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[–] [email protected] 45 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Luckily we don't have to put up with this misinformation again.

I will repeat myself one last time.

She had a record number of convictions for cannabis. She had the lowest number of convictions resulting in jail time.

She went after banks that affected her district. They did not like that one bit.

There's a bunch more stuff. But this is plainly a shitty attempt at painting Harris supporters as relying on some form of cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

another 100% truthful post from return2ozma

[–] [email protected] 32 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

ITT: people who don't know what "cop" means

Edit: prosecutors are cops, judges are cops, spooks are cops, etc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

But usually only cops practice street justice with no due process or consequences. Never saw a prosecutor suffocate someone to death for being accused of a petty crime or shoot a kid for holding a toy.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, Harris had a contentious relationship with cops, when--IIRC--she didn't pursue the death penalty for a cop killer.

Prosecutors have to work with police, but aren't police. Prosecutors want to win, because that's how they get elected. When cops do dumb, illegal shit, prosecutors get pissed because then they can't win a case. Cops usually blame prosecutors for not locking everyone up. Prosecutors get pissed at cops, because cops botch investigations and make stupid, illegal arrests.

Of the two, I have much more respect for prosecutors. Prosecutors are often very good attorneys (in their field).

To reiterate a point: district attorney are elected. The public expects them to win cases. When they don't, even if it's because cops are handing them steaming piles of garbage, they tend to lose their jobs. Shitty, but true. We may say ACAB, but when it comes down to it, a prosecutor that refuses to, for instance, prosecute certain low-level crimes will tend to get voted out of office because it pisses off the constituents.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

a prosecutor that refuses to, for instance, prosecute certain low-level crimes will tend to get voted out of office because it pisses off the constituents.

unless it's US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, then Republicans can just say no to whatever we vote for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Fair enough.

I don't really think that D.C. should be a state, but I think that it should have more autonomy for the administration of the city than it has.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

That’s because back the blue is just a more polite way to say the 14 words

[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (6 children)

Wait I don't get this one. What's the 14 words? I'm an elder millennial and sometimes I miss the new slang.

Edit thanks for the quick answers.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

I remember seeing some wild story in 2020 about someone getting banned from some game because their name was something like corona1488 but corona was their last name and Jan 4th 1988 was their birthday. I think they were able to get it fixed and maybe they changed their in game name too.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't remember the exact words off the top of my head and too lazy to look it up, but it's a neonazi dog whistle. Something about 'protecting the future of the white children'

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

It's not even a dog whistle. It's deafening.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

You are not too old, you are just not hanging around the right people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

These 14 words don't really have the "punchy" characteristic I'd expect from a slogan.

Fake Nazi graffiti

[–] Danquebec 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Haha that failed swatiska!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah, and they only remembered 11 words (poorly). I don't expect more from Nazi vandals, which is why I drew it that way.

[–] ayyy 6 points 13 hours ago

Emphasis on right

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

It's a Nazi thing I am pretty sure

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

The 14 words part Is adequately explained below, but in case you are unfamiliar as well, often 14 will be used in conjunction with the number 88 as well for HH or Heil Hitler.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I’m also an elder millennial and I learned about it from the incredible podcast “Weird Little Guys”. I cannot recommend it enough. Such a good show.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I listen to a lot of their shows, and I think “Weird Little Guys” is the best of them. And I just love “Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff”. But Molly Conger is just so good. The music is perfect, the narration is good, the stories… umm suck but they are important to know about, it is funny, I’ve cried multiple times, etc. “Weird Little Guys” just is so fucking good.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 16 hours ago

I’ve always liked this meme format, and this is one of the best uses of it I’ve seen.

[–] ohellidk 35 points 17 hours ago

what crazy times we live in!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

Can I wake up now? I just want to wake up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago (6 children)

Does anyone actually consider a prosecutor a cop?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 17 hours ago (12 children)
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[–] wildbus8979 16 points 17 hours ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

No, legal professionals are very different than law enforcement

[–] marine_mustang 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

“Where’d you learn that, drug school?”

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No, police requires minimal education and training. Prosecutor is a lawyer, doesn't carry a gun or shoot innocent people.

[–] wildbus8979 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

They only lie, hide evidence, and cover for the cops to put people in jail. But yeah you're right, the education makes all the difference! (Let's forget that cops in other countries get a metric fuckton more education and they aren't all that different). Both serve mostly to protect the state and ruling class's interests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Shhh, people don't like it when you point out that DAs and prosecutors enforce the state's monopoly on violence. That's far too much thinking.

[–] wildbus8979 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

But they're educated though 💅

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I might consider them worse actually

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Easily more influential. Broader scope, that's for sure, and in a strong position to either amplify or counteract the typical "cop bullshit", depending on their choices.

ETA: don't think many of them work very hard at the "counteracting" side. To put it mildly.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Hilarious

Well, I had a sensible chuckle at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

As long as you kept it civil.

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