It wouldn’t be this close if Harris just came out against the genocide in Gaza

It’d be worse. Do you have any idea how much damage AIPAC would do? The majority of americans are siding with Israel. She’d get called a terrorist simp before she even finished her speech. It would be an unmitigated shit show.

I wish the american public was wiser, and recognizing how evil Israel is. But that’s not the world we live in.

The bounty itself reads that any person besides local and state government officials may sue a trans person using the restroom that aligns with their gender, with payments including “injunctive relief sufficient to prevent the defendant from violating the provisions of this ordinance; nominal and compensatory damages if the plaintiff has suffered injury or harm from the defendant’s conduct; statutory damages in an amount of not less than $10,000 for each violation of this ordinance; and court costs and reasonable attorney’s fees.”

As with the abortion bans, the “”“criminal”“” themselves has to pay.

Yes and no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico

As with most things related to the U.S. government, it is complicated, bullshit, and hypocritical.

That’s fair

Because the U.S. is a failed democracy. It labels places like Puerto Rico as a territory.

Good thing I wasn’t talking about what he was convicted of, and instead was talking about what he did. Defense lawyers always try to negotiate and reduce charges to lower ones.

Now answer my question. What would you have us do with him?

I think they’re just saying that everyone should have the option and use it.

and it only takes five minutes.

Not here it doesn’t. There are constant intentional efforts to shut down polling locations in communities with a disproportionate amount of minorities. The intent is to force minority voters to travel further to get to a polling place (which may not be an option due to our joke of a public transit network), and to force them to wait in line for hours at a time to vote.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/17/924527679/why-do-nonwhite-georgia-voters-have-to-wait-in-line-for-hours-too-few-polling-pl

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/04/upshot/voting-wait-times.html

In some jurisdictions, they’ve gone so far with their voter suppression tactics that they make it a punishable offense to provide food and water for those waiting in the hours long lines to vote.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/senior_lawyers/resources/experience/2024-january-february/is-line-warming-legal/

And that’s all before accounting for the fact that many people need to have two jobs to be stable, which makes it hard to get to the polls even if the lines are short.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/8-7-million-americans-now-193011733.html

The U.S. election system is a joke, and a sham democracy.

A life sentence for attempted 1st degree murder isn’t draconian. What would you have us do, set him free?

Has anybody else noticed the flood of comments saying “Nice try diddy”, or some variation of it on political posts on insta? It’s a sad and concerning sight, even accounting for much of it being bots, and it being a terrible place to begin with.

we should probably burn it

Agreed

“Capitalism creates innovation” - one of the best jokes out there

As a modern state with a functionning justice system

That might just be the best joke I’ve heard all week.

If we could do this on a x1000 scale that’d be great. That, and unfucking zoning law, banning foreign/corporate ownership of residential buildings, putting a hard cap on how many housing units an individual can own, that’d be great to.

Do you honestly think right wing media is jumping at the chance to share the pro-hitler side of Trump?

Sad that she’ll being staying here, happy that at least in this instance we can’t export our crazies.

For me personally, it was easier to just write a few python scripts to parse the CSV files from my banks.

I switched over to this last month, and I’m already a fan of it. It did take a bit of time to port over my old shtitty excel tracking, and to write a few python scripts to parse the export CSV files from each of my bank accounts, but it is very clearly worth it.

One of the nice things is that it uses a SQLite db to store everything, so if shit ever hits the fan with one of my drives or the software, it isn’t the end of the world.

You can self host it so you can access it over the web, or you can choose to run it entirely locally. It’s pretty nifty, and I’ve elected to using it for the second option.

Probably not for a few decades at least. It’s only when today’s college aged people take power that it’ll get labeled as such. And even then, it’s not a guarantee.