• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    53·
    12 hours ago

    Hate to break this to you. But let me introduce you to the favorite saying of every Centrist Democrat that gets elected president:

    “It is time to heal and move on.”

    They care more about peace than justice.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      20·
      8 hours ago

      i’m reminded of something mlk jr wrote, on a related topic:

      I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice;

      That’s a lot of people - they just want things to be quiet and easy for them, and if there’s injustice for others they’ll just have to live with it.

    • witchybitchy@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 hours ago

      see the thing though is that “all of this” in the meme is very vague. it could mean a full-on cultural revolution, one where democrats and republicans alike do not exist anymore. I don’t think people are really wanting to go back to the status quo, not really. it’s obviously infinitely better than christofascism, but people want meaningful change. probably a big reason why Kamala Harris was not so popular, even though I voted for her

      • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        9 hours ago

        That’s exactly what they did in 2021. Biden appointed a Republican, Merrick Garland, as his attorney general. And Garland sat on his ass for two years without bringing any charges. Only when they were shamed into it by House committee investigations did they actually start to move. By then, it was too late. Trump ran out the clock. They prosecuted Trump to appease the base, but they did so late enough that Trump stood no chance of conviction before the election.

  • mmddmm@lemm.ee
    18·
    13 hours ago

    Honestly, I’m surprised that anti-ICE guerrillas still didn’t start to appear over the US.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
    32·
    12 hours ago

    …Except that qualified immunity exists, and you can’t make a law and apply it retroactively.

    • octopus_ink@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      9·
      12 hours ago

      …Except that qualified immunity exists,

      Qualified immunity specifically does not apply in cases where someone’s clearly established civil rights were violated, though the criteria for that is specific. Further, it applies only to civil cases, not criminal cases. It may certainly help them in some instances, but it’s not going to be a blanket shield.

      1 Was a constitutional right violated?

      2 Was the right clearly established at the time of the alleged violation?

      https://www.justia.com/civil-rights/government-violations-of-civil-rights/qualified-immunity/

      Under this doctrine, government agents—including but not limited to police officers—can never be sued for violating someone’s civil rights, unless they violated “clearly established law.” While this is an amorphous, malleable standard, it generally requires civil rights plaintiffs to show not just a clear legal rule, but a prior case with functionally identical facts.

      In other words, it is entirely possible—and quite common—for courts to hold that government agents did violate someone’s rights, but that the victim has no legal remedy, simply because that precise sort of misconduct had not occurred in past cases.

      https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/publications/insights-on-law-and-society/volume-21/issue-1/qualified-immunity/

      While yes, IANAL, I’m exceptionally doubtful that clearly established constitutional rights aren’t being violated by the behaviors of ICE under Trump, in many, many circumstances.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        4·
        12 hours ago

        I’m exceptionally doubtful that clearly established constitutional rights aren’t being violated by the behaviors of ICE under Trump,

        Given that what’s happening is absolutely unprecedented, I’m pretty sure that there aren’t any specific court cases dealing with that kind of shit that’s going on right now. Do I WANT all ICE agent to have severe legal consequences for this, if we ever have an election again? Absolutely. But fuck it, I’ll settle for some extrajudicial rendition to the Mariana Trench.

    • Kairos@lemmy.today
      7·
      12 hours ago

      In 1945 in Germany, the murder rate was about 25 times what it is in current day United States.

      A lot of people who were “just following orders” got justice.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        4·
        12 hours ago

        Oh, sure, and I 100000% support that. (In fact, why wait? Start today!) But that isn’t going to be people in camps.