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  • SpoopyKingtoSlop.@hexbear.net•Liberal US Army Veteran denies that Greta Thunberg was tortured in Israeli captivity even after Thunberg herself came out and revealed the torture methods.
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    25 天前

    I’ll preface this by saying that it’s obvious to anyone who read Greta’s statements and has a lick of common sense that this was torture, and the poster would know that if they weren’t a genocide apologist.

    From the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 1.1.1

    For the purposes of this Convention, the term “torture” means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.

    18 USC § 2340(1)

    “torture” means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control;

    Yeah it meets the legal definition of torture. Not that it matters, since that’s not a justification for what they did to her even if it was true. And these people are still ignoring the much worse crimes committed against thousands of Palestinians.

  • SpoopyKingtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Kid Names
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    27 天前

    One of my favorite court transcripts is Sheppard v. Speir.

    The Court:  All right.   Now, do you have some objection to him being renamed Samuel Charles?

    Sheppard:  Yes.

    The Court:  Why? You think it’s better for his name to be Weather’by Dot Com Chanel-

    Sheppard:  Well, the-

    The Court:  Just a minute for the record.

    Sheppard:  Sorry.

    The Court:  Chanel Fourcast, spelled F-o-u-r-c-a-s-t?   And in response to that question, I want you to think about what he’s going to be-what his life is going to be like when he enters the first grade and has to fill out all [the] paperwork where you fill out-this little kid fills out his last name and his first name and his middle name, okay?   So I just want-if your answer to that is yes, you think his name is better today than it would be with Samuel Charles, as his father would like to name him and why.   Go ahead.

    Sheppard:  Yes, I think it’s better this way.

  • SpoopyKingtoReddit@lemmy.world•Reddit is removing the DM feature
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    8 个月前

    It was useful for asking questions that neither you nor the other person would want to put in a public post. For example, someone posted a picture in the bad real estate sub that looked very familiar, and I sent a DM asking “is this X location?”. I might not want people to know I’m familiar with X location, they might not want people to know they’re familiar with X location, but maybe we’re both ok with each other knowing.

    But I’m pretty sure its main use was sending hate to people without getting banned.