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alwaysbewoke · 3 months

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California residents! Please be aware and spread the word!

#prop 47 california #prop 47 explained #california theft #smash and grab #california politics #justice reform now.#criminal justice reform #california law #crime prevention #community safety #legal reform #public safety #justice system #crime policy #law and order #policy reform.

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bet-on-me-13 · 8 months

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Ellie is a Clone Misunderstanding

So, I' sure most of us have seen a story/prompt or two about Ellie being on the Teen Titans or Young Justice right? Here's my question, does she tell them about her being a Clone, or does she just omit that from her resume?

Imagine a scenario where Ellie is on a mission with her team (Let's say YJ for this). They are nearly done, when she gets hit by some type of Ecto-Weapon in the middle of the fight?

She is hurt, but shrugs it off and continues the battle. In the end, the team manages to come out on Top, and they return to Base.

The others are fretting over Ellie, asking how she is doing and if she needs ant help. She's never once been hit while in Battle, her Phasing Powers are stronger than even Miss Martian, so they are understandably concerned for her health.

She tells them that she's fine, and goes off to her room to rest, telling them to drop it.

Later that night, one of her teammates goes to her room to fetch her for Dinner. They knock on the door, but she doesn't respond. After a while, they decide to just open the door and find Ellie collapsed on the floor. She never made it to her bed.

They rush her to the Medical Station, and call in the League.

While there, they try to figure out what happened, but nothing comes up with the Weapon that hit her. (They took it after the battle for study)

Eventually, they get the results back from the Doctors. Her cells are dying at an alarming rate. Her energy levels are Unstable. Her DNA is deteriorating. She's Destabilizing.

She's a Clone.

All the evidence is there. Her DNA is deteriorating because she wasn't made complete, and her Cells can't keep up with the damage anymore because of that.

If this Ellie is a Clone, what happened to the Real Ellie? When was she kidnapped? How did they not notice their friend being replaced by a Clone?!

They need answers, and unfortunately Ellie isn't waking up any time soon.

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bluetalepost · 6 months

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there is shooting on the tv. and the heroine comes in, guns blazing, sexy and witty with all the right answers i wish i had or and the david attenborough type walks me through it so i learn something about american history british history, sudanese, thai, australian, mexican, yemeni, nigerian, peruvian, guyanese, haitian, turkmen, irish, palestinian, take your pick, any of them work or and when the names of the dead scroll i know every single one is younger than me or and i see in the background a neighborhood i used to drive through when i still lived in my hometown or and a reporter says the emts got shot at, i wonder if i knew any of them ems is a tight-knit community or and i don't get the appeal of these violent video games, i just remember all the articles i've read about how constant exposure to violent media puts children at risk for normalizing or gd forbid, engaging in violence themselves or and the police saved the day, actors are much more competent and movies are much more generous or i could shut the damn screen off. nobody is shooting at me here i'm going to make myself some tea

#feminism #poetry #feminist poetry #feminist poems #feminist writing #writing #gun violence #gun reform #social justice poetry #social justice writing #fiction #violence in video games #poems about gun violence #gun violence survivors #gun control #gun control now

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trashpandafeminism · 1 year

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[Image Description: First panel is two hands holding a slip of paper that says, “Thoughts and Prayers”. Underneath it says “Woah”. The second panel is a boy looking up from reading the slip of paper. He says, “This is worthless”.]

It's time to stop offering "thoughts and prayers" in response to tragedies. While it may seem like a kind gesture, it's actually an empty one that does nothing to solve the problem at hand.

Offering thoughts and prayers is not a substitute for taking meaningful action to prevent tragedies from happening in the first place. We need to start having difficult conversations and working towards real solutions instead of relying on hollow gestures.

Furthermore, for many people, offering thoughts and prayers can come across as insensitive and dismissive. It's important to consider how your words may be received by those who have been directly impacted by a tragedy.

Let's move beyond "thoughts and prayers" and towards real action to make the world a safer and better place for everyone.

#thoughts and prayers #gun control now #enough is enough #end gun violence #insulting #activism #social justice #no more silence #not one more #gun reform now #honor with action

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lunapwrites · 1 year

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OK so to that post that I just reblogged, and the whole "cops don't protect prisoners" thing - yeah. They very much do not.

Their idea of protection is, at best, to throw the person who is in danger into solitary confinement. And then just... leaving them there for indeterminate amounts of time. Days. Weeks. Months. Years.

It is a known fact that solitary confinement can cause extreme psychological damage. That's just one article, but honestly I don't need to go much further back than 2020 to prove my point. Y'all remember having to isolate at home? Imagine if you had to spend that time in your bathroom instead, and you weren't allowed to have access to any technology or contact with another living being. No people, no pets, maybe even no window. Certainly no little gay people in your phone. Imagine having to make sure you don't go insane for days. Weeks. Months. Years.

It's literally psychological torture. It is inhumane. And the justice system calls it "protection." Nothing to stop the countless assaults every day, or the hostage situations, or the murders, or the suicides. But we'll take one of the people involved and stick em in the hole, that'll fix it. /s

I have... a lot of things I want to scream about with this, and I'm not at liberty to discuss most of it. Not my story to tell. Suffice to say the whole system is a goddamn for-profit racket, and exists only as a loophole for legal slavery in the US.

#there is no reason for any of this!#literally even the worst person doesn't deserve this shit #whatever you're thinking of as a little gotcha exception #did i stutter #them too bitch #when i say no one #I MEAN NO ONE #prison reform #abolish prisons #okay i think i've at least briefly exhausted myself for now #also something something remus also says abolish prisons #remus also said vigilante justice but we'll let that one slide

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ivygorgon · 1 month

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No free rides for old money! - Pass The Billionaires Income Tax Act! (S. 3367)

I am writing to express my strong support for the proposed S. 3367 bill, which aims to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. This legislation represents a crucial step towards achieving economic justice by seeking to eliminate tax loopholes that have allowed billionaires to defer taxes indefinitely. By doing so, we would be ensuring a fairer distribution of wealth and rectifying a system that has long favored the ultra-wealthy. Additionally, the bill modifies over 30 tax provisions, requiring billionaires to contribute annually. It's time to ensure that those with the most significant influence and wealth contribute proportionately to our society's well-being. Therefore, I urge you to support and pass the Billionaires Income Tax Act.

Billionaires have amassed vast wealth, often at the expense of their employees who struggle to make ends meet on minimum wages. It is only just and equitable that they pay their employees a living wage AND contribute proportionally to the betterment of our society.

Furthermore, if billionaires wield significant influence over our government and policy-making, they should demonstrate their commitment by financially supporting the very system that has allowed them to prosper. No longer should they enjoy free rides on the backs of hardworking taxpayers. It is past time to ensure that billionaires are contributing their fair share to the well-being of our country.

Passing the Billionaires Income Tax Act is not only a matter of fiscal responsibility but also a moral imperative. It is time to ensure that our tax system is fair and equitable for all, not just the wealthy few.

Thank you for considering my views on this important issue. I urge you to stand on the side of fairness and justice by supporting S.3367.

No free rides for old money!

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heliological · 6 months

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here's my proposal for renaming all the main series ace attorney games so their names make thematic sense. thank you

aa1 - ace attorney: trials and tribulations rfta - phoenix wright: ace attorney aa2 - ace attorney: spirit of justice aa3 - ace attorney: dual destinies aa4 - apollo justice: ace attorney aa5 - ace attorney: rise from the ashes aa6 - ace attorney: justice for all

#trials and tribulations: there sure are #pwaa: he's okay at his job now #spirit of justice: grapples with whether the courts can deliver true justice & also establishes legal precedent for ghost murder #dual destinies: 2 attorneys 2 sisters etc #ajaa: he is!#rise from the ashes: phoenix retakes the bar & there's explosions #justice for all: haha what if we comprehensively reformed a country's legal system jk unless #also apollo's relevant again #ace attorney

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bumblebeeappletree · 2 years

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'The world needs to recognize that punishment alone is not enough to rehabilitate an individual' — Formerly incarcerated activist JJ Velazquez spent 23 years in prison for a crime he says he did not commit. Here's how he has spent his time both inside & outside of prison fighting for an equitable criminal legal system.

For more updates on the criminal legal system, subscribe to @NowThisNews.

#criminaljustice #reform #activism #Politics #News #NowThis

#now this news #now this #solarpunk #USA #JJ Velazquez #activist #incarcerated #prison #prison system #criminal justice reform #criminal justice #reform #activism #Youtube

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marshmellowtea · 1 year

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I just saw that post asking if you can justify doing human experimentation on “bad” criminals and eughhhh. For a website that’s so ACAB heavy they sure will jump the gun to suggest torturing people if they’re bad enough. Some people really haven’t grown out of their squishing anthill phases

fucking honestly though 😭 people will pay lip service to hating cops/the prison system but once you bring up the fact that hey, the way we treat even genuinely guilty people who have done actually horrible things is cruel too and we shouldn't be allowed to do that, then suddenly everyone is all for the same fucked up system of crime and punishment they were claiming to be against. so many people just want an acceptable target for their cruelty without realizing that the cruelty is inherently bad in the first place, and it's so frustrating to see.

#discourse #marshy gets asks #anonymous #i am glad that a lot of the notes on that post were against op though #does give me some hope #but for real like. christ. no it's not okay to take someone's rights away no matter how bad they are #i don't have all the answers for how to reform the justice system but what we have now just furthers the cycle of cruelty and violence #and i'm tired of people ignoring that when it's inconvenient for them

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zaikyart · 2 years

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thoughts and prayers policy and change T-Shirt

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hyssdddd · 3 months

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Abolish the shield of privilege from justice's gaze. Release the captive fortunes seized in the name of law. Unchain the struggle against substances, let liberty thaw. Liberate the accused from the heavy yoke of criminalization. Banish the silent intrusions, no-knock warrants' dark incantation. Dismantle the fortress of force, let peace and trust prevail. Undo the rigid grip of sentences, where freedom tends to frail.

#text #justice reform #Liberty Advocacy #End Criminalization #police reform #Civil Rights Now #Legal Equality #Freedom From Overreach #poetic justice

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reasonsforhope · 1 year

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It was a really, really good political news day today in the US (4/4/23)

For anyone who hasn't heard, not only did Trump get arrested, but also:

-We found out that the legal case against him in this prosecution (stormy daniels hush money case) is SIGNIFICANTLY stronger than people had speculated. Like, wow do they have receipts.

-In fact, the evidence was so entirely there that the new question on prime time news (well, at least on msnbc lol) is "Hey, why didn't the federal courts prosecute him for this already???)

-Trump FAILED UTTERLY in his attempts to rally mass protests and demands for "death and destruction" if he was arrested. There was no violence at the arrest at all, and as for Trump supporters? They failed to show up in any kind of numbers--reportedly only about a hundred people were protesting the arrest

-We (aka Judge Janet Protasiewicz) WON what is widely considered to be the most consequential election of 2023, a Wisconsin state supreme court election that handed control of the state supreme court to the left

-Because of that election win, it is now extremely likely that abortion will be legal in Wisconsin, and that Wisconsin won't be able to throw out electors in the 2024 presidential election

-ALSO bc of this, Wisconsin, the most gerrymandered state in the country, will probably get nonpartisan, accurate maps, which COULD FLIP THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES in 2024

-In Chicago, Brandon Johnson, union organizer and former teacher, won the election for mayor, in a decisive win progressives, esp for meaningful criminal justice reform and investment in mental health (whereas the other guy was campaigning on hiring hundreds of new cops and being super tough on crime)

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gender-sexuality-happiness-rage · 11 months

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#acab #justice reform now #Justice reform #cops #police #pigs #education

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emacrow · 19 days

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The first time The Justice league met the ghost king, they were not expecting this.

They were just trying to stop Luther from getting more kryptonite shards after getting an anonymous way to summoned more concentrated ones.

They were not expecting something to follow along after it. Constantine is in the corner cursing up a storm about the infinite king which batman files for later...

Only for a tiny elderitch being mauled the living out of lex, eating every silver of kryptonite (50 pounds worth of kryptonite since he was in the giant mech suit) in sight like a starved savage animal before ploping in mid air like it was a solid floor after a small(cute) burp, before reforming into a humaniod state.... which was a tiny 5 year old white haired toddler with a look of I over-ate a food coma worth of snacks and it was worth it.

Meanwhile Danny was this close 👌🏻 from snapping into a terror tantrum that would made pariah king rage seem like child play after he caught on real quick on what was taking his ghost candy rock medicine supply prescripted to him from frostbite. Fuck vlad and his stupid plan to try and baby him, fuck the ghost zone cause everyone is now babying him, and not even clockwork is taking him seriously but did gave some cryptic hints on the whereabouts of his medicine that would help him grow faster.

It been literally 3 months by now and he has had it with the babying even though he look 5 physically, he is 18 year old! Not even his parents taking him seriously and been using this chance to spend time with him.. which is fine but he draws the line after bathtime, the sailor costume and floaty!

He was practically ravenous to the point of going eldritch form when he went chasing through trail of summoning ghost magic leading to his precious snacks.

He not even caring about the sad bald man in the mech suit after he had his fill and probably overduing eating and is just inducing the process of his food coma.

He is totally unaware of the audience he has right now that being watched on lived TV.

#dp x dc crossover #danny phantom #danny is the ghost king #de aged danny #danny is eldritch #kryptonite is ghost medicine as well as a treat #danny had literally hunting down his medicines snacks #after vlad deaged him with the ghost age revealer #frostbite is not helping but he got a supply of ghost snack medicines #but his medicine been disappearing and he been cranky #dc x dp prompt #one shot

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nerdpoe · 1 year

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Danny and Dani and Dan get Alfreded in three fell swoops

So like, sad time, but Alfred dies while Bruce is doing his world tour. He never survived long enough to see Bruce become Batman. Died alone in the Manor, after a particularly nasty fall and a broken neck.

But that was unacceptable.

Master Bruce, insufferable boy, could not lose another paternal figure in his life. Also the Manor was still a mess, and Bruce would need someone to make sure he didn't accidentally poison himself.

So he hid his corpse on the Manor grounds, and got to work.

And he was so glad he stayed; sure, it had taken a bit to stop glowing, but really the floating thing was amazingly helpful in reaching the chandelier, and after Master Bruce had returned he had gotten so many grandchildren.

Fast forward; Danny defeated Pariah Dark, he is Crown Prince of the Infinite Realms, Dan is attempting reformation and is technically a Prince by relation, and Dani is attempting to be Dan's parole officer and is definitely a Princess 100% she never forgets that no sir.

And Danny gets approached by some of the Observants, and they tell him that there is a very powerful ghost in Gotham, one that fully and completely blends in with humans and really needs to come to the Infinite Realms to complete his paperwork. But whenever they show up, this ghost thinks that they're there to force him to stay in the Infinite Realms.

And he kicks their asses.

Brutally.

For a bit he had a tiny kid ghost with him kicking their asses as well, but the kid randomly disappeared one day.

The Observants very clearly outline that this ghost is not Gotham herself, although the tax-evading criminal has been seen having tea with her.

Danny has no desire to deal with this; he just graduated high school and needs to focus on what college he's going to choose, so if Dan or Dani want to throw hands with some weird Gotham Ghost then by all means. Fuck taxes anyways, what did the Zone even take for taxation, what-?

So Danny splits his time college hunting and trying to find out how tax laws work in the Ghost Zone.

Dani goes to the old man first, and Alfred promptly sits her down and gives her cookies and hot chocolate, treats her like the kid she's never been treated like between Vlad and all of the Zone focusing on the Princess thing, and she feels at home for the second time in her half-life.

Dani gets a call from a nervous Observant, and promptly tells him she isn't going back either so nyah.

Dan goes to pick her up, and Alfred asks him if he is quite alright, he looks rather tense, and that if it is a fight he wants then the Justice League could probably use a new member, after all Alfred knows an upstanding young man when he sees one, and clearly Dan just needs a chance to prove to himself that he can be good.

Just like another young man Alfred knows.

Dan gets a call from a nervous Observant, and tells them that he's a little busy stopping an alien invasion, and is a tentative member of the Justice League now so he doesn't have time for their bullshit.

Also fuck taxes.

Finally, Danny has no choice.

He goes to drag this random old man and his little sister back to the Zone himself.

Alfred takes one look at him and slowly slides a flier for Gotham University across the kitchen island.

"Your younger sister speaks well of you," the dead butler says, eyes beaming, "and I believe that, given what she has said, you qualify for one of the Wayne Educational Grants for a full ride, so to speak."

Alfred never gets dragged into the Ghost Zone, although eventually he does learn that they weren't trying to drag him into the Land of the dead but were just trying to get him to do paperwork.

He never goes.

Bruce, however, is very fucking confused as to where these strange kids came from.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #story idea #little too specific to be a general prompt #just an idea

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roach-works · 23 days

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ok im waffling on about fallout instead of having breakfast but i saw a criticism of how the prisoners were treated that's stuck with me.

spoilers!

so i think the criticism wasn't incorrect, per se: it condemned the way the show portrayed the vault dweller's naive intention to rehabilitate their murderous captives. it found fault with a common, and horrible, message that tv shows like to say, which is that carcerial violence and even the death penalty is the only effective way to deal with criminals, who are a fundamentally Bad category of human. im sick of that message too! but i think that wasn't what was going on here, actually.

so like, the vault dwellers had only ever experienced violent loss the once, and didn't really know how to cope other than denial and repression of the ordeal. but they were all hopeful and enthusiastic that their prisoners, the invaders that came to kill them all and take their stuff, could be eventually welcomed into the community as their comrades. the champions of this cause were nebbishy dorks and painfully out of touch academics. this is pretty normal for how prison reformers are portrayed, if extremely fucking annoying for those of us who ARE in favor of prison reform.

but so of course when the son of the former overseer, Norm, speaks up and suggests killing the prisoners, because why should they share resources with invaders who explicitly wanted to keep hurting them? why should they show mercy to their attackers? everyone is appalled by this suggestion. because they had to reinvent the whole concept of vengeance right then and there, because grudges and cycles of violence are anathema to a bottle society like theirs. they have been raised all their lives to forgive and forget and now, put to the test, they're recommitting to this ethos: get along, let the past go, look towards the future, believe the best of everyone.

but the prisoners die, anyway. the prisoners are killed with rat poison. and the thing is that Norm who suggested it didn't do it himself. and the prison guard who's blamed for it, even though she privately agreed with Norm that the prisoners are dangerous and unforgiveable, she didn't do it either. it's not a moment of triumphant, cathartic vengeance and it doesn't prove that there's no way to negotiate with terrorists and invaders but kill them like vermin because that's not what the message is meant to be.

the message is that norm stands there in the middle of these inconvenient prisoners, these corpses dressed in his own people's uniforms, and he looks at the new overseer. and he knows that she killed them, and she knows that he knows. she wanted him to know. this is her message and he's reading her loud and clear. and he doesn't look like a guy who's just been backed up by authority, who's just been validated in his desire for the ultimate control over those who have wronged him.

he's scared and pale and the music is ominous as fuck. and he's inside the cell, he's directly in the middle of it.

because what just happened is that he realized his entire society is being held prisoner, and the overseer is the one with the rat poison. and that he doesn't know, anymore, what freedom and safety and justice actually mean, just that he doesn't have them and he doesn't know where to find them.

that's what that scene meant. not that rehabilitative justice is a pathetic delusion of people who have no idea how to make hard choices.

but that before you advocate for killing prisoners, you might want to see how big that prison is, first.

and which side of the bars you're standing on.

#fallout #look i went NUTS over the prison scene #it's gonna live in my brain for a good long while #RATS ARE A BIG THEME IN THIS SHOW #the rats that are vermin and the rats that are lab subject #both disposable #both struggling so hard to survive #both in pain and wondering what's going on and why is life so hard #both disposed of when they go where they shouldn't

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