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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The c/reddit community is not for people who love reddit. Having reddit in your name doesn’t mean you like or support reddit. There’s no irony, youre just misunderstanding my username, the sub and just about everything else. Stop trying to make fun of people’s usernames.

    What I should have said was “reminder: nobody give a shit about going back to reddit” for the slow one’s in the back looking to take things personally.








  • US military spending is nearly double that of all other NATO members combined Estimated defence expenditure of NATO members in 2024, at current prices and exchange rates

    I like how they always show that the US spends double the amount of all the other nations combined. What they forget is that nobody asked the US to overspend, they do that to get 100x the influence. The US has around 750 military bases around the world, often remnants from post WW2 agreements of surveillance or security. The next country on the list is Russia, with about a dozen. Watch Trump threaten to Nuke everyone when they lose those sweet economic incentives for the industrial military complex.

    This isn’t about spending, it’s a about Putin.



  • That’s the only difference between a dictatorship and a democracy. A dictatorship can run with dying illiterate slaves and still make a lot of money (see Elons Dad’s small loan of one emerald mine). In a democracy the money comes from the productivity of the citizens. That’s the only reason you get highways, schools, hospitals…

    So they started out by making us more productive by giving a ton of amenities to the boomers. But now they need more, so they are cutting back on things that make us productive, while demanding we be more productive.

    We should just eat the rich.





  • Unpopular take but despite it being a popular thing, we want jury nullification to come from individual conclusions that this law does not apply despite the circumstances, and not because they know they can. Every study ever has shown that people who know about jury nullification tend to dismiss evidence more often, and are more easily deceived by a sympathetic/ non-sympathetic looking defendant. It’s not even a law, it’s the result of the fact juries can’t be prosecuted for their decisions so really they can do whatever they want. This is enough to know that technically you can “nullify the law”. That goes both ways, people can convict without evidence

    Saying the law doesn’t actually apply despite the person having done the thing the law says not to do is very different from saying the punishment should be nil. This could also keep you from ever serving on a jury and telling others about this in certain circumstances could be a crime. All the legal minds who looked into this agree it should still remain a thing, but it shouldn’t be told to jurors explicitly. When you serve you swear to uphold the law, so it’s tricky to nullify without purgery perjury except for very very special cases.

    This is not a good YSK, you should understand what the law is as a juror. You could in theory reword this entire post without actually using the term and that would probably be helpful, but super complicated to write.

    Esit: I’m team Luigi (in mario kart of course)