#and yet I am still in charge

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

I have been tasked with being in charge of six children and a 19 year old.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Wangxian goes to horse jail for their crimes against equines.

[mxwhore]

embarrassing sex!!¡ fuck yea!!!

[ryomaandgundhamkin]

guys. opinions on trump? 🌸💞

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

Im going to have to learn new depths of emotional maturity to handle the field school this season tbh

[boogiewoogieweeb]

it's all fun and games typing up a silly, rickety little au idea in the tags of someone else's post and then suddenly you find yourself expanding on the world-building and plotting out interconnected stories for characters you swore would only make background appearances and your brain is On Fire with the need to write even when you know you can't commit to yet another doomed wip

[kabutone]

public nuisance shit is so ANNOYYINGGGG it’s not FUNNY stop DISTURBING PEOPLE FOR UR TIKTOKS

[aria0fgold]

I'm fired up now. No more struggling, I'm going to finish this drawing before June 30th and I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN!

[nobuverse]

( Bad news: it's been confirmed that the union is forcing us public government workers to strike for 3 days next week. And the mandatory time for "administrative agents" like myself is 2h48m

Good news: The boss has confirmed that I am allowed to do whatever I want in that time as long as I'm not working. I live next door to the hospital so-

Gonna be a great time to play through the Nobu event !)

[fisheito]

THE EVENT IS RELEASED. I HAVE SEEN DANTE. ,............... kinda givin me. OM diavolo core.mixed with...mephisto?

[todayisafridaynight]

NO YEAH IF ANYONE'S EQUIPPED TO KICK ASS IN THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IT'S THE ARAKAWAS LMAO

Okay, in terms of Aoki's actual arrest, that would've been chiefly for (as the news ticker says) incitement to murder and, y'know, taking a police officer hostage/assaulting a police officer.

I believe incitement is weighed the same as perpetration. While the gang survived the explosion, Ishioda didn't (I think?), so it's more than "attempted" murder. And because of the number of people involved, it would probably be considered incitement to aggravated murder, which narrows the options to a life sentence or the death penalty (or, at the very least, marks them as strong possibilities).

While normally incitement is difficult to prove (as it would be for most every other instance he did it; Jo would never talk, Ishioda is Kind Of Dead, and for Arakawa Tendo was, yeah, acting of his own accord), they have some pretty solid evidence + probably a confession, given Aoki's intentions to turn himself in.

So in terms of the original question, there isn't really much else that needs to be considered, since it's not like it can get any worse than a life sentence no matter what else he confesses to… Aside from the death penalty, but if Jo managed to avoid one, Aoki probably could? Unless Jo's age was a consideration since realistically a life sentence would probably kill him in the same amount of time it'd take to carry out an execution.

But for the sake of completionism, Suzumori's murder could very much be argued as a case of self-defense. Being assaulted after his body had already been pushed to its limits absolutely could have resulted in his death, so it'd probably be down to possession charges. I can understand Arakawa and Jo being dead set on keeping him out of prison even with that being the case, though; prison lowers the average person's lifespan as-is, and it could very well have killed Masato.

After that it's mostly a laundry list of collusion and corruption charges I'm not crazy enough to unpack, but. Yeah. I think Aoki and Jo would've been in for life… Kinda makes me wonder how it all would've played out if Aoki'd had that change of heart and they spent those last years together and Jo inevitably died first...

essentially, for the Quick Byte version for the mate who initially asked: life sentence if not the death penalty

[be-good-to-bugs]

only ever drawing the same character repeatedly but i love her so much so its ok

[yourlocaldisneyvillain]

i am so fucking angry and nothing seems to be going the way i want it to go

[dirt-nerd]

This is interesting because I would personally call all these examples a reason I think "All Cops Are Bastards" is just a distraction from the main issues. What these examples describe is a systematic issue at a nation wide level. "All Cops Are Bastards" makes it sound like an issue of an individuals morals. Like every person who has ever wanted to be a cop has been evil from the start or something. But if you fired every single cop and replaced them with social workers (for example) WITHOUT also dealing with the various political/legal/social issues that led to a corrupt police force, how long until all social workers also become jaded, unempathetic, psychopaths fueling a racist system? Hell!- How long before the social workers start demanding weapons training to "protect themselves" in dangerous situations? Don't get me wrong I get how ACAB must feel emotionally satisfying to people who grew up in police worshiping environments or have been victims of police violence. That's fine; people are allowed to indulge in rhetoric that allows them to feel validated when they have been done dirty by society. Unfortunately emotionally satisfying doesn't automatically equal productive activism. If people actually want to fight for genuine change than at the end of the day it shouldn't matter whether or not people think each individual cop is a bastard or not. What matters is peoples understanding of the process behind the corruption.

Why are cops not treated the same as other public servants? Why do they get away with literal murder when teachers can't even hold a normal lesson without being called pedophiles? Why did the NYPD get away with celebrating bullying in their department in such an obvious way? Who was supposed to be responsible for that? Who is in charge of improving the justice system in general? Why was there no action taken by whatever government official is in charge of police? How effective are modern policing techniques and what can we do to improve them? Also what working conditions lead an individual towards emotional burnout? What labour laws can be implemented to ensure all front line public servants do not lose their empathy for vulnerable people? WHY are All Cops Bastards? WHO is responsible for All Cops being Bastards???

I think that people who balk at the phrase "all cops are bastards" might be helped out with "good cops don't last."

Sooner or later, every cop will encounter a situation where they can be complicit or try to do something about it. A good cop will try to do something about it. They will encounter immediate resistance, and will be pressured to shut up and be complicit (whereupon they cease to be a good cop). If they persist, they can expect to be fired, harassed, thrown in a mental hospital, or even directly physically attacked and murdered.

Hell, if they're in the NYPD, after they're done with you they'll probably make a commemorative challenge coin about it.

All cops are bastards because good cops don't last. You are absolutely not allowed to be a good cop.

[dredshirtroberts]

cake for breakfast was always a treat to me

growing up we didn't often have a lot of food in the house that i found palatable for breakfast. i still struggle to eat breakfast-type foods in general. cereal, eggs, toast, poptarts, bagels, oatmeal, unless i'm Hankerin' for them, i truly do not care for most anything you could count as a breakfast food. i'd eat them, when pressed, because there was nothing else available - we got Fun Cereals few and far between and i had to ration my portions because no one else rationed to share. My sister would have two bowls of cereal back to back but if i filled my bowl higher than the Serving Size dictated it should be, i'd get told i was eating all of the cereal and to save some for everyone else.

so even if we had food i enjoyed i wasn't allowed to eat it.

cake was different. We didn't have cake very often. Cake was for Special Occasions. (the food, not the band, the band Cake was for every day AND sundays, but i digress). You had cake in the house cause something Fun had just happened and so mom and dad were in a good mood and the goal was to get rid of the cake as fast as possible so it didn't go bad (and so we could get back on track with whatever diet mom and dad were following that month) so we were encouraged to eat more of it.

Cake for breakfast was special. Cake for breakfast meant that things were gonna be alright for a few days and i was allowed to actually eat more even if it *wasn't* cake I had that day. because calories were shared between us, so if everyone else was having Extra Fun Calories i was also allowed, even if it wasn't the same calories.

yes i know. this is probably fucked up. if this surprises you, that the way my family of origin worked is batshit insane, you've clearly never heard me talk about my family before lol.

I just learned last night that 4 out of the 4 other people currently in this house consider cake for breakfast meaning something is going wrong for them. and i can't comprehend that. in my head it's on the same tier as donuts (which were also a Special Occasion food) and danishes and breakfast pastries. how could it not mean that good things are happening because you have the ability to have cake in the house?

[nerdie-faerie]

This has got to be the worst move out yet