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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 7h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 17h

I would ask for Icelanders. The police last I read were the most trusted institution in the country.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 18h

I've been called but always excluded, once on a peremptory.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 18h

Well done.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 18h

For text-oriented people, there's the Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nu...
There will be cases coming up where the facts don't support a guilty verdict anyway.

Jury nullification - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

And much later, wasn't there a Game of Thrones book where Littlefinger explains to Stark that the security forces will follow whoever pays them?

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking of evil, speaking of unions, look where they buy bananas: www.npr.org/2024/06/18/n...

Chiquita is ordered to pay millions to families of death squad victims in Colombia

A landmark verdict orders Chiquita, one of the worlds largest banana companies, to pay millions of dollars in damages to the relatives of eight Colombian men murdered by a paramilitary death squad.

www.npr.org

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

"The tribute vice pays to virtue".

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

My sense of humor once was the only thing that saved me from a complete nervous breakdown.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

Residents say this Halloween decoration should be illegal. Firefighters have responded. It's not obscene, defamatory, perjurious, or intrinsic to a crime. Whatever Ken thinks of this, I know I will learn from it.

A two-story house at night has Halloween decorations that make it appear the house is in flames and spewing smoke.

2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, lordy, just one thing out of many, many: www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces

Children in a remote village in the Dominican Republic have an extremely unusual condition.

www.bbc.com

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

I can't resist.

An official portrait photo of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

OK. Even I know, dicta, in an overturned case, misbegotten from the start. But I can be pathologically literal.
Hypo: Someone is charged for falsely s.f.i.a.c.t resulting in a panic and injuries. Would a First Amendment defense work? The 1A exceptions don't clearly apply.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I could remember who it was at the other site who asked whether the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education could shout in a crowded theater.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 2d

Honest fact finding could lead to acquittal, and more people need to know that a jury can simply acquit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nu...

Jury nullification - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 2d

Ohh, that shows up here all the time.

2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 2d

Normal pH range 7.35 to 7.45. 7 is neutral, lower is acidic.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 3d

A criminal, and according to the Carroll jury, a violent criminal.

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 3d

What Eisenhower called a conspiracy to seize power.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 3d

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine

by @jakescottMD

A call to develop separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines to replace the combined MMR shot is not backed by evidence. Here are the facts.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 3d

Contemptible, and your diagnosis fits something I learned from Zoe. She wrote of police reports about violence toward trans people being closed with "NHI", which stands for No Human Involved.

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rabbitsmom.bsky.social @rabbitsmom.bsky.social · 3d

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished the latest batch of Vote Forward letters for the PA Supreme Court race, making 100 altogether.

2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 3d

Grey's Law: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".

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2001dalmatians.bsky.social @2001dalmatians.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine a monkey flying a jetliner. Incompetence can destroy just as well as malice.

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