Okay genuinely though a random mayor or sheriff that wants a big news day and ticket to higher office should just arrest him for drug use when he wanders into their jurisdiction

Honestly though even given that, I don’t feel like they should be charged with theft. Give them a slap on the wrist and say “Ask if people have permits first next time”

It’s a minor annoyance, not theft.

Honestly held at gunpoint is a weak point for the headline, if I was writing this I think I would’ve gone with “Israeli troops assault and strip search BBC team at gunpoint”

You really want to get “strip search” into the headline because that’s fucking insane. Gunpoint means very little, Israelis literally point their guns at anything and everything including each other.

I think this is the first I’ve even read this

I feel like “government caused wrongful death” should have a pre-defined universal payout that is way more expensive than desperately trying to keep a person alive. Like $30 million or something like that.

One of my coworkers whenever we got paired together would basically rant the whole time about how much she hates Israel and how sick she is of them claiming to represent her, “monsters doing genocide in my name”

Oh i wasn’t aware they firebombed a Synagogue, that would be antisemitic!

What’s that? They firebombed a pro-genocide march full of people there because they are pro-genocide and not because of their religious or ethnic background?

We should stop changing the clocks back and forth

We should dramatically reduce our use of fossil fuels

Genocide is bad (Hold, I’m being told a lot of people do not agree with this)

“These breeding birds, their nests and eggs are protected” is such a weird way to say that

Is that something we actually know? I know it was something weird right wingers were claiming but all I could find said she left the US after college

And prosecuting everyone who collaborated with ICE. “Just following orders” is not a valid excuse, and they are breaking the law.

This would make more sense to me if Israel was in fact parked right next to America’s biggest enemies and not surrounded by its allies who are begging to be closer allies of Israel will just stop

Why do you need an “Unsinkable aircraft carrier” when you have Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia all full of US military bases and happy to work with us?

In practice we don’t even make much use of our military position in Israel, because it pisses off everyone when we do, so we use those bases in Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia way more.

Sounds bad

No for real though it really does look like this. I don’t want to say the tail is wagging the dog, but the dog sure looks like it’s wagging.

Why is this? Why does the 51st state get protections the other 50 don’t? At both a population and a government level.

These aren’t really a structured argument or anything I’m just writing as I think of examples:

The US is more willing to assist Israel than itself, no money for relief after tornadoes and hurricanes but we make sure Israelis get free healthcare?

If the California National Guard had attacked the USS Liberty and killed a bunch of US troops, California would’ve faced more consequences than Israel did.

I can go on stage tomorrow and say “The United States is the most evil country in history, the Great Satan, the 4th reich, and must be destroyed with intense violence” and no one will give a fuck. I could advertise my talk beforehand, put up posters, rent out a hall on a college campus, wouldn’t have an issue. Say 10% as much about Israel and the cops will storm the auditorium, the college would blacklist me, and I’d be at risk of getting fired from my job.

Is it just “it’s afraid”? Is it the desperate flailing of a failing colony? No one cares if you say “Free Hawaii” because the powerful aren’t worried about Hawaii being freed?

Obviously the answer isn’t “Da evil Jewish cabal runs everything” but what is it and why does it look so much like it would if it was an evil cabal?

It would honestly be more reasonable to accuse her of funding Hamas than being funded by them

Man maybe you should stop supporting them then

It is a good idea to flee a sinking ship

This is extra true given that lawyers are overwhelmingly wealthy assholes who shouldn’t be anywhere near power. I’d rather fill the judiciary with a random selection of homeless people than a random selection of lawyers, and in practice we select worse than random from the lawyers.

Ngl I kinda unironically agree with this, except that they’re using it for evil not for good

There is no law requiring that judges be lawyers, and in fact I kind of think it’s a conflict of interest outside of maybe the lowest level judges. I don’t want judges who know the law, I want judges with strong morals. I want judges who understand the spirit of the law more than the letter of it.

This becomes more true the higher you go. Supreme Court Justices should absolutely have no prior experience with law aside from activism to change laws or perhaps having been in prison.

Being a judge is not a technical job that requires knowledge of the law, it is a position of political power. By the nature of our Common Law system, judges do not simply apply the law, they create it by its enforcement. IMO deep knowledge of the law is a detriment to your ability to create it. Trump has really shown this: Don’t check if shit’s “legal” before you do it, just do it, hope for the best, fight if people try to stop you.