MDC, which houses 1,600 inmates — many of whom are awaiting trial — is known for being dangerous and understaffed, with a high number of deaths and suicides. In their motion for Combs to be granted bail, his attorneys wrote that “several courts in this District have recognized that the conditions at Metropolitan Detention Center are not fit for pre-trial detention,"

“Just earlier this summer, an inmate was murdered,” the legal team added. “At least four inmates have died by suicide there in the past three years.”

Retribution? His lawyers argued in a high-profile case that the facts demonstrate incompetence at keeping people alive while imprisoned. There is a shithead angle that could be like:

“Oh, so your lawyers pointed out how much we suck at keeping people alive? Time for the padded cell. That was your concern after all, we’ve addressed it.

Wild, truly the conman GOAT.

Upon deliberation, my favorite part:

He led the landing party personally on 29 June 1817 with the words: “I shall sleep either in hell or Amelia tonight!” The Spanish commander at Fort San Carlos, with 51 men and several cannon, vastly overestimated the size of MacGregor’s force and surrendered without either side firing a shot.

Spanish forces congregated on the mainland opposite Amelia, and MacGregor and most of his officers decided on 3 September 1817 that the situation was hopeless and that they would abandon the venture. MacGregor announced to the men that he was leaving, explaining vaguely that he had been “deceived by my friends.”

He turned over the command to one of his subordinates,** a former Pennsylvania congressman** named Jared Irwin, and he boarded the Morgiana with his wife on 4 September 1817 with an angry crowd looking on and hurling insults at him. He waited offshore for a few days, then left on the schooner Venus on 8 September.

Irwin’s troops defeated two Spanish assaults and were then joined by 300 men under Louis-Michel Aury, who held Amelia for three months before surrendering to American forces, who held the island “in trust for Spain” until the Florida Purchase in 1819.

Two weeks later, the MacGregors arrived at Nassau in the Bahamas, where he arranged to have commemorative medallions struck bearing the Green Cross motif and the Latin inscriptions Amalia Veni Vidi Vici (“Amelia, I Came, I Saw, I Conquered”) and Duce Mac Gregorio Libertas Floridarium (“Liberty for the Floridas under the leadership of MacGregor”).

He made no attempt to repay those who had funded the Amelia expedition.

Press reports of the Amelia Island affair were wildly inaccurate, partly because of misinformation disseminated by MacGregor himself.

Imagine what this man could do social media.

Oh, and he his born shortly thereafter was named

There are too many aspects to his life story worthy of mention, torrenting a biography now. Thanks for linking a wild ride of a wikipedia article.

I don’t think he is going to either, pissing off the more liberal parts of audience would cost him money. It would be nice though, even if it did nothing.

He should endorse PSL, maybe a chunk of his audience would listen.

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Agreed, to try and definitely speculate further is an act of augury. We can only hope the entrails are optimistic.

To clarify: they had two waves. My line of logic is that if a third wave exists the attack comes then. The absence of an attack after the first and second either means a) this is desperation : they had a means to draw blood and took it because in absence of a means to kill causing injury is the next best b) it’s a multi stage softening

My most optimistic take, c) is that they have no follow through. Softening as a delay action. They can’t/ don’t see a path to victory as of now and see hurting the organizational structure as a means of buying time to fix that.

Edit: forgot to tie-in that every comm device is suspect rn. The one-two of making multiple comms potentially lethal harms every device. If your pager lows up, if your walkie blows up, you might not keep the other devices attached to your person. A third attack on the second backup shortly followed by invasion would maximize lack of comms. Nothing would be trusted in that temporary period.

Anti-doomer counterattack on the line of thought: they are super dedicated and I bet a ton of the resistance has a line along “my comms might kill me, their missiles too. Without the comms I am unable to coordinate the fight, so fuck it I keep the radio”.

It’s not a Pearl Harbor level advantage, but they did deal a lot of damage. The best preemptive strike completely removes and the second best disrupts comms, they’ve done that twice. As a non-doomer preface: Pearl Harbor was much larger advantage, but the similarities also include that both attacks didn’t do shit to address the underlying advantage. Pearl Harbor attacked the ships, not the shipyards. Ships can be replaced. Callous as it sounds, there is no shortage of those moral and brave enough to replace those lost in terms of war effort and war effort alone. In no way should this be read as ignoring the irreplaceable nature of those lost within the context of community, family, society, ect. That being said a soldier is a tool and can be replaced. Unless a uniquely talented individual was lost, this a setback not a permanent wound.

we don’t, and are unlikely to (if ever) get a proper breakdown of just effective it was. Israel lies as in the Israeli nature. Hezbollah gains nothing form a press release saying “yeah, our dudes got blown up in x amount”. They also gain nothing from not downplaying it given that lies in the opposite direction are given.

There is also the angle that damaging the organizational structure damages the ability to engage in offensives. Defensive intent realized by offensive terrorism. It fits the zionazi mindset.

Is a lithium capable? I genuinely don’t know.

My personal theory is there was no hacking. They identified a plant that produced the pagers and got explosives in there. How the fuck do you make a pager explode with such force assuming all normal factory parts? They have a history of putting explosives in cell phones and this seems a natural corollary.

It would be fucked up but also interesting to learn if somebody has knowledge on how a pager can just do that, but even the Samsung shit didn’t have this lethal a result

Some lit reply videos in there

Blue oyster cult :solidarity: Yemen

Furthermore, look at what “normal” people have done with the place. NeoliberalS are “normal”, chuds are “normal”. Guess who isn’t “normal”? Comrades. Weird is objectively better. Being a comrade m is “weird”, being a comrade is better. “Normal” people suck.

He lives in a Chinese EV down by the river

Keep in mind that they still haven’t taken the entirety of the areas that want to be a part of Russia. The areas past that which are required for defensible borders are probably going to empty out/ self-select anyways.

It’s not a question of if Russia ends up taking whatever amount of the ukraine they decide is required to have a defensible border, it’s a question of time and cost. If they start getting hit by long range missiles deep within their pre-war territory the gloves might finally come off which would end the war much more quickly since such strikes aren’t something that can be tolerated for long.

If this is what BBS was like, I’m officially a return type for that specific thing. Way better than what is currently the norm.

Good for ND! Reaffirming my wish to live there one day.