This reminds me to check up on the Casey Goodson case. Let’s hope we get a similar outcome there.

Edit: Mistrial in Feb 2024. Second trial supposedly coming, I don’t see an article saying when.

Edit2: Feb 2025. Same lawyers as OP oddly enough. https://www.wosu.org/news/2024-09-10/second-murder-trial-for-former-franklin-county-deputy-jason-meade-pushed-back-to-feb-2025

“We’re going to kill them all anyway. You shouldn’t have been wasting those vaccines.” /israel

Again, I agree with you. Doesn’t change the reality of that consistently awesome italian hoagie though. 😁

While I agree with your overall sentiment, an italian sub customized to my preferences from WaWa of all places is effing delicious every last time, and they do not skimp on the quantity of meat.

I appreciate the wisdom of your words, but the past few years have planted me squarely in the camp of “I’ll see it when I believe it” when it comes to any sort of consequence for powerful, wealthy Republicans.

Filthy rich, white. He gets the wag of the finger treatment and nothing worse. Just like Trump.

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You’re getting very different sorts of Democrat mailers than I am then

I knew I’d receive that reply, and I know it to be true. It’s still very odd, as noted. I’m sure there are other examples where one definition contradicts another, but none immediately spring to mind.

Not granted the rank of master and all that.

🤣

After all the slaps on the wrist Trump has received for various things that would either bankrupt most people or land them in jail, I don’t know if I’ve got room in the cart for another of these examples.

Yeah but (IME) the Democrat version is essentially: No one will know if you vote Kamala, even your likely abusive maga spouse. (Edit- https://www.salon.com/2024/10/31/it-is-so-disastrous-maga-men-are-freaking-out-that-wives-may-be-secretly-voting-for-kamala-harris/)

The R version is apparently: Those of you who didn’t vote will be up against the wall if Kamala gets in because it will be your fault. Busybody neighbors are important to ensure Trump gets in again, we’re watching you.

It is truly bizarre that one of the definitions of the word is literally the opposite of the primary definition of the word, however.

Even Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend got acquitted after doing so. It does happen. Though I agree with you that it’s likely a death sentence to defend yourself from police, no matter how justified.

The phrase you’re looking for is “stochastic terrorism”

Their “success” was entirely down to luck, and all my problems were to illustrate the uncertainty built into every second that elapsed from the time they sold the pagers until the time they were detonated.

There was this too:

Among multiple problems was the fact that the idiot thought “I’ll be the one to finally make an ‘anarchy’ symbol with the proper attention to detail!” Another one was - who the hell has ever been enthusiastic enough about a Biden presidency to decide they needed to express it with a can of paint on someone else’s property?

It really was immediately apparent, it was just a matter of waiting for the inevitable confirmation.

I get a similar vibe here. It really doesn’t make sense as a crime that group would be motivated to commit.

I think being designed to maim is but one of multiple problems with this approach, which would overall not be served by more explosives.

• It looks like a pager. Yes, supply chain attack blah blah only purchased by Hezbollah folks. But if it gets stolen or found by a civilian, there is nothing about it to suggest it could be lethal or that they should leave it alone. It isn’t just not marked as lethal, it’s explicitly disguised as something mundane.

• Hezbollah folks could be sitting next to an innocent civilian in any number of contexts.

• Related to but distinct from my first point, there is an endless list of possible ways that a pager belonging to a hezbollah operative could wind up in the hands of an innocent, or in a position to harm an innocent instead of the target, and none of them are things that could be controlled or monitored for the fleet of explosive pagers. Once sold, there was literally no way to have any idea who would actually be harmed when the triggering page was sent.

Just call it terrorism perpetrated by a state actor, and we have no argument.