root_beer

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[–] root_beer@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Who is on the side of ending qualified immunity: pretty much anyone who isn't a cop or authoritarian.

As much as the votes on reproductive rights and cannabis gave me hope, the legislature’s responses on both left me cold, as some of these scumbags are not above ignoring the will of the electorate, and with the way the winds are blowing now, I’d not put it past them to move forward now to do just that.

I think there’s potential of the issue passing—as with the aforementioned reproductive rights and cannabis measures—but I fully expect a ballot issue on abolishing QI to meet a whole bunch of rigging and disenfranchisement fuckery, plus I fear that people may be intimidated or otherwise discouraged from voting altogether.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago

Okay but how about compensation for all those people he’s fucked over by dismantling federal programs? I want this guy to be standing by a freeway on-ramp wearing a barrel and begging in vain for spare change, before dejectedly walking up said on-ramp to lie down in front of an oncoming cement truck.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

Spot-on re: 1. When I saw that I thought, “why fucking bother with these people?” Don’t Coachella/Burning Man/SXSW demographics comprise primarily techbros and other guillotine fodder nowadays?

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 57 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It’s by design though, isn’t it? Are there even any crypto green flags? Why are any of these ventures treated as anything other than rug-pull scams?

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

I’d once heard that it wasn’t even about West Virginia, the state, but rather west Virginia, the region. Dunno about the veracity of that statement, but

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

A Time to Kill