HelixDab2

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Force can only legally be used against imminent threats. (This, BTW, is why women tend to get convicted of murder when they kill their abusive partners; they tend to do it at a time when their partner is not harming them.) Even if you are positive that someone intends you great bodily harm or death, you can not use force legally until the moment arrives when they are trying to cause that harm. You can not pre-emptively self-defend.

If you use lethal force in the absence of an imminent, immediate threat of great bodily harm or death, it is highly likely that you would be arrested, charged, and convicted.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lying about this can get you charged with perjury and/or held in contempt of court. I would strongly suggest that you not consider lying about things like this when attorneys are questioning you while you're in a jury pool.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I went to school for fashion design. (Hence interacting with a famous designer in school. Come to think of it, the head of the department at the time was someone with a significant international reputation. And I still think he's a pretentious dick.) These days I do industrial print media, because I burned out hard in school, due to a combination of raging, untreated ADHD and 48+ hour days working in studio.

I would not recommend fashion design to anyone that has any interest in a healthy work/life balance, and fast fashion has absolutely gutted anything domestic that's of any interest at all.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I... Can't do that without giving away far too much personal information. Unfortunately.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

You would likely be removed for cause from the jury pool if you said something like this during questioning from attorneys.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (8 children)

You aren't going to find mountains in any of the parts of Canada that you'll want to live in. BC is trending right, Alberta and Saskatchewan are the right (Alberta is the Texas of Canada), Ontario is a shit-show, and Quebec is... Well, how good is your French?

I'd suggest PEI or Nova Scotia and satellite internet.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 64 points 3 days ago (38 children)

This is not correct. Do not do this.

"Your body, my choice" does not rise to the level of an imminent threat of violence or lawless behavior. It's certainly not "fighting words" as defined by SCOTUS. Without an immediate threat of violence, you do not have a legal right to use physical force. Even in states with 'make my day' laws, this is absolutely not something you can respond to with violence.

I am not an attorney, I am not your attorney, and I would strongly suggest that you consult with a competent criminal defense attorney before you take this course of action.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 29 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Fundraiser at a very expensive art school. I was a scholarship student at a cocktail mixer, and I was at the mixer because it was being held in the department I was majoring in. All of the people that were attending were fine arts patrons, the kind of people that drop tens of thousands on art without thinking twice about it. I was--literally--a punk kid with tattoos and shit tons of piercings, and I was supposed to be pleasant to people with millions more than I'll ever have.

Got to piss off a world famous fashion designer that evening, so that was cool.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TLA agencies would have no problem with a cover identity to "prove" who they are. Your average citizen is going to have a hard time buying a slightly used social security number that they can use to get an ID that will pass KYC laws.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He is punching down and attacking a group of people who are suffering in “the new world” just like him, and a fucking bag of cookies is one of the few joys they can still aquire.

I know a lot of people that are quite overall politically liberal that feel this way. I know a lot of people that get upset at the idea of inmates being given "free" educations in prison because they still have student loans 20 years after school. People that support the ideas of helping people up, that are fully on board with LGBTQ+ rights across the board, think DEI is a good idea, think it's critical that women have bodily autonomy, and so on, but still have a knee-jerk reaction to things that they don't fully get, or haven't had explained to them.

I don't know if he meant the song that way, or what. I do know that the people coming into the White House in a few months aren't likely to make things any better for people like him. Or people like you. Or people like me.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you know anything about the history of punk music and east coast hardcore, Ian MacKaye was clearly one of the most principled people in the scene, and a genuinely good and decent person. So it's really weird to hear that people ever got the weird idea that he was pro-racism or something.

Then again, The Dead Kennedys had to make "Nazi Punks Fuck Off" because they were sick of their shows being infiltrated by the wrong kind of skinheads.

[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

An old soul in a new world… Dude the south lost and slavery is bad. I’m sorry

I think that's an uncharitable reading. Which is understandable, but still.

I think that there are a lot of people--myself included--that would like to be able to make a living doing something that seems to matter, or where you make something. Like, factory work sucks in most ways, but it still feels like you're doing something. Spreadsheets and order projections? Staring at a screen all day, sending polite emails to people you'll never meet about ways to spend a lot of money electronically?

This "new world" of work and socializing ain't great. I think it snuck up on a lot of people, and now a lot of people are feeling like they don't know how to navigate the new reality of depersonalization.

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