Where are we on the 1-10 scale of "Democrats are serious but their policies suck" being 1, and "Democrats are serious, their policies suck, but they want shit to break so they can institute communism" being 10
@mattforney The "religious right" is never satisfied. Trump did more for the anti-abortion cause than any GOPe stooge, simply by appointing justices that overturned Roe - and he wisely didn't even mention abortion during his campaigns. But the RR still say he didn't do enough. Losers.
@girlfromsouthie@UbermenschMind Yes, fat people can get away with calling others fat. It’s one of the only benefits of being fat. Sort of like how blacks can use the n word.
🚨 BREAKING: Leftist terrorists are ABSOLUTELY WINNING here outside Delaney Hall in Newark, and civilian staffers are getting NO SUPPORT as their cars are smashed
THIS IS A JOKE.
NATIONALIZE THE GUARD IF THE STATE REFUSES TO ACT
ICE agents and civilian staffers should NOT be subjected to this abuse. PERIOD.
CATO Institute, of all organizations put together some data tracking Trump's immigration efforts.
To their horror and our delight, they found that Trump has taken a blow torch to legal immigration.
>Asylum seekers entering legally fell 99.9%
>Refugees entering legally from abroad fell by ~ 90%
>Immigrant visas for permanent residents fell by 50%
>Trump's $100k fee has likely cut H-1B visas by 25%
Trial by jury is the dumbest and least defensible system in Western liberalism. It is so arbitrary that both prosecutors and defense lawyers unanimously believe it is in their best interest to avoid trial in nearly every case, regardless of the merits, unless their client benefits from a dice-roll outcome.
Lawyers who interview jurors after verdicts to learn how they reach decisions are always aghast at how little the jurors pay attention, how arbitrary their conclusions are and how wildly they misunderstand straightforward evidence.
And in a multiracial society, race issues completely taint this entire process. Jury selection processes have to be scrutinized for racism against minority jurors or racial compositions that disadvantage defendants, but there is no mechanism to prevent jurors from refusing to convict members of their own group of crimes against members of other groups, and there is significant evidence of frequent race-based jury nullification.
Criminal justice outcomes would be fairer if we just fed the evidence into an LLM and let it decide whether to convict or not. They’d be better if every trial was a bench trial. Trial by jury isn’t a clearly better system than trial by combat or throwing people in a river to see whether they float.
The system is indefensible, irredeemable and reaches catastrophic outcomes with shocking frequency. Reverence toward jury trials as some kind of fundamental right or the best system for finding truth is a quasi-religious belief with no basis in any factual reality.
@Crime_In_NYC A lot of those violations are the low-rent folks who live there wrecking the property on purpose. They forget their building keys, so they break the locks. They sabotage their apartments so they can have an “accident” and sue. They complain about bugs but leave food out. Etc.
@WallStreetApes Who are you taking to? NYC is 40% foreign born. These people depend on handouts from the Democrats. Ain’t no way they’re voting their way out of this.
We have been the most generous country in the world, to our detriment.
25% of all Mexicans live in the US. 70% rely on welfare.
~10% of Guatemalans live here. 77% are on welfare
12% of Nicaraguans live here. 75% rely on welfare
12% of Haitians live here. 53% rely on welfare
You see, because the rich and aristocratic people from your region centuries ago exploited foreign populations it's actually karmic justice that the working class population in your region are now getting raped and murdered by foreigners.
THIS IS WHAT LEFTISTS ACTUALLY BELIEVE.
@ggreenwald Yeah we don't actually care. Many of these "scandals" are amplified to appeal to the percentage of swing voters that they have an effect on. I oppose him because he's a Democrat, a rotten brand. There are no good Nazis, no good Communists, and no good Democrats.