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Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by xp84 »

fc417fc802 wrote: post #256
LocalH wrote: post #220

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Then you're part of the problem. Convicted , sure. Merely arrested, with no conviction? Then you'd be an asshole

> Convicted, sure. Convicted ... for memeing? I think that would still be absurd. I don't think landlords should be denying tenants for obviously unrelated matters.

When you’re basically trusting a multi hundred thousand dollar asset to someone basically on faith, you basically are looking for a zero drama situation, so I can see why a lot of “out of the ordinary” activities would raise a red flag for potential landlords. I would not have an appetite to even be a landlord because people suck and will destroy things just to spite you. And in the tenant situation, good luck suing the tenant for it, they don’t have any money to pay. You’re lucky in some states if you can evict them within a year for not paying rent. So yeah, it’s not a surprise that landlords are interested in choosing VERY boring tenants to rent to, not activists.

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Post by dlubarov »

markoman wrote: post #243
dlubarov wrote: post #141

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> the U.S. makes excuses for Israel's attack on its own USS Liberty in 1967. It's strange how this 59-year-old incident keeps getting brought up. Friendly fire happens all the time, and Israel apologized and paid reparations ages ago.

Except they don't happen all the time, because this incident killed 34 Americans & wounded 171. Is that not remarkable enough for a 'blue-ribbon' commission of investigation? If one of our European allies had done this, wouldn't a commission be held to review all the evidence and make a determination as to cause? One needn't dig too deep to see there isn't too much wiggle room for mere misunderstanding. The nearly de…

> this with an American flag and its hull number in open display

Soldiers have uniforms with distinguishing colors/marks in open display, yet millions of soldiers have died by friendly fire. Lots of friendly planes have been shot down too despite IFF. No system for identifying friendly (or neutral) assets is foolproof.

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Post by 1659447091 »

autoexec wrote: post #294
1659447091 wrote: post #254

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> The federal government bails Texas out of the messes they get themselves into all the time (like their shitty power grid) What (federal) bailout did Texas receive for the power grid? Unless something changed, Texas refuses fed help for the power grid because it wants to stay independent. Texas bailed itself out of the 2021 power grid failure with a couple/few billion dollars that Texas pays for. And while not great…

https://www.fox26houston.com/news/texas-gets-60-million-in-f... https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-federal-go...

Did you read those sources? The $60 million is not bail out type money specifically designed for getting Texas out of its "own messes", it's a grant from the Infrastructure bill [0].

Those links are a country wide program that benefits the whole of the US, which Texas is sill a part of. Even with a very generous acceptance of your proof, 60 million is nothing compared to the 2.5 billion Texas funded themselves to shore up their independent grid. They won't take bail out type money because they refuse to accept federal oversight that comes with it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...

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Post by justsid »

goofy_lemur wrote: post #292

100% of all law enforcement is criminal. Nobody makes laws except criminals

I don’t agree with the arrest and definitely not every law either, but this has got to be rage bait. I’m quite happy to live in a society with laws

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Post by userbinator »

stouset wrote: post #35
userbinator wrote: post #16

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Indeed the brainwashing is still alive and well. It’s been five years since multiple COVID-19 vaccines have been widely available and administered worldwide, and just about the worst common side effects have been a small risk of mild, self-resolving myocarditis in mRNA vaccines and an increased risk of clotting for adenoviral vector vaccines which have been either discontinued or fallen out of use. Past those, there…

~5 per million doses

Now multiply that by how many people got it, and you see the number is not small at all.

Note: I have been vaxed myself.

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Post by esseph »

lmaoguy wrote: post #271
rolandhvar wrote: post #191

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There's poor and stupid, and then there's poor and smart

I can tell you which one is significantly more common

Ironically some of the smartest people I know aren't at all wealthy.

Re: Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality

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Post by esseph »

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #188
fc417fc802 wrote: post #162

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How would being arrested for memeing be a black mark? It would be a hilarious talking point that I would be more than happy to chat with a landlord, employer, or literally anyone else about. Anyone who would hold that against you is pretty much a textbook example of a bad person (banal evil or some such).

I wouldn’t rent my house to someone who has been arrested for memeing. It’s an unnecessary risk with absolutely no upside for me. What happens when they decide to meme on their landlord?

If your house became a meme house, you might actually make more money off renting it.

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Post by A1kmm »

jMyles wrote: post #285
FireBeyond wrote: post #282

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... subsequent to release. The fact that someone is in custody should be always available. But it should not be up to Joe Random to pay $11 to my State Patrol to find out why I was arrested last week, especially if I wasn't charged.

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding the nature of information propagation in the universe, but how do you propose to require the state to declare whom it has detained one week, and then to make that information unavailable the following week? (and even if you were able to change the nature of reality as you suggest, why accommodate the state's desire to deny such an action after-the-fact?)

I think regulating the retention and processing of information is entirely feasible even in circumstances where the information is initially available for a different purpose. This is in fact the legal status quo in Europe as well as many non-EU countries.

Now there is no absolute guarantee that, if someone has the information, and they are legally required to delete it or not use it, that they don't break the law. But it works in the case of balancing the need to avoid people being disappeared against preventing dragnet misuse of arrest data by employers and landlords. Maybe organised crime employers would systematically break the law if maintaining a database illegal, but they also probably don't mind people with arrest records.

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