I mean that’s what jail is for.

Think about it this way. If a young adult (like 18 year old) kills a parent as revenge for getting abused as a kid, do you think this person would just get to move freely before trial?

Sure, I’d also sympathize with this young adult, and the parent deserve to die for being an abusive piece of shit, but that doesn’t mean this person can just go wandering around the city.

I remember reading an old news article where a man from China stayed awake for 11 days to watch football and he died.

I don’t know how the guy in China deliberately went 11 days without any sleep at all to watch a football game.

After reading the comments, I’m also wondering how he stayed up for so long.

I speculating it could be some sort of drugs keeping him up.

China is a society that, like many Asian countries, have a very negative view of drugs due to British colonialism, so its possible that there was drug use involved and it was covered up to avoid losing “face” to the family.

Will there even be a specter of fair and free elections for POTUS in the future? (Doubtful)

There will be free elections, eventually.

After a bloody conflict on the streets, that is.

Traitors have stolen the country and the US is in need of a second American Revolution.

Kamala Harris’s husband was “Second Gentleman”, so I’ll assume yes.

Today? No, probably not in the near future.

Maybe in the 2040s we’ll see a gay/lesbian person become US president, but not 2028.

Remember, there was a long gap betweeen 1965 Civil Right Act and Barack Obama becoming president.

And Remember, the Obergefell ruling and Respect for Marriage Act are still very recent (2015 and 2022, respectively), and might even get overturned, which indicates that the country is still not ready to accept gay/lesbian people, especially into positions of power.

Just look at the recent “DEI” outcry.

Jurors would weight in feelings over facts.

Which means, yes, Mangione gets acquitted.

But also possibly acquitals the when a cop murders someone, or when a group of white men chases down an unarmed black man and shoots him.

Possibly even some mass shooters, if they were white, because they’d be viewed as a “troubled youth” rather than a cold hearted killer.

Nullification goes both ways.

And if the accused is someone the jurors don’t like, its possible, with the idea of nullification in mind, they’d be more willing to just overlook the facts and convict based on “gut feeling”.

Because, what adding nullification to the jury instructions is doing, is that you are instructing the jurors to become not just the finder of facts but also the finder of law.

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Off topic, but: Did you use voice to text on this comment? 😅

Read my other comment. It leads back to the same thing.

Okay, so I attempted to access it again. Its currently in a weird state of partial access.

I can “log in” but as soon as I try to access anything, say, Gmail, I get that screen again.

This is what the settings page looks like:

So its not totally locked out, but its not functional either, I’m not even on a VPN.

Notice, 2FA is off.

Then I click Gmail and get this:

I tap “more ways to verify” and get this:

I tap the only option, and it circles back to the previous screen.

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MFA was never enabled.

Bruh, I was testing some android features and wiped an android phone, then when I tried to log in again, they wanted a verification code from the previous device, the one I just wiped. Not even will a phone number satisfy them.

Its essentially locked out, unless I get a time machine to undo wiping the phone.

I mean, what happens if someone lose their phone and wants to log in to google to wipe their device? Like… how would you obtain the verification code on a phone a thief now has?

Its just even just privacy issues, Google is braindead when it come to their “security”.

Luckily, I wiped it in settings so FRP was off.

The answer is: We’re fucked.

People were warned of mass surveillance, and here we are, cameras everywhere, over the entire world. Everything is tracked. Same thing will happen to paper money and coins.

beggers,homeless ppl, panhandlers… are all doomed

In China, they have Wechat Wallet that people can give money to homeless people. Even homeless people have phones.

cashless societies are nothing but a nasty techbro dream.

It is nasty and dystopian, I agree. But its not really a fantasy anymore, its real, the dystopian future is on the horizon. Soon, it’d be too late to stop the dystopia.

At first, mass surveillance cameras is only in China, but then even supposed “democracies” like the UK have millions of cameras. Then China became mostly cashless, that will also eventually happen to western countries.

The dystopia is coming. You can’t stop it.

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Okay so. Say. There is 2 weeks without power, sudden and unannounced, unpredicted power outage. How will you get food and stuff?

So if people can’t get essential stuff, there would be fear, and with fear, riots are likely to happen. Doesn’t matter how “civilized” or “developed” a country is, everyone has their breaking point.

There’s too much lies in the world, I kinda developed a sort of “solipcistic” view of the world.

If I never witnessed it, I categorize it as “potentially false”.

Of course, the entire news could be just fabricated. Nobody can tell for sure.

Anything beyond my immediate sorroundings could just be a stage. I could be in a truman show with everything I see being a deception, or in other terms “propaganda”.

I’m not saying that everything isn’t real, I just feel like that possibility should be entertained, to keep in mind as a potential possible explanation of what appears to be reality. Just as how a nation can lie to its people about reality, even the people closest to you, your parents, could also just be liars as well.

People never question if they are, in fact, the biological children of their parents, and just assume they are. That is another form of “propaganda”. People just accept their parent’s words as truth.

Propaganda is certainly everywhere. You cannot be sure what is real, other than the fact that “you” exist, in some form.

Probably nothing revolutionary.

But if you don’t believe the propaganda, you’d probably enjoy life more.

For example: there literally a list of steam games that some far-right nutjob compiled that declares a lot of games to be “Woke” or “DEI”. Imagine how much fun they miss out on because they are so far up the kool aid cult and actually refuses to play those games.

And other times, it can save you from a lot of misery and perhaps save your life. See: Anti-Vax and Anti-Science propaganda. If you are able to see through that bullshit, you wouldn’t die from a stupid horse dewormer or other psudoscience crap.

“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.” -Mahatma Gandhi

The fight might not be right here, right this moment, but you can pass along the torch, the spirit.

Teach your children to be skeptical of the authorities, and be vigilent of propaganda. If they are getting involved in a “Hitler Youth” equivalvent, you’d intervene and stop them.

Treach kindness and empathy, but also decisiveness when the time comes to stand against injustice.

And also, pick your fights carefully, do not do this alone. Do not become a foolish dead hero, become a successful revolutionary. (Underground Movements)

Don’t let them imprison your mind.

TLDR: The best you can do is just refuse to regurgitate the same propaganda. This is a passive thing that is, while subtle, an important part of the resistance.

Looking at the 2024 election results. I guess not. 😞

But 1/3 of eligible voters didn’t even vote, so is that really about critical thinking? Or is it just laziness?

I mean, honestly, I’m questioning if anything my parents told me is even real, or is it just exaggerated to make themselves seem like great parents in order to diminish my view on their toxicity.

It’s hard to distinguish between what’s a genuine doubt from a conspiracy theory.

That’s the thing with people.

Some have zero skepticism, and believe everything they see.

Others are overly skeptical and distrusts everything, including science.

It’s hard to find the right balance.