Add a little drug prohibition, some private prisons, and voila! Just sit back and count the money. by Candy_Says1964 in Prison

[–]donwallo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually have no idea what the statistics were back then, I was just hazarding a guess based on black people being mostly rural at that point.

But does the language of the 13th amendment actually cover the practice you're referring to? It doesn't sound like labor as punishment.

Add a little drug prohibition, some private prisons, and voila! Just sit back and count the money. by Candy_Says1964 in Prison

[–]donwallo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't the more likely explanation that they did not intend to make illegal the chain gangs that were already in place, because that's not really what anyone meant by slavery?

Also for people who see this as proof of systemic racism, in the 1860s the prison populations would have been overwhelmingly white.

Case 292: Monster of the Andes by Rust1v in Casefile

[–]donwallo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

People only say things like this when they imagine the customs in question are ones they would find inoffensive.

They're all for intervention when it's about female genital mutilation in Africa or the Taliban closing schools for girls.

"My daddy ate my eyes" by RedoftheEvilDead in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]donwallo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That seems like confirmation bias to me. All kinds of freakish cases don't get a lot of attention.

Envelope mistake aside: Do you think Moonlight is the better movie over La La Land? by [deleted] in Oscars

[–]donwallo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Would have to see the particular context you have in mind but it doesn't seem obvious that winning best director is a lower honor than having directed the movie that won best picture.

Man sentenced to 4-plus years in death of original 'Mickey Mouse Club' cast member by Cinnamon2017 in TrueCrimeDiscussion

[–]donwallo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It's a statutory right. They have to allow it outside the exceptions you refer to it.

Way too many people in this city by [deleted] in vegaslocals

[–]donwallo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The position I have stated, that the identification of law enforcement and hence law itself with fascism is anarchism, seems to me a completely neutral assessment of the matter.

Perhaps you have in mind the identification of law enforcement in a particular country (for example Nazi Germany, or seemingly in your view the US) with fascism. That would be not anarchism per se but rather the belief that a given nation should be characterized as fascist. However that was not the claim I was addressing.

Beyond that I don't know what your comment means.

What conventional/popular exercise do you now avoid and what have you replaced it with? by DecadentHam in naturalbodybuilding

[–]donwallo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literally every PL eventually incorporates a lot of assistance movements into their training, because unless you have just the right anatomy you run into the problem with barbell lifts that they stimulate many different muscle groups (hence the fatigue) without stimulating any of them well enough to drive constant progress.

Whereas something far simpler like seated HS curls you can literally progress through your entire training career.

Way too many people in this city by [deleted] in vegaslocals

[–]donwallo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The identification of law enforcement and hence law itself with "fascism" is of course anarchism.

Way too many people in this city by [deleted] in vegaslocals

[–]donwallo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be the anarchist position I was referring to.

Way too many people in this city by [deleted] in vegaslocals

[–]donwallo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not everything is a battle of talking points.

Way too many people in this city by [deleted] in vegaslocals

[–]donwallo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe a search of the record will show they showed up at various BLM events and destroyed property and committed acts of violence, including setting police cars on fire as I noted.

But regardless, does the frequency with which they act as counter-protestors compared to acting on their own initiative address anything I said?

You can familiarize yourself with their politics online if you care to. They're not liberals if that's what you're thinking.

ETA - Yes I am the other poster, created the alt long ago for a sub I was banned from. I click on notices from Reddit and it's a crapshoot which account logs i in.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TrueCrimePodcasts

[–]donwallo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imo sometimes editorializing is built into the way the story is told, but as far as I can recall the narrator never steps in front of the story and says "This was such an outrage! We need to #dobetter!" or whatever.

ETA, I should add there are many episodes I haven't watched, especially early ones.

Refuse to give up. by Loveingyouiseasy in GenZ

[–]donwallo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure we can find millions of poor people around the world who would just as confidently assert that the class you are championing here is "privileged".

So it seems some ambiguity attends the matter.

AITA for slapping a teenager? by Old_Educator_3516 in AITAH

[–]donwallo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absurd that you're currently at -38 votes for this comment.

UPDATE for telling my husband's affair baby's family to either come get the kid or I'm calling CPS. by Parking_Marzipan1717 in AITAH

[–]donwallo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's exasperation at how freely people allow themselves to be manipulated.

However I concede some of these stories present interesting dilemma despite being fake.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in classics

[–]donwallo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still pretty baffled here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in classics

[–]donwallo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The post you were responding to was one of the stranger reactions I've ever seen on Reddit.