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• On the post: Tenth Circuit: No Immunity For Cops Who Protected An Abusive Fellow Officer Right Up Until He Murdered His Ex-Wife

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2021 @ 09:07am

  Yet people still ask victims…

  “Why didn’t you leave him?”
  “Why didn’t you get a restraining order?”
  “Why didn’t you call the cops?”

  .

• On the post: Oversight Report Says DC's Metro Police Can't Be Bothered To Investigate Serious Crimes

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 13 Jul, 2021 @ 04:21pm

  One more reason to abolish the police

  Police aren’t just abusive and racist tools of the carceral state….
  Turns out they’re also really bad at preventing and solving crime.

  And not just in DC

• On the post: Ohio Files Bizarre And Nonsensical Lawsuit Against Google, Claiming It's A Common Carrier; But What Does That Even Mean?

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2021 @ 01:29pm

  Re: Well if that's what you want...

  Every result would be porn or a scam. Or both.

• On the post: Ohio Files Bizarre And Nonsensical Lawsuit Against Google, Claiming It's A Common Carrier; But What Does That Even Mean?

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2021 @ 01:08pm

  Nonsense?

  That's like taking someone saying "it would be good if people ate more vegetables" and responding "so clearly you think everyone should be on an all plant diet all the time!" It's nonsense.

  Of course it’s nonsense. It’s also exactly what the GOP did earlier this year.

  Nonsense is their brand.

• On the post: A Few More Thoughts On The Total Deplatforming Of Parler & Infrastructure Content Moderation

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2021 @ 09:25pm

  Re: Re: Depends on how you're defining 'conservative'

  Now, we are told by a new high-priesthood, that what for the vast sweep of human history would have been an unexceptional view -- that biological sex is an important reality, and that segregating latrines, prisons and athletic competitions on its basis is a benefit to women -- is "bigotry"

  So you’re upset because you’re being criticized for opinions that people used to let slide. You’re upset because other people are publicly challenging your opinions, and you’d always assumed that your opinion is the natural default and it’s everyone else—not you—who has to face criticism. Well welcome to the world. Calling someone a bigot is not censorship, and no one is obligated to find your opinion worthy of debate or discussion.

• On the post: Trump Doubles Down On Threat To Defund Military Because People Are Mean To Him Online; Republicans Threaten To Override His Veto

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 04 Dec, 2020 @ 06:18pm

  Re:

  Stephen T. Stone wrote:

  The universe doesn’t owe anybody a damn thing; it was here first.

  And look at the chaos it left. The universe has a lot to answer for.

• On the post: County Agrees To Pay $390,000 To Students Arrested By A Sheriff 'Just To Prove A Point'

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 27 Dec, 2018 @ 03:32pm

  Bullying

  The deputy was brought in to teach those girls an important lesson about bullying:
  If you’re a cop you can get paid to do it.

• On the post: Breitbart Snowflakes Threaten To Sue People Who Have Asked Advertisers To Stop Advertising On Breitbart

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2018 @ 03:49pm

  Re: Re: This screams SLAPP

  And I take exception to the use of "snowflake" in the headline. It's become the left's version of "n-word" when speaking of anyone white.

  Don’t be ridiculous. Everyone knows the proper term for stupid white dudes is “Mayonnaise Boy”.

• On the post: Man Sues Facebook For Moderating His Bigoted Posts, Wants Section 230 Declared Unconstitutional

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2018 @ 11:07am

  The punitive damages are also supported by the fact that the statist and stoic philosophy and ideology and Keynesian economics promulgated by the Defendant as earnestly implemented by the US governance, education and other institutions since 1930 has led to tremendous economic losses.

  Georgalis v. Zeno, et al.

• On the post: Leaked Trump Plan To 'Nationalize' Nation's 5G Networks A Bizarre, Unrealistic Pipe Dream

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2018 @ 10:52am

  When I first read the proposal, my instinct was that it was just the random brain fart of some natsec advisor who doesn't understand how telecom works or the mammoth influence companies like AT&T have over such policy

  Knowing this Administration, my first thought was that the advisor has a significant financial stake in a company that would get a contract to build this out.

• On the post: Shipyard Brewing Sues The Brewery It Is Trademark Bullying Over The Public Backlash To Its Trademark Bullying

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2018 @ 07:52pm

  First rule...

  - “Hey, boss, this hole’s getting pretty deep. Think we maybe should call it a day?”
  - “Nah, keep digging! We must be getting close!”

• On the post: Trump's New Rural Broadband Executive Order Doesn't Actually Do Much Of Anything

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2018 @ 11:45am

  Trump's New Rural Broadband Executive Order Doesn't Actually Do Much Of Anything

  In a way, that’s a relief.

• On the post: Maine Government Agency Tries To Charge Public Records Requester $750 For Opening A PDF

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2017 @ 11:06am

  Be reasonable, now. Those tax giveaways to Amazon won't pay for themselves.

• On the post: Comcast Spent Millions Repealing Net Neutrality, Now Wants You To Believe It Won't Take Full, Brutal Advantage

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2017 @ 09:48am

  Re: Re: Re: ha ha ha

  Meds can be very helpful and good. I suggest you try them.

• On the post: Comcast Spent Millions Repealing Net Neutrality, Now Wants You To Believe It Won't Take Full, Brutal Advantage

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 28 Nov, 2017 @ 09:40am

  Re: Re:

  That. But they aren't throttling, no no, it's just giving priority to "better" services. It's for the consumers well being!

  We just need to understand that Comcast has its own special, improved dictionary.

  • "paid priority": pay up or lag eternally
  • "transparent": impossibly opaque to all but our biggest donors
  • "exciting upgrades to your television service": cutting channels you watch, adding channels you'll never watch, and raising your rates

• On the post: Don't Cheer For The Twitter Employee Who Deleted Donald Trump's Account

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2017 @ 12:02pm

  aw... You're no fun anymore.

• On the post: Deputy Who Rear-Ended Driver At 104 MPH Had Horrendous Service Record, Received Almost Zero Discipline

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2017 @ 03:05pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  You're a disingenuous jackass.
  https://www.techdirt.com/blog/techdirt%20/?tag=police+union

• On the post: Deputy Who Rear-Ended Driver At 104 MPH Had Horrendous Service Record, Received Almost Zero Discipline

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2017 @ 11:33am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Do you publish any pro-police articles

  my mother taught me to always try to leave every place you visit

  That would be a good start.

• On the post: Deputy Who Rear-Ended Driver At 104 MPH Had Horrendous Service Record, Received Almost Zero Discipline

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2017 @ 10:27am

  Re: Re: Re: Do you publish any pro-police articles

  Anonymous Coward wrote:

  When you only decry the few failures, and never celebrate the many successes and heroes of the police, you sound like a supremacist. When you condemn a whole class of people, how are you preaching something different than what Hitler was preaching? Same same, right? A whole class should be condemned, without exception. That's just nasty, right? Kind of the definition of bigotry and hatred, right?

  This is an extremely bad analogy. It's so goddamned awful - both illogical and immoral - that I don't even know where to begin. But I'll try. Choosing not to celebrate police who do their jobs properly is NOT bigotry. Police officer is a JOB, not a vulnerable class of people.

  There are heroic police, just as there were heroic Jews that were publicly condemned for no good reason.

  This is depraved. Six million Jews were murdered by the Nazi state. And you're comparing them to police facing public criticism.

• On the post: Deputy Who Rear-Ended Driver At 104 MPH Had Horrendous Service Record, Received Almost Zero Discipline

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2017 @ 10:00am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: wait...

  don't know, but I would guess that this officer is human, too. Maybe there is more to the story than is brought out in the article. Maybe he had some personal challenges in his life, just like all of us do. Maybe he deserves some consideration as a human, some compassion and understanding that we would give ourselves when we make a mistake, maybe even the benefit of the doubt, because of the difficult nature of his job.

  This officer got "the benefit of the doubt", repeatedly, from his superiors, even when it was plainly obvious his staying on the police force was a danger to the community. Five car accidents, multiple internal affairs recommendations, and only now, at last, he might face some consequences, after he did this to an innocent 60-year-old man:

  Deshommes had to have his spleen removed and suffered from a skull fracture, a traumatic brain injury, a broken left arm, a broken back, several broken ribs and a broken pelvis

  You don't want "understanding" for this officer. You want impunity, simply because he's police. No.

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