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True, but keep in mind the bail money serves a purpose other than keeping people who can’t afford it in jail pending trial...it is collateral to deter defendants from absconding.
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6y ago
Generally when you get pulled over on a highway the officer comes up from behind...not a guarantee by any means you know the drivers race. How can you conclude the officer knew the drivers race and that’s the reason for the stop?
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> This notion of immunity came into being, because coercion( sold in the guise of "social contract") is the heart of any state. Immunity came about because if prosecutors were Personably liable for charges where there were no c
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6y ago
Probably not, I don’t know how many times I said the stop was bs and Likely for a reason Other than the slow driving. That said you can be confident all you want in NC if you are driving slow on a highway it’s a traffic offense because driv
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6y ago
What did you see that makes you conclude this cop was a racist?
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6y ago
Not sure why facts are downvoted, I am not even for the law, just stating it exists... https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.newsobserver.com/news/polit...
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6y ago
> I don't give a benefit of doubt to any cop. So in other words cops are guilty of being racists (And everything else) until being proven innocent? Anyone charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty because we feel as a soc
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6y ago
> You watch out for your own, no matter race or creed. That is the complete opposite of being a racist.
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6y ago
This stop occurred in NC and we don’t have all the facts about the stop...but NC is 1 of 6 states to have laws on driving to slowly. While it is true most states might have a minimum sign posted and 65 in a 70 would be unusual, some of the
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6y ago
Condemning all black police officers As racists for nothing more than working for Ferguson Police department (An insert any other jurisdiction which disproportionately stops blacks) is the most white privileged thing I’ve ever heard...until
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6y ago
Not only is it run of the mill questioning it is very specific to a driver in a rental. Where are you going/where you coming from? That shirt is that the company you work for? Where is the office? How long do you have the rental? t
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6y ago
> If excessive police stops disproportionately affect black drivers those stops are racist, and the people performing the stops are racist. So black police in those jurisdictions are racists against blacks because the jurisdiction as a w
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6y ago
> Under is somehow suspicious according to your thinking Read my comment, where did I say this was suspicious? What I said in regards to the stop is: > there are hundreds of thousands of stops everyday, many like this one are ridicul
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6y ago
Florida does...but I think most states have minimums on highways/interstates.
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6y ago
I don’t know if it’s fair to call the cop here a racist, it’s possible sure, but it’s likely the officer didn’t know the guys race before pulling him over. Police, especially in small towns, are notorious for targeting out of towners (the w
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6y ago
It’s never getting paid back, there is so much number fudging to hide the reality of debt and guaranteed payments for future liabilities...we pretend we are $26T in debt (but when you add in the future liabilities We are over $148T in debt)
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6y ago
> The United States Government prints money all the time. This money has value because there is a world-wide consensus that it has value. No the Government borrows against future taxes (consider that an accounts receivable), the borrowed
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6y ago
Simple...imagine an accounts receivable that you can borrow against, so when you are low on cash you can borrow money on the basis you will be able to pay in the future with the account receivables. Only the US account receivable is taxes p
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6y ago
Suspension of mortgage would help the landlord not the renter. The owner/landlord pays the mortgage not the tenant, the tenant pays rent to the landlord.
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6y ago
As I said during disco they would be able to inspect the warehouse and if they can find any trace of it (which they will) then that is all the evidence they need to go to a “decider of fact” (the jury). And despite your calculation of time,
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> and good luck proving that in court Far less than 10% of cases will ever go to trial, so odds are this will settle far before ever going to a jury and having to prove anything. Otherwise I don’t think it is a very difficult case to win
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6y ago
> Doc has a beard, and people are always asking him why he has a beard. Doc learned a long time ago that it makes people angry and suspicious if he tells the truth I purposely have a big ole homeless looking beard specifically to keep pe
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6y ago
I don’t think there is any good way to test UBI at any small scale, I think there needs to be a critical mass of people who can pay their housing and food costs how society and economic activity would be reshaped under such a system.
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6y ago
Plenty of people are asking, Tesla has already brought a declaratory action in the courts to ask them. The thing is that is how things are done legally, but Musk is putting the cart before the horse by breaking the order. In other words ri
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6y ago
Confirmed and seconded. Publix fried chicken has even made some top 10 lists for chicken/fried chicken reserved for restaurants.
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> You must also take into account the history of intentional civil disobedience where the government has over reached and the population simply reaches the point where it refuses to comply. It is one thing for Musk to publicly proclaim h
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People don’t realize in 2008 on the verge of financial collapse the government passed two bailouts totaling $1.8T leading to the longest bull market in history. We have already passed bailouts totaling close to $7T...no matter what happens
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> Now a possible alternative explanation (not explored by the journalist) is that the bacteria lived off the remaining organic materials in the rock and the byproduct of their life were substances that dulled the crystals. Is that your h
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The commenter who spawned the thread may have worded it that way, but the point is much bigger, the point is the WHO was responsible for spreading misinformation. So even assuming the commenter worded it properly “no clear evidence” WHO twe
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> There is no clear evidence from the preliminary investigation' and 'the preliminary investigation finds that human-to-human transmission is not taking place' are two quite different propositions. Everyone understands the
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