I would counter this with a question about how much some of the big tech companies spend on PR and advertisement.

Well, no, but it sure felt like it! Missed opportunities, I suppose.

Don’t forget the call out in said Bible about the path-to-hell reminder about hypocrisy, which those same people practice in abundance.

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

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.

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.

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…

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…

Devil’s advocate — the two are effectively inseparable. They both feed off the other. Conservatives have been using this to further careers for, right, since America’s founding.

“If conservatives become convinced they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

Not that many cultures, middle-eastern or otherwise, are gleefully misogynistic or anything...

“I’m a good person. I just like making people suffer, that’s all. No harm in that.” — GOPeons.

A duplicitous, narcissistic, pathological liar does exactly as he has always done his entire life — lie, cheat, and steal to enrich himself.