“I’m just ashamed that this bill even came into fruition,” a Lexington council member said.

  • @creamed_eels@toast.ooo
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    My fellow murricans, it really a free nation if we can’t come together to shoot homeless people in the streets?

  • @Fades@lemmy.world
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    The Republican speaker of the house tells us we can’t fully commit to Ukraine until we address the issues in our own home.

    This is what they envision when they talk about problems here at home. They want to be able to persecute/harm/kill anyone they perceive as lesser whether that be a homeless person or an LGBT person, or other such minority.

    Fuck these christofascist monsters, Jesus Christ himself would be disgusted. Care for the poor and the sick? Nah that’s woke Jesus, conservative Jesus cheers you on as you bash a person in the face simply for having less money than you

  • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    This proposed law also has a three strikes law in it. Life in prison without parole for 3 felonies.

    Also, apparently child defendants aren’t allowed to have a jury? That’s not highlighted, so it’s current law there.

    This entire thing is an authoritarian wet dream. Create outlaws, and then turn them into slaves or bodies.

    • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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      241 year ago

      It also bans charitable organizations from paying more than $5000 in bail.

      For violent felonies, it doesn’t allow them to pay bail at all.

      Which means anyone could provoke anyone to violence and they would be jailed with no hope of escape. Including ostensibly a homeless person by destroying their stuff.

      • Ya know the concept that one must take unreasonable actions in an unreasonable situation comes to mind. If someone gets into a fight for example, they may just default into “accidentally” killing the person so that they can write the narritive for example.

          • Making rash moves can easily backfire in times like these, better to take small precise moves than large random ones. In eliminating one threat you may create a martyr or galvanize ones enemies while weaking oneself. Just look at the German spartacists to see how well rash moves can backfire.

            • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe
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              11 year ago

              Who said anything about doing anything rash?

              🤔 Protesting in the major cities would probably do a lot to draw negative attention toward the bill and its sponsors, and hopefully get it dumped.

    • @BobGnarley@lemm.ee
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      Children arent allowed to have juries in other states too. I got told repeatedly during my Juvenile case that children don’t have rights. They fucked me good for a miniscule amount of Marijuana. I’m talking, fucking years of my childhood. I don’t want to say the state because it might out my identity but I’ll give you a hint, its another shithole state that comes to mind when you think of fucking cousins, much like Kentucky. Glad to be out of that part of the country forever now.

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        Had similar late childhood. Put on probation for weed possession, then would get locked up for every minor infraction. A local police officer would follow me around whenever he saw me, make up excuses for pulling me over, and search my car. Got locked up for 6 months for being 30 minutes late to school once… because I got pulled over on the way to school. I’m guessing there was some kind of graft going on with the probation officers, judges, and detention centers, because they would give out such long sentences for such minor offenses.

    • SeaJ
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      131 year ago

      You see, Republicans want to protect children so clearly they cannot be seen by a dangerous jury.

      • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        I’m really hoping there’s another area of law that says kids can’t be put in prison or if they are then they do need a jury.

        But realistically I’m waiting for the whole parenting responsibility of the state argument to drop.

    • @groupofcrows@lemmy.ca
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      Once passed they will realise it’s too vague, how can you tell if someone is homeless? It will be a lot easier when they pass the amendment which allows for killing people to are of the darker or more uppity variety. /S

      • @Hotdogman@lemmy.world
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        At the time the person entered my property they were not in a home. So I identified them as homeless and killed them.

    • DominusOfMegadeus
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      111 year ago

      They can’t very well claim we can’t. Maybe we can do combo Soup Kitchens/Gun giveaways.

  • @BobGnarley@lemm.ee
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    271 year ago

    “How do we solve the housing crises?” Kentucky: “Thats easy! Just aim for the center of mass”

  • Rosco
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    Why did this distinction was made in the first place? Do cops in Kentucky have a habit of gunning down homeless people?

    • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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      No, it’s so ordinary people like you and me can do it. Guess they were jealous the police were having all the fun.

    • @markr@lemmy.world
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      Cops have always had a habit of killing the homeless. Also they have a habit of killing the homed. Thanks to qualified immunity in the USA, a cop just has to feel threatened, not actually be threatened, to justify the use of deadly force.

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        The worst part is that in the rare cases that the cops might possibly be held accountable beyond qualified immunity, juries also like to give them a pass because they l can relate more to a sad cop’s excuse of being afraid more than some corpse that can’t speak for themselves.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          And in the very rare case it looks like the police officers will actually face accountability, SCOTUS is there to say it can’t pass Qualified Immunity because the police officers laughed while they did it instead of chuckled.

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    Contribute to capitalism OR DIE!

    And I thought the link about the pastor getting in shit for offering shelter from the cold was peak fuckin murica.

    But hey, finally, the honest truth! Never thought we’d see the day. Hateful shit system, making us into shit people. Guess what dickheads, there are better ways to live. literally all of them. it’s over for you anyway, AI is here and it’s too late to make a stand now.