Or they could pay public defenders a fair wage and hire more. The reason they don’t is because they don’t want people to have a fair trial. You’re constitutionally ineffective the second you get hired as a PD. We have the resources but many on the far right want to dismantle the requirement for representation and overturn Gideon.

AI isn’t the solution to this—proper governance is.

DARVO is all you need to avoid blame. Deny. Reverse Victim and Offender. Incredibly effective with everyone except the genuinely principled.

Hard agree. I didn’t realize how awful this felt in practice and how much I genuinely missed conversations until Lemmy.

Every popular thread I got into the habit of ignoring the top comments because I’ve seen them 1000 before. Like being forced to watch the most unfunny 90’s sitcom.

I realize now that I would only comment on other comments— deep in comment chains.

Coming to Lemmy felt like the difference between trying to fish a pre-packaged snack out of a vending machine (Reddit) verses sitting down for a high quality all you can eat brunch (Lemmy).

More encroachment on First Amendment rights. Schools have argued successfully that they have jurisdiction over children outside of school if what they “say” outside of school makes it back and causes a “disruption.”

This is ripping the mask off of that final push. I’m not sure what the goal is here, but the effect is that children will have no right to privacy and will face active punishment for thought crime from the age they start school.

I mean, they’re already doing this but now even harder