Isn’t that basically what his defense is arguing though? That without sufficient jurisdiction, it’s effectively double jeopardy, and the federal government is only bringing a case forward because they want the death penalty to be on the table
To be fair, are they wrong? Wealthy is the only truly privileged group in America. For a few million, you can outright buy American citizenship now
Is coke seriously £100/gram in the UK as the article claims?
Also props to that guy for financial responsibility, I guess
If there is one thing we’ve learned over the past 25 years, it’s that there is no such thing as the destruction of a terrorist organization
The more civilians you murder, the more new recruits that terror cell has in their family members
The IDF if fully aware of this. They know they can’t wipe out Hamas. They’re looking to wipe out all Gazans
Telling people they’re antisemitic for being against the genocide of Gazan civilians doesn’t convince them they’re antisemitic. It just makes them question how many other people have been falsely labeled antisemitic
The atrocities being committed against civilians are horrible. This is 100% a genocide, and the IDF is hoping they can finish the job before someone steps in and stops them
And just like that, the right loves cancel culture
Fight fire with fire. Apparently it’s the only thing conservatives will pay attention to
So many of them are convinced all gun violence is coming from the left, and at this point I’m ready to just let them have their delusions. What are they going to do about it? Implement gun control? Please do
How very egalitarian of us
Gun violence has gone from a mainstay of working class life to schools, to now including CEOs and politicians. Truly equal
the American left just wants to call them fascists and deplatform them
They were and are fascists. That’s no longer a question or a hypothetical outcome. It is our current reality. We have ICE acting as a paramilitary going through the streets rounding up anyone that looks Hispanic, including many citizens and legal residents. We’ve built special camps to house large numbers of detainees in a small area
We have the National Guard deployed across the country - armed military members walking our streets. We’ve renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War and threatened war with many other countries - Canada, Greenland/Denmark, Panama, Iran, and more
Anyone opposing Trump is being retaliated against. He threatened to revoke all of Musk’s contracts for being critical of The Big Beautiful Bill. John Bolton, Trump’s former national security advisor had his home raided by the FBI in clear retribution to his publicly critical statements about Trump. Kamala Harris had her Secret Service detail revoked at a time when political violence is at an all time high. What possible reason could Trump have for revoking her security detail other than in the hopes she is assassinated?
It’s quintessential fascism. What more needs to happen before people admit it?
the feminist movement wrote young men off - telling them “everything you know about being a man is misogynist, stop doing it, but it’s not our job to teach you how to be a better man”
That was not the platform of the feminist movement. It was the views of a small fringe group. One of the problems with far-right commentators is they like to look at a tiny extreme group that very few people agree with and claim they represent the whole left. Somehow it worked and now people, like you, are convinced of crazy things
Kirk was an idol to millions of teenage boys who are now seeing the online left cheering for his death
Kirk himself was cheering when a guy tried to assassinate Paul Pelosi. He even “joked” about getting someone to pay the bail of Pelosi’s attacker
It’s been tit-for-tat for a while. It’s not getting better
Missing the big one: The Minnesota politicians that were assassinated 2 months ago (1 assassinated, 1 attempted)
The federal government and right-wing talking heads were silent about that one. Tacit approval
America’s unwillingness to give up guns has desensitized us to violence. Tit-for-tat political violence was the obvious outcome of that. Now even if the country implemented sensible gun policies, I think it’s too late. The violence will continue because we’re desensitized to it
I don’t have a solution. We’ll likely live with gun violence as a daily occurrence for the rest of our lives. It’ll be a slow and painful recovery if there is one
Now, yes. Then, no. I don’t think anyone could have unified the MAGA right enough to win the election without Trump. If Trump hadn’t ran, I could have seen a conservative winning a normal election. Not a last minute Trump replacement though
survivable if he got immediate direct pressure and taken right to a trauma unit for blood and surgery
Interesting. I have a relative working as a paramedic at the Mayo and they put the odds of survival at less than 1% even with immediate medical care
Did you work in Chicago, or somewhere that would have had a similarly gunshot victim rate at the time? I’ve heard many of the trauma surgeons in those areas are even better than at the Mayo
Charlie was an awful human being, but his death will be used to harm a whole lot of people. I’d put the blame for that harm largely on the person that shot him
You make a great point about how people feel that way, regardless of the reality. Many conservatives feel like it was illegal not to get the COVID vaccine, despite nowhere in the US having a legal requirement. It was simply businesses requiring it for their employees and/or customers
To them the legal threat was very real, regardless of reality. Progressives need to understand that and work to alleviate the concerns of conservatives. We can shout all we want about how we shouldn’t have to cater to them, or how basic empathy should be enough for conservatives, but that isn’t the reality. If you genuinely feel immigrants are why you can’t get a job, all empathy goes out the window. Telling them they’re a bad person for doing something they think will help them feed their family will never work
It’ll be interesting to see the contrast with the political response to this assassination compared to the Democratic Minnesota lawmaker that was assassinated a couple months ago
I get the distinct feeling conservatives won’t be nearly as silent about this one
How is your comment not advocating for violence? Really sounds like you’re pushing him to be violent rather than just leave angry comments online
Each of them, individually, has more money than the combined net worth of everyone I know. Enough for 1,000 lifetimes. And they did nothing ti earn it
Crazy to think about. After 25 years of working, I’ll be relatively fortunate enough to save 0.1% of that level of wealth
Not a single comment about Kali that I can pick a fight with?? So disappointed rn
By all accounts he’s very popular with other prisoners. Might be tough for someone to get to him, and especially tough to get away alive if they do attack Luigi