Are you comparing variable power rates to people committing domestic terrorism and burning buildings?Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy
Are you comparing variable power rates to people committing domestic terrorism and burning buildings?
No, of course not. I think the economic losses inflicted by the profiteering in your state are substantially greater (probably by orders of magnitude) than the losses you're whining about now.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
You sound like a domestic terrorist apologist.
You vote for a party that's aiding and abetting domestic terrorists who attacked the heart of your govt and tried to overthrow an election, getting people killed in the process. Sit yo ass down dumbass
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Pretty sure everyone Republican has condemned the Jan 6 riots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3AOJRi8bFE
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While simultaneously obstructing a proper inquiry into its causes—indeed, continuing to endorse the very lies that sparked the attack—and into the alarming failures of the immediate response. You're supporting a pro-terrorism party. Worst of all, y'all are supporting terrorists in the most cowardly, sniveling manner imaginable, for the most pathetic reasons imaginable—short-term political power over an electorate that neither respects nor wants Republicans in power. I mean how fucking sad is it to support terrorists and actively further their illegitimate and deeply antidemocratic agenda just because you can't handle the fact that you can't win a fair election like a normal party? Lmao, get fucked you loser
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I don't think I have seen you comment on the election. Lewk, do you think the election was stolen from Trump through systematic fraud?
I could have had class. I could have been a contender.
I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
Which is what I am
I aim at the stars
But sometimes I hit London
Does that include the Republican officials who are glorifying the death of the terrorist who got killed by the authorities that day? How about the ones, like Trump, who insist there was no riot? Or the ones, like Carlson, who insist this was a left wing riot?
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Coming from the guy who was totally cool with hunting down black people under the guise of attempting citizen arrests.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Profiteering, at a moral level, is theft. Profiteering to the point of destruction is, morally, destruction. And you are expressing moral outrage, not legal outrage (the idea of legal outrage is itself asinine). A wrong against property was committed in your state, early this spring, enabled by your government, of a far greater scale than the actions you're objecting to now. And you don't give a rat's ass. Because those were corporations deliberately taking coercive advantage of the destructive laws (laws they'd bought) for their own enrichment, something you'd really like to aspire to whereas you don't aspire to being in the position of poor people and black people.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
One has a purpose in creating terror to influence politics - it is typically considered particularly vile due to how corrosive it is. Compare that to "profiteering" which in many cases was actually fully legal and agreed to by the consumer? The two are so drastically different I wonder about your moral compass.
What one? Rioting and looting? No, that's what happens after protests which do seek to influence politics escalate to violence either through agitation, confrontation, or just the confluence of influences which alter human behavior in emotion-filled crowds. Behavior has devolved at that point and there is no longer any attempt or interest in influencing politics and instead intent becomes either lashing out or just a hindbrain instinct to take advantage of chaos and anarchy. No one here with your single exception looks at it as domestic terrorism in any way shape or form and we're not about to evaluate it according to your incredibly biased and cockeyed viewpoint.
As I already said, legality and morality are not the same thing and you were making an emotional moral argument about destruction and its costs, not a legal one (there is no legal argument to made about victims and inadequate insurance in that context). Something being legal doesn't make it the least bit more moral. Particularly not when the laws allowing it were written by those seeking to be enriched, for the precise purpose of engaging in immoral profiteering. And they weren't agreed to by any consumer still in the market. Those laws were passed decades ago, and the consumer doesn't have any choice but to agree. If those "agreements" had been made purely between the corps and the consumers without the involvement of what is laughably called "regulation" in Texas (really the codification of oligopoly, for the protection of the corporations from tortious retaliation by those consumers) they'd have been thrown out by the courts as unconsionable contracts of adhesion. But since they've been approved by the "regulatory environment" the courts are blocked from doing anything.Compare that to "profiteering" which in many cases was actually fully legal and agreed to by the consumer? The two are so drastically different I wonder about your moral compass.
Last night as I lay in bed, looking up at the stars, I thought, “Where the hell is my ceiling?"
The casting of a few dozen fraudulent ballots is certainly worth disenfrachising millions over.
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Bad enough that they fucked up like this, but to hold an innocent family—including children—at gunpoint for so long? While refusing to show the warrant? Come on. That ain't right.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
They couldn’t show the search warrant they were executing? How does that happen?
I hope the settlement is massive.
I'm not sure; this comment from the article doesn't really clarify matters:
I mean it's not exactly a "sneak & peek" situation, and I can't see how they can justify not showing the warrant given the family was standing right in front of them. Holding kids at gunpoint for an hour, wtaf.“They wouldn’t give us the warrant," said Dunigan. "They told us that the warrant was suppressed.”
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Clearly they fucked up, governments tend to do that often.
You mean the police, which you do not want to see punished for just this kind of a constitutional violation.
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Police are agents of the government (typically city government). Government tends to muck things up and I've long held that police unions (like every single government employee union) does far more harm than good. I have no problem with holding idiots responsible for being idiots. This notion that you believe I think no officer can do any wrong is really weird.
Good thing it was not a no knock?
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The article quotes the attacked family as saying it was.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Christ on a stick...extra massive settlement please...which only helps if it comes out of the police budget and payroll for raises
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You're right; they're only allowed to violate the rights of "bad guys."
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Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
I'm sure being a racist didn't impact the police chief's work.
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Totally not racist.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
And more good news stories
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/l...crime/2748446/
"Bowser called on the D.C. Council to approve funding for more police officers, and the federal government to fully reopen courts and clear the backlog of cases.
Deadly shootings are almost a daily occurrence in D.C. So far this year, 111 people have died in homicides, including 6-year-old Nyiah Courtney. Police announced an arrest in her death at a news conference Wednesday."
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