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Blake (Pandora Blake)<p>Twelve strokes in to his birching Vee is red-raw and weeping, more than ready to stagger away. <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>punishment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/birch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birch</span></a></p>
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“He got away with it. So he expects, reasonably, that he can do it again.”

#Trump & his allies are using their drive to slash the size of the federal work force to break the bonds of #restraint. To do so, they are deploying a strategy of #intimidation, #punishment & #coercion. They have silenced #watchdog agencies, discharged prosecutors, forced resignations & dismissed government officials whose job it was to maintain #ethical standards.

#felon47#law#DOJ
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That civil action, known as an Article 78 proceeding, will essentially serve as an early #appeal. In the coming weeks, a NY appeals court will begin to consider the proceeding.

In remarks Thursday evening at his Mar-a-Lago estate, #Trump attacked the case & vowed to formally appeal, even though he was expected to avoid #jail or any other substantive #punishment.

“We’re going to appeal anyway, just psychologically, because frankly it’s a disgrace,” he said.

#Abortion bans have nothing to do with protecting any "right to life" of zygotes, and everything to do with enforcing a narrow interpretation of #morality on #society.

That why the same people who oppose the protection of people's right to bodily integrity are the same people who oppose any and all forms of public assistance (except for corporate #welfare programs).

It's all about #punishment of people they disdain, it's that simple. #ForcedBirth and #ForcedLabor are their values. #slavery

Social pets and very young children do not understand right or wrong. They don't understand bad or good. They only understand social cohesion. They can tell they broke social cohesion but damned if they know how they did it and all they want to do is to try to restore social cohesion. Physical violence does nothing but make them try to do more extreme things to restore social cohesion in ways it works in their mind, things like blending scents, so if marking doesn't work peeing can mix scents, which makes sense to them not to us. After a certain point of physical violence, and they will realize that nothing they do will matter to restore social cohesion that they will just do things to get any attention, even negative attention.
Its why many indigenous tribes would never dream of beating a child or animal. They know they just can't process it and words and tone are enough to know they broke social cohesion and with enough consistent conditioning and positive conditioning when they do right, the child will figure things out on their own as they age or the animal will be conditioned to know how to no longer break social cohesion. If its not consistent it just creates mixed signals so they will do do random things or avoid doing random things and try to test the boundaries so they can get some clue as to what causes the breaking of social cohesion to prevent that at all costs.

Those of us like me who grew up in the #NewYork area knew #Trump was a fucking sleazebag in the 1980s

But the #justice system let him slide time and again, eyes glazed over

#Punitive force feeds the #crime you intend to stop- for low grade #crimes by the #poor (that #bigotry always demands heavy #punishment for)

But #narcissism #amorality #plutocracy, plotting great #malice, persistently: utterly different

They are always obvious as hell for years, decades

They can be stopped early

Must be

Harvard students were punished by the university president for expressing unpopular opinions.

They STUDIED for an hour in a LIBRARY, with political messages taped to their laptops.

What if it had been only one student? What if the pro-Palestine message had been half as big? What if it had been half an hour?

There is no narrative worth the pixels it takes on a screen that makes this anything but direct, pure suppression of dissent. The students followed every rule, didn't do any of the things bullshit campus rules penalize in order to stop protests. They didn't block sidewalks, light candles, chant, march, or even (apparently) make anyone the least bit uncomfortable.

So the Harvard admin just flat-out punished them for expressing a political opinion.

#gaza #palestine #university #highered #uspol #protest #dissent #punishment #authoritarianism

thecrimson.com/article/2024/10

www.thecrimson.comPro-Palestine Students Banned From Widener Library for 2 Weeks After ‘Study-In’ Protest | News | The Harvard CrimsonMore than 12 pro-Palestine student protesters were banned from entering Widener Library for two weeks after they staged a silent “study-in” protest at the library late last month.
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If #Trump is #convicted, it will be up to Justice Juan M. #Merchan to decide whether his #punishment will include #prison time.

Trump is charged w/ 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the coverup of a $130k #HushMoney payment that was made to the porn star #StormyDaniels in the days leading up to the #2016election.

All of the charges are class E felonies, or the lowest category of felony in #NewYork State.