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  • Protests continue after ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis

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  • 🔔🔔🔔Faaaaaascist

    Ding dong numbnuts, guess what? The law is the written reflection of society's moral code. Some things are so fundamental to that code that seeing hard evidence of the crime being committed becomes tautological and nothing more needs to be said.

    There is no law saying that any individual, or even a mob, can't call a murder a murder. That is by design, the USA preserves our constitutional right to free speech. We're only restricted from enacting a punishment (that right is ceded by the mob to our government). Knowing that, there are two options here:

    1. You deny it was a murder. You think that an ice agent has the authority to be judge, jury, and executioner on any street in America. Ergo, you discard 250 years of American ideological history; America's founding principles explicitly opposed to unilateral imposition of despotic violence. Ergo you are an enemy of America and a fascist.
    2. You're scared to call it a murder, even on anonymous platforms hosted outside the US. By refusing to speak out on such a low level, basic incident you are granting tacit legitimacy to that unconstitutional action; willing to cover your eyes without complaint while America succumbs to its ideological antithesis. Ergo you are betraying the constitution by your inaction, making you an enemy and a fascist

    I'm demanding a basic stand that is to be expected of any human in 2025 (aside from the cowards conditioned to put their heads in the sand). It's not even that hard. There is concrete evidence of a murder right in front of your eyes, just call it a murder.

    And even beyond the lofty heights of justice you're just making yourself look like a fucking idiot

    You: watches someone commit murder from 5 different angles

    ...

    You: uhh acktually whether someone committed a crime is determined by applying law to facts. I'm gonna be a coward and hide behind papa Trump's courts

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  • Faaaaaaaascist 🚨🚨🚨🥾👅👅👅

    Edit: stfu about courts. Courts decide if you will or will not be punished for a crime, they have no bearing on if you committed a crime or not you fucking dope. Cases often get thrown out on paperwork technicalities or other procedural nonsense. That's why they don't declare a defendant innocent.

    Self defense exists as a shared exception to our social contract limiting violence. This event does not fall under that umbrella. You can see the video yourself. The man murdered a woman in broad daylight. The courts could declare that he's innocent and immune and is owed damages for mental stress but that wouldn't change the fact that he's worthless murdering scum and everyone protecting him is just as bad.

    We have multiple videos of this thug shooting her without any reasonable cause and beyond any reasonable limit of threat. We have videos of his gang circling the wagons and preventing bystanders from providing aid. We have videos of unarmed protesters getting loaded guns shoved in their face for pointing this unjustice out.

    It's clear as day, but go on pretending that being a pedantic shit will solve your problems

    Edit 2:

    Watch this whole exchange from all angles with the shitbag's own footage. Tell me where the threat was. Did the self defense start when he switched his cellphone hand to the left while walking to the front of the car, clearly intending to pull his gun? When he's stepping in front of the car WHILE IT'S MOVING? When he said fucking bitch as she finished her talk and started to leave? Tell me with a straight face that man isn't a murderer. If you refuse to agree after seeing that much evidence, you are a fascist and an enemy to the American people.

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  • Nothing in that link contradicts the standard I stated

    YOU ARE A FUCKING NEANDERTHAL. DO YOU KNOW THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE?

    NOTHING I LISTED HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH "MOMENT".

    THEY SPEAK HOLISTICALLY TO THE ENTIRE ENCOUNTER.

    THE ONLY TENUOUS "THREAT" IS A FRACTION OF A SECOND OF A CAR IDLING IN DRIVE, WITH WHEELS CLEARLY ANGLED AWAY*

    EVERY OTHER FACT POINTS TO AN ACT OF MURDER IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY A JACKED UP THUG.

    THESE ARE NOT FUCKING "TACTICS". THESE ARE FACTS PROVING THE CRIME IN QUESTION BEYOND ANY DOUBT.

    THERE IS NO DEBATE NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU IMAGINE ONE.

    IF YOU THINK THERE IS YOU ARE A FASCIST.

    You don't need to put on a fucking powdered wig and gavel to see that an innocent woman was executed with absurd force. Go suck some Nazi cock on a qanon forum, you'll have a better time

    *dude had a front row view of her turning the steering wheel btw

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  • objective reasonableness at the moment

    Ok I'll bite since you're too dumb/cowardly to look it up yourself. There are dozens of factors that weigh on a ruling.

    • Number of belligerents (e.g multiple people surrounding the car)
    • Availability of other options (e.g not getting in front of the car, noting driver and plate for later)
    • Rules on force from authority, declaration of intent and proof of authority (e.g where are badges???)
    • Behavior before and after the event (e.g boxing in the car, not allowing medical attention)
    • Proportional force and timing of force (e.g dumping 3+ shots into the car well after the threat is gone)
    • Behavior of victim before the event (e.g victim is on a routine drive home on a public road)

    And on and on and on.... But sure, keep chanting "moment it's used" as if it's a magic spell that grants your jack boots immunity. Go polish some soles you fucking fascist.

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  • What you can't do is look up the actual law and find out you're wrong you fucking coward. Go do it. Go ahead. Hell you don't even have to do that much, just look up what lawyers and prosecuters are saying. Spoiler: everyone not wearing a Maga hat is coming to the same conclusion.

    You also don't have the moral fortitude to call a spade a spade: this ICE agent was unilaterally deployed for intimidation and that reckless order got an innocent woman killed. How many "deportations" is that worth? What rule of law is being upheld when citizens are being killed without justification by gunmen in the streets?

    I'm using caps, insults and repetition as a communication method to get past your thin skinned denial of reality. Open your fucking eyes! This is absurd. I'm not going to have a calm and rational conversation about whether we should or should not be allowing innocent citizens to be gunned down in the street for the crime of startling a thug.

    We're long past debating theoretical idiotic tariffs, people are fucking dying. And you're just having a great time deep throating that boot to the ankle. Thanks for the catharsis tho, I'm glad dipshits like you are here to play the idiot

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  • Read the fucking law if you're such an armchair lawyer. You might find out your fucking fantasy defense is bullshit. I see evidence of a man taking a stupid belligerent action that got an innocent woman killed. You're just covering your eyes and hoping the unfortunate truth goes away.

    The legal standard is still reasonable perception of imminent threat at the moment force was used

    IT'S VERY FUCKING CLEARLY NOT YOU STUPID NEANDERTHAL. LOOK IT UP. LOOK IT UP. LOOK IT UP. STOP PRETENDING THAT THE LAW FITS YOUR FANTASY NARRATIVE. LOOK IT UP.

    Also what fucking 0.25 speed narration? There is plenty of time to consider your actions when you're walking up to a car you have no business approaching and deliberately positioning yourself in a dangerous spot. If you're such a scared and panicked super soldier with an itchy trigger finger you shouldn't fucking be there. As a matter of fact, you're probably too goddamn stupid to be holding a gun, whoever appointed you there and sent you out on the street is criminally negligent at best.

    And my mockery isn't the law, it's what you deserve you shit eating boot licker 💩👅🥾👅👅

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  • Bro doesn't know how to read the fucking law. I spelled it out for you, should I use crayons next time?

    🥾👅👅👅

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  • They do. It's pretty fucking obvious here. He wasn't acting in accordance with any law. Hell, he probably doesn't even have a badge on! In this engagement he's just a guy with a vest, a gun and a mask.

    If I were to glue "Police DHS" onto a vest, step in front of a car and execute the driver I would be in fucking jail. Assuming I wasn't already killed by a panicked bystander. There is no "self defense" plea for me. It doesn't mean jack shit if I thought I was making a citizen's arrest. That is exactly what happened here.

    We should be holding LEO (if you want to call these thugs that) to a higher standard than a civilian driving home from school. Period. Would you be defending these actions from an off duty police officer? Because that's what he was in the most optimistic light: a guy with a gun and a mask.

    Don't answer, we already know you're a groveling boot licker. I hope that pays off when they're kicking in your door, shooting first and asking questions later.

    Edit: for shits and giggles, look up the actual legal basis for self defense. It doesn't apply if you start the engagement (e.g moving to block someone's car) or if the force used is not proportional to the threat (e.g a car moving forward at 2 mph and braking vs 4 gunshots to the head).

    His response to the threat was not even going to ensure his safety ffs! A car with an incapacitated driver is just as dangerous (to you and bystanders) as a car with a hostile driver. Did you not see it speed off into a telephone pole? That is the textbook reason why field manuals prohibit doing it.

    No defense of this holds up to any scrutiny unless you're determined to shut your eyes and ignore reality.

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  • There is no law for what they're doing. That's not a defense. Their job, ostensibly, is to remove "dangerous criminals who shouldn't be here" and ensure safety in that neighborhood. What actually happened is they fucked around and murdered a woman who had literally nothing to do with their operation for no sane reason.

    Like I know you're just a rage bait account (no one could be this fucking stupid) but imagine if this was a normal police officer. These cops are here for, say, a drug bust and this car pulls into the street and tries to Y turn to get out. There is literally no reason to engage with the car, much less walk in front of it, much less shoot the fucking driver. Unless your goals are illegal use of force for political intimidation, that car should drive away 10/10 times.

    It's not a tactical question. It's not about self defense. It's murder. If a soldier in a fucking war zone did this it would still be a war crime. And we're talking about broad daylight in Minneapolis after a mom drops off her kids at school.

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  • ICE should just listen to protesters and go home. Then nobody gets hurt

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  • His job description does not include playing vigilante and pulling anyone in his way out of cars. He chose to pretend he was invincible and step in front of a car with no bearing on his orders; she had nothing to do with their sweep, he just wanted to intimidate some middle aged soccer mom. Everything after that decision is blood on his hands.

    There's a reason no real LEO would put their hands on a car in gear, let alone voluntarily walk in front of it to prevent it from moving unless it's a serious life-death situation. That shit will get you hurt, intentionally or not. She didn't have a weapon, she wasn't kidnapping anyone. If you think that middle aged woman needs to be caught and questioned you can always get her plate and follow up later.

    Use your goddamn head before escalating a situation and you won't need to worry about self defense.

  • Trump stuns as he floats nuclear option on midterms: 'They should cancel the election'

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  • He can ignore the results or arrest anyone but that just makes him a guy occupying the white house who is no longer the president. They could try their hand at a civil war (if the guns stay in line) but there's no mechanic available to modify the constitution and give them legitimacy. At best they could depose state governments and put in their own people. But anybody with an army can claim the USA by that method.

  • Trump’s Mystery Bruise Spreads to His Other Hand

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  • A few things:

    • There's a Venn diagram of "getting older" and "forgetting what year it is, referencing people that have been dead for decades, nodding off mid meeting, 2 a.m. tweet tirades, mood swings, TIA symptoms, recurring MRIs & cognitive tests, etc..." and the overlap is pretty slim
    • Having access to world class healthcare doesn't guarantee anything when the patient is a powerful narcissist. Steve Jobs died from a very curable cancer because he thought he was too smart to die. If Trump's doctors tell him to cut out cheese burgers and diet cokes do you think he'll listen?
    • Unlike a simple [death/remission] cancer prognosis, dying isn't the only ending for the potential systemic issues he could be suffering from. He could deteriorate in any number of ways that can't be smoothed over with PR and leave him unable to hold office. Think paralyzed, nonverbal, coma, etc...
    • The man clearly doesn't have the drive and ambition to care about his longevity. His goal is to siphon money while continuing to live an opulent lifestyle and die in office (however long that may be). Fear of death isn't the same thing as will to live, especially as the decades add up.

    Just look at the guy, his healthiest attributes are golfing and not smoking/drinking. Assuming he's just obese and in otherwise perfect health and golfs 40 hours a week (without a cart), a calculator still puts his life expectancy in the mid 80s. Are you really betting that there's some medical dark arts that will keep him functioning indefinitely? Plenty of richer and more powerful men have died in the same situation with comparable healthcare.

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  • I'm not a firm believer of any terminal diagnosis from armchair experts but pinning everything to "just a liar" is also off the mark. You can just look at his behavior and speech patterns over the past decade: he has good and bad days but the bad days are definitely getting worse.

    There's also other verifiable symptoms like his facial droop episodes, leg fluid swelling, these bruises, incontinence, etc... It all adds up to a pretty bleak outlook. High quality healthcare can do a lot for a relatively fit middle aged man, it does less when you're trying to prop up an obese octogenarian already showing bad symptoms.

  • The long game

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  • ...???

    Most games on steam are drm-free or have a very weak DRM which is easily removed.

    Blatantly false. Take a glance at all the novice/low budget devs who tightly couple their game to Steam's proprietary multiplayer api.

    Lootboxes kinda suck, but at least they only use them for cosmetic items

    That doesn't mean they weren't trailblazers for one of the most parasitic features of the 21st century.

    Steam has parental controls implemented

    The controls don't even work for this. Even if you scrutinize every game before white listing, the devs can patch in loot boxes (or any toxic mechanic) at any time without your knowledge.

    And putting that aside, "bad parenting" is such a shit cop out when Steam's main page is devoted to high revenue [toxic] games. This is like blaming parents when cigarette companies made ads specifically appealing to children, as if the inability to legally buy their product absolves them from the damage done.

  • Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

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  • Sure, if you go in with the idea that the ban won't impact their social media usage then it obviously follows that it won't impact their usage. And that might be true for a while, but:

    • Declining usage compounds and any barrier to entry drops users. Reddit wouldn't be suing to stop this if they didn't think it was a major threat to their platform.
    • The single largest factor in platform membership is peer membership, and the most influential peers in adolescent development will always be real life friends
    • A cohort aging up doesn't mean that the next cohorts will automatically follow. Late millennials weren't tied to Facebook, Gen Z wasn't married to Snapchat, a drop in TikTok usage will eventually precipitate a need to migrate somewhere else
    • Global social media usage, by human screen time, has been declining from its 2022 peak (excluding a North American exception), with the largest drop among younger users

    Putting all of this together, it seems very plausible that child bans could hasten this decline. It would probably work twice as well if more public money was directed to alternatives (third spaces, clubs, etc...).

  • Would you rather glow in the dark, or slowly get bigger when in water, and then shrink back to normal when dry?

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  • But imagine that you get stuck in a water pipe or wedged somewhere in a rain storm. Glowing is annoying but not nearly as bad as potentially drowning because your car crashed into a lake and you can no longer escape through the window.

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  • You can covertly buy and take illicit drugs all by yourself and have a good time. Bypassing a ban to get on a social platform with very few of your social peers is... pointless?

    So what if you get to watch a tiktok from the other side of the world, none of the kids in your class are sharing that experience and building the peer pressure.

  • Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function

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  • IIRC master was the normal ass English word for your superior in any type of subservient role (employees, servants, indentured, school children, etc...). In the "Master Bedroom" instance, master makes sense as the title of a household patriarch.

    As soon as they started forcing non-whites into new world chattel slavery, all tiers of white classes suddenly thought it was degrading to use the same word they forced on the lesser races. This is where English started adapting new words for the old usage of master, such as boss from the Dutch baas.

    If anything, refusing to use master in any context is far more racist than normal usage. You're perpetuating the idea that a word's use by slaves automatically (and retroactively) sullies it for all time.