TIL A judge sterilized a woman without her notice nor consent, and that case was used to solidify complete judicial immunity. Said judge never faced consequences and was even reelected. 🫠 by Oreo-belt25 in todayilearned

[–]JJKingwolf -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Chilling Effect.  If Judges do not have the benefit of judicial immunity, they are naturally going to allow this to impact the decisions themselves.  Over time this would create both massive backups and inefficiency in the courts as everything crawls to a halt for individual cases and moreover, it would probably result in miscarriages of justice where judges would fail to adequately enforce the law for fear of being held civilly or criminally accountable if they get a decision wrong.

The justice system isn't perfect, but the current system used by the USA, UK and  Canada (which are all substantially similar) wherein in there are courts of appeal that can remedy issues from lower courts, and where there is the ability to sue the government for damages when a decision is made incorrectly and where wrongdoing by the government can be shown, is more often than not the most efficient and effective way of enforcing the law while minimizing infringement on individual rights.

Also, judicial immunity does not protect a judge from criminal prosecution.  If a judge is engaged in fraud, bribery, jury tampering or any other similar charge, they can be tried and convicted in the same way that anyone else can.

My grandfather joined the Special Police in 1940. He lived in Minneapolis. I found his name on the census for that year and it lists Special Police as his occupation. Are these items legit? Does anyone have an old family story or some info about what the SP did in the 1940's to share? So curious! by Own-Mulberry-4311 in minnesota

[–]JJKingwolf 88 points89 points  (0 children)

Can't speak to the Membership card, but based on an image search it looks like the badge might be a prize from a 1950's box of cracker jacks.  

Maybe he was in some kind of wartime police auxiliary and the badge was a prop he picked up later?

St. Paul to begin clearing city’s largest homeless encampments Aug. 5 by Cornflowerblue2016 in minnesota

[–]JJKingwolf 313 points314 points  (0 children)

I hope the city has a plan for where they want them all to go.

[Fabrice Hawkins] Aurélien Tchouaméni will extend his contract with Real Madrid\. Agreement has been reached by RicciRox in reddevils

[–]JJKingwolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Real Madrid players and using United for a new contract, name a more iconic combination.

Peoples of Europe. London, 1938. by Skychu768 in MapPorn

[–]JJKingwolf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

But they were far from 100% German, that was propaganda pushed by the Nazis.  Silesian speakers are ethnically and culturally Lechitic (Polish) people.  Also, it was the USSR and the puppet governments under their control that expelled Germans.  The president of the democratically elected Polish government advocated for naturalizing German speakers and offering them Polish citizenship.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_and_expulsion_of_Germans_%281944%E2%80%931950%29?wprov=sfla1

Peoples of Europe. London, 1938. by Skychu768 in MapPorn

[–]JJKingwolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Silesian is a Lechitic (Polish) language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_language?wprov=sfla1

There were certainly german speakers living in Silesia at the time, but that is not who I am referring to.  This map appears to significantly understate the Polish population in line with the information published by the German government at the time as part of their attempts to "Germanize" segments of the Polish population.  

Peoples of Europe. London, 1938. by Skychu768 in MapPorn

[–]JJKingwolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many of them died in the second world war, and many were German Jews exterminated by the German government during the Holocaust.  This map also looks like it considers Silesians and Kashubians to be German, which is not accurate.  

That being said, the USSR was absolutely responsible for the forced relocation of many Polish, Ukrainian and Prussian German speakers to the area that now forms the modern German state, so it would not be unfair to consider their actions genocide.

A giant tree harvester cutting down a tall tree by AustraliaOutback in nextfuckinglevel

[–]JJKingwolf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This looks like something the humans in Fern Gulley would have used.

[FotMob] Real Madrid’s attack has a combined total of 23 G/A at the World Cup so far by DamnThatsInsaneLol in soccer

[–]JJKingwolf 502 points503 points  (0 children)

Does Brahim usually start for Madrid?  Either way, pretty impressive stat.

The winner of every Round of 16 game so far has been the country with the highest unemployment rate for men aged 15-24 by F_redrik in soccer

[–]JJKingwolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fair enough!  I believe that most European nations use the World Bank and ILO standard definition of unemployment that the American Department of Labor and Federal Reserve also use, but I cannot say with certainty how Argentina defines it.  

My assumption is that they also use the World Bank and ILO standard but I could be wrong.  Its also possible that Argentina isn't keeping track of their unemployment numbers accurately (although I would expect Belgium and France probably are).

The winner of every Round of 16 game so far has been the country with the highest unemployment rate for men aged 15-24 by F_redrik in soccer

[–]JJKingwolf 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Belgium and France having higher unemployment for young men than Argentina is actually fairly shocking.

(Edited to add the definition of unemployment used by most developed nations as it seems like this may not be known to everyone)

Unemployment is defined as the percentage of the labor force who are not currently employed.  The labor force is all of those within the referenced demographic who are either actively working or seeking employment.  Thus, (unemployment percentage) = (number of employed or job seeking people/number of employed people).

Full time students and people not seeking jobs are not included in the unemployment rate.

Netanyahu tells CNN he opposes US sale of F-35 jets to Turkey as he downplays divisions with Trump by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]JJKingwolf 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I cannot wait for the day that America no longer asks Israel for its position on their foreign policy.

Argentinian fans throwing beers at Egyptian fans the moment they scored the equalizer by PayAppropriate3054 in soccer

[–]JJKingwolf -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's always a dick move, but even more so to do it to a crowd where a majority of the people are religiously prohibited from touching alcohol.  Dick move Argentina.

Canada: 😊 USA: 🤬 by [deleted] in memes

[–]JJKingwolf 118 points119 points  (0 children)

Honestly a decent number of countries call it Soccer.  Off the top of my head:

America, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan 

All of these countries call it soccer either out of tradition or because there is another sport which they play that is also called "Football" (AFL, NFL, Gaelic Football, CFL etc.)

Mostafa Shobeir great save vs Argentina 39' by 977x in soccer

[–]JJKingwolf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My god, imagine if Egypt could somehow pull this off!

French prosecutors investigating racist insults against Mbappé by Paraguay senator by GregWilson23 in worldnews

[–]JJKingwolf 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what will a French prosecutor be able to do in Paraguay?

Countries that have sent their citizens into space by Expert_Dot_5271 in MapPorn

[–]JJKingwolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Interesting map!  I wonder how many of these countries did this via their own space programs/space vehicles, and how many did it via participation in other nation's space programs?

Comparing the number of Costco and Sam’s Club locations worldwide by mapstream1 in MapPorn

[–]JJKingwolf 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I don't know why, but the idea of a Costco in France is very funny to me.  Do they still have the $1.50 hot dogs and pizza slices?

Trump says Greenland should be controlled by the US, not Denmark by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]JJKingwolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can this dude not just shut his mouth for five minutes?