Yeah, reality of this situation is hard to ignore. But each repetition gives us a chance to learn from our mistakes. We don’t usually, but the chance is still there. Of course, even when we *DO* learn from our mistakes, incorporating those lesson into our long-term collective consciousness is a whole other matter.

It’s also no coincidence that America has a massive for-profit private prison system.

Again, there are legal recourse to stop this shit, if the DOJ were inclined to pursue them (spoiler: they’re not):

Yay! More Caity Lotz! Is there such a thing as too much Lotz?

Reminds me of a group mission in Star Trek Online. Big group of enemies, all spread out, minimal cover for you, and a half dozen of the enemies are snipers with elevation and clear line of sight across the entire area. And they’ll fight ‘smart.’ The first player in gets instantly picked off by the snipers all firing…

It’s just a little attempted murder. No big deal. Police gotta police somehow! [/s]

Yup. The only ‘pre-existing’ ‘condition’ relevant was the fact that the man was alive and well before an ‘officer’ smothered him to death.

True, there’s nothing specifically standout or memorable about Quake 4, and yet, it’s still the Quake game I liked the most. Maybe it’s because everything did meld together just right. Nothing ‘stood out’ because it was an equally good time the whole way through.

Publicly, in a PR capacity? Sure. But behind closed doors, with politicians and lobbyists? Nope. They’re still fighting to maintain the ‘free to destroy’ status quo they’ve been operating under for centuries. And they’ve got the resources to keep that fight going for decades to come.

Having the Governor hold all the keys in the process AND have a vested personal interest in refusing to do the right thing is definitely a MASSIVE conflict of interest.

That’s the thing. It *IS* a crime. Framing someone, which is what they’re doing, makes you an accomplice after the fact. But the people who are supposed to be prosecuting these crimes are the very criminals engaging in it.

Of course, if governments actually forced these companies to pay the externalities of their operation instead of passing it onto society, they’d be operating at a loss and die off a whole lot faster as a result. But since they spent so much time amassing so much money, they can force those same governments to bend…

Not all forms of intimidation are that overt. And given the scrutiny that Amazon is under, they’re not going to be that overt either. However, it’s a whole lot easier to intimidate when you’re expected to vote in full view of the people you’re voting against. Just the knowledge you’re being watched has a chilling…

Yup. A semi-similar situation is playing out in Texas with ERCOT trying to repeat the electrical-grid fuckery that killed ~100 people — it’s a for-profit criminal conspiracy of reckless endangerment and public endangerment...and nobody with the power to stop it gives enough of a damn to step in.

If you aid a criminal in getting away with a crime by pinning it on someone else, that makes you an accomplices after the fact, and so are any officers who don’t inform defense attorneys about such acts on the part of the prosecution. Which means *THEY* can all be charged with the crime as well. Furthermore, if the…

A police officer used lethal force in response to a non-lethal situation — there was no immediate or significant threat to ANYONE. It doesn’t matter if the victim was Hannibal ****ing Lechter , killing someone without cause is, at the very least, 2nd degree murder, and Chauvin belongs in prison for it, just like…

Texas is just ahead of the curve is all. The rest of America is headed in that direction. Because it worked out so well the last time America ‘tried’ plutocracy...

Yup. The constitution specifically allows for enslavement of the imprisoned. Because we couldn’t just let that practice die. Nope. Gotta have some way to exploit and abuse the population.

You could simply and correctly say that America’s incarceration numbers are the highest out of any country on the planet (and even entire continents), no matter what method or measurement you examine: per capita, total, etc. America’s prison-industrial complex is repulsive blight on it’s claims of ‘freedom’ and…

I know. The track record of police policing themselves is stellar! [/s]