halcyoncmdr

But, I thought they were so happy with their businessman Messiah. It was gonna be the greatest economic boon.

That's great if the city can rezone to make the city bikeable/walkable. You can't just add bike lanes or a path to an existing city designed around cars and expect it to make a change. Things are too far apart for people to just switch transit methods from cars. Having to bike 5 miles to various stores all the time isn't viable.

Many of us have been comparing ICE and the SS since it's inception alongside the Department of Homeland Security post-9/11.

9/11 ended up being way more successful than Osama Bin Laden could ever have imagined. It just took an extra 25 years for the Republican party to destroy the country from within like he wanted.

We need to make suing government employees that make decisions easier. Things like discrimination for anyone that makes determinations for program eligibility, etc.

And definitely cabinet positions when decisions clearly are in opposition to available research and lead directly to outcomes like this, where a direct correlation is not only obvious but even easily provable in court.

Blanket Immunity to cover for incompetent government employees is complete bullshit and doesn't serve the interests of the nation or it's citizens at all.

My formerly happy in-group had a former army medic and current RN that fully supported all the crazy Republican COVID bullshit, while actively seeing those "treatments" do absolutely nothing at her job every fucking day.

Not all doctors and nurses are smart just because they graduated. Like with any job that requires a lot of memorization, some people memorize well but can't actually problem solve in the real world beyond it. You'd think a former Army Medic and Trauma RN wouldn't fall for that shit, yet there she is to this day still.

Oh they respond to that stuff fast. But generic dimming lights, in a neighborhood built in the 1960s with old wiring... The frontline customer service staff almost surely thought it was generic complaining about something like a large power draw starting up in the home, like the AC kicking on and dimming the lights just a bit for a second. Not an actual power infrastructure issue.

Space is pretty big after all. The fact we're even at a human-readable percentage is unlikely to start with.

Probably just the way multiple sentences easily added up and the writer didn't bother to convert for consistency. X months for one crime, Y days for that crime, etc.

There's nothing knee jerk about it. That issue literally only applies to capital punishment. Remove capital punishment and your point disappears, so that should be the focus since it would solve both situations simultaneously.

Instead, you seem to be using it to justify not doing anything at all for the other 99.99% of crimes where that would never even apply. Which begs the question of why you want to continue to let false accusations receive minimal punishment?

Ok, you seem to want to actually argue about capitol punishment, not false accusations, derailing the conversation for whatever reason.

If your issue is with the extreme of capitol punishment, then you deal with that separately, because that doesn't apply for 99.99% of crimes on the books. If there's no death penalty for the accusation, then whether it should apply to false accusations is irrelevant.

Purposeful, false accusations should result in the same punishment as the accusation, across the board regardless of the accused crime. Don't falsely accuse an innocent person of something if you aren't willing to accept the same sentence for your knowingly false accusation, seems pretty simple.

You seem to be under the mistaken assumption, that a simple accusation by itself means something, it doesn't. They don't prosecute a mistaken eyewitness for false testimony. A simple false claim doesn't bring the wrath of the system down on someone to the point where they are charged for those false claims, you've got to show a complete disregard for reality and the system for things to reach that level.

People lie about shit all the time, especially to police, very few reach the point where they are prosecuted for those lies. The ones that rise to the level where they bother to actually do something about those false claims should receive the same full punishment of those false accusations.

If you knowingly falsely accuse someone of murder with the intention of having them be prosecuted and sentenced for a crime you know they did not commit, then you should receive that same punishment, not a slap on the wrist like a year of prison and some fines.

Whatever the sentence would be for the false accusation, yes.

These situations where people are being convicted for these false accusations don't come from simple misunderstandings or poor testimony, they come from people purposefully making false accusations and even fabricating evidence. It's effectively conspiracy to defraud the government and waste resources as well.

If anything I'd say the sentences for these should even be higher than the accusation punishment, since these people are purposefully trying to ruin the life of the accused and abusing the justice system to try and do it for them.