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When the law is unethical, breaking it is a moral duty. The democrats going to jail now have infinitely more spine than the republicans who hurried off to the underground tunnels during J6 only to turn around and claim it was a totally peaceful tour.

Battery. Assault is threatening, battery involves physical touch, no matter how light.

Good thing Merrick Garland dragged his feet, probably so the democrats could fundraise on Trump.

Sorry, middle fingers. Showing the middle finger is sometimes called flipping the bird.

Their reactions are fucking great, especially the girl on the left.

Straight up, one time we got called out to "check on" a homeless woman sleeping at a bus stop. It's no surprise, people weaponize EMS/Fire to harass sleeping homeless people because the cops sometimes won't do shit and we can't say "no, they're just sleeping and obviously not dead, dipshit", because there's always the one chance that they aren't actually sleeping and really are dead or dying. So, we show up, and fire beat us there. They're checking on her and basically telling us "hold on, she's refusing care." We hold tight and they cut us loose after a few minutes. Well, fire ended up clearing us from the scene. Later on, we run into that same crew, and they told us that on their way to this next call, that same woman ran right out into the middle of the big ass boulevard (it was night), almost in front of them, and started hopping up and down shooting them birds akimbo. Good times.

One of my favorites that I ever played was a character I where I rolled my stats first and ended up getting a -3 modifier even with mulligan rolls. Every other stat was anywhere from decent to fuckin ballin'. I sat and thought about it for a minute: what stat would be fun, interesting, and challenging to have as a -3? STR would suck, INT and CHA would be anything from really annoying to insufferable or ablist to play (every VERY low int character ever in D&D podcasts is extremely cringe to listen to), so that leaves WIS and DEX. I chose DEX and said that it was because my human fighter was a war veteran with an Above Knee Amputation from the war. From there, I arrived at him using pole arms because they help him to steady himself on his peg leg outside of combat, and that he's deeply uncomfortable with magic, since magic cost him his leg and many comrades in war.

It led to one of my all time favorite moments in an RP where he and the paladin were dining in a Giant's great hall, having a disagreement about how to proceed, when the Paladin cast a spell on him (I can't remember which, I want to say it was silence or Zone of Truth, but it can't be because it specifically targeted him). My character stared him down, slugged down the rest of the drink, then flipped the table and commenced to trying to murder the paladin. It was a pretty nuts PvP fight, since we both ended up successfully avoiding the party members who were trying to restrain us, landed a few solid blows on each other, and it only ended when the Giants had had enough of our shit.

NGL, I will never ever ever take another conservative serious ever again for the rest of my life. I had so many arguments about how very important the constitution was and how we can't help people because it would make the founding fathers cry, and here they are, eagerly dumpstering the constitution, clapping and cheering as it burns.

Musk deserves a lot more than just a PR dunk, but I'm still not entirely convinced that it's just a cynical PR play. Hopefully Bill will prove me wrong.

Holy shit this is bad. There's already tons of reports of the already expanded ICE field personnel calling detainees "Mexican bitches" and not following well-established law and law enforcement laws and procedures. At least with local law enforcement, you still get some people joining because they're true believer types that want to really protect and serve. Not everyone, sure, there's plenty of asshats in local enforcement, but there's always a few boy scout types that put on the uniform thinking of helping grandma cross the street and stopping actual bad guys instead of shooting minorities. Nobody who wants to do good in the world is going to be joining ICE right now. It's basically MAGA welfare; get paid to be a gun carrying shitheel whose only qualification is being able to spot brown people. He's effectively making a gestapo here.

Shiiit, who do they think they are, a fortune 500 company?

Sarcasm aside, it's completely ridiculous. Even the big guys play nice with the fire service because nobody wants to get fucked by the insurance companies. I think the next step here would be to notify the GEO group's insurers that they have multiple fire safety violations and they're refusing to fix them.

Thank you!

Surely this won't blow up in any of your dumb, fascist faces when King Donald decides that you need to go to CECOT for life because fox news said so.

Context: the facility failed a fire inspection and is refusing to allow inspectors back onto the grounds or to correct the violations. The mayor and city council made a point of serving the notice in person previously, which was ignored. The GEO group are saying "fire safety is politics" and refusing to cooperate.

Yeah, I know. I'd still like to see it because I want to believe that we can have nice things.

We don't need to be inserting our military or projecting power into this. I would like to see us broker a lasting peace without lobbying for national self interest. It'd probably be a good idea to offer to work with China here, as I seriously doubt that they want to see a nuclear exchange happen next door. This war won't help anyone, especially if nukes get involved.

But, then again, I think this puts us a bit ahead of schedule for the post-nuclear horror, right? Too bad we couldn't get Irish re-unification first.

Frankly, I don't. I read something about it a while back, and I remember being really disappointed that he was stepping back from that.

Dunk hospital, welcome to the Dunk Ward, I'm your Dunk Nurse today, what brings you in today?

You got dunked on by WHO?!

We got a pope, they got a cope.

It's stupid and meaningless, but hooo boy it gave me a whole 0.2 seconds of dopamine saying that.

Well, a few things:

1. they say the only bad press is no press.
2. We're at a moment where anger against the wealthiest people on the planet has never been higher, except maybe during a revolution. Bill is among this group, and he's likely cognizant that Dingus and Doofus up in DC are exacerbating that sentiment. Maybe he's hedging his bets to keep from getting put against the wall.
3. Didn't he fly to Epstein Island? Wasn't it shortly after we found out about that that Melinda divorced him? Probably not the most recent thing he'd like to be remembered for.