While George Floyd was neither white nor rich, he had the "advantage" of being murdered not 1 km / ½ mile away by a white MPD (city) officer and so his family was able to bring successful civil claims for tens of millions and the perpetrators were federally and locally investigated, the socio-political landscape changed, and they were prosecuted by the state criminally.
Unfortunately, Renee Nicole Good, a poet and mother of 3 has children who will now grow up without a mother and without justice or recompense because her murderer was a federal official who has nearly unqualified immunity to state and federal criminal prosecution and no civil Bivens nor 1983 actions can be brought. These officials are creating an image of lawless paramilitary with a monopoly on violence unrestrained from any meaningful accountability. Governor Walz and Mayor Frey are telling white lies as to what can be done because they have essentially zero power to investigate or prosecute federal officials. ICE & CBP has only paid out $1 million in damages total for every wrongful death claims in years... it just doesn't happen. ICE & CBP are a "samurai" mafia without a code who can and do kill almost anyone with almost total impunity. Only COTUS can fix this by allowing 1983-like claims and limiting QI/SI, but this is a pipe-dream because the team completely in-charge is deferential to law enforcement over unimportant, non-rich people.
tl;dr: ICE agents can legally get away with killing almost anyone far more easily than 90's LAPD.
yeah people really do seem to underestimate the ramifications of trumps return, but you cannot put a guy like that in a second time and expect good things.
They are just stretching the rubber band which will eventually snap and smack them in the face. USA is increasingly having more and more poor population which is well armed and has nothing to lose.
Which is why those at the top are trying to focus the people's anger and rage at their neighbors instead of at the ones who could make their lives better (by sharing, you know, those with all the wealth).
But they aren’t the same. Bush Sr. and Clinton were the same: centrist neoliberals.
Do you really think there is only the same sliver of daylight between KH and DT as there was between Bush and Clinton? Look around and answer this for yourself. Do you think that?
Then ask yourself one more question: who benefits from you still thinking that? And finally one more: how do they benefit?
Nah, the likes of Drupal and others were established before Wordpress was launched, even longer if you consider Wordpress 1 & 2 were “blog software for blogs” more than the behemoth modern versions have become.
I think being later actually worked in their favor as they caught the wave that Drupal and others were too early for. They were simpler when a lot of new developers and clients were around and grew in complexity as what people did on the web did, while Drupal and co just seemed bloated, even though arguably modern versions of Wordpress with the plugin setups that are common now are even more complicated than those old version of their competitors at the start
Yesterday their moronic immigration gestapo shot and killed an innocent citizen.
In the name of what.. safety?
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