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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3220 on: July 31, 2012, 10:54:04 AM »

Pretty sure those people were just A. being idiots or B. not properly educated on their options about receiving a 'new car'. In every state our tribe does gaming in, at least, its illegal to offer someone a 'new car' without also offering them the option to take what the car is worth in cash exactly because everyone that wins a new car can't afford the tax and title fees.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3222 on: August 13, 2012, 01:53:46 PM »

That's terrible!

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“automatically arrests all students referred to MPD by the District. The children arrested by MPD are then sent to the County juvenile justice system"

Oh that uh... That's not QUITE so unreasonable

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The children arrested by MPD are then sent to the County juvenile justice system, where existing due process protections are illusory and inadequate. The Youth Court places children on probation, and the terms of the probation set by the Youth Court and DYS require children on probation to serve any suspensions from school incarcerated in the juvenile detention center.”

Yeah, they're being tried and placed on probation, and getting suspended from school is a violation of that probation. They're not being arrested because they violated the dress code, they're being arrested because they took drugs to school, got arrested for it, then got placed on probation, and then get suspended for violating the dress code. The initial referral to MPD is what's important- the school is not calling the police because Joe American Junior was chewing gum in class.

It's fucked up and no doubt a giveaway by a corrupt school system to an even more corrupt juvenile justice system, but the thinkprogress article is warping the facts on this pretty horrendously.

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oh hey it turns out that Meridian, Mississippi's crime rates are twice the state average and on a steady incline

And apparently the school has had serious recurring issues with fighting, and gang activity in the schools.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3223 on: August 13, 2012, 04:17:11 PM »

Those are likely cultural issues surrounding the area. Sending more and younger people to prison is not the way to course-correct.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3224 on: August 13, 2012, 04:22:10 PM »

Those are likely cultural issues surrounding the area. Sending more and younger people to prison is not the way to course-correct.

No doubt, I'm just pointing out how lopsided the original article is.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3226 on: August 15, 2012, 12:48:53 PM »

You know, come down to it, I much prefer criminals who act like 1960's Batman villains to ones who act like modern Batman villains.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3227 on: August 16, 2012, 07:09:09 AM »

http://theweek.com/article/index/218393/libertarian-island-a-billionaires-utopia

More like the Raft from Snow Crash than Rapture from Bioshock, but still.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3228 on: August 16, 2012, 07:17:39 AM »

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200 miles off the coast of San Francisco

At least they're canny enough to put themselves only an arm's length away from some liberals to go crawling to.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3229 on: August 16, 2012, 09:28:23 AM »

http://theweek.com/article/index/218393/libertarian-island-a-billionaires-utopia

More like the Raft from Snow Crash than Rapture from Bioshock, but still.

I'm pretty fucking convinced now that Neal Stephenson was from the fucking future. Way too much shit from Snow Crash came true and this is playing out like the Raft even before the thing is going to be built.

'YEah, we're just gonna lash together ships and oil rigs, make everyone work for a slave wage and give them guns'. Great fucking plan, guys.

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3230 on: August 16, 2012, 09:30:35 AM »

I think it's a GRAND plan. :glee:
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3231 on: August 16, 2012, 09:33:03 AM »

It will be pretty funny when a billionaire is held hostage on his own oil rig by immigrant workers with machineguns.

Has anybody told these guys about Somalia? It's a small government libertarian paradise!
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3232 on: August 16, 2012, 09:59:40 AM »

Well yeah, you have the freedom to pay people to be your own personal army, with no government to prevent you from having one. Nor is there one to prevent your neighbor from doing the same.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3233 on: August 16, 2012, 10:09:58 AM »

But what are you going to pay them with? Food rations? Crop shares? Bison dollars?
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3234 on: August 16, 2012, 10:15:39 AM »

Pirate gold.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3235 on: August 16, 2012, 10:20:14 AM »

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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3236 on: August 16, 2012, 10:33:04 AM »

HYARR HYARR HYARR
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3237 on: August 16, 2012, 01:25:49 PM »

But what are you going to pay them with? Food rations? Crop shares? Bison dollars?

Bison Dollars (Good Quality)
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3238 on: August 17, 2012, 08:42:02 AM »

I thought about putting this in Cheerful News, but honestly, it's just kind of sad:

Leader of Hungarian anti-semitic party discovers that he himself is in fact Jewish.
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Re: What the fuck?
« Reply #3239 on: August 17, 2012, 09:16:02 AM »

Well, it might fit in Schadenfreude...
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