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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

Jasper Nathaniel, a US journalist known for his coverage of Israel’s illegal occupation, settler colonization, and ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, posted on X: “The entire bipartisan political establishment has coalesced around a willful misreading of what Hasan Piker said in order to silence criticism of Israel. They’re doing the same thing to Mark Ruffalo in Hollywood. It’s all fucking gaslighting. Don’t give an inch.”

“What Hasan said is completely intuitive. Everyone knows that Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—and the Jewish institutions’ blanket support for it—has created more hostility towards Jews,” he added. “There is no good-faith argument against this.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-attack-hasan-piker

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

It's a great mechanism for "peer review" especially in the sense that ethics and legality are often entirely different things.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Basically a jury can legally decide to nullify by declaring "not guilty" regardless of the facts or the judge's instructions, etc. This is why even mentioning jury nullification during a trial can really upset the judge and the prosecution. It is supposed to be something every jury is aware of, but that is usually not actually the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fukuyama around, find out.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 273 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (28 children)

Jury Nullification is like the secret code of the US justice system.That's why most of the people that work for the system absolutely despised the whole idea.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

So do French stoners just tell each other "80 dude" or "90 everybody" if its a big party?

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Palantir is the profit-driven offshoot of this program. It's mostly infrastructure for privatized mass surveillance services. Also why the push for age verification and ID is happen alongside this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

The funny part is that the USA doesn't have enough electric generation infrastructure to power more than a small sliver of all the planned AI data centers.