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"Many members of these two generations will never own land, and our environmental impact needs to be policed? K."

What? You do not need to "own land" to exploit and pollute it, dipshit. You exist on it. You consume on it. You are responsible for caring for out air water as much as anyone else.

The fact is all of us are responsible. Did you think you got some get out of jail card and released from your responsibilities to not polluting because your generation got fucked over by the snowballing economic unsustainability? That's not how it works.

Shit is hard. But it's not an excuse for you to be an asshole.

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Sarah Palin, Godmother of the Insurrection, losing her race for US House should merit a mention.

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@1 - Can't you make a point without being an asshole yourself? No need to be so nasty to Hannah. You should apologize.

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I have no opinions to offer today.

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"...feeling an anti-anti-millennial sentiment...as I age...pissed off me and my millennial elders."
Awwwww, poor baby canna dish, butta canna not take it? Icky poo poo?

"Poland...claims...Germany owes them $1.3 trillion for WWII...reparations."
Here we go!! I'm half Polish & half Irish and I've been saying for years that reparations is nonsense, reparations for US slavery should never happen, it was a mistake to pay it to the Japanese interned during WWII, and people should read some history and learn that just about everyone in this world has been conquered & enslaved, so it's all a wash. So now that my Polish relatives are at it, I'm waiting for my Irish relatives to demand reparations from the British. Then we can move on to the Ukrainians demanding it from Russia (Stalinist Russia. Reparations from Putin's Russian can be a whole nother circus.) Then the victims of Pol Pot. Then the Jews looking for it from the Egyptians. And finally Able from Cain, or maybe Eve from the snake. Reparations is all a bunch of horseshit. @1 is making the same logical case about pollution.

@2, In addition to never hearing from or about Trump ever again, we do well when we never hear about The Crazy Witch of the North again.

@3, Poor baby Hannah.....Icky poo poo.....not be meanie man to poor woman who can't take care of herself. Raindrop care for all poor second class women. (For the spiritually challenged, that's sarcasm.)

@5, Voter intimidation is NOT free speech. Not to mention that all the signs these idiots put up ON OTHER PEOPLE'S PROPERTY are littering at the very least. I've got to look at the signs on THEIR property, but I shouldn't have to look at signs on MY (public) property.

@6, On the 7th day he rested. Bless you.

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Mary Peltola is awesome! I donated to her campaign, which was considered a major long-shot, and she won!!! Donate some munnie to her campaign for the November election. This is the first time that a Democrat has won that office in Alaska in half a century.

https://www.marypeltola.com

Don't believe the oligarch-owned media lying to us that the Republinazi takeover of Congress is a done deal. We can do this--VOTE.

Sarah Mean and Stupid, the Queen of the Danged, will be grifting back on the ballot in November. She'll have to be defeated again, unfortunately.

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@5 The signs were clearly intended as a threat with the aim of vote suppression. If it happens again it absolutely should be treated as a crime.

Regarding "sweep," I believe the current bureaucratically preferred term is "cleanse."

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@7-3 - yeah, yeah. I just don't get the hostile, gratuitous, flippant trigger-happy, hate-filled spewing at the drop of a hat despite the umbrella of sarcasm, tongue-in-cheek, snark.

It will never be "cool". After all, the tone police and the woke should pair well.

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“Under the new tough-on-crime City Attorney, Ann Davison, the Seattle Community Court, which tries to help people out instead of throwing them in jail, is seeing a surge in referrals.”

I doubt she was surprised at all, let alone to the extent the Stranger has implied. The logic is simple: if the City Attorney’s office charges no one with any crime, then there can be no diversions to Community Court. If the City Attorney’s office charges only a small fraction of suspects with crimes, then there may be room in Community Court to divert the same persons over and over and over again, even though they do not change behaviors and so keep getting arrested. If the City Attorney’s office charges a large enough fraction of suspects with crimes, then there may be room in Community Court only for persons who might actually change behaviors, and thus not re-offend. Therefore, if City Attorney Davison wanted to restrict the diversionary program to those considered most likely not to re-offend, then charging a larger number of suspects with crimes would be a good way to do it.

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Davison's job is prosecutor and you are mad at her for...prosecuting?
If these diversion programs are as great as the stranger claims them to be, then she is doing a far better service to everyone than her worthless predecessor just by shear number of people actually gaining access to the programs rather than being tossed back out on the street with no help and also no prosecution.
Do you guys even read this shit before hitting publish?

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@12, I'm not talking about whatever law you (plural) are talking about. I don't care if someone is filming the drop boxes. I'm talking about the sphincters who drop signs wherever they please the same way people let their dogs shit all over. And unless I'm mistaken, intimidation is generally a crime, even if not under the law you reference. Though, as it likely requires intent, and considering your other points, who could prove it?
You obviously have no idea of my political values & I wouldn't avail myself of your jailhouse lawyering skills even if I was locked up with you.

@13, I had my account deleted because once, after I read a column long rant by Jas about some birthday or jubilee for the Queen of England, where she opined that the 100 year old lady, who has spent her entire life serving her country, was a dirtbag for whatever reason, I called Jas a POS......after Jas had spent her entire column assassinating the character of the Queen. Not that I really care that much about the queen. But attacking a 100 yr old woman who has dedicated her entire life to public service, no matter her mistakes or perks?? So SLOG writers can call anyone, including 100 yr old women anything they please, but 3 words by a reader will get their account deleted? IMHO, if the SLOG writers can dish it out, they should be able to take it. AND THEY CAN'T.

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@12: "Nobody has an expectation of privacy or being unobserved in public."

When I went to drop my ballot off, there was an election worker (complete with reflective vest and ID card) standing near my local drop box. I actually felt comforted. My ballot would be safe, unmolested by ne'er do wells or commingled with a suitcase load of questionable submissions.

Were my intentions to be something other than depositing a legitimate ballot, I suppose the presence of surveillance might have been disconcerting, possibly even threatening. But no. I felt completely at ease.

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@18 "Davison's job is prosecutor and you are mad at her for...prosecuting? "

She's the City Attorney. She's not the the City Prosecutor like other cities have. While her office oversee's prosecution of misdemeanors, her direct job is defending the city against law suits and to give the city legal advice.

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@22 oof. indeed, my mistake thank you for clarifying


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