It’s a conservative government, OF COURSE something corrupt is going on.

Make no mistake this is a trick.

Russia HAS NO DIESEL TO EXPORT. They’re importing at a huge government loss from India.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/russia-import-diesel-fuel-while-135000913.html

This fake deal accomplishes exactly two things:

1. It lets Trump give Putin money for arms against Ukraine and all Putin has to do is middle man Indian diesel.
2. It lets Trump attack Ukrainians when they strike Russian refineries because they’re "bombing our American diesel supply chain.

The US is a NET EXPORTER of diesel. They don’t need more fuel. The problem is the market price is increasing due to mostly Hormuz since Russian oil is sanctioned. All he’s doing is lifting this sanction to pay Putin to buy arms. Stopping Putin from trading fuel for arms was the entire purpose of the sanctions in the first place.

Trump is a traitor.

Make no mistake this is a trick.

Russia HAS NO DIESEL TO EXPORT. They’re importing at a huge government loss from India.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/russia-import-diesel-fuel-while-135000913.html

This fake deal accomplishes exactly two things:

1. It lets Trump give Putin money for arms against Ukraine and all Putin has to do is middle man Indian diesel.
2. It lets Trump attack Ukrainians when they strike Russian refineries because they’re "bombing our American diesel supply chain.

The US is a NET EXPORTER of diesel. They don’t need more fuel. The problem is the market price is increasing due to mostly Hormuz since Russian oil is sanctioned. All he’s doing is lifting this sanction to pay Putin to buy arms. Stopping Putin from trading fuel for arms was the entire purpose of the sanctions in the first place.

Trump is a traitor.

Russia doesn’t have diesel to export. They’re now a net diesel importer, mostly from India.

We expect better deescalation from corner store cashiers than from police

In Quebec we recently just made it a crime to hurt a cops feelings:

https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/montreal-adopts-bylaw-to-ban-insults-against-police-inciting-criticism

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And is 10-20k people per year falsely punished for rape okay to you? I’m just trying to understand your statement in context better.

My problem with lowering the legal standard from “beyond a reasonable doubt” to “believe victims”, isn’t that there are a lot of false reports.

Right now no one believes or prosecutes real reports because of rape culture, why would anyone bother with a fake report? However, if we decide all someone has to do is say “this person raped me” and that’s enough to put someone in jail then assholes are going to start filling false reports to hurt people they don’t like.

I believe that men and women are all people and that many people are assholes. So I think the same women who, as men, would commit violent crimes now have a shockingly easy way to hurt people. And even if you believe that women are better people than men and they would rarely do it no matter how easy it is, men can do it to.

All it would take is to meet up with someone, escape to a private space ideally with witnesses and now I can claim they raped me. I think that makes it dangerously easy for assholes of any genders to really hurt someone through the legal system.

I’d like to see what a functional legal system that cares more about protecting victims than it does about protecting “promising young men” looks like. One where we exterminate the rape culture that saturates our legal system. If we actually prosecuted and punished rape cases that currently ALREADY MEET the threshold of “beyond a reasonable doubt” that would by itself fix a huge part of the problem.

Also, until we fix our general rape culture you would just have tons of jury nullification, tons of judges and prosecutors throwing cases because the “threshold is too low”. People talk about jury nullification as if was a good thing, but 90% of the time it was used was for protecting white racists in Jim Crowe and protecting usually drunk drivers in vehicular homicide cases. It will be used here if people think the threshold of “believe victims” is too low.

“Believe women” for me works when interacting with the victim. Why people have to start picking apart a traumatic story when they hear it is insane to me. It’s crazy that we need rhetoric to tell people “if someone trusts you with a traumatic story, don’t be a dick about it”.

The “innocent until proven guilty” threshold favours rapists in rape scenarios that look like consensual sex. It works pretty well for violent rapes, any rape that includes drugs, coerced inebriation, or assault on an unconscious person, any rape with corroborating witnesses at any key step, and any rape where there is a clear proof of refusal.

The problem is that this is only a fraction of rapes because many rapists avoid physical violence preferring “the implication” of violence instead. They also prey on victims who have low self esteem or a weak sense of what’s okay because they grew up in rape culture. These scenarios are very hard to meet the threshold of “beyond a reasonable doubt” because other than the victim testimony, which is often unclear and confused, there isn’t other proof. And if you start with a victim with low experience and low self esteem and you isolate them get them drunk and rape them the victims testimony is guaranteed to be unclear and confused. That’s why this scenario is so common in the first place.

But the most important aspect by far, and one we can actually point to easily with proof, is that the police, prosecutors, and judges are often extremely pro-rape culture delegitimizing victims and coddling rapists. The number of cases that ended with a slap on the wrists because “we don’t want to ruin this promising young man’s life over 5 minutes of [inserts your favorite delegitimizing euphemism here]” is just staggering". This is why the system favours rapists in a way changing laws or standards won’t solve.

If we don’t want to live in a country of old rapists and pedophiles, we’re going to have to become more comfortable running the lives of young rapists and pedophiles.

Yeah, it’s pretty much the worst that we’ve created a homunculus run by the rich that can pass off as human in many contexts.

The second one had the aggression of a human trying to prove a point. The other two had the dispassionate calm writing style of AI trying to convince you without upsetting you.

Because the rich want to distract us from the real class war by redirecting anger at old people. Old people who lived in quite possibly the easiest lives with the most generous minimum living conditions and social safety nets that have existed, and were tricked by the rich to give it all up so they’re kids wouldn’t have it, because most of them have brain damage from lead in fuel.

And PP would have done better? Please. Fuck off with this shit.

You vote because there are vulnerable people who have their rights removed or WORSE under conservative and fascist leadership. You vote in solidarity with them.

Voting doesn’t mean you support someone or believe in them. It’s a 1 hour activity you do because you have a duty to those directly harmed by fascism.

For those directly harmed by neoliberalism and settler colonialism there was never a candidate for that. That’s what the other 8765 hours in the year are for. That and surviving our late stage capitalist society. This is true whether or not you vote.

You’re right, but that gel is FDA regulated. It’s OTC because they did the work to bring it to the other side of the counter.

Most of the rollers are just nothing, or homeopathic.

Placebo is a powerful misunderstood effect!

For these products they LITERALLY have to have no effect on the body to be sold over the counter. Any meaningful absorption through the skin into the body means they will be regulated and sold behind the counter, usually with prescription.

If they do more than moisturise, dry, clean, or add a scent they’re regulated.

A human position on Palestine wasn’t on the ballot. We have to take that to the streets, to BDS and any other avenue. That’s true voting or not.

What was on the ballot is women’s rights, lgbt+ rights and many more things we take for granted that the Cons try to take away.

You can’t vote for a change in economic systems.

I love to see it. Although if we wait for people to accept the truth before doing reconciliation we’ll never get there. This needs a “if those people could read they’d be very upset” meme!

Of course on day 90 they’ll send you a nice ad for “$100 free credits, no obligations on accounts that haven’t been used for 90 days”

Vegetables, like shapes, and fish, have no objective definition which includes everything you would put into it but excludes everything you would reject from the group.

And if you tried to force a fart, the paper would just act like sausage casing!