• PKMKII [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    This from the state that sees annual executions as a high score to beat.

  • bumpusoot [any]
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    6 months ago

    Usual linguistic trickery. You can't be "convicted in the death" of somebody, he was "convicted of murder".

    • BountifulEggnog [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      Editorializing headlines to the point they are not true should get you thrown in a gulag.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    This is just fucking ridiculous. This is upending the basic social contract of society. If someone can just run over and gun down a group of people in broad daylight and get off Scot free, you are saying that violence is necessary for change, all paths are foreclosed.

    This is the sort of shit that preceded many revolutions.

    Also, Foster was a libertarian. Show libertarians you know how little conservatives care for them. Might radicalize them.

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    6 months ago

    be armed when you protest. it keeps the pigs off you and will scare away cowards like Daniel Perry, or if not you'll all be able to fill the car full of lead like an acorn fell on it.

  • plinky [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    by the fucking way, what happened with that border legal thingy? (i don't think of texas much)

    • porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      after detailed research into the complex legal environment, I've arrived at the conclusion that this is the current situation at the Texas border: us-foreign-policy

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      6 months ago

      Nothing happened because it was all theater and showboating. The barbed wire is set up a few hundred feet away from literal open gates and gaps in the fence. The reason there are gaps is because the border goes through private land. Abbott saw an opportunity to do political theater at one border crossing. He was never going to do a chud insurrection like the rumblings suggested because he's just some rich fuck in a suit.

      White people with farms on the border - Abbott doesn't touch. An opportunity to look like a callous, cruel racist? That's what he wants.

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        The barbed wire is set up a few hundred feet away from literal open gates and gaps in the fence. The reason there are gaps is because the border goes through private land

        "we're big strong man gonna do the border because feds refuse to"

        "oh no sorry mr rancher sir I would never do the border to you"

        anyway hope he dies sooner rather than later