In Germany? I thought they got rid of those…like…a while ago.

Which time?

Edit: oh dammit. I now see someone else already made this joke. Ok, to make it up to you, I’ll tell a different joke.

So a woman in her Chicago high rise apartment was beating a rug with a broom on her balcony. Suddenly a big burst of wind blew her over the railing.

Now she’s falling from the 30th floor.

A man on the 25th floor sees this, catches her, and says “Wow, it must be my lucky day! A beautiful woman falls out of the sky and into my arms! Tell me young miss, do you suck dick?”

Outraged by this she screams “NO I DON’T SUCK DICK!!!”

So he drops her.

A man on the 20th floor sees her falling, and catches her. He says: Wow, it must be my lucky day! A beautiful woman falls out of the sky and into my arms! Tell me young miss, would you be willing to fuck me?"

Insulted by the idea she screams “NO I DON’T FUCK STRANGERS!!!”

So he drops her.

As she’s falling, she realizes she’s going to die, and in her final moments she prays. “Please god, just let ONE more person catch me! I promise to do any revolting thing they ask!”

And on the 15th floor, a woman catches her. Before her rescuer can say a word, the woman screams “I SUCK! I FUCK! I’LL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT!!!”

Revolted by this, the woman holding her says “Slut!”

And drops her.

TIL I’m a koala! I also feel mentally harmed if I have to deal with people all day, instead of sleeping 20 hours a day.

…or, maybe I’m just depressed?

You eliminated the parts that explain why it’s being banned. Why can’t I snuggle the koalas???

Oh, I wasn’t accusing you of lying. I was just saying it’s such a strange name for a charge that has a legitimate purpose, but is named in a way that has nothing to do with that purpose.

Kinda like if you took an uber, and they charged you for the “poopy diaper charge”. And you say nobody on your trip even wore a diaper. So the driver tells you it’s so he can refill his gas in the car.

What a strange name if thats the purpose.

Its amazing how the colonists were basically just “Lets be Englishmen…but over there instead. And we’ll do all the same stuff, but also totally different.”

And John Adams said “Will there be alchohol?”

And then George Washington said “One day we’ll even name a beer after you.”

Then Benjamin Franklin went off to France to get laid a whole bunch. It was pretty easy to get laid in France in the 1770s if you just showed up, and said you’re leading a revolution against the British, and overthrowing monarchy power. Just tons of pusspuss and fine wine to go around.

…what were we talking about?

My favorite one is when half my brain was thinking I was hungry, and my mouth was asking my friend if he wanted to drive to the baseball game, or use public transportation.

What came out of my mouth was “Do you want to drive the hot dog to the game? Or should we take the bus?”

My friend looked at me like a confused puppy tilting their head hoping to see things from a new perspective. Finally he just blurts out “Do you think I have access to the Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile???”

Me, not realizing I said “hot dog” instead of “jeep” was quite confused. So I had no idea why he was bringing up the Oscar-Mayer Weinermobile, just asked “…wha…do you? DO you have access to the Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile?”

“NO!!!”

“Then why’d you bring it up?”

Oops. I meant to type conservatives, but, my fingers typed progressives. Just like last week when I meant to type “got him” and my fingers typed “gotton” which isn’t a word.

And progressives conservatived will say “We’re wasting all that money giving it to Ukraine”, not realizing we’re not giving Ukraine straight cash. We’re giving them American manufactured weapons and ammunition. In the begining it was just giving them old leftover backstock to clear out warehouses.

By now I’m sure those have been depleated, and now we’re giving Ukraine weapons and ammunition based on government contracts, that progressives conservatives were the ones that decades ago advocated for.

So America basically just gave American companies 2.3bn in cash, to produce weapons and ammunition, and then gave those weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.

Now, if those progressives conservatives DON’T want us to do that, we’ll STOP giving money to the American war machine, and the next time we’re at war, we’ll be behind in tech. All in an effort to lower taxes for billionaires who wouldn’t even notice.

Edit: oopsie! I typed “progressives” when I was thinking of “conservatives”. It’s hot, I’m gonna blame it on my brain being fried.

Soooooo, either he should get the money, as the victim, or the charge is basically police charging victims money for being victims.

…I feel like I’m missing something here.

victim surcharge of £154.

WHAT VICTIM??? The article says nothing of him doing anything to others. To my knowledge he didn’t attack anyone. There’s no victim!

In the UK?

I know what Lemmy.ml is, but I don’t know what Lemmygrad is. It sounds like if Lemmy were a cold war era city in the soviet union.

I keep seeing this term “Tankies” on Lemmy, but I’ve only ever seen it on Lemmy. I can’t tell if you mean people who wear tank-tops, or people who drive tanks. Neither one makes sense given the context of this, or other threads I’ve seen the term in.

Starting to think it’s a slur of some kind, but I don’t see who it would be against.

…what? You’re on Lemmy. THIS is Lemmy. I don’t get what you mean. Or maybe you don’t get what you mean?

Inverted alcoholics have this problem…I guess…

So…the hypothetical of trump using these new “standards” (for lack of a better word) that his judges set is justification for calling for the current president to beat him to the punch?

Do you know what would happen if Biden did that? Best case scenario, is he IMMEDIATELY loses the 2024 election, and trump then continues the practice with the justification of “he did it first!”. That’s the BEST possible outcome.

But it could go SOOOOOO much farther than that. It could honestly be the thing that starts the civil war 2 in this country before we even GET to the election. A government using it’s own resources to kill it’s own government officials. How is that not EXACTLY what russia does???

Why stop at supreme court judges? Why not kill trump? Why not kill every political opponent you face?

You tried to stop trump from introducing facism by saying it’s ok for Biden to introduce facism. Either way, this country falls to facism. You’re just debating which side is the new dictator.

If you go through life looking for things to take offense, you will always be outraged.

This is what I tell my sister. She got angry at me for hanging my hats on these little hooks that hang off of closet doors. I have many hats, and not much room. She got mad that the outside of my closet door had hats on it.

I got one. Present a new bill that says supreme court judges are not for life with no chance to remove them.

Every 4 years on election years, but months before the presidential election, (so maybe spring/summer) they allow the general public to vote on their performance. If they get less than 65% approval rating, they’re out. They’ll be replaced by the new president, technically next year (since the election happens in November, but the inauguration is in January).

So if a court judge is less than 65% popular with the public, they’re gone.

And yes, I see the problem of “but the nation is so divided right now that neither side could get that approval rating, and all 12 judges would just be replaced every 4 years…”

Which is partially by design. We need a system that fundamentally breaks all systems that keep corrupt people in power, and actively discourages the media, and politicians from taking this “us vs them” mentality.

A republican SHOULD be presenting their set of ideas that benefit ALL Americans.

A democrat SHOULD be presenting a different set of opposing ideas that benefit ALL Americans.

And the public should vote on what will benefit them most. There should be no such thing as career democrats, or career republicans. It should be a free flowing liquid set of ideas that get catagorized as democrat this time, but based on the people in the election, maybe next time you’re catagorized as more republican than the other guy. So, this election you’re republican instead.

Because everybody is so concerned about “The other side”, that everybody forgets one key thing. It may be two sides, but they’re two sides to the same coin. That coin is America. Right now, and for the past 8 years, that coin has been just falling to the ground.