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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

An AI can't be fined or imprisoned.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wait until you see what files the IDF has

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

And said afterwards that they did it because they claimed there were "terrorists" in the hospital, before backtracking and deleting the tweets

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In the running:

Kevin Hern (R-OK): Republican Study Comittee chair

Austin Scott (R-GA)

Jack Bergman (R-MI): Former USMC Lt. General

Tom Emmer (R-MN): Majority Whip; endorsed by McCarthy

Byron Donalds (R-FL): Freedom Caucus member


Putting out feelers:

Mark Green (R-TN): Homeland Security chair, Freedom Caucus member

Jodey Arrington (R-TX): Budget chair

Mike Johnson (R-LA): vice conference chair

Pete Sessions (R-TX)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed. That's why Israel shouldn't be surprised that Hamas retaliated a couple of weeks ago after years of Israel's large-scale killing sprees.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Israel was eerily silent, when they usually report mistakes like the UN official dying in their strikes quite quickly.

They weren't eerily silent at all. There were Israeli military spokespeople bragging about it on X until they started seeing the backlash and deleted the tweets.

IDF journalist Hananya Naftali: "BREAKING: Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas terrorist base inside a hospital in Gaza. A multiple number of terrorists are dead."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

How many dead Palestinian children per person is it?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Here's a reminder of all the stuff Democrats gave up back in June and got absolutely nothing in return:

  • Defunded the IRS by $21 billion
  • New work requirements for SNAP and TANF
  • Defunded Covid relief by $30 billion
  • Restarted student loan payments
  • Severe 1% cap on budget increases for the rest of Biden's presidency (meanwhile inflation is near 4%)
  • New natural gas pipeline in West Virginia and Virginia
  • Major weakening of NEPA environmental reviews
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's the thing about felony murder. If her death occurred as a result of their commission of a felony, then they should be on the hook for felony murder. It doesn't matter that they didn't directly kill her.

Felony murder isn't a phrase to disambiguate between a murder that's a felony and some kind of nonexistent misdemeanor murder. It refers to a very specific type of "murder" where somebody dies as a result of somebody else committing a felony. The commission of the felony is enough to make the person liable - they don't have to have intended to kill anybody in the process or be directly involved in the death.

Four unarmed teenagers break into a house. The homeowner shoots and kills one of them. The three survivors are all liable for felony murder for the fourth's death, and can face life in prison or even a death sentence.

A group of criminals break into a house. One stays outside as a lookout, completely unaware of what is happening in the house. The elderly homeowner tries to stop the criminals in the house, but slips and falls and hits his head and dies from a brain hemorrhage. The lookout is liable for felony murder.

Two cops are having a disagreement at work. They get a call of a burglary in progress and drive out there and start chasing the suspect. One of the cops shoots at the suspect, but "accidentally" misses and fatally wounds the other cop they were fighting with back at the station. The burglar is liable for felony murder for the cop's death.

If the same standards were applied to the criminals who raided the journalist's house, then they'd all be charged with felony murder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is a pretty optimistic view. Inflation is (mostly) a one way street. The rate at which prices are rising might have slowed down, but the prices themselves aren't going to go back down. That damage is already done. Come next year, I don't think people are going to be thinking "I'm paying an extra dollar for a big mac than I was 4 years ago, but at least it didn't go up another dollar this year too"

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