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Department of labor has a lot of good resources.

The beauty of the panopticon and the surveillance state is that everyone breaks some law some time. So you just have to wait until you hate someone enough to notice them, find out what they did, and off they go to become slave labor.

Was his wife with him? If not, she should be concerned about what activities were planned for after the ballet.

I heard his favorite book is Mother Night. He really sees himself in the main character.

Same with pretty much every saying that regressives steal to justify their shit.

"Blood is thicker than water" does not mean family is more important than friends. The full saying is "Blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb." So it means the exact opposite.

"Spare the rod, spoil the child" is actually from a poem by Samuel Butler in the 1600s. The poem is about spanking your lover. The actual bible quote that the poem is satirizing is, "He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him." Nuanced difference, but doesn't advocate beating the same way the shortened one does.

The coroner system is terrible. It treats elected officials as if they are medical experts, and in turn they are able to offer that "expertise" in court. It's a travesty.

There's a great book on how this system can go wrong called The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Or you can probably just look up whatever your local coroner has done.

Does it really matter?

If Ukraine has agents, maybe they take what shots they can as the opportunity arises.

Was there much Russian language coverage of this pilot? If he was being treated as a hero, seems valid to kill him to make anyone else think twice before attacking Ukraine to try to gain the same notoriety.

And even if they didn't kill him, claiming it still sows confusion and gives the same effect in the end.

In what situation would it be appropriate, legal, and approvable to burn down civilian houses in an occupied area?

I can't think of one.

Normal MO for regressives. Exhaust everyone with bad faith arguments, moving goal posts, etc, and then get your minions to parrot that the issue is too complex/contentious/controversial to continue discussing.

It's the same vibe as saying gay o people are unhappy because they're gay when it's actually because they've made a culture of trying to make people miserable when they have the audacity to not fall in line.

Sounds like a similar premise to Childhood's End.

The whole gag to fascism is that it is 100% projection at all times, both internally and externally.

They attack people because they're afraid to get attacked and they can't imagine a situation where everyone isn't thinking exactly like them, so of course it's only a matter of time before they're attacked...and thus must attack.

It's circular and deeply uncreative, but it is the root of every bully, from the playground to the autocratic despot.

Or these people were murdered and they used the opportunity to target disinformation at Ukraine. It seems plausible. Fascists encourage cruelty, which tends to result in increased deaths, and Russia uses every opportunity to lie and obfuscate reality so they can point back to poorly written articles decades later and claim "both sides."

Yet another terrible thing about prisons - they target policing in urban areas where the population is high and tends to vote Democrat. Once arrested, tried, and convicted, that person is sent to a prison in the middle of nowhere - and now counts toward the population of that area, but cannot vote themselves.

Population is used to determine how congressional districts get allocated, and they haven't increased the number of congressional seats in decades. So as the prison population rises, they are gaining seats at the expense of urban areas losing the same number.

It's literally an updated version of the 3/5 compromise.

Which is why police should be abolished and replaced. We need SWAT and cops with guns sometimes, but we don't need those people to be the primary mechanism and the primary decision makers.

What we consider police should be a small subsection of the public safety force that a modern society needs. Give us traffic monitors, mental health counselors, etc.

They already are. They worship the death of their God, ignoring all the stuff he said to do while he was alive. They won't engage in any common sense gun control. They worship the military while they're engaged in killing people, and then they demand those people continue to sacrifice their lives by underfunding and cutting benefits at the VA. They force births, but only to feed the machine with those bodies - once the kids are born, they try to stop them from receiving any benefits like food, medicine, or education - in large part to force them into the military or prisons where they can be controlled and used up.

Regressives the world over are not creative. They do what they do because they believe others will do it. They're bullies because they were bullied, and they don't want to be the victim, so they erroneously believe that means they have to strike first.

They never stop to think, "What if the world weren't shit? What can I do to make it better?" They accept as a fact that it is shit, and they believe the only way to come out ahead is to step on someone else.

When you get several of these people/groups pointing at each other, it becomes an infinite cycle.

Just under 550 miles. Google maps clocks it at just under 8 hours, but we also stopped three times for gas, twice for food, and a few extra times for bathrooms. And I didn't really speed. The family member who lives up there claims she can do it in 8 hours by barely stopping and speeding lol.