• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 month ago

        When fascism wins and starts rounding up people to be executed… Will you have the same attitude?

        When your family is facing literal death by a fascist party, was it worth saving just your own family to begin with before they took power?

        Because backing down emboldened them, then they took power, now they have control of all legal mechanisms, and now you and your family will die horrifically anyway.

        Was it worth it?

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          You’re not the one facing the possibility that somebody will kidnap and torture and murder you, your kids, your spouse, etc. right now, with serious doubt as to whether law enforcement, neighbors, judges, and others will help them or take the side of the absuser.

          It’s on the cemetery worker to make that call for themselves, and I don’t blame people who choose to run or hide instead of fight.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      1 month ago

      As does the system of nothing happening to people like Trump, while also allowing him to use his platform to target his cult on his new “enemy”. We need a system that will treat a former president accused of assault the same way the cops would respond to an alleged assault with a minority involved.

      Until the system is actually going to work for the victim instead of caring about the optics of the assailant (or their “help”), I don’t blame this woman for not wanting to put a target on herself for just doing her job and protecting the privacy/dignity of fallen soldiers and their families.

    • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Why the fuck can’t the police place charges anyway? Here in Canada any assault charge is automatic, it doesn’t require the victim to do anything. Is that not true in the US?