Bondi: "Listen loud and clear: WE DO NOT TOLERATE ATTACKS ON (our) PLACES OF WORSHIP.”
Sounds like a decent defamation case.
More confirmation of the rampant hypocrisy in the religion
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.
Orwell, 1984
racist sons of pony dog soldiers
Oh well Biden and Harris would just been more of the same so whatever.
The important thing to remember is that it’s never the fault of the people in power. It’s always the gross, dumb, smelly voters who can’t pick the Lesser Of Two Evils often enough.
It’s both. I’m not going to pretend that people voting against their own self interests isn’t a problem. If people actually voted in a way that would help them we’d have a lot more Dems than Republicans in the USA.
It’s stupid to pretend we don’t live in a first past the post system where most voters are going to vote straight D or straight R. Voting 3rd party is just shredding your vote in almost all cases.
I’m not going to pretend that people voting against their own self interests isn’t a problem
The problem with “lesser evil” politics is that neither candidate represents your interests.
You had a corporate Democrat running against a fascist Republican. This after four years of liberals breaking their campaign promises, fattening the wallets of Techbro AnCaps, and beating up civil rights protestors on national TV.
It’s stupid to pretend we don’t live in a first past the post system where most voters are going to vote straight D or straight R.
It’s stupid to close off your primary so an unpopular incumbent in a dementia spiral doesn’t have to campaign against another wave of progressive outsiders.
When Henry Cuellar or Jim Justice or Kristen Sinema are the Ds on my ballot, it isn’t even FPTP. It’s a forgone conclusion I’m getting fucked from either side.
Three weeks after doomsday, yeah her campaign manager’s gonna say something nice. What is this supposed to show, anyway?
Did they get caught giving away the dark secret that they did their best to run a successful campaign?
Her primary problem was going for the left’s vote when the left doesn’t vote.
The only way to fix it is to go further right and pick up the voters who are disillusioned by Trump in 2028.
the left doesn’t vote
Terrible news for the Mamdani campaign.
The only way to fix it is to go further right
Can’t wait for Pete Buttigieg to campaign on doubling the ICE budget.
39% of NYC’s registered voters turned out to vote in the last mayor election and he got slightly more then fifty percent of the vote.
I don’t think that’s the gotcha you’re going for.
Voter Turnout Highest in Half Century as Mamdani Phenomenon Galvanizes Electorate
Still waiting to hear about all those voters who stayed home because Sliwa wasn’t conservative enough.
That’s not “the left”, just voter apathy.
Mamdani was the first to get more than a million votes in a mayoral election since the 60’s. The 2021 turnout was less than 25%, 2017 was barely above 25%, etc. It has been more than 2 decades since there has been a level of turnout like was seen with Mamdani.
It is, in fact, quite a “gotcha”.
Mamdani barely got more votes than Trump did in NYC in 2024.
He won with about 19.5% of the registered voters.
With 6 other people to vote for, and the biggest mayoral election turnout in decades…
Again, voter apathy <> “the left”.
the left doesn’t vote
Terrible news for the Mamdani campaign.
Pretty much apples-to-apples comparison. They’ve got you there SMCF. It’s an accepted maxim that national Presidential races are exactly the same as mayoral races in NYC.
Well on Lemmy, people think the Mayor of NYC determines foreign policy regarding Israel, so…
Wait till you find out how many states Bernie Sanders won in 2020.
Not enough to win the primary?
More than enough to win some of the biggest states in the country.
But presumably without any leftist voters?
Counting a lot more than eight
Stop asking the Baileys, Chuck. They’re full of shit.
But Harris wouldn’t say the words I wanted hear! How could I vote when she won’t tell me the thing?!1 ThiS Is All HeR fAuLt
What do you mean Harris literally said “ceasefire?”
She didn’t order the IDF to stand down though. So, fascism I guess.
I know sometimes I feel like the only sane liberal on a site full of progressives.
Those weren’t progressives. Those were right-wing concern trolls cosplaying as leftists.
Honestly I’m so far left of left, I don’t belong here. But I didn’t fall for the obvious whataboutGaza campaign, and voted D to stop trump.
Aha! So you admit you love genocide and have no moral compass whatsoever!
You’re an embarrassment to purity-test political nut-scratching! Can you just imagine, for ONE second what would have happened if Harris had won?? It’s too terrifying to contemplate!
Why? It’s already embarrassing enough to be arrested
Tell that to John Lewis or MLK.
Depends on the reason for the arrest. If I get zip-tied and dragged off the streets for saying mean things about orange man, I won’t be the embarrassed one.
No I certainly would agree with that. But being restrained against your will and having your records publicized about being an offender of the law certainly doesn’t bode well for your own public image or on employment applications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekima_Levy_Armstrong
Just so you know who is in this picture. No, this does not have the negative impact for her that you are suggesting.
It’s not embarrassing for her, it’s embarrassing for the police that they arrested her.
She is a lawyer and a civil rights activist, my guess is that being a civil rights activist is in line with her activity as a lawyer.
And I doubt very much she did anything illegal.Didn’t you know? Free speech is dead, and now saying mean things against this regeme is illegal now.
They probably think the sobbing makes people scared. It makes the arrested look weaker, regretful and vulnerable.
Chin up, shoulders back, still tough, cuz Black don’t crack!
How? Cops are pieces of shit and arrest innocent people all the time.
It’s embarrassing to be arresting someone.
Enforcing the law is embarrassing? Breaking the law is embarrassing.
And my point isn’t that she was necessarily breaking the law. I’m simply stating that it’s already an embarrassing enough act to be restrained and then on top of that have images of you in a vulnerable state circulate around the internet.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”
“The law” and the entire legal system of injustices behind it is embarrassing as fuck too. Same goes for those who simp for it.
I’m not saying it’s perfect. It has its share of flaws, but rules and law create order. I’m not a simp for US law, but without it, injustice would run even more rampant. If you claim to love justice then you must also, by principle, be in favor of some sort of law system that enforces it.
Rules != the law. The legal frameworks are inherently flawed and globally protect the rich and powerful, while harming minorities.
Yes societies need rules, those can be agreed upon by people living in the societies.
What would you argue are the differences between rules and laws in society? I use the two interchangeably as I believe them to mean the same thing.
I would say
Laws are backed by states and their sole authority to use violence to enforce them.
Rules can be made by any group of peoples.
How is it embarrassing to be arrested for protesting?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekima_Levy_ArmstrongThe act of being arrested is not particularly fun. You know, being restrained and walked off like an animal in some sense. Depends what it’s for in general. But it’s the public image of it. And then the repercussions of having to deal with follow up court work, possible jail time and it being a future talking point of a potential employer. It’s just not really something to be proud of.
That is a rule in general, with exceptions of course.
But my point stands, that the act is embarrassing enough already, especially if it’s publicized. So having your face edited to make it look even more humiliating is worse.
being arrested is not particularly fun.
Being an inconvenience is not the same as embarrassing.
having to deal with follow up court work
Which is probably near zero has her case will likely be dismissed, but again she is a lawyer.
That’s not a meme, that’s Propaganda.
You’re not going to believe this, but…
It’s also libel made with actual malice.
And actually published by the government.
right? it is literally the definition of libel…
Gonna be a really expensive lawsuit. That is paid out by all of us taxpayers.
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You can sue Donald Trump without suing the US Government. Right now several lawmakers are preparing a lawsuit against Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files.
If we flip the house and senate I’m gonna start sending drafts to representatives for a law that makes the Trump estate and all future president’s estates liable for all the avoidable and frivolous lawsuits on the basis of which they did not protect the human beings who live in this nation nor represent the system of laws which govern them, rather that they were personal and need to be paid for personally by the officials responsible for giving the orders resulting in lawsuit.
You would have to show that Trump specifically ordered the alteration. That almost certainly didn’t happen and it was someone else in the administration that actually made that call.
? The boss of an organization is always responsible for what happens in said organization. So, no. They wouldn’t.
Gestures broadly at basically every CEO avoiding punishment for the illegal shit their companies do daily
Its a lie. They lie so often that they think its truth.
their truth is the worst lie
America won’t tolerate “attacks” in their churches yet seems to have no answer for and tolerates quite a lot of school shootings…
If there’s an attack in the church, it’s simply gods will and should be left alone.
God’s house, God’s rules.
There have been mass shootings in churches, they have caused substantial concern, brows were briefly furrowed and thoughts and prayers were solemnly ctrl+v’d.
Me, the other day: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”
Me, yesterday: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”
Me, this morning: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”
Me, tomorrow: “They’ve finally done it. They’ve finally hit rock botto…wait, nope, I was wrong.”
Etc, etc, and fucking, etc.
They have it rock bottom but the immediately started digging.
Trump has been doing that every day since 2016. Every day he says the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, and every next day he keeps trumping [bazinga] himself.
Defamation.
Also, nice racist bias on that model (making her fatter).
And darker.
I dunno about fatter, but it definitely made her darker. Oof.
Honestly both might be a difference in when the shot was taken.
Its the same picture. One is edited.
That’s the entire subject of this post.
Cool. They look like slightly different angles.
Its cropped and edited… Feel free to read the article which covers this in its entirety.
Ohhh i see it now. The officer’s arm has the same shilloete on the window. Wow the model really edited the lady. Must have been a bias of the training data to put her more forward/in focus.
Even just the headline should have been enough
I mean… One would hope, but clearly it wasn’t enough for some.
Yeah, it’s literally the opening words of the title.
What should we do? Can we get another maga guy to take a shot?
Dystopian fiction: The regime alters photos to make people look happy and smiling, to hide their cruelty.
Dystopian reality: The regime alters photos to make people look sad and pained, to brag about their cruelty.
This is actually really scary. They’re modifying photos to manipulate and control people.
I mean, they’re also abducting children and murdering dissenters to control people…
The little things are more insidious.
When you can’t govern, meme.
