@Gaagaagiins Don‘t you worry, I’ll try not to post my thoughts on it three weeks too late like I did with Bacurau
A movie near the top of my to-watch list!
This is the normal morning view for me now. It is a very different view than the one I had 53 weeks ago. My previous view was of a massive parking lot for the office building my cube was in. When I started working from home last year I enjoyed watching the maple tree start to bud. It’s starting to bud again.
Current mood: drinking a Vitamin Water strawberry lemonade flavored Slurpee in the Home Depot parking lot while listening to the Jukebox version of the Costa del Sol theme from Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
This is probably the one Slurpee I’ll buy all year so it’s a very specific mood.
Recently found a Horchata Slurpee at my local 7-Eleven that I've been digging lately.
My standard Slurpee is the Pina Colada, when I can find it.
hmm or even a nice frostee from Wendy's is a nice treat.
learning I am way way behind the curve on 2021 slurpee tech
got new cups and the sunlight really shows the layers of a turkish coffee, though my camera couldn't quite capture it.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1384615322209202177?s=20
Justice system sacrifices one of its own to keep it going but still. It is a day.
yes strange that a 1000% obvious open and shut verdict feels like “progress”
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https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1384623994658299904
I‘m forever a cynic. I think this to some degree sets a distressingly high standard for clarity of evidence for an arrest, charge, and full conviction of a killer cop. If there isn’t head-on clear footage of a protracted act of deliberate torture, it falls below the standard set by this trial. That's worrying to me in a time when, really, no meaningfully large group of people are asking for an increase in police power, but we sure are getting it.
That tweet that went around of someone saying how absurd it was that they're holding this long and elaborate procedure to convict someone of a murder we all saw with our own eyes was not really speaking to how the justice system approaches criminality, doubly so in terms of when it needs to establish criminality for the sorts of violence that enforce and deepen the status quo. The question being asked by the trial wasn't if the cop killed him or not, even if the charges seemed to suggest that. The central question of the trial was still whether or not he had a right to do so, as a cop. And, based on how I am reading the law for 2nd degree murder, 3rd degree murder, and 2nd degree manslaughter, what it seems to me is that as far as the law is concerned, the pig didn't deliberately kill him, but that George Floyd died as an unintended consequence of an assault, which was fatal out of, not intent, but negligence.
As in, from the law's perspective, Chauvin had a right to brutality. The conviction is not about whether the brutality should have happened in the first place but that it just happened too severely. Only murder in the first degree would really definitively say as far as the justice system is concerned that the act of brutality was not warranted, because it's really the only thing that actively says Chauvin's intent wasn't to arrest and detain but to murder. In essence it's not a conviction against police brutality as an acceptable form of social control, it's a conviction of an individual bad actor who went too far and made a mistake. Keeping in mind, this is specifically because Chauvin is a cop. All of this is predicated on the idea, even if the trial seems to have suggested otherwise, that Chauvin had a right to restrain him violently. It was just for too long.
I guess with that in mind, I'd be bracing for hearing that Chauvin was handed the shortest possible sentence.
@yeso i guess i'm having a stroke.
Oh god…………… Yeah I wrote that post BEFORE watching the clip of Pelosi
@pasquinelli skincrawling lol
I suppose the conviction here (and the mcdonald conviction last year) are progress in the sense that in the former, the public was able to play a major role in advocating for actual consequences: insisting on being present and the scene and witnessing the event, filming it, etc. And in the latter is was a FOI request by an independent journalist that set things in motion. I wonder what will come from the recent Toledo killing in this regard. But that authorities have learned in that case to just get that shit out in public as fast as possible, and hopefully they'll be willing to burn the officer for killing that unarmed kid
but you're probably right that extreme malpractive is what will be punishable. As far as I know none of the cops slamming 5'2" women into the cement during the protests last summer faced any consequences. It's of course a whole system and culture that's totally rotten
I have to deal with cops pretty often for work and I'm comfortable saying that basically any and all interactions are just a real struggle. Dumb, belligerent, endlessly defensive, make every situation worse and more intense than it needs to be...
I was watching a tv show the other day and there was this cop character talking, and I thought to myself: a cop would never say that many complete sentences IRL
I guess I feel the need to rant on like that even if it‘s probably to the choir most of the time (not just here) ’cause even individuals who think the system is fucked can never fully comprehend as an individual just how fucked it is. Even people like myself who think they found the bottom, I speak for myself here, feel constantly sickened how consistently I feel there is a new low to gawk at, historically and in the present too, to be honest
Like for instance seeing someone who is already a charlatan of the most mindbending hypocrisy, thank a victim of police brutality for being murdered??? On camera???
this fucking rancid ghoul became an adult in the middle of the civil rights movement and I don't know how you could conceive of this as someone making a sacrifice you can thank them for unless you still somehow, consciously or not, view them as having had some liability in the act of their own violent murder