#Justice system

[if-i-had-a-country]

This is why I made taxes increase as you go up in the tax bracket. We don't need to tax the poor more or increase tariffs, we tax the richest people most so that they support the people. Robin Hood energy

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[thoughtportal]

[texas-gothic]

This Luigi business has, I think, really exposed something we all knew about in the US justice system, but has for so long been pretended to not exist by all of this country's communication and media controllers.

Despite the fact that we are all meant to be private citizens, all held within equal respect by and to the law, there are some very different classes of people as far as courts are concerned.

If Luigi Mangione had shot some middle class, pencil pushing office schlub or retail salesman, there'd have been a however temporary stink made about on the television. And if they ever did catch him, he'd be dragged through the courts, and maybe become the center of a "shame on you" piece on the 6 o'clock news. But in all likelihood they never would have bothered to catch him. They'd say "we're doing our best" and they'd forget about it. No manhunt, no media circus, no $60,000 bounty put on his head by the FBI.

If Luigi Mangione had shot, say, a black man, nothing would have happened at all. It's unlikely we would even have any inkling of it.

But Luigi Mangione didn't kill someone from the lower class, he didn't even kill someone from the middle class. He killed Bryan Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a Fortune 500 company. He killed a nobleman. And that means he's to be dragged into court surrounded by a small army of guards, charged with crimes wholly unrelated to whatever he's allegedly done, and before all of that, made the subject of a national manhunt.

If nothing else, it's become abundantly clear just who the courts consider to be worth their time.

[reality-detective]

Remember this? (1999)

“Paula Jones is paid a $850,000 check from President Clinton, bringing an official end to the four-year saga spurred by her allegations of sexual harassment.”

When does the trial for Bill Clinton begin? 🤔

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." - James Baldwin, Playwright, Poet and Activist

[reasonsforhope]

Note: They're saying "alleged" because that's what journalists are supposed to do until there's a conviction. ABC isn't trying to cast doubt, they're trying to follow professional standards and also not get sued for libel.

"Former President Donald Trump, bent on staying in power, undertook a sweeping "criminal scheme" to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including repeatedly pushing lies about the results despite knowing that they were correct, and doubling down on those falsehoods as the Jan. 6 riot raged, a sweeping federal indictment alleges.

This is the third indictment faced by the former president, who -- as the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race -- continues to insist that the vote was rigged.

Prosecutors say the alleged scheme, which they say involved six unnamed co-conspirators, included enlisting a slate of so-called "fake electors" targeting several states; using the Justice Department to conduct "sham election crime investigations"; enlisting the vice president to "alter the election results"; and doubling down on false claims as the Jan. 6 riot ensued -- all in an effort to subvert democracy and stay in power.

The six alleged co-conspirators include several attorneys and a Justice Department official.

The sweeping indictment, based on the investigation by special counsel Jack Smith, charges Trump with four felony counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights...

In the history of the country, no president or former president had ever been indicted prior to Trump's first indictment in April."

-via ABC News, August 1, 2023

WE FUCKING DID IT

[fuck-u-maga]

[toontuska]

Two tier justice system

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

gotta say I'm with the pilgrims when it comes to domestic abuse. men who beat their wives should be publicly flogged.

[clonebrainrot]

Trumps upset that the three people he appointed to the Supreme Court aren’t completely loyal to him and sometimes actual do rulings that make sense.

It’s kinda interesting that the two most loyal justices on the court got there long before trump. It’s almost like the justices he did appoint don’t care much what he has to say anymore because they have all the power in the situation. For anything to happen trump either needs to suck up to the Supreme Court at all times or he needs to ignore them. But I think he can only ignore so many Supreme Court decisions before people start to wonder if the United States is so united anymore. Not saying I want or think there will be a civil war just calling it as I see them

Also why are 90% of Elon’s responses on twitter the most bot replies ever?

[repetition-in-poetry]

stop posting luigi mangione to criminal by britney spears.

stop posting luigi mangione with heart eyes and kissy faces.

besides the fact that sexualizing a man you have never met because of his newfound celebrity is disgusting, you are not benefiting him by making him america’s new sexyman.

luigi mangione is on trial for a murder he did not commit and will likely be charged and punished much more harshly than is truly just.

luigi mangione is an INNOCENT MAN whose trial is being conducted as simultaneously a public spectacle and a megacorp coverup. he is being made an example of. what the government wants to do with luigi mangione is make a gibbet out of him, and in the process impose a sense of helplessness on the working class.

making goo goo eyes at someone who is barely older than 20 and who is currently fighting for his LIFE (because yes, they will sentence him to death if they can) in the new york courts discredits his humanity and posturing him as someone like katniss everdeen or luke skywalker makes it easier for them to indict and convict him for something he did not do.

luigi mangione is INNOCENT and he deserves the decency of the court to stand on its precedent to conduct his trial fairly and without bias.

innocent until proven guilty. free luigi mangione.

[reality-detective]

ICE Boston has arrested an Ugandan illegal alien who is charged with 2 counts of assaulting a pregnant Massachusetts woman in Waltham, MA. ICE says the Waltham District Court ignored their detainer request, and released him into the public. Additionally, the alien entered the U.S. in April 2021 when he flew into Boston Logan airport. ICE says despite having an expired visa, the Biden administration still released him into the country via parole.

“Not only is Gedion Masunsu in this country illegally, he savagely assaulted a pregnant Massachusetts resident, endangering the victim and her unborn child,” ICE says. 🤔

[intersexelphie]

as someone who has done jury duty, I just want to put it out there bc apparently some people don’t grasp this: a not guilty outcome does not mean that person is proven innocent. at all. it simply means that there isn’t enough evidence to prove they did something without a shadow of a doubt.

people of a jury could all personally agree that they think someone did do something but unless there’s the evidence to back it up, they cannot find them to be guilty.

[dhddmods]

When will people start listening and caring?

When will people stop ignoring the epidemic of eating disorders that comes from our society? When will people acknowledge orthorexia? When will they stop promoting false diets and listening to diet culture? When will people stop equating fatness with health, and realize that fat people can be underweight too? When will they stop mocking fatness or treating it as an undesirable trait, and instead start treating it as a natural human variance? When will people care that fat people are being refused life saving or life improving surgery, on the basis of their weight? Or that fat people aren't allowed to donate their bodies to science?

When will people care about disabled people (including those who cannot communicate, work, upkeep hygiene, etc)? When will they care about the lack of even the most basic of accommodations, for physical, sensory, and neurological disabilities alike? About how literal doctors cannot be trusted to give people proper treatment, especially if they have highly stigmatized conditions?

When will people stop fakeclaiming, and instead think about how "fakers" are VERY likely to just have a somatoform disorder or some other condition that they are misunderstanding? And that fakeclaiming creates more harm than good?

When will people start caring about all forms of neurodivergence, and stop picking and choosing what to support? When will they stop acting like there is an "evil disorder" or "abuse disorder"?

When will people stop listening to pop psychology? When will they stop using stigmatizing language towards neurodivergent people (misusing terms like narcissist, sociopath, psychopath, OCD, PTSD, bipolar, schizo, etc?) When will they stop saying "empathy/sympathy" when what they really mean is compassion or kindness?

When will people see that a majority of sexual offenders don't have a paraphilic disorder? And that most people with paraphilic disorders are pro-recovery? When will people view it as a genuine disorder that they do not choose to have?

When will people stop being so obsessed with traumagenic vs non-traumagenic plurality, and focus instead on the oppression all systems face? Focus instead on the severe lack of research into plurality (and all stigmatized mental conditions)? Or focus on how there are still doctors actively attempting to "debunk" plurality?

When will people start caring about the horrendous justice system? The literal torture of prisoners (isolation, physical abuse, emotional abuse, ableism, sexism, etc)? The focus on punishment over rehabilitation? The constant false imprisonment, especially of those who are part of marginalized communities?

When will people start caring about homeless people and people in poverty? When will people care about the homeless people in the streets, most of whom became homeless due to disability, abuse, or being underpaid or given impossible bills to pay? When will people care that thousands of houses are sitting empty right now, when they could be housing a homeless person?

When will people care about the violence happening in the Middle East, and the people who are losing their homes and are desperate for aid?

When will people start listening to Indigenous people when they explain that they are still actively facing erasure and genocide?

When will people start caring about the countries which have its citizens trapped (ie; North Korea)?

When will people start listening to the racism BIPOC still face all around the world? Or BIPOC people in the LGBTQIA+ community, and how race directly correlates with their queer experiences?

When will people learn the difference between sexual attraction, libido, and sexual arousal? When will they acknowledge that ace-specs and aro-specs can be partnering or non-partnering, and that neither is better than the other? When will they acknowledge that anae-spec, apl-spec, afam-spec, and asen-spec people also exist, also experience unique oppression, and that the term a-spec includes them? When will they stop using "a-spec" to mean "aroace-spec"?

When will people stop enforcing monogamy onto people, and allow ethical non-monogamy and non-partnering people to thrive?

When will people listen and realize that people can have complicated relationships with their gender, sex, attraction, hence why contradictory labels (lesboy, turigirl, m-spec lesbian, m-spec gay, etc) exist? Or that they could have multiple genders, a mixed gender, split attraction, or fluid attraction?

When will people start listening to trans men, intersex men, and other queer mascs when they explain their experiences with transandrophobia and androqueerphobia? When will people stop telling them its "just misogyny" (when that argument could be used for ANY gender or sex oppression in existence, as all gender/sex oppression has a basis in misogyny?) When will people accept that queer mascs deserve to have words to explain their SPECIFIC experiences, and how the words transandrophobia & androqueerphobia are meant to describe how misogyny intersects with anti-masculine, anti-trans, anti-intersex, and even anti-BIPOC rhetoric?

When will people stop putting "cis men DNI" in their bio, actively pushing away cis queer men and forcing trans people to out themselves?

When will people stop imposing new binaries on people ("TMA/TME")? When will people stop using transmasc & transfem as catch-all terms, and acknowledge that many non-binary people fall into other categories, like transandrogynous, transneutral, transnull, transgenderless, transxenine, transoutherine, transaporine, multigender, or multiple of those categories? When will people stop gendering HRT?

When will people start normalizing non-binary specific labels, rather than forcing every enban to use binary-centric terms when many of them don't want to?

When will people stop using AFAB & AMAB as synonyms for mullerian and wolffian? When will people understand that AFAB =/= born with a vulva and AMAB =/= born with a penis? When will people stop saying transness is "identifying against your AGAB", when that's not the case for many enben and intersex trans people?

When will people start listening to the countless intersex people who explain the horrific medical abuse (genital & reproductive mutilation, hormone abuse, misdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, stigmatization), selective abortion, and exclusion they face? When will they stop using the terms DSD/disorder of sexual development, urogenital disorder/deformity, reproductive disorder/deformity, hormone disorder, and chromosome disorder to refer to intersex traits & variations?

When will people start listening when intersex people tell them that the h-slur is a slur (even when it's used on animals), and to use other words (ie; cosexed) instead? And that intersex animals aren't examples of transness in nature?

When will people understand that intersex is a large spectrum, and that it is not synonymous with cosexed, and that not all intersex people have mixed sex traits? When will people understand that intersex and perisex are not personally selectable, and that being intersex is born and something you develop during puberty, and that "transintersex" is impossible? When will people stop fetishizing intersex stereotypes in pornography? When will people stop using salmacian or transintersex, and use aphrodisian or other terms instead?

When will people stop using intersex people's existence or medical abuse as a "gotcha" towards bigots? ("Cis people are allowed to get hormones but we aren't", "trans people are valid because sex isn't binary", etc)? When will perisex transgender/altersex people stop saying they "wish they were intersex" or pretending to be intersex to doctors in order to receive treatment (which perpetuates the medical abuse intersex people face, by implying that intersexuality needs "correction")? When will people realize that all anti-trans laws are also anti-intersex, and it's not "misdirected transphobia", but rather very direct and intentional in most cases?

When will people stop gendering brains? When will people stop gendering sports, and instead categorize them based on physical size and skill? When will people stop gendering restrooms?

When will people start caring about female genital mutilation, which is still prevalent around the world? Or male genital mutilation, which happens in some cultures too?

When will people stop demonizing a woman being hairy, muscular, or not traditionally feminine? Or a man being not traditionally masculine?

When will people start caring about reproductive rights? When will people start teaching about comprehensive sex education? When will people teach intersex variations in school, when it's super simple to do? Or queer sex? Or pregnancy symptoms? Or how STDs can be passed through any sexual contact, not just genital-to-genital sex?

When will people take sexual violence seriously? When will people stop blaming it on clothes or flirtatious behavior? When will people stop acting like sexual violence is just forced penetration? When will people realize that oral rape, forcing fetishes/kinks onto others, stealthing (messing with or lying about condoms/birth control), sending unsolicited sexual images or comments, asking invasive questions about a person's urogenital & reproductive anatomy, and spying on people in vulnerable states is sexual violence?

When will people understand that making intimate fanfiction or fanart of real people to post it online (without that person's consent) is harassment?* (*Writing or drawing things about real people privately is different, you are allowed to fantasize, but posting it online IS harassment - even if you think they'll "never see it." And it's different if you are making content about the characters that they play rather then the actors themselves.)

When will people stop being pro-birth? When will people care about the thousands of people with uteruses who are being forced to carry the fetuses of their abusers, or fetuses who are unfit for life (as in, literally will not survive outside of the womb)? Or how children and teenagers are being forced to carry pregnancies? Or the people suffering from ectopic pregnancy who aren't allowed to get it removed? Or the people who can't have tumors or cysts removed because removing anything from a uterus counts as an "abortion" by law in some locations?

When will people stop supporting eugenicist ideas, and calling it "pro-choice?" When wil people start encouraging others to consider that their child (born or adopted) might not be able-bodied, able-minded, or perisex, and that they have to be prepared for that if they want to be a parent?

When will people care about the millions of children in foster care? When will people care about how messed up the foster system is? How kids are constantly being abused? How many kids get stripped away from their families at a whim the second that CPS is called, even when it's unjust? How families who cannot afford or function to feed or tend to their children have their parental rights removed, instead of being given the financial or health aid they need? How most foster kids age out and end up homeless or in abusive situations?

Will people ever listen, or will they forever ignore or stigmatize marginalized communities? Are you part of the problem?

Will you ever stop treating these things as merely internet discourse, and instead treat them as the serious issues that they are?

[thashining]

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