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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Sounds like someone should find that attacker and do the exact same thing to them, seeing as it’s non-chargeable behavior.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

from the wiki article on the murder

Assistant DA Kelly Wolford said, "A hate crime would make this charge about Sam’s gender or about Sam’s race, and it’s so much bigger. To limit us to a hate crime would be an injustice to Sam. Sam was beaten, assaulted, sexually abused, starved, held captive. And we cannot make sense of that. We cannot put that on his gender, and we cannot put that on his race"

like what are you talking about

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Once she got a cop who raped a kid weekend sentences.

Here’s what happened to Sam by the way - I’m sure this was just a regular murder and none of these actions were motivated by transphobic hate.

From about Jan. 1 until his death on Feb. 2, Nordquist was prevented from using a phone, according to Wolford. He was kept in confinement and forced to stand and kneel facing the wall. He was hit, punched, kicked and sexually assaulted, she said.

He was also denied proper nutrition and hydration, forced to eat feces, forced to drink urine and chew spit, Wolford said. He was physically restrained, forced to obey commands like a dog, covered in the face with towels and shirts, duct taped and had bleach poured on him by the defendants, she said.

He was repeatedly struck with numerous objects including sticks, dog toys, rope, bottles, belts, canes and wooden boards, according to court documents.

Edit: anyone remember why Norm McDonald got fired from SNL? Was it OJ or was it what he said about Brandon Teena?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So if I call Trump a slur in AZ, stab him, and run off that's cool, right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No. Because he is wealthy.

But if you say Donald was gay, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude... he was fucking stabbed? That is assault with a deadly weapon and/or attempted murder/manslaughter at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yes, but look at what they where wearing.... Also that baby was being kinda a dick.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait...

The title made me think the attacker couldn't be charged with a HATE crime... Which is dumb and shitty and makes me want to revolt.

But they aren't charging him with ANY CRIME.

What in the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Gays don’t have rights per fatheads who think a fairy tale is reality. Remember these people think they are going to heaven.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (26 children)

A self invented reward that they argue over. I think when you die you're dead and that's it, so to me it's just people making up bizarre ways to congratulate themselves on following their own cancerous code of ethics. Like sure whatever it takes, man. Just... Maybe your ethics are fucked up and wrong and you're in a cult.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait wait wait, you said it was a gay man that was stabbed? Sorry, my hands are tied. Playbook says gay guys can't get stabbed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

The body has a way of shutting that whole thing down.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

He probably asked the knife to penetrate him, it's what the gays do, you know. - Detective Brownbeater

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So we are allowed to stab people if there’s no cameras?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Billionaires don't like this simple trick.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Neither do judges

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Was... Knifed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately relevant Desaparecidos song

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 days ago (3 children)

just in case anyone thinks this is just about it being designated as a hate crime. No they did not charge anything despite this guy having massive injuries and the other guy having nothing to show for it. If you luigi, do it in arizona with no cameras:

But the county attorney’s office ultimately viewed the case as a “he said, he said” scenario, with Lawton claiming he acted in self-defense. According to the police report, Lawton told investigators that while slowing down the vehicle, he was “punched in the back of the head and on the side of his body so many times that he saw stars.”

No witnesses corroborated Lawton’s account, and it's unclear how much the county attorney's office leaned on his story. But without video footage of the attack—Uber allows drivers to install them but does not require it—the evidence collected would appear to focus heavily only on eye witnesses.

“I don’t understand how it could be deemed self-defense or why it was turned down,” Almaraz said. “I was unarmed, he had multiple weapons in the car—it just didn’t make any sense. It was heartbreaking. I was completely assaulted and violated. I could have lost my life.”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

“punched in the back of the head and on the side of his body so many times that he saw stars.”

Surely there would be bruises or medical records if this were the case.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

with Lawton claiming he acted in self-defense.

Ah, the gay panic defense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Now not just for cops!

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

The left really needs to get over their weapon aversion. There's no alternative anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Your country has 500,000,000 privately owned firearms and your solution is more?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am not American. And the overwhelming majority of those 500 million weapons are with people that think Trump's fascist America is cool.

Im broadly anti gun but i have reasoning and am not blind to their purpose.

The reality right now is that those weapons aren't going anywhere, everything is heating up and nobody (including, increasingly, law enforcement) can be arbitrarily trusted.

So yes, as a last ditch hail mary attempt at self defense i'd recommend arming yourself because that is where the US is at.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guess which political ideology holds the vast majority of them?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's liberals that don't want people armed, mostly because they don't like not being in control. Leftists are usually already armed.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (5 children)

You should probably look up Marx's idea about workers arming themselves. The left has no issue with rming themselves, you're thinking of liberals.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Liberals are the left. You’re think of the far left. Essentially they are the left’s equivalent of the far right, just as obnoxious and every bit as easily conned by propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The left has no issue with rming themselves

The last decade of the left withdrawing to their own spheres of niche ideology-sub-spectrums has resulted in nobody, even the left themselves, really knowing what "the left" is for or against anymore on a broad level. This is why there's so much infighting and disagreement and confusion about who believes in what, and of course all the endless purity testing and tribalism that comes with it. Some of this is because of deliberate social sabotage by paid agents, some of this is because of sociology and the nature of our brains. Either way it needs to be identified and understood as an obstacle to unified action.

I don't give two shits what specific brand of marxism you believe in, or if you're just a working liberal who wants things to go back to normal, or if you're some deeply sheltered and naive pacifist who genuinely thinks we're going to have some idealistic solarpunk future if we just did X, Y and Z. You all need to get armed and get prepared and probably do a lot of things you're either emotionally or ideologically uncomfortable with. Such is the nature of conflict.

  • Get armed. If firearms really scare the everloving shit out of you, or if you've already painted yourself in a corner by preaching against guns around your peers your whole life, then get a fucking crossbow, I do NOT care, as long as you have means to put holes in someone from a distance. At the very least, you need pepper spray, tasers and other personal defense items and you need to practice how they're used and be ready to deal with multiple people who want to hurt you. Take self defense classes if you can.

  • Get your shit together. If you're unhealthy, depressed, or have a list of issues that are preventing you from doing X, Y and Z. Now is the time to get that shit managed. Get to a doctor while you can, if you can't or they can't help, then do the very best you can on your own as soon as you can. You've been putting off the changes you know you need to make, now is the wake-up alarm, time to do that hard thing you've been waiting for "the right time" to start on to get your life managed.

  • Save money. Freeze your credit cards. Stop ordering fast food or doordash. Stop eating out altogether. Rice and beans motherfucker, do you speak it?? If you don't know how to cook your own simple food at home, the only thing stopping you from learning how is your own motivation to type "How do I cook my own simple food at home?" into google and actually putting effort into it.

  • Kill your vices. Related to above, I don't care if the substance you do daily is completely harmless to you and something you claim is medicinal and helps you sleep/stay awake, you gotta start stepping it down and putting that cash under your mattress and finding alternatives. This isn't about ethics or legality, this is about not spending your money on things you can live without even if the adjustment period will be hard. Again, now is the time to make those changes.

  • Fix your attention span. It's worse than you think and it's preventing you from doing a lot of things you could be doing to make your life better and get healthier. If things get really, really bad, we need as many people as possible who can think clearly and analyze situations from many perspectives. We need people who have read books and can be patient and calm in the face of stress. If nothing else, you will have a better normal life if you don't need to always have youtube videos of people reacting to tiktok videos playing on headphones before you can even read a work email.

If things somehow get better all around for everyone, then having done all this will only have made you and your life and outcomes better.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Gotta get in that divisive jab. Can't just say a thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.....liberals are on the left. And I believe they're talking about the ones in the states today, not in 1850, Germany.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you think 3% differently than I, you=evil

Signed, -Lemmy

braces for the flood of messages about how evil I am

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Okay Hitler. The right amount to tolerate is 4%

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

thinking of liberals

The ones that enabled us into this mess.

But at least they saved us from universal healthcare and economic equity. Dodged a real bullet there.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

Are the liberals in the room with you right now?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Neoliberalism ruined America. Stole everything we had and gave it all to the rich and corporations. And for what? Line go up? Fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Look at that! A .ml commenting something critical about neoliberalism! Imagine that. It’s not something one sees often in .world since according to them, the mods and admins here are such big meanies that they nuke everything that even so much as leans progressive.

(the irony is that my comment here will probably get reported and removed, thus lending even more relevance to my point that the whiners at .ml are full of shit)

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