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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yes yes perfectly logical

I feel silly for not seeing it exactly that way before

You can move to a part of the world that doesn’t have police, right now, if you want to experience that life. Have fun!

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aw c’mon, what is the point of being all ACAB people together if you don’t have a “yay police” person to all gather around and yell at

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah it’s like going to North Korea and bad mouthing the leader and then going to prison

It’s shitty that it is that way, but you can’t exactly be shocked or surprised about it.

I do get it. It’s some bullshit, yes.

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Ha, yeah, I get it. “lol they gay” is usually a joke. In this case it is not, as you mentioned:

In Sparta [...] the cropping of the bride’s hair and transvestism likely aimed to transform her temporarily into an adolescent Spartan boy – a less threatening figure to the groom, who probably had made his own transition to adulthood via a close emotional and sexual relationship with an older male

It is just what was up

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I was being sarcastic but I was in no way whatsoever joking

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 37 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Surrrre that’s the reason

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 22 points 11 months ago (17 children)

Sssshhh

We’re doin like 5 different irrational reasons every single day why PLEASE DON’T VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT FELLOW LEFT WING VOTERS

It doesn’t need to make any logical sense, it just needs to be a variety of stuff and literally never fuckin stop

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s pure magic

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 11 months ago

Fun fact! I knew you would back up from the desire for statistical rigor when it started to go both ways.

(The number of police who commit misconduct in any given year was about 1% - which is (a) enough number of police to yes still be a massive fuckin problem and deserving of significant reform oversight etc etc (b) Fun fact! Less than 100%)

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Check out “Over the Garden Wall”

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 5 points 11 months ago

The party still faces a long-term moral quandary of how to square its rhetoric about being the party of freedom, equality and racial justice with the virtually unconditional support it has offered to a far-right government in Israel that is accused of starving and bombarding large numbers of civilians in Gaza since the brutal Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.

Oh so THIS is what it took for the NYT to give a shit about the lives of Palestinians

For the opportunity to arrive to try to attack the Democrats by caring temporarily about them

You fuckin dishonest hacks

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Fun fact! The California Innocence Project actually researched how many police officers commit "misconduct" (by their definition) in any given year. It's one of the only times I am aware of this whole issue being quantitatively studied.

If I tell you what's the number, which is statistically significant, will you then quote back to me your citation (with the statistical backing) for why you think that 0% of police killings are justified? I would actually really like to be able to have more statistical backing to talk about all of this, as opposed to just throwing our prejudices at one another.

 

TL;DR:

  • Russians have pushed several km past the northern border
  • Not nearly enough Russian troops committed for a successful attack on Kharkiv, but that still seems to be their plan
  • Lots of mechanized units coming across the border and getting drone-striked
 

Excerpts of interest:

Mr Shoigu has close links with President Putin, often taking him on fishing trips in his native Siberia.

He was given the defence portfolio despite having no military background, which rankled with some of his top brass.

A civil engineer by profession, Mr Shoigu rose to prominence as the head of the emergencies and disaster relief ministry in the 1990s.

He often looked out of his depth as defence minister, especially after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.

Prigozhin, who led a short-lived mutiny against Moscow, accused Mr Shoigu of being a "dirtbag" and "elderly clown" in audio messages that went viral.

Mr Shoigu's suggested replacement, Mr Belousov, is an economist with little military experience.

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