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vaspider · 14 hours

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Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and “merge the Gray and police social networks.” Then, in a show of force, they’ll march through the city together. “A huge win would be a Gray Pride parade with 50,000 Grays,” said Srinivasan. “That would start to say: ‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ You have the A.I. Flying Spaghetti Monster. You have the Bitcoin parade. You have the drones flying overhead in formation.... You have bubbling genetic experiments on beakers.… You have the police at the Gray Pride parade. They’re flying the Anduril drones …”

Everyone would be welcome at the Gray Pride march—everyone, that is, except the Blues. Srinivasan defines the Blue political tribe as the liberal voters he implies are responsible for the city’s problems. Blues will be banned from the Gray-controlled zones, said Balaji, unlike Republicans (“Reds”). “Reds should be welcomed there, and people should wear their tribal colors,” said Srinivasan, who compared his color-coded apartheid system to the Bloods vs. Crips gang rivalry. “No Blues should be welcomed there.”

While the Blues would be excluded, they would not be forgotten. Srinivasan imagines public screenings of anti-Blue propaganda films: “In addition to celebrating Gray and celebrating Red, you should have movies shown about Blue abuses.… There should be lots of stories about what Blues are doing that is bad.”

Balaji goes on—and on. The Grays will rename city streets after tech figures and erect public monuments to memorialize the alleged horrors of progressive Democratic governance. Corporate logos and signs will fill the skyline to signify Gray dominance of the city. “Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first).

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totallynotcensorship · 4 months

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tags update: gaza strip, middle east, united nations, and us politics are trending

don't stop talking about palestine

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workersolidarity · 3 days

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UNITED STATES TREATS ITS ACTIVIST COMMUNITY LIKE TERRORISTS AS PROTESTS CONTINUE IN SUPPORT OF GAZA

📹 NYPD Counterterrorism units oversee student protests in New York City at Colombia University, where demonstrations have led to mass arrests of students and faculty in recent days.

The Biden administration and Democrats, with the full enthusiasm and support of the Republican Party continue to treat American student protesters as though they were terrorists, while President Biden accuses the students of "antisemitism".

"I condemn the antisemitic protests," Biden said in a speech on Monday, echoing unsubstantiated claims by the Israeli occupation and its lobby.

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lilithism1848 · 7 months

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Atrocities US committed against PRISONERS

The US currently operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least 54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor. Outside of agricultural slavery, Federal Prison Industries operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies.

Ramping up since the 1980s, the term prison–industrial complex is used to attribute the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. Such groups include corporations that contract prison labor, construction companies, surveillance technology vendors, companies that operate prison food services and medical facilities, private probation companies, lawyers, and lobby groups that represent them. Activist groups such as the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) have argued that the prison-industrial complex is perpetuating a flawed belief that imprisonment is an effective solution to social problems such as homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy.

The War On Drugs, a policy of arrest and imprisonment targeting minorities, first initiated by Nixon, has over the years created a monstrous system of mass incarceration, resulting in the imprisonment of 1.5 million people each year, with the US having the most prisoners per capita of any nation. One in five black Americans will spend time behind bars due to drug laws. The war has created a permanent underclass of impoverished people who have few educational or job opportunities as a result of being punished for drug offenses, in a vicious cycle of oppression.

In the present day, ICE (U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement), the police tasked with immigration enforcement, operates over 200 prison camps, housing over 31,000 undocumented people deemed “aliens”, 20,000 of which have no criminal convictions, in the US system of immigration detention. The camps include forced labor (often with contracts from private companies), poor conditions, lack of rights (since the undocumented aren’t considered citizens), and forced deportations, often splitting up families. Detainees are often held for a year without trial, with antiquated court procedures pushing back court dates for months, encouraging many to accept immediate deportation in the hopes of being able to return faster than the court can reach a decision, but forfeiting legal status, in a cruel system of coercion.

Over 90% of criminal trials in the US are settled not by a judge or jury, but with plea bargaining, a system where the defendant agrees to plead guilty in return for a concession from the prosecutor. It has been statistically shown to benefit prosecutors, who “throw the book” at defendants by presenting a slew of charges, manipulating their fear, who in turn accept a lesser charge, regardless of their innocence, in order to avoid a worst outcome. The number of potentially innocent prisoners coerced into accepting a guilty plea is impossible to calculate. Plea bargaining can present a dilemma to defense attorneys, in that they must choose between vigorously seeking a good deal for their present client, or maintaining a good relationship with the prosecutor for the sake of helping future clients.

European countries. John Langbein has equated plea bargaining to medieval torture: “There is, of course, a difference between having your limbs crushed if you refuse to confess, or suffering some extra years of imprisonment if you refuse to confess, but the difference is of degree, not kind. Plea bargaining, like torture, is coercive. Like the medieval Europeans, the Americans are now operating a procedural system that engages in condemnation without adjudication.”

A grand jury is a special legal proceeding in which a prosecutor may hold a trial before the real one, where ~20 jurors listen to evidence and decide whether criminal charges should be brought. Grand juries are rarely made up of a jury of the defendant’s peers, and defendants do not have the right to an attorney, making them essentially show-trials for the prosecution, who often find ways of using grand jury testimony to intimidate the accused, such as leaking stories about grand jury testimony to the media to defame the accused. In the murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice, all of whom were unarmed and killed by police in 2014, grand juries decided in all 3 cases not to pursue criminal trials against the officers. The US and Liberia are the only countries where grand juries are still legal.

The US system of bail (the practice of releasing suspects before their hearing for money paid to the court) has been criticized as monetizing justice, favoring rich, white collar suspects, over poorer people unable to pay for their release.

On Jan 26th, In Mississippi state penitentiary, an inmate was found hanging in his cell, in a string of deaths in the prison. This is the 12th death within a single month.

A photo surfaced of a November 2019 training class for prison guards in west virginia, showing 34 trainees doing a nazi salute. Only 3 people have been fired. A large number of prison workers, and populations in prison towns, are white supremacists.

A black-site interrogation warehouse in Chicago called Homan Square is notorious for the sexual abuse, torture, and disappearances of its prisoners. The main interrogator, Richard Zuley, applied torture techniques he learned at Guantanamo Bay at Homan Square.

On Oct 25, 2014, a mentally ill inmate, Michael Anthony Kerr, at the Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville, NC, died of thirst after being denied water during a 35-day solitary confinement. Prison officials have said since Kerr’s death six months ago that they would investigate the events that led to his death, but no report has been issued and officials have not said when one would be.

On May 23rd, 2014, a mentally ill inmate at a Dade County correctional facility near Miami FL was tortured to death by prison guards. Darren Rainey was serving a two-year sentence for cocaine possession when he was forced into a locked shower by prison guards as punishment for defecating in his cell, says one inmate. Once Rainey was inside the shower, guards blasted him with scalding hot water as he begged for his life. Investigators determined that there was not enough evidence to charge the guards.

The Crime Bill of 1994, signed into law by Bill Clinton, increased the size of the US prison industry and dealt with the problem of crime by emphasizing punishment, not prevention. It extended the death penalty to a whole range of criminal offenses, and provided $30 billion for the building of new prisons, to crack down on “super predators”, a term used by Hillary Clinton to refer to remorseless juvenile criminals.

In the 1978 case, Houchins v. KQED, Inc. the Supreme Court ruled that the news media do not have guaranteed rights of access to jails and prisons. It ruled also that prison authorities could forbid inmates to speak to one another, assemble, or spread literature about the formation of a prisoners’ union.

In September 1971, prison guards killed George Jackson, a black Marxist and member of the Black Panthers in San Quentin prison (who had served 10 years of an indeterminate prison sentence for a $70 robbery), after he attempted to free himself and other inmates. Outrage over this, terrible prison conditions, and mistreatment by white prison guards, caused the Attica Prison Riot, in which 33 inmates and 10 prison guards were killed, and sparked dozens of prison riots across the country. In Attica, 100 percent of the guards were white, prisoners spent fourteen to sixteen hours a day in their cells, their mail was read, their reading material restricted, their visits from families were conducted through a mesh screen, their medical care disgraceful, 75% were there as a result of plea bargaining, and their parole system inequitable.

Many companies in the 1800s were guilty of using prison laborers, such as the Tennesee Coal Iron and Railroad Company. In 1891, the prison workers struck and overpowered the guards, and other neighboring unions came to their aid.

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nando161mando · 6 months

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People know .

US/Israeli Gaslighting is not working on everyone .

NYU students participate in national walkout in support of Palestinians

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appendingfic · 1 year

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The more time that passes, the harder it is to read the Seinfeld finale as anything other than a darkly satirical take on the US criminal justice system.

The police already throughout the show have been consistently shown to be useless, obstructive, or outright incompetent (they arrest characters at least three times on soliciting prostitution based on circumstances that are clearly not).

The fact that the finale centers around a law passed to “encourage people to help others in trouble”, which is instead used by the police to evade their own implied duty to arrest “outsiders” who fail to intervene when witnessing crimes.

That the “test case” of this law is enforcing it against a wealthy Jewish man (and an “outsider” to the community in question), using his personal habits as further evidence against him, and that no apparent weight is given to the fact that it is not “reasonable” for an unarmed man to intervene in an ARMED ROBBERY AND CARJACKING (the law having a clause that it only is enforceable when “reasonable” to provide assistance), and that it is unreasonable to offload the police’s expected duty onto the general populace.

Well, it’s hit home as time has passed.

#seinfeld #us police #satire #meta

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cock-holliday · 10 months

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“Just before the Fourth of July weekend, postdoctoral scholar Jessica Ng, graduate student William Schneider, and another graduate student at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), were arrested by campus police on charges of felony vandalism over $400 and conspiracy to commit a crime. They were arrested at their homes (where their personal items were confiscated including keys, phones and at least one computer), taken to San Diego county jails, and held overnight on $20,000 bail each.

Their crime? Allegedly writing slogans like “Living Wage Now” on a concrete campus building — in washable markers and chalk — during a peaceful protest almost a month earlier.”

#us politics #ucsd #california #us police #political crackdown #the wildest part is ‘arrested by CAMPUS police’ ‘a month later’#campus cops can serve warrants now??

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plutotimeslot · 8 months

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Reflecting on My School Career

During my time at school, I was under shooting threat five (5) times. I was under bomb threat one (1) time. We went to school every day we were under threat. We often didn't even know we were in danger until we got to school.

What politicians forget, is that some of us get older. Some of us get angry. Some of us get loud. The blood is on their hands.

The next time there's a shooting, don't blame mental health. Don't blame guns. Blame the politicians that are in the pocket of the NRA.

#politics #us politics #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtq+#lgbtqia #queer #us police #american politics #current events #school shootings #gun control #gun violence #school #university #parenting #parenthood #children

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techtow · 1 month

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#artist #artists on tumblr #artist on tumblr #spillled ink #mlp #us news #us politics #us police #us presidential election #us presidential race #us pol #election 2024 #american elections #us government #tiktok #tiktok ban

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usauthoritarianism · 8 days

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allrisegifs · 2 years

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There are so many women of color that have been killed or disappeared. And without money, resources, or if they don’t look a certain way, the media just doesn’t cover it. You’re right. White victims get the spotlight more often than women of color. More often? This woman’s murderer is still out there somewhere. Just like the countless victims of unsolved, uninvestigated crimes.

All Rise 3x05 - Lola Carmichael

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workersolidarity · 1 month

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📹 Israeli occupation forces arrest a young man after assaulting him in the Bab al-Amoud area in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem) on Friday.

Its amazing to see how similar the arresting behaviors of the Israeli occupation army is to American police officers, who often have similar training models.

The ADL, along with the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange have all in fact had training trips for American police officers to be trained by IOF soldiers. More than 1'000 mostly senior officers have been trained on these trips, according to the Israeli media.

American officers therefore actually train to treat American citizens in the same way an occupying force treats an occupied people.

Police officers in the United States don't see the people they police as fellow citizens, but instead step outside their stations in a war mindset, ready at any moment to go to war with their own population.

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corporationsarepeople · 8 months

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Fulton County Sheriff’s Office has killed four inmates this month and eight total in 2023.

Custody. That word means you’re responsible for someone’s safety, not for keeping them locked up.

#us police #us policing

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nando161mando · 5 days

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borderlineborderline · 7 months

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TW: violence against children, violence against women, USA police and government and courts tempting despair with their lack of concern for people

So I’ve been taking this Law and Ethics course and holy shit I thought I could never be more appalled by the American government and judicial system, yet here I am. Gonna start sharing little “fun” tidbits of what I’ve learned just so I don’t have to bear the mental burden of knowing this insane shit all on my own, and with the hope that somebody somewhere finds it useful.

First, did anybody here know that the Supreme Court, back in 1983, literally ruled that restraining orders are just meaningless pieces of paper? I mean, maybe you knew that in practice already, but did you know it’s actually established LAW that they don’t matter?

In 1983, the SCOTUS oversaw Castle Rock v Gonzales, an absolutely horrific case wherein a woman had a restraining order in place against her abusive husband, but when he came to kidnap their children and she called the police, they actively chose to do nothing. When he murdered their children, she sued the police force for refusing to act. The SCOTUS responded to this by saying that the police did no wrong, as a restraining order doesn’t *require* action, apparently, it just *allows* for action if the police ~choose~ to act. The police have “discretion,” said the court, not to enforce a restraining order, even if the order itself specifically declares that it must be enforced. Lovely.

Anyway, that’s deeply upsetting. Wish I knew how to fix it, but unfortunately I don’t. Hoping to inspire someone smarter and more capable than I to… I don’t know. Think of something? At least hoping to leave people informed.

Source: Ch 3 and Ch 4 of Public Health Law and Ethics by Gostin. Also probably easy to find info about this case online anywhere if you Google the case name.

#USA #us politics #us police #scotus #us law #tw violence #tw violence against women #tw violence against children #education #information #depressing shit

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n0thingiscool · 2 months

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#palestine #aaron bushnell #why isn't aaron trending here?#self immolation #israel #america #usa #gaza #free palestine #political art #news #us #us politics #us police #acab

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