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Conservatives think it's some incredible gotcha to point out that most rich peoples' wealth is in assets like stock rather than cash, as if that defeats the point that Musk could use his wealth on massive charitable undertakings if he wanted, as people far less rich than him have
So many of progressive talking points are them being unbelievably smug while being wrong about the core concept.
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He certainly could not liquidate some of his stocks, or use his cash reserves, or take out loans using his property as collateral. It's impossible! The irony is that OP is accusing other people of being smugly wrong about basic concepts.
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Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros—the thing you have to understand about these people is that they're not real. You may have heard that they used their wealth on massive charitable undertakings, but in fact, that's complete fiction. Totally made up. It would be impossible.
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Jun 13
I love it when people who never win competitive elections against Republicans, whose height of political success is winning Democratic primaries in safe blue districts, lecture the party that routinely wins the presidency about how to win elections.
Clinton in 96 if he governed more like FDR instead of Reagan:
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Jun 13
The people who said that staying on Twitter makes you likelier to vote Republican have a point. It's just that for me, what's making me likelier to vote Republican isn't exposure to conservatives; it's exposure to Palestinian supporters.
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Jun 13
Yeah, that's really what they're saying. In these peoples' minds, if you say that you're acting for antizionist reasons, you should be able to maim and kill people. They really believe that, and it's important to realize that.
Jun 13
One of them attacked a female police officer with a sledgehammer, fracturing her spine. Are people seriously suggesting that doesn’t warrant a prison sentence?
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Jun 13
A problem with our culture's valorization of protest is you get people like this who think that protesting gives you a right to commit crimes, that otherwise criminal acts are fine if you're protesting. We need to realize that there's nothing inherently virtuous about protesting.
Jun 12
Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.
Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.
A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.
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This sort of thing sounds weird to nonlawyers, but it's completely normal. The key is that the jury found all of the relevant facts; the judge isn't finding any new facts. The judge just decides whether the facts that the jury found fit the terrorism sentencing enhancement box.
Jun 12
You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence.
Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone.
Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied.
So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.
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One way to think of it is that insofar as the terrorism sentencing enhancement requires a jury's approval, the jury did approve it by finding all the facts necessary to impose it. The law could say that it automatically applies. But instead, it allows the judge to NOT impose it.
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Jun 13
This is the system working as it should. A defendant's reason for committing the crime usually is irrelevant to any element or defense, so allowing the jury to hear it would be unduly prejudicial. What these people want is jury nullification, but they're not entitled to that.
Jun 12
This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1
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poorly whorly retweeted
the intensity of the fallout from the Haim sisters wearing slightly silly t-shirts is the clearest example I’ve seen in a while of people hating someone for mean girl reasons and backfilling it with political ones to make it seem more important
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What a lion
A D.C.-based attorney spent three years fighting a $100 ticket he got from a speed camera in the city. He eventually won in D.C.'s highest court on a novel legal technicality, and thousands of other drivers could end up benefitting from it: notus.org/metro/dc-lawyer-sp…
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