Ugh sorry about your in-laws. I’m super lucky with mine given that my FIL is ex-military, Republican, and a gun owner. He ripped up his NRA card years ago and called them “a fucking disgrace.” He voted for Hilary with no deliberation, and dumped his target shooting buddies who started throwing th N- word around when…

I understand where you’re coming from. But I don’t know what you want.

You are not alone. I can’t quite say why this makes me uncomfortable, but it definitely does. Wishing you peace and health (and hot Earl Grey).

I can’t put my finger on it, so please don’t take it as harsh criticism... But this whole thing, not just your article, is leaving a really bad taste in my mouth about the equating of mentally ill with “evil”, as if this is even a conversation we should be entertaining outside of philosophical discussion.

Agree. There is no justification for slaughtering two innocent children, even if you have a beef with your employer.

It is an injustice to paint these parents in any other light than grieving fucking parents.

Why did the Obama Administration start an investigation into the Trump Campaign (with zero proof of wrongdoing) long before the Election in November? Wanted to discredit so Crooked H would win. Unprecedented. Bigger than Watergate! Plus, Obama did NOTHING about Russian meddling.

The defense uses this as a negotiating tactic, a way to appeal to a sympathetic ASA/ADA or sympathetic Judge. Depending on the State’s facilities, services, and aid in DOC it may play a factor.

Can some lawyer or expert answer my question?

A judge should know better. A judges job is to decide above the prosecuter, not let the prosecuter decide what punishment and what crime.

The point, for me, anyway, is rehabilitation AND punishment.

“This is the best scenario and everyone involved did their job. Sometimes a victim doesn’t get the sentence they want and that’s unfortunate, but we have to look at greater community safety as well.”

I have to admit that in the cases The Oklahoman looked at (linked to in the Washington Post story linked in the above Jezebel article), it seems like the judge actually tried to do something to punish offenders who might have simply walked. It’s more complicated in this case, since it seems like the prosecutor lied to…

My hopes for this investigation are that Trump goes down before the 2018 election season, but after he endorses a bunch of the Republican nominees in states where the elections are close, and those candidates gleefully accept his endorsement.

Yeah, unfortunately, there’s a history of it. And it makes me feel gross sometimes because I love jez and the community it offers. I’m not white and I’ve been pretty vocal about the issues that effect me, which are addiction and incarceration. It’s hard because I think a lot of commenters here are middle class, which…

I so wish wish the jez community was able to moderate ourselves. There’s a lot of commenters that I miss. And the history of banning of POC on here should be a black mark on this site forevermore.

Former Peace Corps volunteer here. If your friend acted like she literally built everything herself then yeah, she sucks. If you hated on her for setting up schools (probably using local laborers) then you’re the shitty person.

Do you think all construction workers know all those things? Sometimes people are just labor.

Yeah, the condescension behind “I’m more woke than you” makes me at least understand where antagonism and backlash come from, even as I revile and don’t give much credence to it.

All words are essentially “made up.” Then as more people start using them, they become standardized.