anti_dan
2d ago
I remember going back to work during Covid (courts, particularly criminal can't wait forever regardless of what is happening outside). And a female colleague broke down crying about "why we the one's who have to die" (or something similar Its been years at this point). Our boss (a lady, or this would probably not be the funny story it is) poured some whiskey into a disposable coffee cup and offered it to her saying something like "alcohol is a sanitizer" (or again something like that). I started laughing and said I was also sick. Got my own cup. There were only like 5 of us left at the office at the time. It was certainly a time.
anti_dan
2d ago
It cant work! The Master's tools and whatnot!
But more seriously, I don't think it can work. Real communism is too boring and stale at this point for $250 million to be enough to get the movement sparked. Netflix's annual revenue is $45 billion, youtube's is $50 billion. You are talking a drop in the bucket next to a lake when it comes to media influence and the like. That could work if it was something new and compelling that could meme itself into mainstream, like Looksmaxxing or Fursexuality (a hypothetical new thing), but with boring Marxism? Meh.
In any case, all the smart commies already moved on. They realized Facism is better anyways, you get 99% of the control over things that you would have had under socialism/communism, but still get to blame the capitalists when things go wrong.
anti_dan
4d ago
This wasn't a civil asset forfeiture thing. It was a poorly issued criminal search warrant thing. Every jurisdiction has their own regulations, but disabling cameras might be standard. Seizing all cash in drug/prostitution operations certainly is standard for most jurisdictions.
The officers carrying out the search warrant weren't like NAZIs "just carrying out orders" they were literally executing a search warrant, not only approved by their superiors, but signed by a judge, and in a way that was indistinguishable from the dozens or hundreds of search warrants they had conducted in the past that looked (to them) the exact same. The petty cash tallying problem is a problem. But also they are not the smartest folks.
The real problem is this alleged source and the detective (and his Sergeant/Lieutenant) that believed it. They are the ones that created the situation and then lied to or misrepresented the facts to the judge. And not to let the judge who signed the warrant off the hook. Obviously, they are supposed to swear detectives to their search warrants. If you see something like this, its your judicial duty to bring down your weight on the department and detective. Perhaps through a contempt action, or simply refusing to sign all future warrants.
anti_dan
4d ago
As far as I could ever tell, the Mueller report was, basically the actual coverup of the crimes. Mueller himself was a doddering figurehead who knew little about what was happening (selected because he was ostensibly a Republican, but his team was staffed with partisan Democrats), and clearly was at Joe Biden 2024 levels at the end. The report meticulously avoided investigating FBI wrongdoing, such as the dozens of leaks to partisan news organizations of half-truths, and the fabrication of evidence put into FISA applications, and instead focused on process crimes, often ones the investigation itself generated by doing things like not videotaping interviews, so agent memorializations could put interviewee's "statements" in the least favorable light when seeking indictments under $1001.
While some of the Trump conduct did seem at the time, obstructionist, with hindsight, we see it was perfectly justified. Trump's campaign advisors were illegally wiretapped. Comey himself attempted to blackmail Trump during the transition with the fake Steele Dossier (then leaked the fact that Trump was briefed on it so people could treat it like it was a serious FBI piece of work product). The Michael Flynn prosecution was an ongoing demonstration of the venality of the prosecutors, essentially bankrupting a man, and then the judge frustrating efforts to undue the ridiculous results.
All in all it was a big production to distract from what really happened which was a lot of illegal things at the FBI, wherein the Mueller report succeeded in its goals of hindering the Trump adminstration's agenda and running out the clock on those criminal and civil claims (and also fouling evidence by way of time).
anti_dan
5d ago
I get your point and entirely reject it.
Thats kinda silly. The people executing the search warrant dont know what the PC was. Thats on the detective and the judge.
anti_dan
6d ago
If a society believes that Black people are less intelligent and more criminal, and they are wrong, millions of innocent people go through their lives with a boot stamping on their faces.
Only if you subscribe to modern liberalism. Its perfectly fine to accept race differences without being compelled to subjugate people under classical liberalism. Lincoln, an abolitionist, fiercely believed in black inferiority. He had some creative solutions, such as deportation of many back to Africa, which probably would have worked decently for mainland America.
But there need not be drastic measures. American blacks could merely be treated equally, with the same expectations as everyone else, and it would dramatically improve things here. Of course, the backlash would be immense, as blacks treat equal treatment as oppression.
It solves the issue if you want it to solve the issue, but that sidesteps the very important Indian exception. The Indian exception is really the tricky part for those who want a broad reading of birthright citizenship because it creates absurd results when applied. By way of example:
2 Indian Parents of the Cherokee Tribe, one set lives in northern North Dakota, one lives in Southern Manitoba. The manitobans they both have children in ND on 1/1/1900, both in North Dakota. The Canadian one gets US citizenship while the one whos parents live in ND does not? Why? No one knows, but it is what is insisted on being the truth under the expansive reading.
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