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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • When he gets to get away with things that would have put any normal person in jail, especially breaking bail conditions, it really puts in stark relief how fucked up and useless our entire justice system is.

    All keeping Trump around has done for Democrats is disillusion massive portions of their base, who wonder why this stuff keeps being allowed to happen. Years later and no movement in replacing Merrick Garland despite how useless he is. Nope, more important to appease the Republicans I guess.

    Who can even take the “justice” system seriously after all of this?




  • to assist local law enforcement and the Washington State Patrol as needed to quell any election-related unrest.

    The same chumps that let armed thugs roll up on him on January 6th, 2021?

    Inslee really needs to get a hold of his fucking Sherrifs. Half of these “constitutional sherrif” fuckers who think it’s up to them to interpret the constitution are in fucking Washington state. I think the movement started in Washington.

    Washington cops are out of fucking control. I don’t trust them to be neutral arbiters of the law



  • Unlike previous generations who were able to conveniently ignore politics because most of it didn’t directly impact them, more young people than ever are LGBT+ and/or disabled.

    When I was growing up in the 90’s, white Christian America still dominated, and so fewer young people were getting directly involved simply because there were fewer people upset at the state of things and more people who believed the propaganda that everything was fine.

    Millennials and to a further extent Gen Z have lived in a world that just keeps fucking them over at every turn so they don’t have a choice but to become involved. Millennials got involved in their adulthood, and Gen Z is growing up around and being influenced by those adults who are now politically involved.

    It makes complete sense why they are more involved than past youth generations because in the past the youth had a lot less to lose.

    Also, getting pregnant in your thirties is risky business so abortion is by and large a youth issue, because it impacts young women more then older women.

    Currently the youth have a lot to lose so they are understandably getting involved.






  • I absolutely agree, a lot of this can be mitigated by the right kinds of regulations…

    Bear with me a minute, this goes pretty far back…

    https://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/3370

    But in 2007, the New Zealand government launched a wiki to allow NZ residents to help define the language of a new police law bill, to ensure there was a more equitable way to get people involved, and it’s been kicking around in my head for a long time.

    We could reduce congresspeople to figureheads who just vote on bills if we really built a big system like that around every bill that comes to congress, always letting citizens be involved. Of course, it would require rigorous controls, tight security, and likely need you would need to provide photo ID/Social Security number to be able to access the site to prove you’re a citizen and not a foreign actor. However, if citizens had more clear access and control to drafting laws, a lot of what incentivizes congresspeople to take bribes from lobbyists would be taken away because now the lobbyists have to lobby involved citizens on changing the language. Lobbyists can’t just write corporation friendly bills for congresspeople when the citizens are directly involved in drafting bills to their final form.

    Also, fucking Version Control on bills for fucks sake. I want names attached to each sentence in every bill that is put before congress. No more of this “sharing the blame” shit by not attributing who wrote what part of each bill. Fucking own it, the tech has been there to monitor this since the 70’s.