How can anyone look at the US justice system and say that it produces justice?

Between the two-tiered conviction & sentencing, the routine torture, the prevalence of rape, the corrupt self-dealing, the reckless disregard for those in their care, the slavery, the murders, the forced confessions, and the crooked cops, the entire system is an unfunny joke.

I thought a “dip” was the CEO of Reddit.

Looks like we’re both right!

This exactly.

They don’t see imposing a state of fundamentalist Christian supremacy as tyranny, because their ideology is one of Christian Nationalism (which in the US is inherently white nationalism).

They see the erosion of their relevance as the tyranny they’re supposed to stand up to despite it mostly being driven by cultural changes instead of government mandates. This means that the militias are meant to commit violence against civilians; they know the cops will side with them in a scrum. They’re more afraid of a lesbian with blue hair than a rogue sherrif depriving them of rights.

One of the most insidious parts of the Dobbs ruling is that they took away abortion by stripping our right to privacy.

It’s natural to focus on the people it targets most: people who are pregnant. However, we lost a lot more than reproductive freedom when that reactionary decision came down.

They want to return the status quo of the 19th century in so many ways.

We’re in a new era now where they’ve given Trump unprecedented power.

The past is past; we’re living in a brave new world now. I never pretended they didn’t rule against him. I’m saying that they won’t in the future because it’ll expose how powerless they are to enforce anything against him, and would also put a target on their own backs.

Yes, that was my point.

Let me know when it’s in an official ruling or any other way that matters.

They know they’d better not disagree.

They literally don’t care. All they want is to win an argument against leftists in the moment; they actually see it as a weakness to be beholden to facts.

They’re playing a different “game” entirely, one where rhetoric is more important than reality.

From They Thought They Were Free, the Germans 1933 - 1945

[…] "I gave them French and English literature, more so than before, although to do so was one of those vague betrayals of the ‘new spirit’; still, it had not been specifically forbidden. Of course, I always said, to protect myself (but I said it in such a way that I hoped the students would see through it), that the foreign works we read were only a reflection of German literature. So, you see, Herr Professor, a man could show some—some independence, even, so to say, secretly.” “I understand,” I said.

“Many of the students—the best of them—understood what was going on in all this. It was a sort of dumb-show game that we were all playing, I with them. The worst effect, I think, was that it made them cynical, the best ones. But, then, it made the teachers cynical, too. I think the classroom in those years was one of the causes of the cynicism you see in the best young men and women in Germany today.”

[…]

"Tell me, Herr Hildebrandt, what about [Shakespeare’s]Julius Caesar?”

He smiled very, very wryly. “Julius Caesar? No … no.”

“Was it forbidden?”

“Not that I remember. But that is not the way it was. Everything was not regulated specifically, ever. It was not like that at all. Choices were left to the teacher’s discretion, within the ‘German spirit.’ That was all that was necessary; the teacher had only to be discreet. If he himself wondered at all whether anyone would object to a given book, he would be wise not to use it. This was a much more powerful form of intimidation, you see, than any fixed list of acceptable or unacceptable writings. The way it was done was, from the point of view of the regime, remarkably clever and effective. The teacher had to make the choices and risk the consequences; this made him all the more cautious.”

These dumbasses really think capitulation will make the fascists go away? That’s never how it works. Now you’ve emboldened them to go further, you utter idiots.

Augury was a Greco-Roman religious practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens. When the individual, known as the augur, read these signs, it was referred to as “taking the auspices”. “Auspices” (Latin: auspicium) means “looking at birds”. Auspex, another word for augur, can be translated to “one who looks at birds”. Depending upon the birds, the auspices from the gods could be favorable or unfavorable (auspicious or inauspicious). Sometimes politically motivated augurs would fabricate unfavorable auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes.

Just normal cop stuff.

Also, any lawyer who flies that police-state flag is a water balloon full of diarrhea.

It’s frequently used as an excuse to berate “sinners,” with the excuse that they would want someone to confront them about their sins and lead them to Jesus.

Isn’t Ozempic cheaper?

This short video is a perfect illustration of the process.

Hope the EU steps up their help to Ukraine after seeing this.

Fuck Putin and his nasty little friends.

I’d never heard of Easter lamb cakes before, and it’s my sincere hope to never hear of them again after seeing this.

It’s no coincidence that Republicans hate the same people that the original Nazis did.

Reactionaries always pick sexual, racial, & religious minorities and leftists as their targets.

President Musk did his Nazi salute to signal to far-right groups that they can start dropping the euphemisms, and the fascist Republican party loves him for it.

A mandoline slicer makes the chopping much faster if you have one.

I like caraway seeds in mine.

I ferment on the top of my cabinets in a mason jar, then move to the fridge when it starts tasting right.