This isn't the 1970s and the United States isn't a country where police corruption is endemic.
Literally. And this guy was even white and the son of a police officer. Cops have been given absolute power over the citizenry when they can claim to have felt threatened, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Cops in the United States absolutely will commit perjury in court and falsify evidence. If not for their own cases, they'll do it to help out their "bad apple" buddies on the force.
Nah, don't apologize. 'You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into' so sometimes all that's left is flaming the motherfucker so hard they are less likely to trot out their BS in the future least they be publicly humiliated again.
The Marine base there is on Cuban soil, leased since 1903. Any prisoners sent there would technically not be on U.S. soil, and thus not gain U.S. Constitutional rights.
Which was a million megatons of fascist BS crammed into a five pound sack, as "as long as you're on US soil" is completely absent from the bill of rights. Otherwise the government would be free to take your arrested ass across the border and beat a confession out of you.
Also, the argument you're trying to make (applying the U.S. Constitution outside U.S. territory) is extremely dangerous. If you say the 4th Amendment protects people outside the U.S., you set a precedent whereby other U.S. laws can also be applied to people outside the U.S.
Extreme FUD. The Constitution defines what powers the federal government has and the limits of said powers. That the Constitution prevents the USG from torturing someone in the Netherlands in no way implies that the USG can enforce its marijuana prohibition laws on the Netherlands.
The 'blacks count as a fraction of a person' law that you mention was actually a rule forced on the slave states by the non-slave states.
Plot hole: if the North was capable of forcing such a stipulation on the South, it also would have been capable of forcing the census to ignore slaves - or banning slavery entirely.
How much do you think the $10,000 you spent on those panels would be worth in 10, 20, and 30 years, if you had instead invested it at an annual return of 6%?
What if you take your monthly power bill savings and invest in said return?
If you're going to project forward in time you have to do so for all of the relevant factors, not just the ones which make your argument look good.
Laughable pieces from cult rags ignoring Prop 13. Your own link admits why people are actually moving:
Californians may still love the beautiful weather and beaches, but more and more they are fed up with the high housing costs and taxes and deciding to flee to lower-cost states such as Nevada, Arizona and Texas.
Their standing army of 1.2M troops practices their own war games.
To defend themselves from American aggression that has already killed millions of them.
And let's remember that it was Kim Il-sung who invaded the south to start the conflict.
To kick out an occupying empire and its puppet government. American Exceptionalists always leave this fact out.
The United States came in and dismissed Korean's right to self-determination because it was too soclailisticky, and then banned socialist and communist parties from running in future elections. Having just been saddled and then free from one imperial colonialist power, Korean's weren't in the mood to take that shit now that it was coming from you instead of the Japanese.
The US keeps a token force of ~23k troops, many of whom are cooks, and doctors, and nurses, and secretaries. So, an annual exercise with your allies isn't "doing" much of anything to NK.
That's on a single base in Korea, America's largest foreign base in the world, out of many. You're also ignoring all the troops and missiles stationed in occupied Japan that are also pointed in Pyongyang's way, plus all the Navy ships in the region.
You can choose to be blase about the U.S. history in Korea, the fact that it killed another 3 million people in Vietnam under the exact same scenario except they won (Viet Cong kicking out your occupying troops and puppet government), and the millions killed in your most recent bloodbaths from Iraq to Libya - but North Koreans aren't going to be willfully blind.
According to your link, the guy was illegally carrying a gun
The sole evidence of which came from the testimony from a corrupt-as-hell cop, who accused Meek of pointing a gun at him. Cop's own partner laughed that one out of the room:
The whole case swung on Graham's testimony, which doesn't pass the laugh test of his former partner. "That boy [Graham] lied like it was second nature!" Walker says. "If you had your weapon drawn, [Meek's] never pulling a gun. The second he raised that weapon, he would've had one breath to live. Straight up and down, they'd have aired him out. We're talking closed casket, not open."
And that is from behind the Blue Wall of Silence. Graham was a freakshow.
starting fights in airports
You mean an airpot employee started a fight when he wouldn't take "no" for an answer on getting a photo with meek.
violating his probation
For shit like (gasp!) not telling his probation officer when he was leaving the state. Which could happen any time Meek wanted to drive over to New Jersey to pick up his kids from school. But time to get out of this rabbit hole: his first arrest and jail sentence were based on complete bullshit, the testimony of a corrupt cop who would have shot him down if Meek had actually pointed a gun in his direction. Which means every other petty probation violation is also based on bullshit, full stop.
You'll have no problem naming examples then. When was the last time there was a mass stabbing at a school that got 12, 20, or 77 people killed? What really puts the nails in the 'knives are as bad as guns' idiocy is:
1) Knife-wielding guy in China stabbed 20 people the SAME WEEK as Sandy Hook but nobody died.
2) The fact even gun nuts know their analogy is complete bullshit. All you have to do is point out that if knives are just as potent and deadly as guns, they wont have a problem with gun bans because Granny would be able to hold off a home invasion or fascist cops with a butcher knife.
TV and radio can do this with ads. When automatically placing commercials in breaks its easy to have only one ad for one type of product: a single bank commerical, one ad for a movie, etc. Google is probably doing this already to some extent - if you search for sandwich bread you probably wont see an ad for Monistat, even though both products are related to yeast.
Completely idiotic. Gun cultists are really, really, really attached to their false equivalencies and slippery slopes. Knives are just as dangerous as guns! - even though you can't kill dozens of people in a matter of minutes with a knife. Might as well ban butter! - except you can't threaten other people with your high cholesterol.
It sounds like you are suggesting that you would prefer a system whereby whatever laws you disagree with people would never spend time in jail waiting to bond out, and that they also do not show up for court and (I assume) would face no penalty for doing so.
Sounds like you're a mindless authoritarian. Why haven't you moved to Saudi Arabia so you can chip people's heads off if they're accused of practicing magic?
Yeah, that wouldn't affect their ability to borrow money at all, right?
Yes - it would make it easier to borrow money as their GDP wouldn't be sucked into making useless, imposed debt payments that are a drag on their economy with nothing to show in return. Same reason people who declare bankruptcy are inundated with credit offers, same reason countries that have defaulted on colonialist debt have been able to attract investors.
Go read a book and fucking learn something.
You first, dipshit. When red states have paid back all their subsidies to California, then you might be able to throw stones. Until then, fuck off.
It would have exactly same amount of debt because you assume that you would be free of your debt if you did secede. Which isn't going to happen anyway. No, what you would do is you would be taking your debt with you.
And as a sovereign state free to issue its own currency, it would also be free to tell those debt holders to pound sand. And given the industry in California, it would find no shortage of people, institutions and countries willing to buy new bonds issued by the new country.
I will try to explain this in simple, patronizing terms.
Tesla isn't burning billions in cash to bleach Musk's asshole. They're expanding their infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, and spending money on R&D. Ford would be doing the same thing if they were a new auto company instead of one that's been around for a hundred years. At any point, Tesla could stop expanding the Supercharger network etc and coast on their existing product to be profitable. They're obviously trying to pull an Amazon, who also did nothing but lose money for a decade before eventually turning a profit.
Worse case scenario, Tesla agrees to a "partnership" (i.e. buyout) with an established bigwig like Honda or Volkswagon.
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Literally. And this guy was even white and the son of a police officer. Cops have been given absolute power over the citizenry when they can claim to have felt threatened, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Cops in the United States absolutely will commit perjury in court and falsify evidence. If not for their own cases, they'll do it to help out their "bad apple" buddies on the force.
Nah, don't apologize. 'You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into' so sometimes all that's left is flaming the motherfucker so hard they are less likely to trot out their BS in the future least they be publicly humiliated again.
Which was a million megatons of fascist BS crammed into a five pound sack, as "as long as you're on US soil" is completely absent from the bill of rights. Otherwise the government would be free to take your arrested ass across the border and beat a confession out of you.
Extreme FUD. The Constitution defines what powers the federal government has and the limits of said powers. That the Constitution prevents the USG from torturing someone in the Netherlands in no way implies that the USG can enforce its marijuana prohibition laws on the Netherlands.
Where was the parent giving Trump credit for anything? Sounds like the amusing fool is you.
Nah, just your lack of reading comprehension.
Plot hole: if the North was capable of forcing such a stipulation on the South, it also would have been capable of forcing the census to ignore slaves - or banning slavery entirely.
What if you take your monthly power bill savings and invest in said return?
You first, Sparky.
Laughable pieces from cult rags ignoring Prop 13. Your own link admits why people are actually moving:
To defend themselves from American aggression that has already killed millions of them.
To kick out an occupying empire and its puppet government. American Exceptionalists always leave this fact out.
The United States came in and dismissed Korean's right to self-determination because it was too soclailisticky, and then banned socialist and communist parties from running in future elections. Having just been saddled and then free from one imperial colonialist power, Korean's weren't in the mood to take that shit now that it was coming from you instead of the Japanese.
That's on a single base in Korea, America's largest foreign base in the world, out of many. You're also ignoring all the troops and missiles stationed in occupied Japan that are also pointed in Pyongyang's way, plus all the Navy ships in the region.
You can choose to be blase about the U.S. history in Korea, the fact that it killed another 3 million people in Vietnam under the exact same scenario except they won (Viet Cong kicking out your occupying troops and puppet government), and the millions killed in your most recent bloodbaths from Iraq to Libya - but North Koreans aren't going to be willfully blind.
As opposed to downing half a bottle of rotgut tequila? Your post was a hot incoherent mess.
The sole evidence of which came from the testimony from a corrupt-as-hell cop, who accused Meek of pointing a gun at him. Cop's own partner laughed that one out of the room:
And that is from behind the Blue Wall of Silence. Graham was a freakshow.
You mean an airpot employee started a fight when he wouldn't take "no" for an answer on getting a photo with meek.
For shit like (gasp!) not telling his probation officer when he was leaving the state. Which could happen any time Meek wanted to drive over to New Jersey to pick up his kids from school. But time to get out of this rabbit hole: his first arrest and jail sentence were based on complete bullshit, the testimony of a corrupt cop who would have shot him down if Meek had actually pointed a gun in his direction. Which means every other petty probation violation is also based on bullshit, full stop.
You'll have no problem naming examples then. When was the last time there was a mass stabbing at a school that got 12, 20, or 77 people killed? What really puts the nails in the 'knives are as bad as guns' idiocy is:
1) Knife-wielding guy in China stabbed 20 people the SAME WEEK as Sandy Hook but nobody died.
2) The fact even gun nuts know their analogy is complete bullshit. All you have to do is point out that if knives are just as potent and deadly as guns, they wont have a problem with gun bans because Granny would be able to hold off a home invasion or fascist cops with a butcher knife.
TV and radio can do this with ads. When automatically placing commercials in breaks its easy to have only one ad for one type of product: a single bank commerical, one ad for a movie, etc. Google is probably doing this already to some extent - if you search for sandwich bread you probably wont see an ad for Monistat, even though both products are related to yeast.
The only connection between the two things in your new, lame false equivalency is Prohibition.
Completely idiotic. Gun cultists are really, really, really attached to their false equivalencies and slippery slopes. Knives are just as dangerous as guns! - even though you can't kill dozens of people in a matter of minutes with a knife. Might as well ban butter! - except you can't threaten other people with your high cholesterol.
Sounds like you're a mindless authoritarian. Why haven't you moved to Saudi Arabia so you can chip people's heads off if they're accused of practicing magic?
Here's some suggested reading to help you with your problem.
Let us know how awesome it is when it's your dumb ass in the slammer due to the actions of corrupt cops or prosecutors.
And how many banks have been held up with a joint? I really dislike gun cultists with idiotic analogies.
Didn't figure you for a Prohibitionist.
But before that you can do extensive testing on closed roads or courses set up for this purpose. Uber was too cheap/impatient to do so.
TSTRT
So what innovation was lost when leaded gasoline was banned? Your entire line of reasoning here is invalid.
Yes - it would make it easier to borrow money as their GDP wouldn't be sucked into making useless, imposed debt payments that are a drag on their economy with nothing to show in return. Same reason people who declare bankruptcy are inundated with credit offers, same reason countries that have defaulted on colonialist debt have been able to attract investors.
You first, dipshit. When red states have paid back all their subsidies to California, then you might be able to throw stones. Until then, fuck off.
1) The income tax is the fairest one ever invented
2) Low taxes have high costs
And as a sovereign state free to issue its own currency, it would also be free to tell those debt holders to pound sand. And given the industry in California, it would find no shortage of people, institutions and countries willing to buy new bonds issued by the new country.
Tesla isn't burning billions in cash to bleach Musk's asshole. They're expanding their infrastructure, manufacturing capacity, and spending money on R&D. Ford would be doing the same thing if they were a new auto company instead of one that's been around for a hundred years. At any point, Tesla could stop expanding the Supercharger network etc and coast on their existing product to be profitable. They're obviously trying to pull an Amazon, who also did nothing but lose money for a decade before eventually turning a profit.
Worse case scenario, Tesla agrees to a "partnership" (i.e. buyout) with an established bigwig like Honda or Volkswagon.