6 'Soldiers of Christ' members are in custody after a woman's body was found in a car trunk
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 100%

    "A police spokesperson said Friday that investigators believe they have arrested everyone who is involved and are not looking into Soldiers of Christ any further."

    Not sure which prewritten response to choose from... Do I make a joke about how if we defund the police, there won't be any police around to decline to investigate possible human trafficking rings? Or do I make one about QAnon ignoring yet another case of human trafficking coming from there own bizarre christofascist orbit?

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  • Bodycam video shows Ohio police fatally shooting pregnant black woman
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 100%

    We had sustained national protests for months just a few years ago. The problem isn't that we're placid, but that the barriers we face to organizing mass movements are close to insurmountable and there's no available and responsive avenue to successfully lobby for change in our so-called democracy.

    It's the state and all of its carceral powers against a politically uneducated population that's one arrest away from getting fired and then one missed paycheck away from homelessness, or one injury at the hands of a too-excited cop away from medical bankruptcy.

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  • U.S., FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 92%

    Friendly reminder that we imprison people at the same rate as the USSR did at the height of the Gulag system. Behind all the euphemisms, we're living under the boot of a grotesque police state.

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  • Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 100%

    It's already happened in Utah, were Bibles were temporarily banned in school libraries until courts the school board invented an exception to return them. These laws were never designed to be honesty and neutrally applied, and it's a grave mistake to assume otherwise.

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  • GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 100%

    If you have to go back to the 50s to disprove the notion that there are no good conservatives, I feel like that's a pretty good indication that there are no good conservatives.

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  • Federal judge rules Oregon’s tough new gun law is constitutional
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 100%

    The legislation also bans the sale, transfer or import of gun magazines with more than 10 rounds unless they are owned by law enforcement or a military member or were owned before the measure’s passage.

    Exempting the police from gun control laws and giving them control over the permit process isn't gun control. It's just funneling arms away from the vulnerable communities that need means of self defense (and are the ones usually on the receiving end of disproportionate state violence) and giving them to the communities that oppress them.

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  • Republicans Don’t Own Patriotism | Robert Reich
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 100%

    This Marxist boogie man is always so bizarre to hear. There are literally 0 Marxists in Congress. There has never been a Marxist President or Supreme Court Justice. There has never been a Marxist Governor. Right now, there are only about a dozen Marxists combined in state and local governments in the country.

    We gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

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    Gaming 1y ago
    Jump
    Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content
    RIP RIF
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    soratoyuki
    1y ago 100%

    I don't know why, but I'm still in shock it actually happened. RIF is the only way I've ever used Reddit. Spez is burning down one of the best and most informative communities just to up his future net worth a few percentage points. It's disgusting.

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    socialism soratoyuki 1y ago 100%
    Who would have guessed...
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