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ChunkMcHorkle

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Only pedophiles defend pedophiles.And I fucking HATE pedophiles.

Woody Allen is still a pedophile who raped one of his own young step-daughters and married another.

People who defend that shit are SICK.

  • How do you learn new things? (How do you pick what to learn? How do you start? How do you stay motivated?)

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  • Log Cabin Republicans announce they no longer support trans rights - LGBTQ Nation

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  • Someone should tell these motherfuckers about Theresienstadt, the self-administered Jewish ghetto used for propaganda by the Nazis, until it too was swallowed by the machine and administrator and resident alike went into the ovens.

    That is exactly how I see gay people who punch down on trans people, or Black people that punch down on Asians, etc.

    In an abusive situation, punching down never helps anyone, even the puncher. It just makes the puncher another abuser whose own time is coming too.

  • Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole

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  • Holy shit. That's some arrogance right there, thinking no one would ever know or find out. Grand juries are secret, but they're not THAT secret.

    they think everything is more openly corrupt than it is yet.

    You nailed it.

  • Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole

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  • That whole "a good prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" was when you could pull your jurors out of a citizen pool that didn't walk in already believing you were lying through your fucking teeth.

    But then they pulled the mask off, and let us all see how they are using the courts for vindictive prosecution and political harassment.

    Looks like the ham sammich days are ending, lol.

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  • They would have to get rid of juries altogether.

    Given that our current legal system was created as a direct reaction to star chambers and baked into the constitution, they have an uphill climb, at the least.

  • Honey Lost 7 Million Users After a YouTuber Exposed Its Alleged Affiliate Theft - Gadget Review

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  • Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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  • Apologies for not replying to you directly -- I meant to, lol. But thank you.

  • Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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  • I don't know why you're getting downvoted; this is far from being a fringe idea. Rather, it is well established and being studied. (Look at the About pages for an idea of who is behind research such as this.) To extrapolate that it is being done for political gain is no far leap, lol.

    Roblox is a known nexus for this kind of activity (pick one, lol) and why wouldn't it be? It's one of the places where all the children are there and unsupervised.

  • Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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  • Your points are well taken, but usually when responding to a lawsuit -- especially a big dollar suit against a deep-pocketed corporation with an army of attorneys -- the defending legal team will pile on every exonerating thing it can possibly think of, and continue to do so throughout the proceedings, because every single one is not just a chance to win but a chance to argue on appeal if they lose.

    So they will throw in whatever they can think of, because something somewhere might stick, and meanwhile everything they tack on is something else the plaintiffs have to address in their own filings, adding to the plaintiff's upfront cost of bringing the suit.

  • Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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  • isn’t the age at which she signed the ‘contract’ even more relevant?

    It's everything -- or it used to be, before the current administration (US) decided to turn two and a half centuries of law into Calvinball.

  • Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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  • I'm still pissed off about that. The guy's wife fucking died and they pulled that shit.

    But this was not in court: Disney was trying to force the surviving husband into arbitration and simply withdrew the objection to trial after it got a lot of bad publicity, so it was never heard in front of a judge. Disney never actually said it did not have absolute right to arbitration, it just withdrew the objection, meaning that they could do it again at any time.

  • Roblox argues 8-year-old waived rights in wrongful death lawsuit

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  • I’m no expert, but my Business Law professors were absolutely adamant about the fact that a minor can never execute a legal agreement and there are no exceptions.

    No, you're absolutely right. There are no exceptions. In the US there are roughly six elements necessary for a contract to be legally binding, and this one is the issue of "legal capacity": does the party entering into the contract have the capacity to understand and be bound to such an agreement? For minors, the broad answer in law is always no. They can get emancipated (a judge rules you an adult for legal purposes), they can have a parent or legal guardian act in their behalf, they can postpone until they are of age, etc. But they do not, as a rule, have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract.

    That's what this is. Minors appear to enter into contracts all the time. Every time a minor clicks on a EULA they're purporting to enter into a contract. But that does not make it valid. Just because a signature is on a line that is not enough to make a contract binding and enforceable.

    The defendants are pulling this because in the US we've entered into a new wtf era in the courts and they're simply hoping to get a judge to allow it to stick, but this whole "an eight year old successfully waived his rights" argument has no basis in law.

    To put it another way I'm going to pivot and use a different example that more people are familiar with, and one that I care a lot about: underage marriage. Apologies in advance for the shoehorn but it illustrates the point.

    This exact issue of being unable to legally enter into agreement, or provide legal consent, is why underage marriage is so problematic: it's a legal trap for the minor, and essentially a form of legal slavery. Children can get married, but children have no legal power to initiate a legal proceeding (like getting a restraining order or filing for divorce) nor direct their own health care, even reproductive health, unless they act through a parent or legal guardian. If they are mistreated they can't even be admitted to a shelter, since shelters have agreements and children cannot enter into contracts, period end of.

    Legally, just because a child has married, they do NOT suddenly gain legal emancipation. This is another big misunderstanding. Emancipation happens solely by court order, not by marriage. Even the marriage itself required parental consent to be legally binding, depending on the exact age and location. The married minor is still legally a child, unable to execute or be bound to contracts. The exceptions to this are informal, such as when despite a child's minority, others allow a child to go through the motions and honor an invalid contract anyway, OR formal, when the child has a legal guardian that is willing to enter into contract and genuinely act on the child's own behalf.

    And the worst of it is that in most states and under federal law, sex with a child that would otherwise be considered rape – in some cases, felony rape – becomes legal within marriage. In those situations, the marriage license becomes a “get out of jail free” card for a child rapist. That's how few legal rights children have in reality.

    There are organizations working hard to turn this around, but it's an uphill battle. Here's more information for anyone who wants the actual legal picture: https://www.unchainedatlast.org/child-marriage-in-the-u-s/

  • will you join in Halloween night to De-FLOCK your community?

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  • If you want to dress up as a monster that's an easy way to do it.

  • At Long Last, Americans Are Starting to See the Truth About the GOP

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  • I don't know if this is just an oversight or I'm reading it wrong, but both Glass-Steagall and the Fairness Doctrine were arguably excellent pieces of legislation, and it was their repeal that acted against public interest.

    I'd give anything to have them back, along with the repeal of EVERYTHING in law that says corporations = people, usually for the purpose of unfairly extending constitutional protections to them.

  • Kentucky governor says he has no info on Mitch McConnell’s health as he rips Congress

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  • instantly refer to the extensive law libraries they keep in their prison wallets

  • Hakeem Jeffries says Medicare for all is not legislation he currently supports

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  • YES. And it pisses me off so much. Why the fuck are we subsidizing Israel's high standard of living -- one of the highest in the world, with universal healthcare and publicly-funded higher education -- at the cost of our own?

    I am so tired of these old evil motherfuckers literally trying to buy a stairway to heaven with our tax dollars because they got the idea into their fat old calcified brains that God™ would conveniently forget all the evil they've done if they just make themselves friends of Israel and bless Jerusalem. Leave it to lawmakers to socialize the [perceived] cost of their own sins.

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci declines request to appear before a second Senate panel after GOP contempt vote

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  • Propaganda, which is a form of highly-crafted group emotional manipulation much more than it is any form of informational content, has a LOT to do with enabling and perpetuating emotion-based thinking, which in turn enables this lurch to the right which benefits only a scarce few among us, who are the ones paying for all the emotion-triggering propaganda.

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  • Correction: that linked post has been removed; this is the comment posted under that video by OP showing the identity of the power broker that was recorded coming out of McConnell's DC townhouse. Screenshotted it in case that gets deleted too:

  • Kentucky governor says he has no info on Mitch McConnell’s health as he rips Congress

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  • Lol at this thread ripping on Andy Beshear for not "doing something!" while totally excluding the actual fucking culprit AND his enablers from the entire conversation.

    Also lol at all the people who, when directly asked, "What do you think the governor of Kentucky can do that he isn't already doing?" either fall silent, or instantly refer to the extensive law libraries they keep in their prison wallets to extract answers not found in reality.

    So many people trying so, so hard to indict the only official actually doing what they can within the law -- while giving the actual miscreant a complete pass. Stop missing stair around this dead or dying motherfucker already, jesus. Do you think he's going to come get you like the ghoul he is?

    Or to put it another way, Mitch McConnell, who is the actual individual deserving of your ire (remember this point) is physically in DC. DC is where he collapsed and was hospitalized, and just a couple days ago there was a video of a DC power broker coming out of McConnell's DC townhouse. It is safe to say that DC is where Mitch McConnell -- or at least his mortal coil -- is physically located right now.

    Now let's look at the law. Gov. Beshear is not the mayor of DC. As the governor of a state, Gov. Beshear has no federal authority to do anything at all. Gov. Beshear has authority in the state of Kentucky, and only in the state of Kentucky.

    Meanwhile, DC is not in Kentucky, which is very probably why McConnell is staying in DC.

    To recap: at any point since mid-June, McConnell himself could have put a stop to this circus in a single heartbeat -- but instead of going after him, you're all focusing your anger on the governor of the state of Kentucky who is left as powerless by McConnell to go after him as you are, yet who is still doing everything he can legally do.

    Or to put it another way, Gov. Beshear has NOT forgotten who the actual fucking culprit of this scenario is, which is far more than can be said for so many in this thread, lol.