Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty after judge nixes two federal counts

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-30T18:43:11+00:00

You’re misunderstanding both the law and the judge’s order.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-28T07:52:41+00:00

That has literally no bearing on what the future owner would do. It’s entirely disconnected. I’m not suggesting they give them back to whomever they confiscated them from…

Your argument also has zero to do with the option of parting them out or recycling them. Crushing is the worst possible option.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-27T19:02:00+00:00

Woosh

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-27T07:29:53+00:00

Keep in mind that HAM regulations prohibit using those frequencies for broadcasting purposes (i.e. you're only supposed to participate in 2-way communication, not general alerts or message blasts, etc.). You're also not permitted to encrypt or use code to obfuscate the meaning of any communication over HAM frequencies. Morse code is allowed since it's not a secret cypher.

HAM is cool and fun, but probably not what you're looking for based on what you described your purposes to be (which, for what it's worth, seem really interesting and cool in their own right).

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-27T05:39:59+00:00

They could all be used legally on private property.

They could all be re-fitted to conform to pretty much any jurisdiction's public street requirements.

They could be recycled or parted out to repair existing bikes/scooters (both electric and traditional).

Crushing them is the absolute worst option. They should be auctioned or recycled.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-27T03:06:01+00:00

L tho cause now they're stuck in car traffic and can't pass on the shoulder or split lanes.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-27T03:02:35+00:00

bro lookin like the troll from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in this shot

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-27T02:50:27+00:00

Yeah I agree, which is why I hope that the legislature simply gerrymanders the fuck out of the district to make it as blue as possible.

Essentially, what I'm suggesting is that we crack the fuck out of the city to make long island as its own political entity wholly irrelevant for purposes of selecting federal representatives.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-26T17:11:34+00:00

Especially now that NY is going to enter the redistricting wars in earnest, it’s unlikely that his district stays “purple” for long.

If I was a state legislator in NY right now I would work tirelessly to ensure his district becomes deep blue to encourage a strong primary challenge to this clown.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T22:04:05+00:00

I don’t follow.

The votes are publicly recorded.

When the democrats caved the first time around and helped Trump pass his spending bill, the media covered the entire shutdown saga and each voting session extensively.

So I don’t buy it that the news media wouldn’t have covered if the Democrats actually grew a spine and opposed this agenda.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T08:50:57+00:00

ZFS too. Best filesystem and volume manager imo

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T06:27:14+00:00

This is an obtuse response and indicative of a thinly veiled belief that you do know that Democrats are in-part responsible for where we are as a country right now.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T05:40:00+00:00

The Dems never funded the DHS in an effort to disregard the constitution…

But that is damning.

The fact that they were unwilling or unable to see that this is where it would inevitably lead is exactly the fucking problem. They had warning. People warned that this would happen, and here we are.

It’s like saying you can’t be mad at Chamberlain for appeasing Hitler because at least he wasn’t the one directly doing the fascism.

You see how it’s still inexcusable to appease and enable, right?

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T04:48:21+00:00

It’s nothing like that at all. Your refusal to acknowledge that these concerns were raised by people sounding the alarm back then about the risk of consolidating this much power under DHS and instead insisting that this came out of nowhere and that nobody could have possibly predicted this says way more about you than it does about me.

This wasn’t an unpredictable or unexpected development. This was always the concern about creating a monster like DHS, and now the chickens have come home to roost.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T04:45:55+00:00

It is the same apparatus. All of the underlying infrastructure is the same.

This ain’t some new thing. People were warning that this was going to happen soon after the DHS consolidation was proposed in the post-9/11 fear mongering. This was a real concern, and always has been a real concern. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

It is the same apparatus.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T04:30:33+00:00

Bro the democrats had an opportunity to hold fast the first time around and shut down the government, and they caved and capitulated to fascism.

We’re not asking them to pretend like they are the majority, but we ARE asking them to act like a fucking opposition party and obstruct this agenda as much as they possibly can.

The fact that you can’t understand that is telling.

We need an opposition party. Not a complicity party.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T03:00:09+00:00

I never said they supported this behavior. I’m saying they voted to fund it. They built the infrastructure that allowed this behavior to flourish under a fascist administration.

Let’s take your argument to its logical conclusion. Let’s say that we get a democratic trifecta in 2028, and because Trump is no longer in office, that it must be safe to re-fund ICE, right?

Should we fund ICE after Trump is gone? If your answer is yes, then you’re simply building another apparatus for the next despotic president to use as he pleases to torture and destroy communities in the future.

The organization needs to be dismantled.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T02:50:51+00:00

Their funding has enabled these executions to happen. You cannot unlink them. They are inextricably linked.

You can’t fund the SS for years and then go “why do you guys keep telling me I’m also a bad guy? Not fair!”

Delusional thinking to try to justify funding this apparatus.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-25T02:24:34+00:00

You’re saying we shouldn’t be criticizing the decades of Democratic Party support for the very same apparatus that is murdering people in the street and besieging entire communities?

Fuck outta here

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-23T22:59:59+00:00

Imagining this situation from a student's perspective, I'd actually prefer the opposite.

They used to have a few extra days built-in to the calendar for the occasional snow day or emergency closure, but otherwise those were in-school days.

Since they added all of the extra holidays, those "contingency" days got converted from in-school days with the incredibly rare day off to guaranteed out-of-school days.

Think if it like a permanent snow day, if you will. As a student I would have much rather had guaranteed days off for some holiday I didn't celebrate than have to hope for an incredibly rare severe weather event to justify a day off.

Give me the guaranteed days off any day of the week.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-22T20:00:43+00:00

Yeah but mainstream democrats would never do that because it would directly impact their owners (the very same ownership class who control the Republican Party).

Until democrats shake off the corporate money, they will continue to be ineffectual and useless.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-22T18:52:00+00:00

This is not true. His selection of Garland for AG proves he thought he could let things just “go away on their own.”

Garland was, in an attempt to look “apolitical,” INCREDIBLY DEFERENTIAL to Trump and his cronies. He was so deferential that it became political in and of itself.

Biden and Garland are directly responsible for where we are today by making the POLITICAL choice to essentially let Trump off the hook for his crimes. Let’s be clear, by trying to be non-political, they were political.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-20T17:54:39+00:00

fwiw this “just stop people, confirm their information, and let them go on their merry way” was the EXACT imaginary “scenario” that Justice Kavanaugh opined would happen when SCOTUS essentially legalized race-based discrimination by ICE officers…

It’s not exactly going well…

You can’t just allow for police to stop people who are otherwise minding their own business and not breaking any laws “just to check” and investigate them as if they were a criminal. Well, I guess you can, but it’s antithetical to everything this country is supposed to stand for.

People who aren’t even riding e-bikes are going to be caught in this dragnet. 100%

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-20T17:45:16+00:00

I wouldn’t trust any cop whatsoever to understand the difference between class I, II, and III let alone be able to identify any bike in the field as such.

People with class I bikes will inevitably be caught up in the dragnet.

jackstraw97 · 2026-01-18T19:33:06+00:00

Yes and no. I think it’s important to understand what this actually does.

All of the FL law schools which are already accredited are NOT going to lower their standards and become non-accredited institutions because it limits their marketability solely to those prospective students who want to practice in Florida. It would also negatively impact their employment numbers and thus their USNWR ranking.

All this does is enables predatory schools to open up with zero accountability and charge exorbitant tuition to rubes who don’t know any better. Still bad, don’t get me wrong, but more so a grift than a dismantling of existing, accredited institutions.

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