I don’t think that’s inherent to the unpopular opinion format, a post could just as easily be a “I like this thing everybody else hates”. People can and frequently do use it just to troll, but that’s a problem with those people not the community.

Related, “Wife of 72-year-old veteran beaten to death by a cellmate in Alabama jail sues corrections officers” (archived)

e; Actually, this needs a clarification. This news story is about a jail facility in Alabama, whereas this documentary is about a prison facility. Generally speaking, prisons are where people are said after they are convicted of crimes, jails are where they are held before trial if they are unable to post bail. Both ultimately report to the same state department of corrections, but these are separate facilities.

“Sensitivity to justice? That is a problem that must be cured.” - what capitalism does to a mf-er

I mean, is she any less qualified than, like, Maureen Dowd, or Ezra Klein, or George Will, or any one of the dozen other lint-brained pundits that get paid thousands of dollars to write their idiotic drivel for billionaires in newspaper op-ed columns?

There’s zero chance that wouldn’t go exactly the same under the Biden administration. If/when this new government decides to start persecuting their LGBT community I would bet the Trump administration would cheer them on where a Biden administration would tell them to stop, but Israel gets a blank check to commit atrocities from both of them.

We’re talking about the same people, Biden could and should extend TPS protections to all of them to clear up any bullshit immigration officials are trying to pull

Here’s a straightforward thing the Biden administration could do without Congress to protect migrants

In the period between now and Inauguration Day, on January 20th, the Biden Administration could still give immigrants additional layers of protection before Trump takes office. One of the most obvious possibilities is to expand T.P.S. for Nicaraguans [and other migrants]… So far, however, the Administration appears unwilling to do so, just as it remains opposed to renewing parole for those who entered through Biden’s “pathways.” Trump almost certainly will revoke parole. Either way, the senior congressional staffer told me, “parole is a weak protection compared to T.P.S.”

When Trump tried to end T.P.S. for certain nationalities in his first term, federal courts blocked him on the grounds that he had a “predetermined presidential agenda” that betrayed a racial “animus.” According to a former Biden Administration official with knowledge of current talks, the State Department supports expanding T.P.S. for Nicaraguans, based on a straightforward analysis of what’s happening in the country, but Mayorkas, at D.H.S., is opposed. (A D.H.S. spokesperson said that this was false and that “no decision has been made.”) “Extending T.P.S. used to be one of the easiest things Democrats supported,” the senior congressional staffer told me. But the Administration’s approach is now constrained by anxieties that it might seem brash or opportunistic on its way out. “It’s becoming evident that they believe immigration was one of the main factors in the electoral defeat,” the staffer said. “They don’t want to take actions that would double down on what they believe is a failed political strategy.”

If this story gets widespread and sustained attention I bet the JP Morgan VP is done for. Not that they have a problem with that sort of thing if he had kept it quiet, but having it come out could cost them some money and he’s not important enough for that.

“I can excuse sexual assault and violent racism, but talking about being hungover at work is where I draw the line!” - Fox News employees

I don’t think they actually have problems with Hegseth’s treatment of women, they just don’t like that he’s gotten negative headlines about it recently. Like, if they knew he raped and murdered a dozen women but had successfully covered it up his nomination would sail through.

Additionally, never ever believe lawmakers saying they’ve reached an agreement with a business to do x by y (and therefore they don’t need to pass any new regulations to actually force that business to do what they agreed to)

I wish Biden was that cool

Well, this thread was entertaining until I read this comment

Not mad though, this is what people should be talking about

Asking (paraphrasing) “hey what are you wrong about but unwilling to admit?” and then sticking a (metaphorical) “I think Nickleback is a pretty good band” opinion in the middle of it feels like a harder challenge than the designers of AskLemmy were intending

Some people suck, definitely, but most people I’ve met in my life have been pretty good. The problem is that the sucky people are very determined to become powerful and inflict their suck on the rest of us.

Wright County Circuit Court Judge Craig Carter wrote, “If we don’t let a 16-year-old buy a six-pack of beer and a pack of smokes

I am normally the last person to give a shit about overly informal language, but for fucks fucking sake Missouri, you couldn’t find one person in your state with the intellectual capacity to realize that “If the state does not permit the purchase of alcohol nor tobacco by minors” maybe sounds a bit more serious? Like, the actual ruling itself is an offensive embarrassment, but I really can’t get over the fact that it’s written like a freakin facebook post.

Law schools get absolutely stupid about the ritual of exams. Some of that is because every law school class has some ambitious and devious people in it who will try to cheat if they think they can get away with it, but a lot of it is because law is dominated by old assholes with distorted memories about how much they suffered and how hard they had to work back in the day and see it as their duty to inflict that imagined suffering on the next generation.

The congressionally mandated agreement allows transition aides to work with federal agencies and access non-public information and gives a green light to government workers to talk to the transition team.

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Transition aides must sign statements that they have no financial positions that could pose a conflict of interest before they receive access to non-public federal information.

I’m sure none of them would ever lie about that /s

They kept the good stuff under wraps and tried to play it safe but not spooking anyone with “communism.”

This is it exactly, and I feel like this bit of this Salon article (arc’d) perfectly captures why this happened

Tobias described a dynamic where campaign staff and candidates are hesitant to publicly push back on the assertions of billionaire donors like Hoffman, even if the campaign doesn’t intend to let them direct policy.

Tobias indicated that the apparent influence of the super-wealthy has a dual effect. It undermines the Democratic Party’s support from its traditional base by steering policy discussions away from economically populist ideas that go against the interest of the wealthy, while simultaneously helping support candidates who are charismatic but don’t come into politics with a consistent ideological framework.

The influence of billionaires was directly early in Harris’ bid for the presidency when moguls like Mark Cuban warned the Harris campaign that a billionaire tax, for example, would be too aggressive, according to the Washington Post. Other business executives, like Tony West, the chief legal officer at Uber and Harris’ brother-in-law, also served as advisors and, according to the Atlantic, helped steer the campaign away from criticism of corporate power.

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