mfg i don’t know if i’m laughing or crying this is the most absurd graph I’ve ever seen it looks like spiders georg
“all presidents lie” factoid actualy just statistical error. Donald Georg, who lives on a golf course and lies 10.000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
“The officer who fired the fatal shots at the 16-year-old, however, was cleared of all charges by a grand jury.”
W T F
There is absolutely no justice in this. First of all why is he being tried as an adult?
basically the reasoning behind this bs is that he was an accessory to murder because he was involved in the robbery, which “caused” the officer to have to fire his gun. laiketh was offered 25 years if he plead guilty, 65 if he took it to trial. (long sentences like this are basically used to scare people into pleading guilty.) he decided to fight (because, you know, he didn’t actually shoot anyone) but he lost. it’s so sad and stupid.
“I don’t think Mr. Smith will be smiling long when he gets to prison,” District Attorney C.J. Robinson said. “We are very pleased with this sentence. Because the sentences are consecutive, it will be a long time before he comes up for even the possibility for parole, at least 20 to 25 years.”
This adult is speaking with joy about sentencing a 15-year old kid to prison for the rest of his life, knowing full well the kid isn’t guilty for the crime he’s being punished for, because it was proven to be the police who murdered his friend.
there is no grain in this that isn’t the most absolute form of evil , and C.J Robinson deserves to die
HOW DO YOU SENTENCE SOMEONE FOR ACCESSORY TO MURDER AND THEN LET THE (FOLLOWING THE CHAIN OF LOGIC) MURDERER GO FREE????? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS THIS FUCKED UP LEGAL SYSTEM OVER THERE IN THE USA??
Fifteen. He is fifteen.
We live in a horrific dystopia and I hope someone gets this kid the fuck out of prison. Somehow. I will even accept “through a hole in the prison wall and successful, permanent escape to a country that doesn’t have extradition treaties.”
we should make fun of americans more. why dont their shops include tax in the price tag. like how much does this item cost? its a surprise 🙂
Honestly, tea. I’ve lived here my whole life and I have never once known what my total is gonna be at the register. Total fucking mystery.
im an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction
Unfortunately, this isn’t just a meme at this point. According to an article put out by the Washington Post today, more people have been killed at schools this year than have been killed while serving in the military. “Even excluding non-students who died in school shootings (for example, teachers) the total still exceeds military casualties.” The three mass-casualty events for service members were two helicopter crashes and a plane crash.
The article continues, and only gets worse: “The number of deaths and school shooting incidents through May 18 are each higher this year than at any point since 2000. There have been three times as many deaths in school shootings so far this year than in the second-most deadly year through May 18, 2005.“
I understand that a school is not more dangerous than a combat zone. I have a retired military father, uncle, and grandfather, and an active duty brother who has been deployed to Afghanistan and Kuwait, among others. However, I went to middle and high school in Coral Springs, which is adjacent to and has close ties with Parkland. I have friends who go to Stoneman Douglas, including those whose own friends were killed, and friends whose family go to Douglas. I saw the videos as they were first starting to come out from people who recorded it themselves. I saw the shooter’s instagram before it was taken down. It makes me so sick to have to hear again and again about CHILDREN going through this, as my own community has, because adults have repeatedly let them down.
There is no reason to own guns capable of mass casualty incidents and no one needs high capacity magazines, such as those used at Douglas. Guns need to stop being allowed in the hands of children, such as in the cases of Douglas and now Santa Fe. Conservatives are valuing shooting cans behind their trailer over the LIVES OF CHILDREN because they seem to have no capacity for empathy and want to stick it to the “ESJAYDOUBLEYUH LIBTARDS THAT WANNA STEAL OUR GUNS!”. I’m done expressing my feelings nicely about this. The GOP and conservatives need to get the NRA’s dick out of their mouths. I’m at a loss for words because I’m so disgusted by so many people who value NRA payouts and getting hard over their gun collection in this sick country over the safety of innocent people.
Gun control (not outright banning) has been proven to work. The US is the only first-world country (forgive me, I’m not sure how to better phrase that) where this happens on such a large scale, and everyone knows it, even if they continue to deny it. I know I’m mostly preaching to the choir here, but FUCK, I am pissed. VOTE IN THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. GET THESE EVIL FUCKS OUT OF OFFICE.
Funny enough, there’s a long history of worker’s struggle in the Appalachians and South.
Redneck Revolt is a good group organizing in these areas around this identity and history.
Yeah regions where mining, agriculture, and similar industries are dominant tend to have a history of socialist organizing and labor agitation, funny how that works
i love how many people are commenting on this basically saying it’s an oxymoron for rednecks to be communists like… in what universe is it an oxymoron for… actual poor and working-class people… to be invested in an ideology & movement that centers around working-class/labor struggle… lmao ????
literally the only reason why there has been a shift in later years is cus of fear mongering to the point where capitalist criticism has become a taboo even for lower class poor people. like many the southern states are some of the poorest states in usa??
“Let’s show these fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do!”
-Woody Guthrie
coming from a non-informed point of view i feel like once again this is Reagan’s fault because he targeted workers unions a good deal…
People are saying its a oxymoron because “redneck” is usually synonymous with “racist/stupid af” in america. And “racist/stupid af” in america tends to steer very far right.
But there is a actually a whole population of “redneck” that isnt racist at all. They’re actually pretty well educated, theyre just poor and do poor people stuff. They’re the ones who end up introducing black people to white people shit. Like moonshine, mudding and camping. Theyre a trip to hang around.
Theres actually a lot of overlap in the “redneck” and the “hood” culture (large tight knit families, general disdain for authorities, love of bbq…etc), but the rich white people in power dont want people to know that because if the all the poor people reguardless of color realize they have shared interests band together and raise hell. Its over for the 1%. So they try their hardest to emphasize and exaggerate the cultural differences, in hopes of convincing the low income disenfranchized whites to vote right.
I LOVE capitalist critical Appalachian culture. One of the first things i learned that fueled my interest was the origin of the word ‘redneck.’
Coal mining was HUGE from the mid 1700s to the early 1900s in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania as coal was a primary source of fuel for a lotta shit. Unsurprisingly, mine owners were capitalist pigs and exploited the hell outta coal miners. Like, paying them by the pound of coal they brought in rather than by hours worked, paying them in vouchers that could only be used at the store owned by the mining company, and offering no kind of health assistance when workers would inevitably succumb to illness and injury caused by the work they did. So miners began to unionize in the mid 1840s. To show solidarity and to make their employers take notice, unionists would wear red bandanas around their necks. And thus, the term ‘redneck’ was coined to describe the union supporters who eventually dismantled a lot of the exploitive practices used by the coal industry.
Love these! Just discovered the hillbilly leftie podcast the Trillbilly Worker’s Party, and I am so excited to see more leftist organizing in these parts. We have an amazing history of labor struggle, and a fair amount of labor wins, in this region.
is this a freudian slip?
I called it ‘the American feudal system’ when I meant ‘the American federal system’, but like… accidental accuracy?
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