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I agree that the manslaughter conviction seems ridiculous and excessive.
I'm pretty sure normal manslaughter charges also need to prove that whatever you did (or supposedly did, if you weren't the one who did it) was the cause of death. Here, they haven't even managed that low, low hurdle, on top of every flaw inherent in trying to slap on a homicide charge for a nonviable fetus at an age it's still classified as a miscarriage and not a stillbirth.
Another issue with it is that if the kind of person who does drugs while pregnant is almost certainly a mess, how does throwing them in jail help them or their child? It would be punitive nonsense even if there was no sexism involved.
She should not be jailed for this, it's a travesty of justice.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang@Morning Star 1337: Hey now. I'm a progressive because government spending (such as SSI, Medicare and soon Medicaid) directly benefits me personally.
Punishment at a state level isnt ment to do any thing about the individual themselfs, so it doesnt really mater what her state is.
It's about discouraging others from doing the same thing.
While "should that be how it works" can be debated, and personaly I would agree reform based systems are better... your fundamentally miss understanding what's going on if you think it's about her
Yeah, while there's value in understanding the oppositions' position, at a certain point going "they think the same thing" loses meaning because, objectively, one side is just much closer to being correct in basically all matters than the other. And that does make a difference.
Edited by LSBK on Oct 17th 2021 at 5:56:39 AM
The Atlantic: WHAT WE LOST WHEN GANNETT CAME TO TOWN (Elaine Godfrey)
This piece in The Atlantic covers the slow death of a small-town local newspaper The Hawk Eye after being bought by Gannett, which also owns over a 100 local newspapers across the US.
These days, most of The Hawk Eye’s articles are ripped from other Gannett-owned Iowa publications, such as The Des Moines Register and the Ames Tribune, written for a readership three hours away. The Opinion section, once an arena for local columnists and letter writers to spar over the merits and morals of riverboat gambling and railroad jobs moving to Topeka, is dominated by syndicated national columnists.
By now, we know what happens when a community loses its newspaper. People tend to participate less often in municipal elections, and those elections are less competitive. Corruption goes unchecked, and costs sometimes go up for town governments. Disinformation becomes the norm, as people start to get their facts mainly from social media. But the decline of The Hawk Eye has also revealed a quieter, less quantifiable change.
When people lament the decline of small newspapers, they tend to emphasize the most important stories that will go uncovered: political corruption, school-board scandals, zoning-board hearings, police misconduct. They are right to worry about that. But often overlooked are the more quotidian stories, the ones that disappear first when a paper loses resources: stories about the annual Teddy Bear Picnic at Crapo Park, the town-hall meeting about the new swimming-pool design, and the tractor games during the Denmark Heritage Days.
These stories are the connective tissue of a community; they introduce people to their neighbors, and they encourage readers to listen to and empathize with one another. When that tissue disintegrates, something vital rots away. We don’t often stop to ponder the way that a newspaper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone. As local news crumbles, so does our tether to one another.
After three months, Sweet retired. Steve Delaney, who had become the paper’s publisher, was fired in April 2017. Alison, by then the managing editor, was let go in June, along with several others. Rex Troute retired then, too. The copy desk took buyouts that summer, and their duties were moved to Austin, Texas. Over the next two years, more reporters accepted buyouts, most of the paper’s advertising roles were eliminated, the six-person press crew was dissolved, and printing operations were moved to Peoria. In 2019, GateHouse bought USA Today publisher Gannett and took its more well-known name. At the time, Gannett owned more than 100 daily papers, and after the merger, the company owned one out of every six newspapers in the country. The Hawk Eye, which started 2016 with 100 people on the payroll, today has about a dozen. From the depot, the newspaper veterans and I had a decent view of the boxy brown Hawk Eye office. Gannett had put the building up for sale last winter.
Readers noticed the paper’s sloppiness first—how there seemed to be twice as many typos as before, and how sometimes the articles would end mid-sentence instead of continuing after the jump. The newspaper’s remaining reporters are overworked; there are local stories they’d like to tell but don’t have the bandwidth to cover. The Hawk Eye’s current staff is facing the impossible task of keeping a historic newspaper alive while its owner is attempting to squeeze it dry.
None of this was inevitable: At the time of the sale to GateHouse, The Hawk Eye wasn’t struggling financially. Far from it. In the years leading up to the sale, the paper was seeing profit margins ranging from the mid-teens to the high 20s. Gannett has dedicated much of its revenue to servicing and paying off loans associated with the merger, rather than reinvesting in local journalism. Which is to say that southeastern Iowans are losing their community paper not because it was a failing business, but because a massive media-holding company has investors to please and debts to pay. (A Gannett representative acknowledged that the company has prioritized repaying its creditors, but said that it is committed to supporting local journalism.)
It’s difficult to quantify that creeping sense of disconnection, those crumbling social ties. But southeastern Iowans feel it, and they’ll describe it if you ask them to. Within hours of posting in “Burlington Breaking News” to ask for people’s thoughts on The Hawk Eye, I received dozens of comments, emails, and private Facebook messages. Almost everyone expressed sadness about the paper’s deterioration. “We feel like we’re all little islands out here,” Deb Bowen, a 72-year-old Burlington resident, told me on the phone.
In regards to Politico
NYT: At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment
A NYT article detailing Germany's foremost trash tabloid and it's publisher, who bought Politico this year.
"You can reply to this Message!"Colin Powell, Secretary of State 2001-2005, died today aged 84.[1]
"if you're told by society that taking care of kids is a woman's thing and you are too much of a man to do a woman's job, then you feel like you don't have to stick around for the child"
Kinda? sociaty also expect a man to own is responsability about being a father and just stick around, we are also told we want to be a father one day, the diferent here are two: dosent speak about not wanting to be a father and also are relativity to be given a pass for not being one, we dont talk about men who dosent want to be father but also dosent talk about men who just run away.
Moring star: that isnt enterely truth, both conservative and progresive does go back and forth between the self and the group: progresive foe example tend to fall down on the right of group to no tbe annoyed by trolling and harassment but also then do defend the right of the self to express(specially minorities) against the wishes of the group and so on.
And about progresive being utopians.....meh, is more simple: conservative in US have being radicalized, they belive their vision is good and anything else is not and when you belive that, you can do whatever the hell you want, funny in how paradoxical it gets.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"

@Kayeka. Projection is a hell of a drug,.
The thing is I see the two sides as two things.
Conservatives are the inherent selfishness ideology. the "F U, got mine!" crowd, the in-groups seeking toe expel the out-groups, most varieties of grifter and the idolization of the self over the group have a home under this umbrella.
Progressives are the relatively selfless ideology. Which seeks to benefit people in general instead of looking out for number one. Though some can support their goals for selfish or at least self serving reasons.
Put in other terms I (to generalize) see Conservatives as Dystopians and Progressives as (less extreme...usually) Utopians.
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Oct 17th 2021 at 8:49:46 AM