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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • No matter who’s president? Because fighting off rebellions was a big part of what those militias were used for.

    Ostensibly. They’re obviously lying, but that’s what they say.

    It’s WELL-regulated, not “barely regulated at all with little to no enforcement to speak of”

    It’s my understanding that the extant gun laws are legally considered to fulfill this requirement, otherwise private gun ownership wouldn’t be possible. Personally I disagree, but I’m not sure what standard would otherwise be used.

    I do hope you’re correct, but I don’t trust the US government to adhere to common sense anymore. I guess we’ll see what the court says, because someone’s going to challenge this.

    Or maybe he’ll get voted out in November and this will be disbanded before anything happens with it. I think that’s probably the best option, because then it doesn’t get a chance to be approved by this SCOTUS and nobody has to have their civil rights violated by this group.








  • I’d like to first of all say that I don’t see any reason to believe the teachers did this. I hope the police proceed under that assumption unless evidence leading otherwise turns up. My original comment was about why someone might not want their children punished as severely, if the teachers did in fact do these things to their students, but I don’t think it’s likely (and really hope it’s not the case).

    It would be harassment whether or not it’s true, so the teachers would still have reason to sue.

    That’s true, but it’s probably not a huge concern. Middle schoolers under that kind of pressure will react without thought to consequences and if their most grievous response is to harass their abusers, most courts would probably recognize that. I would still explain to them that they can trust me and that I’ll believe them if they tell me something like this in the future, before it gets to this point.

    I just hope something happens with their parents too, because kids who do things like this tend to have shitty parents.

    Agreed.


  • If they actually did those things, it wouldn’t be slander.

    If I were to guess, I’d take it as “unless the kids knew/suspected with good reason they were doing those things”, because that’s how I would feel about it at least. I would still want to talk to them about appropriate responses and make sure they knew they could trust me, but kids don’t always know how to bring up adults’ misbehavior.

    If it’s just a fluke, that would feel like an ends justifying the means situation.