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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ah ah - right, I failed to recognize that the suit in question was a civil suit seeking damages for battery.

Still, my original statement is true: not 'guilty' in a legal sense (I added quotes here for clarity). 'Guilty' implies a criminal trial, which that one was not.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Not guilty in the legal sense, but it was a finding of fact that sealed his liability for defamation.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 16 points 4 days ago

They kind of do.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 32 points 4 days ago

The USS SQUIRREL

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 42 points 4 days ago

Or, as my dad told me, "There's the right way, and the right now way."

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 4 days ago

Explanation: Many early aviators died in crashes. However, many early aviators also survived numerous ~~crashes~~ acceptable landings and just went on to keep on flying.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bipedal sheep.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 4 days ago

That is the face of your self-loathing, pleased to be loathing you.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That appears to be one or two resorts of some kind, any idea what they were?

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 38 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That's Delaware, for the uninitiated. The tax thing is because there's some lady's house in Delaware that's registered as the headquarters for about a zillion shell companies as a tax dodge, because of something something Delaware business taxes.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 4 days ago

This is kind of similar to how it is in the US these days, too. There are still banks that have tellers, especially for drive through, since we love our cars, but far fewer. And I have been to banks here where there are no proper tellers.

Even in that case, the person who is helping you behind the counter is still an employee, drawing a salary (maybe plus commission, for things like loans, accounts, whatever). They're still labor, they're still having their labor undercompensated, they're still victims of theft.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 4 days ago (7 children)

The person in the image behind the counter is a bank teller.

I'm quite certain that when you go into a bank wherever you are, you're not greeted by an owner or executive behind the counter, waiting to cash your paycheck.

 

Now that he is out, the Proud Boys leader wants revenge, he told Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist host of Info Wars.

“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat, they need to be put behind bars, and they need to be prosecuted,” Tarrio said.

“Success is going to be retribution,” he added. “We gotta do everything in our power to make sure that the next four years sets us up for the next 100 years.”

In case you were wondering what all those pardons were for. That last quote sounds like some Fourth Reich shit.

 

You're going to need to be vigilant about fact checking the information you come across. Meta (FB, Insta, WhatsApp), X/Twitter, TikTok are all fascist mouthpieces at this point, and you don't have to use those services directly yourself for the messages they amplify to reach you.

Don't just be suspicious of those messages you oppose. Be as suspicious of rage-bait, and messages you are already primed to agree with. This is how propaganda works: by taking advantage of what people already want to believe.

If you can't find decent sources about the thing you're seeking to verify, set that thing aside. If you can find one source, or the same story being repeated multiple places, be skeptical. Be aware that early reporting on events as they unfold can easily be wrong in ways that impact the accuracy of the reporting, even if the story is substantially true as a whole.

Information gaps - where one party has more, or more accurate, information than another party - are how power is leveraged. When you take steps to be factually accurate, in line with objective reality, you are shrinking the power of those who would like to control you.

 

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka criticized ICE agents for "raiding" a local business without a warrant, detaining several individuals, including U.S. citizens, a military veteran, and undocumented immigrants.

When they come, they are not going to have warrants. They're just going to strongarm and intimidate their way in, and they're going to detain people without cause.

  • Do you have a warrant? No? Go get one then.
  • I decline to answer any questions.
  • I do not consent to any search.

And I know this sounds real "sovcit," but they're right on this one:

  • Am I being detained, or am I free to go? If you are free to go, go. If you are being detained, shut the fuck up.
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Capitol Breach Cases (www.justice.gov)
 

Below is a list of defendants charged in federal court in the District of Columbia related to crimes committed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.

This page is no longer linked to from its parent page (https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc).

If someone knows better than I do how to download all of this information before it goes in the memory hole, that's probably a good idea.

Seems to be mostly on archive.org, including PDFs.

 

Documents, including phone number and invitation to ‘join us’, distributed same day Trump took office

Anyone in Kentucky want to see what they can find out?

 

I just got back from a long drive to nowhere. My welcome back was a litany of posts about all of the ridiculous things Trump did this afternoon.

This is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. None of us, together or alone, are going to be able to really change anything for a long, long time. It's going to get worse before it gets better, and I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel. Yet.

Do not expect any of your actions to have immediate or visible effects. The strength will be in the cumulative efforts of everyone who is able to put obstacles in the way of the fascists, no matter how small those efforts may be. "Did you see something? No you didn't." If that's what you're able to do, that's good.

Be prepared, build contacts, look for opportunities. I'm a big proponent of everyone carrying pepper spray. Learn some first aid. If you're a gun owner, practice. Talk to people you trust. Let them know that they can come to you if they need to, or if they know someone who needs support. Protect people who are being threatened. The insurrectionists just got pardoned, so they're definitely making fresh plans; listen for those plans. Take note that if you're going to be on the "support" side of things, you will probably want to avoid being actively subversive, and vice versa. Above all, be careful. Of course, there will be risks no matter what, but honestly, we're all at much greater risk now regardless.

Good luck.

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Bat Pussy (en.wikipedia.org)
 

Bat Pussy is an American pornographic film, believed to have been produced and possibly released in the early 1970s. Ostensibly a spoof of the 1966–1968 Batman television series, it has been cited as the earliest example of a pornographic parody film and more infamously considered to be the worst pornographic film ever made. Released in relative obscurity and near-anonymity, Bat Pussy was discovered in the storeroom of a Memphis, Tennessee adult movie theater in the mid-1990s and subsequently issued on home video by exploitation film distributor Something Weird Video. No credits or copyright information can be found on this print, and as a result, nothing is known for certain about its production or who was involved; it is not known who made the film or even stars in it.

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Beans on Toast (en.wikipedia.org)
 

I am ashamed, Brits.

 

(Refried beans)

 

This time it seems like federation to Fedia from elsewhere is working okay, but that federation from Fedia to elsewhere is not.

@jerry

 

Because the AI has to do the work of translating the image to text before deciding what to do with it

 

This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified.

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