@Whataboutparis The “exonerative tense” from NYT is infuriating.
“Muslim immigrant drives car into pride parade, killing 1 and wounding at least 15.”
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Car Plows Into People Near a Pride Event in Berlin, Killing at Least One.
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@marcorandazza you’re the scholar on this, I’m not, but I wonder whether “fighting words” can logically survive review after in re Tam.
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"Fighting words" should not be an exception to the First Amendment. It should be an affirmative defense to assault and battery.
Laura Powell@LauraPowellEsq
The “fighting words” exception to the First Amendment needs to be laid to rest once and for all. The jury in the Shiloh Hendrix case was instructed that it could convict her if her words were “inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction or incite an immediate breach of the peace.” But violence is never a reasonable reaction to offensive words, and you should not be held responsible for someone else’s inability to control their anger.
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@MichaelGoolsbyV her voice and her style are gonna hit really hard among men and women around my age 57. We remember country from a generation and a half ago, almost like a tin McDonald’s ashtray.
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Some Whitney Houston and Céline Dion fans out there saying Ella Langley isn’t in the same league vocally — as if that’s even the comparison.
I think Ella Langley hits with men especially because her vocals are low key chill. So many other female vocalists are just out there literally YELLING and no man really wants to hear that lol
🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸@MericaCulture
Them: "America has no culture." Ella Langley: "Hold my beer"
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dear heaven, this.
Rubio‘s politics are not mine, that’s for sure, but by temperament he’s far better suited for the job than Vance (or Trump). Shapiro same.
Based Tom 🇺🇸🇻🇦✝️☦️@TomEDewey1948
A Marco Rubio v Josh Shapiro election would be the most healthiest outcome for the United States. The worst one would be JD Vance vs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Judges are always complaining about a lack of civility.
I asked for a short continuance of a hearing because it had been set for my son’s birthday.
Opposing counsel sucks. So I had to file a motion. O/C opposed it. No reason.
Judge rules: “there’s no reason you can’t appear remotely”
Oh yeah, that’s right because I probably planned a day with my son where I can just duck into a wework and bring a jacket and tie with me, right? And hey, I can just catch up with him after the hearing, right?
I know I’ve got a few judges who follow me.
I just wanna remind them that if you reward incivility, you’re the reason that there is a lack of civility.
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Good.
her example is a bad one and I don’t want my disabled adult kids seeing the video of her using that word, lest they use it around their support staff or day programs.
Her bad conduct was reprehensible, but robustly protected by the first amendment.
FIRE@TheFIREorg
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Understand what you are watching, in real time:
The communists are pushing the "world financial capital" out of NYC.
I'm not exactly sure where it will end up (probably Singapore or Beijing), but its leaving.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
If you have a second home in New York City worth more than $5M, check your mailbox when you’re back in the five boroughs — because you've got mail. Today, we sent notification letters to property owners, letting them know that our new pied-à-terre tax is coming soon. The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries, and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share.
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@BrianGriffiths I agree w LoTT, though I’d probably cool the rhetoric a bit.
In re Tam holds that the government does not have the power to define what a slur is.
She should’ve been acquitted as a matter of law, and then condemned by civil society rather than by criminal justice.
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Imagine making defending a woman who called an autistic 8-year old.a racial slur your personality
Libs of TikTok@libsoftiktok
It’s now illegal for white people to use certain words Total miscarriage of justice
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Caution didn't win women the vote, or equal pay, or fair sport, or the right to single-sex spaces. Sophie Cunningham is standing up for women and girls everywhere and it's glorious. Fuck caution.
For The Win@ForTheWin
Sophie Cunningham must use caution in trans sports debate | Opinion ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/w… 📸 Trevor Ruszkowski, IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect
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@Jacksonsrule The example that I often use are that Pennsylvania and Ohio are roughly the population densities of Spain and France, and Switzerland is the same density as Maryland with similar per capita income.
Stipulated: Alaska and Montana are poor candidates for high speed rail.
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The real reason America has no high-speed rail has absolutely nothing to do with geography or technology. It is the result of a single lobbying contract worth $400 million signed in 1955. You are told the country is just "too big" or too spread out for bullet trains. That is a fabricated lie. The American
automotive and oil cartels literally bought
the government to systematically remove
public transit. They ripped up existing
rail networks and paved over the nation
to guarantee people would rely on cars,
insurance, and fuel just to participate in
society.
quote@itsmubashi
hit me with the secrets they never told you
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@Overserved_Pod @ZeekArkham under the equal protection clause, the word can’t be “obscene” or not based on the skin complexion of the utterer, that doesn’t fly.
even describing it in MN as “obscene” clashes w the USSC’s definition of “obscenity” which has nothing to do with slurs.
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Look, she was charged for disorderly conduct. The first pic is the definition of Disorderly Conduct in Minnesota. The second pic is the specific subsection of the law for Disorderly Conduct. The n-word is obscene, if you aren't black while saying it, and saying it when you aren't black can arouse alarm, anger and resentment in others. So it fits the statute.
Is it a stretch? Absolutely! Is it being misused to send a message and/or redirect away from the massive fraud taking place directly under the noses or even with the help of officials in the government? 100% Is this an example of a person being arrested for hate speech or saying no no words? Nope. Everyone that says this is helping the fraudsters to pull eyeballs away from rampant government corruption because you have to LARP as wanna be revolutionaries
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*sigh*
Let’s get this out of the way… I hate the n-word. It’s a word I refuse to use. I know its history. I believe I know its origin. Out of respect for my ancestors who were called that word as a legitimate threat, I don’t use it, nor do I want to be around people who use that word casually.
With that said…
Shiloh Hendrix shouldn’t be facing any sort of legal repercussions for using that word. It’s covered under the first amendment. Her use of the word didn’t fall under any of the loopholes where the first amendment doesn’t apply. I’d be the first person to say she did nothing legally wrong that day.
Hell, I’m called that word every day by the CHUD-lickers and the “White is Right” crowd. I raise an eyebrow and move on, which is the only response anyone should give.
Either we have a first amendment, or we don’t. There is no middle ground.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Shiloh Hendrix found guilty by a MN jury for "using the n-word"
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Vietnam cut poverty from 70% to under 2% while the Communist Party stayed in total control.
After reunification they ran a fully centralized economy and got famine.
In 1986 the Party launched Đổi Mới, broke up the collective farms, and let households keep what they grew.
They opened the country to foreign investment and private business.
GDP per capita went from under $700 to nearly $4,500 and growth averaged over 6% a year for more than 3 decades.
One of the fastest poverty reductions in modern history came from reducing central planning, not expanding it.
Commies can prevent starvation simply by not doing commie things.
Every poor country that still refuses to do this is choosing the famine.
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@marcorandazza only three Americans are recognized as righteous among the nations at Yad Vashem. Did not know that about Italy.
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I vote right wing in Italy. I want "Italy for the Italians." I'm not some communist sympathizer. But there have been Jews in Italy for longer than there has been a country called "Italy." They are Italians as much as any descendant of Garibaldi.
When Germany occupied Northern Italy in 1943, priests, nuns, cops, doctors, and ordinary people hid Jews, issued false papers, and smuggled Jews to safety. This is why 80% of Italy's Jews survived the war, despite Italy's own racial laws of 1938. More than 700 Italians were recognized by Yad Vashem as "righteous among the nations."
And now we find signs like this in Milano. And an app set up to track where the Jews are in Rome. And while this was shut down, and it is not anything official, the fact that it existed at all is a disgrace.
Jews and Italians are a family intertwined together for thousands of years. Italy should be a place where Jews feel welcome.
blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-google-form-…
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@StrawHatYakub not even close to the same arguments. Title IX and physical injury to women by larger men in contact sports had nothing to do with the unspeakable abuse that Jackie Robinson endured, or the racism motivating ‘Bama, Ole Miss and the Washington Redskins to stay all white so long.
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I will say with my entire chest that the transphobes who lament about trans people playing in sports, if they were to have grown up in the 40’s/50’s, would *absolutely* be against racial integration in sports. It’s the same arguments, just a different coat of paint
Clay Travis@ClayTravis
Sophie Cunningham gets grilled by WNBA reporters for saying men shouldn’t be able to play women’s sports. Refuses to back down. “I said what I said.” Eloquently defends women’s sports as woke reporters press her. Love all of this. Well done @sophaller.
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If the n-word is going to be deemed a "fighting word" by the courts, every rapper and radio station in the country should be jailed tomorrow. Hahaha we know it will never be applied that way.
Fine, if we're going this route, I have few words of my own to add to the list:
honkey (actually, I just laugh at this one but so what?)
cis-gender
they/them (when referring to an individual)
These are just the beginning. If we're going the UK route, I'm gonna go all in.
Grok@grok
A) Yes, 1st Amendment was central. Defense argued protected speech; prosecutors claimed "fighting words" likely to provoke violence. Jury acquitted on child count, convicted on adult count. B) MN disorderly conduct (609.72) covers abusive language tending to arouse alarm/resentment, narrowed by courts to fighting words. Applying it here to a slur was heavily contested as stretching precedent. C) NAACP advocated loudly for charges and funded the family but did not file them. Rochester City Attorney brought the two misdemeanor counts months later after the video went viral. D) Countersuit vs. prosecutors faces high bars (immunity, probable cause). NAACP is a private advocate, not a charging body, so weak 1st Amendment claim there. Appeal the conviction is the practical next step.
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they don’t match bantamweight and heavyweight fighters, this ain’t hard.
New York Post@nypost
Stephen A. Smith backs Sophie Cunningham's take on trans athletes: 'Clearly unfair to women' trib.al/4HMqXMO
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these are not real videos, but it makes you wonder what it would do in the real world
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