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The problem isn’t that people will find out. It’s that 99% of their voters are too stupid to think critically about the people they vote for.

Original Associated Press link.

Original Associated Press link.

The absolute state of US public transit and micromobility infrastructure.

For those wondering.

That’s what gets me about this: instead of trying to claim the official was lying which is at least not out of the question, they just emphasize that the WSJ and Barron’s are Murdoch publications which seems to suggest they think the WSJ itself lied about this somehow or at least want to make that appear plausible.

Organized religion is a plague.

• There’s satellite imagery of the submarine being in the pier and then never returning.

• This is Barron’s, but it’s simply hosting an Agence France-Presse article.

• Are you suggesting the WSJ manufactured a quote by a senior US defense official?

It feels to me like you’re trying to muddy the waters to run defense for China, something you’ve routinely done on this platform. Go ahead and link to that ridiculous media chart from the COVID disinformation website again by the way if you want to look even less credible.

MBFC bot, this is the Agence France-Presse. Barron’s frequently sources their international news from the AFP, but I know your very existence erases nuance, so I understand how you as a bot wouldn’t understand that.

You never had morning meetings at your retail job where the pep talk was “Let’s get out there and do our best, and whatever you do, guys, remember not to violate the law today”?

Pigs are intelligent, emotional, and cognitively complex. They don’t deserve to have their good name compared to cops.

Nope, sorry, I just misspoke. I meant to say potassium chloride, but my brain defaulted to the last NileRed video I watched.

Yeah, I would tentatively agree that nitrogen hypoxia when performed correctly is in fact painless (although we’re also talking about the same Sarco that just got several people arrested by running afoul of Switzerland’s product safety and chemical laws on the first ever test of their capsule). Of course here, whatever method Alabama is using is not painless and caused its first victim intense, prolonged suffering.

Per the John Oliver episode on the death penalty, there’s substantial evidence that murder by nitrogen suffocation is extremely painful.

Edit: the episode and timestamp in question. Nitrogen hypoxia (edit: at least as it’s being performed by these ass-backward hicks) is not painless as some commenters are suggesting. Section lasts from about 23:00 to 24:45. An excerpt from the Wikipedia article properly sourced to the Associated Press, BBC News, and the Montgomery Advertiser (local Alabama newspaper):

Though the State Attorney General said afterward that Smith’s execution showed that nitrogen hypoxia was an “effective and humane method of execution”, several people watching the execution reported that Smith “thrashed violently on the gurney” for several minutes, with his death reportedly occurring 10 minutes after the nitrogen was administered to the chamber. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned the use.

And to be clear, the only reason these sick fucks are using nitrogen is because it’s becoming increasingly difficult to source potassium chloride the barbituate and paralytic for lethal injections because the optics for companies supplying them is abysmal.

What even is this asinine response?

• No, they would not likely use them to perpetrate war crimes. Ukraine is using incendiaries for treelines in the middle of nowhere where Russians are hiding – not even close to civilians. You have zero evidence to support the idea that they would and are just JAQing off over nonsensical “what-ifs” as a way to move the goalposts from the indisputable fact that WP isn’t unto itself a war crime.
• Literally any weapon can be used to commit a war crime.
• If you want war crimes to stop, then you want Russia out of Ukraine as soon as possible due to their extreme usage of anti-personnel mines and the fact that Ukraine then needs to use them in return.
• What is this unhinged comparison to nuclear weapons?

Redditor-types accepting they’re indisputably wrong about something instead of doubling down challenge: impossible.

White phosphorus isn’t a war crime unto itself, and Ukraine has shown no evidence of breaching Protocol III on incendiaries. The way Israel is likely to use them, however, in an area dense with civilians and possibly even deliberately attacking civilians, would be a war crime.

You’re going to be downvoted by people who have no idea what a war crime is or isn’t, but you’re unequivocally correct here.

You won’t catch people hand-wringing about the use of anti-personnel mines which is unequivocally a war crime (however, one that’s necessary for Ukraine’s survival against a genocidal, imperialist invasion also making heavy use of AP mines). However, when indenciaries come up, people somehow have this association that they’re blanket war crimes when that’s not even close to true. The International Red Cross’ summary of Protocol III on incendiaries is as follows:

Incendiary weapons are those that are primarily designed to set fire to objects or to burn persons through the action of flame or heat, such as napalm and flame throwers (Art. 1).

It is prohibited in all circumstances to use them against civilians. It is also prohibited to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons.

Finally, it is prohibited to make forests or other kinds of plant cover the object of attack by incendiary weapons unless they are being used to conceal combatants or other military objectives, or are themselves military objectives (Art. 2).

Statistics say women are far more likely to develop breast cancer than men, but I imagine if a man contracted breast cancer, people would still call it what it is, say they have breast cancer, attempt to treat it, and move on; not try to tiptoe around calling it breast cancer, equivocate about how men can’t be victims of breast cancer because of some bizarre ad hoc definition of breast cancer being exclusive to women, change the medical definition of breast cancer to not include men instead inventing a separate disease with a heavily euphemized name, joke about how they probably enjoy it, accuse them of lying, and fail to give it a similar level of medical attention that it would get if a woman had breast cancer.

And the same news station KCAL also calls a 31-year-old sexually abusing underage male high school students “having sex” with them. Same deal when the perpetrator was 42.

For the first one, even after she was convicted in court of “six counts of statutory rape” meaning she has legally been convicted of raping minors and has no grounds for defamation, the headline still reads “Special Ed Teacher Sentenced To State Prison For Sex Acts With Students”.

Meanwhile, oh wow, who would have guessed? When it’s a male perpetrator against a female victim, the headline reads “Westminster High School student’s aide arrested in sexual assault of 16-year-old girl”. It doesn’t even read “alleged” or “suspicion of” for the male perpetrator like it does for the female ones (and the latter two women even had multiple victims, making the comparison even worse).

It’s fucking appalling.

Edit: Oh my god, thank you, Sacramento Bee, for being a role model in this horrible climate of downplaying women who sexually assault minors. Headline reads: “School counselor repeatedly sexually assaults teen, CA cops say. More victims sought”.