Yeah, this is it. It’s the defense’s job to zealously defend to the extent of the law, the burden is necessarily on the state to prove things and carry out justice.
Which is why when your supreme court are corrupt fascist bastards and fuck all that up, there’s not a lot of options left. It would have been great to elect someone from a competent or at least not-evil party to avoid this particular situation but “we” didn’t.
ITS BULLSHIT!!!
GOD! FUCKING! DAMMIT!!
. . . Sorry had to get that out. Uh, carry on, I’m gonna go lie down . . .
With each public and private rejection, whether the retraction of his Rolling Stonearticle or his breakups with environmental groups, Kennedy dug in deeper and deeper. Increasingly his anti-vaccine work was taking precedent. In 2018 Kennedy involved himself in a largely forgotten vaccine controversy in the American Samoan islands. That year, two children died after receiving the MMR vaccine, sparking an island-wide furor. Though it was later revealed that two nurses made a critical error administering the vaccines, accidentally introducing expired muscle relaxants into the formula, Kennedy’s nonprofit took to social media to hype the deaths as evidence of vaccine dangers.
Under public pressure, the Samoan prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi halted MMR vaccines on the island. In June of 2019 Kennedy and Hines flew to Samoa, lending celebrity wattage to local anti-vaccine advocates, giving press interviews, and taking a private meeting with the PM.
Over the ensuing months, the island was hit by the largest measles outbreak in its history, infecting 5,707 citizens and killing 83 people, most of them children. The outbreak was so lethal, the prime minister declared a state of emergency and ordered mandatory vaccinations, eventually curtailing the spread. Later one of Kennedy’s biggest critics, a pediatrician and member of the FDA’s advisory committee on vaccines, Paul Offit, told PBS that “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had everything to do with that. And that shows you how disinformation can kill.”
Among other things, yeah.
Well, agencies have failed, justice has failed, and we expect the military (or some part of it) will also fail next.
The abject failure of corporate news in assessing our current situation of befuckededness cannot be overstated.
I mean - if anyone still needs them, I guess M$ is still cranking them out.
Well we’d better not miss then
You’d still have to beat Citizens United.
Plus it’s kinda John Roberts’ whole jam, taking away voting rights
Wrong. Also wrong. Oooh, wrong again. Okay, g’bye. Yeah. Bye now.
“Raising fears”
Honestly, let’s just abandon journalism to AI since there’s obviously no point to having humans doing it.
Time to start diggin’ some judge holes.
Yeah you need to learn how the SCOTUS works and stop this bizarre threadshitting you’re doing in all these immunity decision threads.
Oh - you’re not American? Ah, well. More reason to know what you’re talking about then before you repeat it ad nauseam, isn’t it?
I see they have chosen violence. It is regrettable.
Arm phasers.
I would have loved laserdiscs. The large format for art, all futuristic lookin’ - but all media degrades so maybe M-disc in laserdisc size? We’ll probably have crystal storage before then i guess.
before they realized people were still perfectly happy paying $15 for a disc.
Heh, well i dunno about ‘happy’, i mean they did get sued. I think I still have my check for $7 somewhere . . .
laughs in KISS army
I appreciate her progressive takes, I just don’t think she has a chance in a national presidential run.
Exsqueeze me? Where might one see this hard coded bad words filter?