imo this is always on the person. i can call literally anyone a murderer whether it's true or not and that's the beautiful thing about the internet, even if it's also the terrible thing. To make my stance clear, I don't think you deserve any such poor treatment.

All the mentally ill people cheering on this mentally ill person (lorenz included) make me confident this platform is permanently fucked, it'll always be an intellectually homogenous toxic cesspit when it's courting the most mentally ill people on the internet

This is everything wrong with the current bluesky userbase

Hi! You've been referred here because you repeated a false claim about California's shoplifting law Not only did California not "legalize shoplifting," its shoplifting law is still comparatively strict

useful on understanding *statutory* shoplifting law, but leaves unexamined: why, then, is shoplifting so much worse in California?

real law, as practiced, also a function of DAs & judges & juries & culture & fellow-citizens. …

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