and received a three-year suspended sentence and two years of supervised probation, according to the Baltimore Sun.

How in the hell is malicious fraud that results in destroying someone's livelihood, reputation, and freedom with years of a jailtime only a misdemeanor with a suspended sentence and probation. This kind of egregious action is waaaaay more damaging to the public welfare and safety than an individual possessing drugs for personal use, and yet the former gets you a "shame a on you", and the latter rips you from your family, your job, your life. This is some backwards shit.

There is nothing to celebrate here, and I'm not suggesting there is. This legal blatant gerrymandering bullshit is a net loss for this country and our democracy. I will always advocate against the practice. However, that is not on California, and I don't think they're wrong to do it in response to Texas and other states. It is a necessary evil, one that they were forced to make by fascists. The alternative is to cede even more power to the fascists until it goes too far to take it back.

I don't want to kill a person and I certainly would never celebrate doing so. But if there were a gun to my head, or my daughter's, if they were to try to take away my family, our freedom... I wouldn't hesitate, and I would be right for it. I don't think California has anything to apologize for, even if it is a sad outcome overall.

They aren't worried about their own exposure, they're worried about everyone else's exposure normalizing something they hate. They want everyone to hate them so that they're afraid to be themselves again

That's why I always carry around my pocket globe and compass to scale and compare distances accurately.

Have the US Marshals ever arrested government officials? Yes. Notably, they arrested a sitting Representative, and Newark, NJ's mayor among others for supposed violations of law at an immigration detention center for which a warrant was issued and the US Marshals executed. Have they arrested other law enforcement officers? Absolutely. They arrested the sheriff of St. Louis in October for bond revocation while he was being federally charged for witness tampering and intimidation. Have they arrested high ranking officials of the executive branch? Not that I am aware of.

Well that is a bad, hopefully disingenuous take. The goal in California was not to move the needle with corruption and perversion of democracy. It was to prevent the needle from moving with corruption and perversion of democracy (by the Trump Administration and other corrupt GOP governors and legislatures), which, unfortunately required the same perversion to accomplish. It never should have been necessary or allowed for EITHER party to do this to ANY state. It's fucked up that it is or ever was allowed, and needs to be fixed as soon as humanly possible. But under those circumstances to not respond to your corrupt counterpart pulling the needle their way by pulling it back yourself is to allow the corruption to overwhelm everyone and everything. It's self-defense. The moral highground that results in boots on your neck is not a path forward.

Yes and no. The US Marshals are law enforcement for he Federal Courts. However they are not a part of the judicial branch. They are still part of the executive branch and answer to the DOJ.

So... literally the "where does power lie" question from Game of Thrones. When you are meant to enforce the Court's orders but you're also meant to follow the DOJ's orders, which orders do you follow when they conflict?

Until they start sending out US Marshals and other judicial officers to arrest offenders and charging them for contempt... it kind of is just advisory.

That one feels the most relatable as one who works in tech. Everything is an acronym, man, and most have no idea what the acronym stands for.

I kept getting mixed up with Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, and got really excited then disappointed when I heard about Outer Worlds 2, thinking that Outer Wilds was getting a sequel. So it was always a bummer to me even without actually playing the game.