• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    427·
    6 hours ago

    Luckily we don’t have to put up with this misinformation again.

    I will repeat myself one last time.

    She had a record number of convictions for cannabis. She had the lowest number of convictions resulting in jail time.

    She went after banks that affected her district. They did not like that one bit.

    There’s a bunch more stuff. But this is plainly a shitty attempt at painting Harris supporters as relying on some form of cognitive dissonance.

    • Zess@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 hours ago

      But usually only cops practice street justice with no due process or consequences. Never saw a prosecutor suffocate someone to death for being accused of a petty crime or shoot a kid for holding a toy.

    • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
      54·
      1 hour ago

      Cops are to prosecutors as worker bees are to their queen. Cops take their marching orders from prosecutors. If ACAB, it is because prosecutors want them to be.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    414·
    7 hours ago

    To be fair, Harris had a contentious relationship with cops, when–IIRC–she didn’t pursue the death penalty for a cop killer.

    Prosecutors have to work with police, but aren’t police. Prosecutors want to win, because that’s how they get elected. When cops do dumb, illegal shit, prosecutors get pissed because then they can’t win a case. Cops usually blame prosecutors for not locking everyone up. Prosecutors get pissed at cops, because cops botch investigations and make stupid, illegal arrests.

    Of the two, I have much more respect for prosecutors. Prosecutors are often very good attorneys (in their field).

    To reiterate a point: district attorney are elected. The public expects them to win cases. When they don’t, even if it’s because cops are handing them steaming piles of garbage, they tend to lose their jobs. Shitty, but true. We may say ACAB, but when it comes down to it, a prosecutor that refuses to, for instance, prosecute certain low-level crimes will tend to get voted out of office because it pisses off the constituents.

    • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      a prosecutor that refuses to, for instance, prosecute certain low-level crimes will tend to get voted out of office because it pisses off the constituents.

      unless it’s US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, then Republicans can just say no to whatever we vote for.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 hours ago

        Fair enough.

        I don’t really think that D.C. should be a state, but I think that it should have more autonomy for the administration of the city than it has.

        • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Puerto Rico needs it more than we do but Republicans annually propose a removal of our voting rights.

          They genuinely want to see DC burn.

    • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      23·
      8 hours ago

      Wait I don’t get this one. What’s the 14 words? I’m an elder millennial and sometimes I miss the new slang.

      Edit thanks for the quick answers.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          6 hours ago

          I remember seeing some wild story in 2020 about someone getting banned from some game because their name was something like corona1488 but corona was their last name and Jan 4th 1988 was their birthday. I think they were able to get it fixed and maybe they changed their in game name too.

      • neoman4426@fedia.io
        27·
        8 hours ago

        I don’t remember the exact words off the top of my head and too lazy to look it up, but it’s a neonazi dog whistle. Something about ‘protecting the future of the white children’

      • daqu
        7·
        7 hours ago

        You are not too old, you are just not hanging around the right people.

      • JaymesRS@literature.cafeEnglish
        7·
        8 hours ago

        The 14 words part Is adequately explained below, but in case you are unfamiliar as well, often 14 will be used in conjunction with the number 88 as well for HH or Heil Hitler.

      • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
        8·
        8 hours ago

        I’m also an elder millennial and I learned about it from the incredible podcast “Weird Little Guys”. I cannot recommend it enough. Such a good show.

          • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
            1·
            3 hours ago

            I listen to a lot of their shows, and I think “Weird Little Guys” is the best of them. And I just love “Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff”. But Molly Conger is just so good. The music is perfect, the narration is good, the stories… umm suck but they are important to know about, it is funny, I’ve cried multiple times, etc. “Weird Little Guys” just is so fucking good.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    541·
    9 hours ago

    I’ve always liked this meme format, and this is one of the best uses of it I’ve seen.