octopus_ink

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

This was my 2020.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I mean, being arrested doesn't mean a crime was committed. It means he's accused of a crime. I'll be interested to see if there is actually a conviction in the end.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There’s a remix that actually has bells

Apparently it's not a remix, it's the original.

https://youtu.be/VGabHGJAHfc

Despite the song's title, no bells can be heard in the album recording. The original version of the song, riddled with bells of various types including a cowbell, is 7 minutes and 11 seconds long and was only released on 12 inch vinyl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Bells_(song)

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There’s a remix that actually has bells

Apparently it's not a remix, it's the original.

https://youtu.be/VGabHGJAHfc

Despite the song's title, no bells can be heard in the album recording. The original version of the song, riddled with bells of various types including a cowbell, is 7 minutes and 11 seconds long and was only released on 12 inch vinyl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_the_Bells_(song)

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

This only further erodes people’s faith in the system.

It's sure as fuck eroding mine!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

It looks like Trump is almost certainly going to lose the election and when he does he’s going to jail.

Ankle bracelet at worst, more likely an easy for him to pay fine. Trump is never going to spend a day in prison, mark my words. And if I'm wrong I'll celebrate along with everyone else about it.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

This judge has had a strong bias to not look like he’s impacting the general election

All this time I thought they were there to uphold the law no matter who was on the other end of it, but I know, joke's on me!

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

It's because the Justice system is not whatsoever blind to wealth and power.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

If clear enough, the entire house of cards could come tumbling down.

OR, since we've once again given special legal protections to the rich and powerful, no matter how repugnant, providing another example of how our justice system works so very differently when you aren't one of the little guys, Trump gets elected, then there's the whole "ZOMG but now he's president-elect" pearl clutching and hand wringing that causes further delays, then he's inaugurated, and then I eventually get to die of old age with a dictator in charge while watching my country slowly morph into something like a mix of Gilead and the German-occupied former-US from Man in the High Castle.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

That bump in 2020 is kind of interesting. The reason seems obvious, but correlation does not equal causation and all that. It does make me wonder if a big chunk of people claiming to be unaffilated are doing so because they think it's the correct answer to give, not because it's actually true. (My theory being that the pandemic made them decide they better stop denying Jesus for awhile or whatever)

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

You could be right, but they literally shove the drones out to die when winter comes so I don't think they value them all that highly compared to the workers which are the stinging ones.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18936675

 

 

Each time the name of a new victim of police violence enters the public lexicon—Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and now Sonya Massey—there are questions about the officer’s response. How could that officer have mistaken a cellphone for a weapon? Why did that officer shoot someone who was running away? Did that officer really have to shoot so many times? One answer to all these questions is that officers are trained to see the world as threatening and to respond accordingly.

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