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Aggressive prosecution is the precisely how you don’t let it happen again.

This has literally never been true about any crime

Are you for real.

Yes, Republicans notably used those riots to demand harsher penalties. You don't remember the mythical burning cities?

No, I don’t think it’s a good thing that traitors got less than they deserved

The vast majority of people on J6 were idiots in a mob situation, not traitors.

As OP said, fuck all of them, but aggressive prosecution here is not the way you want the law to work, the same way there's no gain for imprisoning everyone who acted out of pocket during the Floyd protests.

You throw the book at the worst offenders, and you let people caught up in mob mentality off with a lesser sentence. That is justice working.

Pandas only evolutionary advantage is being adorable. It is like cows being delicious - without that, they'd simply cease to be.

Holy duck I love pandas.

It’s “how little can I tip before they tamper with my food”

Normal people never, ever think this.

Unironically the answer is "shop less."

Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.

Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it's just that you have to encourage building rather than "live somewhere less" because the second option really isn't tenable, for obvious reasons.

If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.

As is this. I have no idea why people here are convinced tipping is somehow bad for employees and good for employers

It's literally the same thing you just are more aware of it.

You literally always pay the wages of the people that work for companies.

Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society's fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.

You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You're free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you're intentionally being an asshole, not protesting a perceived injustice.

See people say this like it's Black vernacular but dont recognize that it's just urban vernacular. Urban vernacular changes frequently because there's more people around. The internet adopts it quickly, and it spreads from there, as the actual initial definition of a memetic concept.

There's a reason society as a whole doesn't co-opt rural Black vernacular, and it's because it isn't actually racially-based.

You can move within your country and your experience will be entirely different. You can't in China, because it's an authoritarian hellstate.

I agree that Republicans are authoritarians, and that sucks. I also acknowledge that you likely view hierarchies as inherently authoritarian and that we'll likely not see eye to eye on where to draw lines. Also fine - that's what liberal ideologies want, is that disagreement.

But to compare China positively with the US in terms of authoritarianism is, frankly, a bit silly.

My guy, I’m living in a state that tried to arrest a woman for removing an ectopic pregnancy.

Yep, and your state voted for that. My state amended it's constitution to prevent this situation, also through voting.

In China, you don't get that option, because China is an authoritarian state.

Authoritarian doesn't simply mean "bad" even though authoritarianism is bad.

You know what's not a sign of an authoritarian state? An appeals court overturning a bad verdict.

Crystal Mason’s contentious illegal voting conviction must be reconsidered, criminal appeals court says

You should really click the links you use as evidence.

That might be relevant if my point wasn't the hostility, rather than the disagreement. I don't give a shit if you disagree with me - you're allowed to believe whatever you want.

The hostility costs this place users, and this is a thread about advertising for more users.

Perhaps consider reading the entire comment before posting.