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“He was crucified because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured”
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•US Navy loses $60 million jet at sea after it fell overboard from aircraft carrier4·25 days agoFortunately it was outside the environment
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•RFK Jr. Touted as 'Unfit' After Rant About Lack of Autism in 'Older People': 'He Cannot Be This Stupid'6·1 month agoYou would think he’d know from his aunt Rosie’s tragic example about how our society puts inconvenient people out of sight.
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economists7·2 months agoAnd 34% on Taiwan won’t help anything either
One easy example: get ready to pay a lot more for vanilla. Madagascar makes 50% of it, and gets a 47% tariff. Good luck picking up the slack with US domestic production.
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump names ‘first buddy’ and DOGE head Elon Musk to investigate Signal blunder142·2 months agoOk let’s suppose you could though. Wouldn’t that make it EVEN MORE criminally negligent to discuss classified info there?
The DNC is Lucy 100% but Bernie is the football
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing cost11·3 months agoIt’s a valid thing we should have done a while ago, but can the president actually just do it? I mean, I know he “can” if people let him but, like, doesn’t that in theory require an act of Congress?
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Musk vows to cancel grants after gaining access to US Treasury payment system9·4 months agoWe’re setting up the “Mr Burns’ diseases” system. We’ll just have every constitutional crisis in existence all at once, and they’ll balance each other out! 🤦♀️
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Biden says Equal Rights Amendment is ratified, kicking off expected legal battle as he pushes through final executive actions2·4 months agoI don’t remember details but I feel like I read a while ago that there’s a pending amendment that some blue states want to de-ratify. If there’s open question about whether de-ratifying is a thing, then this might be a strategic move to get the courts to establish that it is.
Edit: looking up unratified amendments I see there aren’t that many and none seems to fit the description I was thinking of so I guess my memory is just wrong. But still I do wonder if it might just be a case of putting an old question to bed.
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Alleged Cybertruck bomber was ‘big’ Trump supporter: source1·5 months agoWell his manifesto said it wasn’t terrorism after all. No reason to question such a fine upstanding citizen.
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas3·5 months agoClearly not, or you would know that Febreze and Snickers is far superior!
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•‘Absolute Necessity’: Trump Goes All In on Buying Greenland From Denmark Again1·5 months agoOr he wants to go finish melting the rest of the ice faster
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•Majority of Americans are ready to support Trump and large parts of his agenda, says CNBC survey3·5 months agoI’d vote for “unrelenting cunt but for the people”
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto News@lemmy.world•A woman made a vague threat to a healthcare company – does she really deserve up to 15 years in prison?13·5 months agoFree speech is for nazis, as far as I can tell
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto memes@lemmy.world•Who would win. A corrupt and biased justice system, or one 4:30 long video2·5 months agoIt’s a consequence of how courts interpret this part of the US constitution. That provision was based on common law so i would imagine some other related legal systems might have something similar, at least historically.
In the context specifically of nullification, the CGP Grey video referenced by OP covers exactly this, but to summarize: the combination of that rule with another principle (that juries can’t be punished for their decisions) creates the concept of “nullification”. If the jury believes that a defendant is guilty but returns a “not guilty” verdict, the defendant walks and the jury can’t be held legally responsible either.
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto memes@lemmy.world•Who would win. A corrupt and biased justice system, or one 4:30 long video2·5 months agoIn criminal cases, the rule against “double jeopardy” means the government can’t appeal a “not guilty” verdict. The defendant can still appeal a guilty verdict though.
Even if he has MS13 tattoos and a real legit MS13 membership card, I don’t care - we [are supposed to] have “freedom of association” here, meaning that membership in an organization alone should not be a crime.