Eli Valley never misses

No it means charge.

I’m mad that the site health is deteriorating. You might put that all on the mods, but I don’t think that’s how conflict works. Conflict is a process that takes on a life of its own. When people are at odds there’s a right way and a wrong way to handle it. I feel like I’m going nuts because no one seems to know what I’m talking about, like my whole perspective is alien to people and to even start to explain it I have to cross a minefield.

I think the power dynamics and the at times vicious behavior that have developed in certain posters as a result make it difficult for me to accept this as a situation where responsibility can be doled out equally to all parties.

I feel so defeated reading this shit. The site really is going to die and I’m not smart enough to figure out what to say or do about it.

I’m sorry, what I said was unkind. I was frustrated.

Yeah it is by that definition, but by that definition basically every action taken by the American government overall or by essentially any police force in human history is terrorism.

So basically, instead of deciding to prosecute someone for a crime, or declining to prosecute them for a crime, a prosecutor can call for a grand jury. In the grand jury, the prosecutor gets to show basically whatever evidence they want to the jury, and then they ask the jury to decide if the case should be prosecuted.

The standards are supposed to be much lower than a guilty verdict in a traditional jury trial.

There’s an old saying that goes something like “A prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.”

The purpose is essentially to allow the prosecutor to make whatever decision they want while pretending that they weren’t the one that made the decision. They’re also not very public affairs so it’s pretty easy for the prosecutor to lie about what evidence they did or did not show to the jury.

If you want an example of how they’re used for this political purpose, look up articles about the Kentucky grand jury’s “decision” not to prosecute the pigs that killed Breonna Taylor, and read some of the jurists statements after the fact.

It’s not beside the point. It’s all of the struggle sessions these days, and as I said I don’t want to get into details, because, to continue to be charitable, our perceptions of the bare facts of the way the conflicts on this site have occurred are at odds with one another.

Love this song.

I don’t want to go into great detail about it, but your perception of not just the subjective value of the events that occurred in that struggle session, but the objective facts of what occurred, is so far from mine that I don’t think we can have a constructive dialogue about it.

EDIT: to be clear, I don’t mean this to be a moral condemnation of you or anything like that. I just think that coming to terms that we could both agree on as far as our understanding of what occurred in some of these threads would take way too much discussion.

From my point of view, for a while my perception of the situation has not been two groups of users having struggle sessions between them, while the mods remove comments they think are too inflammatory and will escalate things, or otherwise work to de-escalate.

My perception, personally has been that the mods clearly favor one side of any given struggle session, ban wide swathes of the side they disagree with and do almost nothing to rein in even the most vitriolic comments from people on “their” side of the struggle session.

This fosters a lot of resentment and frankly I think it is going to kill the site, slowly maybe, but inevitably. I have been here a long time and it used to feel like a fun place to shit post with people who hated the Amerikan Empire, and now it feels like everyone is constantly tense and walking on eggshells (with the exception of the mods and their favored posters). The vibes here have been rancid for what feels like months (I have a bad sense of time, it’s possible it’s only been weeks).

Like, come on, nothing that TC69 did was

shutting down discussion out of fear that it will explode.

Oh yeah, those are the first ones that I’d heard about, but I kind of just assumed it was a big group of randos that happened to include one ultrademon, and it turns out that they just commuted the sentences of the top 0.1% of most evil people in prison.

I was shocked that so many of the crimes were that evil.

battle scene that suddenly turned into an Imagine Dragons music video.

Mirror Mirror universe evil version of a DBZ AMV

:kentucky-cool:

Somehow I don’t think this would have saved ol’ Brian

Identity thieves who targeted people with mental disabilities, people who stole from charities that fed hungry children, corrupt officials who stole public funds to purchase race horses, a doctor who per the DOJ “directly contributed to the opioid epidemic” by acting as a pill mill.

Just a list of some of the most heinous things a person could do.

This country could use a good RAMPAGE!

“They were just chosen because they were already out on compassionate release due to COVID”

Why are all the most evil white collar criminals in the country the ones who got compassionate release? Because rich people crimes are “non-violent” even when they kill dozens or hundreds or thousands of people.

I wonder how many people died due to the diluted drugs. This woman should be in an oubliette.

Mama mia!

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