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thebartermyth
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It's easier to understand the process under the assumption that the person is innocent.
If someone is arrested for prostitution, they would be fingerprinted, etc (processed), then within 24-48 hours will have an arraignment hearing. At the arraignment, a judge will present charges and the defendant will plea innocent or guilty. The judge will then set bail. The bail amount will be higher than the defendant can pay in the majority of cases (avg $10,000). The defendant will either buy bail bonds or have family help pay.
If not, which is very very likely, the defendant will be held in pre-trial detention, aka Jail. Half a million people are incarcerated because they are unable to pay their bail. This makes up 2/3rds of the prison population. These people are incarcerated because they are poor. Again, they have not been convicted of anything. During this time, it is very likely that the defendant will lose their job and housing.
After pre-trail detention, the defendant will go to trial. Here the police will produce whatever evidence they have in this hypothetical. For the sake of this hypothetical, the police do not fabricate evidence and instead rely on circumstantial evidence and random testimony from people who hate the defendant. This will be presented to the judge, having already been agreed on by the lawyers for the prosecution, state of xyz, and the defendant, public defender (or maybe private attorney). The judge, acting in capacity of the court, (possibly a jury, but more often a judge) will then either convict or acquit and lay out sentencing if applicable.
They would produce evidence subject to discovery and the court would either convict or acquit you. Depending on the situation there would be other charges, and maybe you confess for some reduction in sentencing, etc.
The police don't need to literally witness a crime to arrest someone.
Liberalism is a reaction to feudalism. It aims for systems of governments that maintain:
- Bureaucratic neutrality and equality under law (ie. not kings)
- Governmental transparency and input (ie. will of the governed)
- Capitalist property relations and legalist dispute mechanisms (ie. courts)
Libertarianism originated as a term for anarchists, but now roughly means conservatives. Libertarianism attempts to bifurcate something which it calls "the Market" from "the State".
To avoid this confusion, the economic system has been moved out as libertarianism.
This is simply not true. This is not how libertarianism originated, and the imagined bifurcation of economic state and governmental state is extremely modern.
For example, accessibility improvements of government buildings is a liberal movement.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, signed by the George H.W. Bush, is a mechanism of welfare reform which established a tort system of accessibility. The bill used cost-burden language to remove people with disabilities from public assistance and require them to individually litigate for accessibility via the court system. Please review any congressional testimony on the bill.
Minimizing the control over capitalism is a libertarian movement.
Both movements are capitalist. Governmental regulatory frameworks provide reliability and transparency for resolving disputes between capitalist actors. What do you mean by "control over capitalism"?
There's also so called "liberals" which is not more than a hate speech. We are not "conservatives" or "liberals" in every topic.
You've scare-quoted so many of the relevant words that it's hard to understand what you mean.
Could you say more? The petrodollar recycling model and dollar-debt / US bond reserve currency from Super Imperialism don't seem mutually exclusive to me. I only read part of the book though and I don't fully remember it. Is the issue that focusing on petrodollar recycling is missing a bigger picture / that dollar reserves aren't for oil?
"incorrect" grammar is often intentional. The grammar rules included or omitted is a choice in communication. because the way something is written indicates the way it should be spoken (or thought). It conveys information about the writer and their relationship with the reader - whether it's being written 'casually' as friends would write to each other, or 'formally' as one would write for work or school (or some mix depending on context). Most phones automatically capitalize for the 1st word of a sentence, and people Manually go in to un-capitalize it.
But it's not just formality that gets conveyed because grammatical accuracy and word choice also indicate which items are primary and which are secondary/tertiary/etc. it varies a lot from site to site, like "ML" is an abreviation that mostly just works on Hexbear. also, i, think, there, were, a, couple, books, that, had, a, comma, between, every, word, which, is, sorta, gimmicky, but, they, sorta, read, like, this.
bump amber whataboutism
Both are misogynist power fantasies and in that way they're very linked. I don't think the anti-abortion social conservatives actually hold those beliefs beyond their heteronormative / misogynistic justification and power so the distinction between the two groups is fluid with context. You probably got downvoted because it was construed as a defense of either or both though.
Several people have told me I have "an interesting speaking pattern". lol
I just kinda let peoples bad vibes wash over me, but I can zone out while someone is screaming at me. Music helps build compassion I think. There's a lot to learn and a lot of beauty in it and it makes community. I think food can be this way too. I think more people hate me than I hate them, but those are people I know know. I barely think about the people on the street or train or whatever.
4chan people are pretty rare imo. Most boomers just post equally bad shit on facebook or reddit.
Wasn't there some study or something that said that anger is more similar to joy than sadness?
Lmao no, they're not "classical liberals". is this bait?