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2022-01-19 10:57:20
unnamednewbie13
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In general, or is it graded felonies like Texas?

- If packages were stolen from fewer than 10 addresses – Considered a state jail felony, punishable by a state jail sentence between 180 days and two years, and/or a maximum $10,000 fine.
- If packages were stolen from between 10 and fewer than 20 addresses – Considered a third-degree felony, which carries a prison term between two and ten years, and/or a fine no more than $10,000.
- If packages were stolen from between 20 and fewer than 50 addresses – Considered a second-degree felony, punishable by a prison sentence between two and 20 years, and/or a fine not exceeding $10,000.
- If packages were stolen from 50 addresses or more – Considered a first-degree felony, which carries a prison sentence between five to 99 years, and/or a maximum $10,000 fine.

I don't know how I feel about a 100 year sentence for someone who's stolen from 50 addresses. It's a garbage thing to do to be sure, but it doesn't seem proportional compared to sentencing for violent crimes.
2022-01-23 16:01:34
SuperJail Warden
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Dude was fired and arrested for this. Merrill Lynch manager.

Who would win? One millionaire hedge fund manager or a teen with cellphone?
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2022-01-23 16:51:25
unnamednewbie13
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Guy is calling them high school kids but is still trying to intimidate them, thinking they're kids, knowing he's on camera, aware that people are fired and made into social pariahs over this stuff. That video is a huge self-own, and the results are much as expected.

How should they know who made a drink for him? It's not like they keep it on a bulletin board, who made a drink for who. "Daren, latte, 12:29 pm, brewed by Sharyl." What an unreasonable complaint.
2022-01-23 23:13:41
Cybargs
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he went from being reasonable about his kids allergy to full on racist right quick lmao, must had bad day with the markets.

He subsequently left before police arrived, but was identified and turned himself in, saying he was upset about his son's allergic reaction. Store employees told cops that Iannazzo never mentioned an allergy, only asking that the peanut butter be left out of a drink.
i think he's got a good case and will this will likely be dropped. he will easily find another job at a different firm.

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2022-01-24 04:23:18
SuperJail Warden
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He has a good case for hitting her with a smoothie?
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2022-01-24 05:00:59
SuperJail Warden
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I just think the wording of "good case" is funny. He gets to hit a child and call her an immigrant because he was having a bad day?

He will likely plead down to something and not go to jail. But considering the crime was recorded in HD means he isn't going to get it dismissed.
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2022-01-24 06:56:49
SuperJail Warden
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A Florida school district canceled a professor’s civil rights history seminar for teachers, citing in part concerns over “critical race theory” — even though his lecture had nothing to do with the topic.

J. Michael Butler, a history professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, was scheduled to give a presentation Saturday to Osceola County School District teachers called “The Long Civil Rights Movement,” which postulates that the civil rights movement preceded and post-dated Martin Luther King Jr. by decades.

He said that he was shocked to learn why the seminar had been canceled through an email Wednesday but that he wasn’t surprised because educators feel increasingly intimidated over teaching about race.

Less than 24 hours before Butler was informed of the cancellation, a state Senate committee advanced legislation Tuesday at the behest of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to block public schools and private businesses from making people feel “discomfort” when they’re taught about race. DeSantis also wants to empower parents to sue schools that teach critical race theory.

“There’s a climate of fear, an atmosphere created by Gov. Ron DeSantis, that has blurred the lines between scared and opportunistic,” Butler said in a phone interview.

“The victims of this censorship are history and the truth,” Butler said. “The end game is they’re going to make teaching civil rights into ‘critical race theory,’ and it’s not.”
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2022-01-24 07:13:29
uziq
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yeah, seriously dodgy political project. i've heard it said that 'critical race theory' is just becoming a right-wing euphemism for 'US history'.
2022-01-24 07:38:26
SuperJail Warden
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It's another culture war dead end. Good for whipping up red state votes, for now, but actually spread CRT and other ideas everywhere. It is gay marriage all over again.

It was eye popping when I saw district material and trade publications talking about Culturally Relevant Teaching. Came across the concept in my SpEd classes and assumed it was fringe stuff. Now it is mainstream.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura … t_teaching
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2022-01-24 08:27:41
unnamednewbie13
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

I just think the wording of "good case" is funny. He gets to hit a child and call her an immigrant because he was having a bad day?

He will likely plead down to something and not go to jail. But considering the crime was recorded in HD means he isn't going to get it dismissed.
I think Cybargs means that this might be a sharp slap on the wrist at most. If he was that concerned about his kid's allergy to whatever(?), why did he buy the kid a drink from a place that even processes that stuff? I don't get it.
2022-01-24 08:39:43
unnamednewbie13
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

[crt panic]
This was always going to happen in some form or another, and already was. Before CRT came along into recent spotlight, conservatives were already complaining about the civil rights movements being discussed in school, in politics, whining that they were made to "feel guilty" about slavery. Squirming uncomfortably when events leading up to the civil war are discussed frankly. "Racism/sexism is long in the past, you can vote now, move on," while continuing to ignore certain room-dwelling elephants, "useless histories, liberal social studies, gRoUp ThInK," some real dilbertian stuff. Telling a people they've been wronged and victimized, huge appeal/allure to listeners. Unscrupulous talking heads aren't blind to that and have no qualms about simply making stuff up in the name of ratings or politics.

Grim irony in Republicans begging their base to get vaccinated.
2022-01-24 09:12:12
SuperJail Warden
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You are probably right about the CRT panic being a rehash of the same old story. It is just annoying having to hear about all of this stuff over and over again.
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2022-01-24 12:41:59
unnamednewbie13
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It is just annoying having to hear about all of this stuff over and over again.
My gripe with all of the mumbo-jumbo, misinformations, and misrepresentations spewed by "conservatives" and Trump Republicans.
2022-01-24 14:25:58
uziq
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2022-01-25 09:28:44
SuperJail Warden
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Virginia's new Republican governor, who banned critical race theory in schools, is launching a tip line for parents to report their kids' teachers
   
Virginia's newly elected governor banned teaching critical race theory in his first month in office. Gov. Glenn Youngkin promoted a government email to which parents could report teachers.
He said parents can report public-school teachers if they believe they're "behaving objectionably."

Virginia's newly elected Republican governor, who has banned critical race theory in public schools, is launching a tip line to report teachers of "divisive subjects."

In a Monday interview with the conservative radio host John Fredericks, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said parents could email the state government to report any public-school teachers they believed to be "behaving objectionably."

Youngkin said: "We're asking for folks to send us reports and observations that they have that will help us be aware of things like privilege bingo, be aware of their child being denied their rights that parents have in Virginia. And we're going to make sure we catalog it all.

"This gives us a great insight into what's happening at a school level, and that gives us further ability to make sure we're rooting it out."
Hmm

That sucks
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2022-01-25 10:27:30
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Republicans: *hate being compared to Nazis*
Also Republicans: *secret police, report your neighbor!*
2022-01-27 14:27:37
SuperJail Warden
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"An official escort for her lunch was not what Anastasia Elsinger ordered from DoorDash on Tuesday, but that's what she opened her door to find.

"I know I'm not who you were expecting," a Sioux Falls police officer says in video captured by her doorbell camera.

"Your driver got arrested for some things he had to take care of, so I figured I'd complete the DoorDash for you."
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Lmao. "We arrested this dude trying to work. Here is your food. Don't tip."
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2022-01-28 05:59:14
SuperJail Warden
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A January 18 report by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said the United States is a “perniciously polarized” democracy. “There are no peer analogues for the United States’ current political divisions,” the report said as it admitted the polarization is spurred by rising identity politics amid accelerating immigration and diversity:

"[There are] a number of features that make the United States both especially susceptible to polarization and especially impervious to efforts to reduce it. One such feature is the durability of identity politics in a racially and ethnically diverse democracy …  the United States is perhaps alone in experiencing a demographic shift that poses a threat to the white population that has historically been the dominant group in all arenas of power, allowing political leaders to exploit insecurities surrounding this loss of status."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022 … diversity/

The Brietbart article is long. A long angry howl. Still good to read what the other side thinks. Enjoy the comments.
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2022-01-28 06:13:00
uziq
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ironically america has been non-majority white for a long time. before you could all get vexed over spanish speakers and muslims, you were treating half of the nominally ‘white’ races as a second-class of inferior dogs.

there’s something in the american collective psyche, the right-wing type in any case, that makes a fetish object of race. the tradition goes back through the whole series of racialist ideology, scientism, eugenics, etc. the fascist element has been baked in since the early labour struggles and rise of industry.
2022-01-28 06:45:32
SuperJail Warden
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There are plenty of liberals race obsessed too. I wouldn't put the total blame on the right.

Xenophobia is a thing everywhere. What is unique about America is that we have had more space and resources than we had people to take advantage of those resources. So we get endless waves of immigration to the accelerate growth and economic development. Each new wave makes the people already here skittish.
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2022-01-28 06:54:33
uziq
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perhaps low-level unhabituated xenophobia is everywhere, but i would hardly call it a prevailing or default political ideology. the whole experience of living in modern cities is, and has been historically, a huge countervailing force against provincialism and xenophobia. would you say queens or the bronx is full of xenophobic people? it’s not always by default a disaster to mix nationalities or races.

liberals are obsessed with race in the sense that they want to promote equality or rectify past misdeeds. i wouldn’t say their approach to the present state of democracy, and indeed it’s inevitable future, is comparable to the conservative right. the blood-and-soil nation state model was kind of, erm … discredited.
2022-01-28 07:16:45
SuperJail Warden
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I don't think the U.S. is actually all that diverse anyhow. The vast, VAST majority of people born and living here speak English, and watch media that is uniquely American. People from each of the four corners can travel to the others and live pretty much the same exact lifestyle with access to the same media and products.

Then again I am a city person and according to right wing media, cosmopolitan culture is a virus affecting everywhere else in the country. Maybe people in parts of the country I don't think about really hate seeing hibachi restaurants and want more Cracker Barrels.
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I need to travel 31 miles into the interior to get to the nearest cracker barrel.
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2022-01-28 10:42:16
unnamednewbie13
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

"An official escort for her lunch was not what Anastasia Elsinger ordered from DoorDash on Tuesday, but that's what she opened her door to find.

"I know I'm not who you were expecting," a Sioux Falls police officer says in video captured by her doorbell camera.

"Your driver got arrested for some things he had to take care of, so I figured I'd complete the DoorDash for you."
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/01/door-dash-comp.jpg?quality=80&strip=all

Lmao. "We arrested this dude trying to work. Here is your food. Don't tip."
"Wholesome copaganda" does have a unique feel to it, but in this case I don't have enough information to see much wrong here. Other cops might have chucked out or even "seized" the food.

What was the driver wanted for? Something violent? "Some stuff they need to take care of" suggests unpaid fines, or missed child support payments. Very supposition, but probably missed a court summons.
2022-01-28 11:35:40
unnamednewbie13
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SuperJail Warden wrote:

I don't think the U.S. is actually all that diverse anyhow. The vast, VAST majority of people born and living here speak English, and watch media that is uniquely American. People from each of the four corners can travel to the others and live pretty much the same exact lifestyle with access to the same media and products.
Bad representation, definitely not homogeneous. It's a different kind of diversity, though this obviously pales a bit when compared to Europe or Asia as their own gigantic wholes.

Pumping your own gas used to be alien to Oregonians. It just wasn't something you were supposed to do, and actually illegal to do. New visitors from neighboring states weren't always clued into this and would get ambushed by the attendant when going to fill their own gas like they committed some huge cultural gaffe. You've probably seen stuff like this in NJ, now the last prideful bastion or something.

Even my own state has different vibes depending on where you're at. Five places could have a completely different walkthrough feel even if they all have a Walmart. The climate, coastal vs. inland, mountain vs. prairie, high desert vs. forest, local industries / what people generally do for a living, how close together they live, local wealth. Even the contents and quality of two same-brand grocery stores can wildly differ from location to location (there are people in Tacoma who cross a toll bridge to shop in Gig Harbor; I myself will stop at a few places around Olympia or in cow country for certain supplies).

Availability of foreign goods, between a chunk of miles I could either be in a place with clusters of (just to name a few) Mexican, Korean, Chinese, Filipino (Filipinx?), Indian, American Indian, or German/Scandinavian stuff on just one corridor within the state, run by, and worked in by people who came from those places, or from families who had.

Growing up in a foul neighborhood, might as well be living in a completely different universe than attending a good private school in yuppieville. Are you taught to avoid eye contact to avoid trouble with gangs, or maintain it with a firm handshake to better represent yourself? Body language, inflections, attitudes, differences even visible among siblings of a family who moved around a lot.

There are faux pas you can make from state to state just as in from country to country. West coast culture different than east coast differs from Chicago. Tons of specific, local quirks. We all note the latest exploits of Florida Man with rapt fascination and a certain fear. What is he going to do next? Wrestle a gator? Eat his neighbor's face? Both of those at the same time? Reality has no Bugs Bunny to safely separate the state from the rest of the country.
2022-01-28 11:37:08
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Driving through Trump country like

 

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