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Prison conditions amid cuts, England
A video showed a British prison guard having sex with a prisoner, in a prison cell. A former
prison guard writes that the fact that they could do this is a consequence of budget cuts that
have made prisons
unsafe and harmful.
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| 2:48p |
Extreme, Supreme Court, legal decision
*The US supreme court utterly
distorted
the true threat to American democracy.*
Meanwhile, I should point out that the Extreme Court's decision applies to accusations against
an ex-president. I've read that no criminal charges can be made against someone who is
currently president.
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| 2:48p |
Historical opposition to slavery, US
Information about opposition to slavery
in the pre-revolutionary
colonies that later formed the United States.
Some comments from me about this.
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Condemnation of slavery by workers afraid of competition from slaves
is not the same thing as moral condemnation of slavery as an injustice.
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Free workers concerned about unfair competition from unpaid slaves can make a difference in
the decision about whether to allow slavery. We can hope that it will do so. that includes
the case of convicts who are compelled nowadays to work in prison for wages so low that that
undercut and reduce the wages of free workers.
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The existence in the British colonies of a minority who opposed slavery on moral grounds
is interesting, but they may have been too few to be seen as anything but a fringe group. It
is not impossible to end an injustice that is deeply embedded in society, but it may take a
struggle.
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| 2:48p |
Scambaiting
Here's a legitimate job that a chatbot can really do — because truthfulness and accuracy
have nothing to do with the job. The job consists of
fooling
human scammers.
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| 2:48p |
Redesigning-democracy experiment, VEN
A detailed explanation about how plans to redesign and rebuild
democracy in Venezuela
went wrong and
ultimately failed, written by someone with generally similar political views and goals.
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| 2:48p |
Standard, presidential cognitive testing
*Lindsey Graham [a follower of
the corrupter] calls for
physical
and cognitive tests for Biden and
[the corrupter].*
Naturally, his choice of what to test is biased so as to flunk Biden. To test the candidates
for the full range of grave human flaws calls for testing also for conscience and empathy.
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| 2:48p |
Tactical voting to down Le Penn, FRA
Non right-wing French voters answered
the
call to ally together to defeat the extreme right-wing.
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