Polls: Society & Politics

Obviously not “every” act of violence. But obviously there’s a majority happening to people of color. Cops feel they can do this shit to them. Take out their rage. Whatever.

They have a side and I’m sure we’ll hear it in court. The teens were charged with impeding a road and assaulting an officer. Thrown out as soon as it hit courts.

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/16/23669878/supreme-court-groff-dejoy-christian-right-religion-accomodations-twa-hardison
The Supreme Court takes up a messy, chaotic case about religion in the workplace

Groff v. DeJoy, a lawsuit that could potentially revolutionize the balance of power between religious workers and their employers and co-workers, will be heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

It is an agonizing case, in part because it seeks to unravel a very real injustice.

Federal law requires employers to “reasonably accommodate” their workers’ religious beliefs and practices unless doing so would lead to “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.” Nearly half a century ago in Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977), however, the Supreme Court said that an “undue hardship” exists whenever an employer must “bear more than a de minimis cost” when it provides such religious accommodations (the Latin phrase “de minimis” refers to a burden that is so small or trifling as to be unworthy of consideration).

Pretty much no one thinks that this “more than a de minimis cost” rule is correct. Even Americans United for Separation of Church and State — an organization that, as its name suggests, typically argues in favor of less entanglement between the law and religion — filed a brief arguing that “Hardison is wrong in too many ways to withstand scrutiny.”

But, while a reevaluation of Hardison may be overdue, Groff also will be heard by a Supreme Court whose current majority is so sympathetic to the interests of the religious right that it often advances those interests to the exclusion of all others.

After twenty years of debate, this weekend Germany shut down all their remaining nuclear powerplants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Closures_and_phase-out

2030 they plan to shut down all coal powerplants and use only gas turbines plus wind, solar and hydro. Long term there are concepts for green hydrogen. Do you think this will work out for Germany?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-rejects-trumps-bid-learn-202548242.html
Judge rejects Trump's bid to learn juror names at defamation trial

Donald Trump will not learn the identities of jurors expected to decide at an upcoming civil trial whether the former president defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, who also claims Trump raped her.

U. S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Friday rejected Trump's renewed effort to require that prospective jurors provide their names, employment and 38 other pieces of information on written questionnaires.

Kaplan said the law was "abundantly clear" it was his choice whether to use questionnaires, and nothing has changed his decision to seat an anonymous jury at the April 25 trial, reflecting the threat of juror harassment.

Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump had argued that his recent criminal indictment filed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had brought on a "deluge of prejudicial media coverage" that would make it tough to find an impartial jury in Carroll's civil case.

Radical in politics, really every subject.

Caitlin Johnstone, the Australian author and leftist blogger, argues that he should be, as not doing so undermines the moral authority of the US (as if it has any) to criticize the human right records of other countries, and states:

"Even if Assange is released, the US empire will still have spent years imprisoning a journalist for the crime of good journalism,* will still be the world's worst warmonger, and will still be the world's most egregious violator of human rights. Its moral standing is dead and buried, and the world should stop following its lead in creating a just and ethical world. It simply does not have the qualifications to do so. In fact, no power structure on earth is less qualified."

*(Assange published evidence of US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya).

I think she is right. What do you think?

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Im sure youve heard this said at some point? Do you think this proves someone isn’t racist? Because someone who is truly racist wouldn’t be friends with someone of another race right?

Men generally are better leaders, providers, more intelligent then women. There’s studies on these things.

Yet so many women can’t accept this. They say we are just as good or better.

Why the bitterness, you have different advantages.

Just look at how the world is literally designed and maintained completely by men. Women should be thankful as we compliment each other very well!!