Florida Man Arrested For Causing $700,000 In Damage At Solar Power Facility (gizmodo.com) 146
A 43-year-old Jordanian national, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, was arrested in Orlando, Florida, and charged with threatening to use explosives and destroying a solar power facility. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the charges could result in up to 60 years in prison. Gizmodo reports: Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen allegedly smashed windows at local businesses in Florida, leaving behind threatening letters about their perceived support of Israel, and broke into a solar power generation facility in Wedgefield, Florida back in June. Hnaihen allegedly spent hours smashing solar panels, cutting various wires, and destroying critical electronic equipment, according to a press release from the DOJ issued Thursday.
Hnaihen was wearing a mask when he allegedly smashed the glass front doors of businesses that he thought supported Israel in June, the DOJ says, leaving behind "warning letters" that included lines like a desire to, "destroy or explode everything here in whole America. Especially the companies and factories that support the racist state of Israel." [...] Hnaihen was arrested on July 11, though news of his arrest was only made public today. Hnaihen entered a plea of not guilty and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for each threat made against the Florida businesses and a maximum of 20 years for the destruction of an energy facility, according to the DOJ.
Hnaihen was wearing a mask when he allegedly smashed the glass front doors of businesses that he thought supported Israel in June, the DOJ says, leaving behind "warning letters" that included lines like a desire to, "destroy or explode everything here in whole America. Especially the companies and factories that support the racist state of Israel." [...] Hnaihen was arrested on July 11, though news of his arrest was only made public today. Hnaihen entered a plea of not guilty and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison for each threat made against the Florida businesses and a maximum of 20 years for the destruction of an energy facility, according to the DOJ.
"florida man"? (Score:5, Informative)
A 43-year-old Jordanian national, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, was arrested in Orlando, Florida
He's a "Florida man" like I'm a Scot (I mean, I've set foot in Scotland, so that counts, right?).
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Re:"florida man"? (Score:5, Insightful)
The meme "Florida man" refers to the "alleged prevalence of people performing irrational or maniacal actions in the U.S. state of Florida" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Nothing in the meme indicates that these people should have been born in Florida. (Maybe one only needs to breath the air of Florida to start acting erratically.)
The slashdot editor did the best possible in choosing an humorous title and immediately clarifying clarifies the correct reading within the first words of the summary.
You're not a Scot because the term refers to "an Ethnic group or nation native to Scotland" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] But if you had moved to Scotland to live there, a news item could refer as for example "Edinburgh man" without mentioning your birth place https://www.edinburghlive.co.u... [edinburghlive.co.uk]"
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It's scientifically proven that heat causes more violent crime. Add in oppressive humidity and bugs swarming and biting you...
Or maybe it's the religion.
Re: "florida man"? (Score:2, Flamebait)
Re: "florida man"? (Score:5, Informative)
That's why the murder rate in Florida is just behind District of Columbia, Louisiana, New Mexico, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, Alaska, Tennessee, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Mississippi, Virginia, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, California and Wisconsin (listed in order from highest to lowest rate of murders per capita). Florida is only the 27th highest in murders per capita.
There is no correlation between temperature and crime. AC needs to have some sense slapped into them and so do you.
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I keep reading 'AC' as Air Conditioning. /grew up in Flah
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There’s a lot of real research that pretty much this:
https://wol.iza.org/articles/t... [iza.org]
Yes, the data is noisy. Any data on real humans is noisy. But that y axis is log-scale. The correlations is very real.
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He didn't say "crime", he didn't say "murder rate", he said "behavioural problems": I'd certainly expect people with more problems to commit more crimes but that doesn't equal more murders. The actual article is a perfect example, this criminal didn't murder anyone and didn't physically assault anyone.
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slashdot editor did the best possible in choosing an humorous title
The guy is named "Hashem" twice FFS! It means "breaker" in Arabic and "God" in Hebrew. The humorous possibilities are endless!
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The meme "Florida man" refers to the "alleged prevalence of people performing irrational or maniacal actions in the U.S. state of Florida" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] Nothing in the meme indicates that these people should have been born in Florida. (Maybe one only needs to breath the air of Florida to start acting erratically.)
When in Florida do crazy shit like the Floridians.
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" (Maybe one only needs to breathe the air of Florida to start acting erratically.)"
Given the same issue turns up in California, the land of fruits and nuts, I've long suspected that the excess sunlight bleaches their brains. Texans have a long tradition of wearing large hats that may provide protection from their excess sun. ;-)
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" (Maybe one only needs to breathe the air of Florida to start acting erratically.)"
Given the same issue turns up in California, the land of fruits and nuts, I've long suspected that the excess sunlight bleaches their brains. Texans have a long tradition of wearing large hats that may provide protection from their excess sun. ;-)
Nah, we literally have people getting into shootouts with each other on the freeways on an almost daily basis. And we keep electing pieces of shit like Abbott, Paxton, Cornyn, and Cruz.
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I'm in true blue Washington. We have the same problem. Carloads of fentanyl and meth and the drug gangs slugging it out for marketing supremacy. The fact our pieces of shit are Democrats doesn't change anything.
It's arguably worse. The Democrat's solution to crime is to punish and harass the innocent's Second Amendment rights. Throwing drug dealers in prison is unacceptable for some reason. Executing multiple murderers is also unacceptable.
The Doctrine of the Means has failed. So do we try the Duarte soluti
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Sadly, it's nothing to do with the environment, but a law in Florida. Naturally, DeSantis passed another law to repeal it, so "Florida Man" type things will be less prevalent.
No
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All correct.
Yet, for the last three? four? years we've also listened to people - including senior government officials, scientists, and doctors insist that statements like "my testicles don't make me any less of a woman" should be accepted with a straight face.
So I can understand the uncertainty of what a "Florida Man" is in 2024.
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A 43-year-old Jordanian national, Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen, was arrested in Orlando, Florida
He's a "Florida man" like I'm a Scot (I mean, I've set foot in Scotland, so that counts, right?).
Is he not a resident of Florida?
Granted it's a lazy headline, but what else does one expect from Gizmodo.
The word "national" means he's not a US citizen but could easily be a resident. In some countries "national" sometimes exclusively refers to someone who was born in that country, I.E. for jobs that exclude dual nationals or naturalised citizens.
Anyway that's besides the point, would criminal damage be more acceptable if it were a red blooded 'Murican who did it?
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Anyway that's besides the point, would criminal damage be more acceptable if it were a red blooded 'Murican who did it?
No, but if it were then including "Florida Man" in the headline would be much more acceptable.
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So it is ok to be islamofobic, because it is not a race?
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So it is ok to be islamofobic, because it is not a race?
That would be a biggot. A racist is a specific type of bigot.
That said, the thread hadn't mentioned Islam; It did mention that persons nationality. Either way, the perp seems to be more foreign than domestic - not sure I'd jump to calling them a Floridian :-)
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Didn't say he was a Floridian. It said he was a "Florida man." So, we can infer only that he is a man, and that he was in Florida, not that he is a native or long time resident of Florida. Of course, it would have been more informative if the headline said "Jordanian."
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you can choose your religion, but not your race.
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I don't know. People often get brainwashed into their religions at a young age.
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say that to Michael Jackson.... oohhh, wait, you can't anymore!! :)
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Just send him back to Jordan (Score:2)
They'll be happy to 'look after' him far more cheaply than it would be if he was in a US prison...
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"warning letters" that included lines like a desire to, "destroy or explode everything here in whole America..."
Indeed it sounds like he'd rather be back home.
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Given the current border policies he would be back in the US within a month.
Into the tender care of Jordan's security forces (Score:2)
Not as a free person.
Results of weak border policy (Score:2, Insightful)
When you rip open the border and welcome the world's trash into your home, you get trash in your home.
This asshole never should have been here in the first place. He is neither the first nor last not-American scumbag here threatening to kill Jews and destroying things in the name of his anti-Semitic hatred.
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Your face when you find out the guy immigrated when Trump was president.
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When you rip open the border and welcome the world's trash into your home, you get trash in your home.
This asshole never should have been here in the first place. He is neither the first nor last not-American scumbag here threatening to kill Jews and destroying things in the name of his anti-Semitic hatred.
Palestinians are Arabs, and Arabs are Semites too. Any group of people that speak Semitic languages are Semites. Calling a person who supports Palestine an anti-Semite is ignorant, to say the least.
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I think you mean: "We mischaracterize a normal war as a genocide because the more powerful side are Jews". FTFY.
Re: Results of weak border policy (Score:4, Insightful)
This the part you don't seem to get, and the policy problem we have. As a white male with a passport from a friendly nation, large trade partner, that speaks the same language and has a large cultural overlap and lineage with our own statistically speaking - there is virtually no chance you are terrorist.
So naturally we subject you to all kinds of invasive inspection. Meanwhile someone with no verifiable identification what so ever can come over or southern border and we will take their word for it as to who they claim to be and just accept the children with them are their own and not trafficking victims no matter how little resemblance there is and just parole them have done little more than ensure they are not currently armed.. That is of course IF they come to an established entry-point. Otherwise we very well might catch them on camera etc, and label them as a "getaway" and we have no clue what they might have in the way of contraband, weapons, etc. Oh and as a bonus if their ethnicity is obviously not South American like say Chinese, so you know they did not get to Mexico in the first place without being of some means, the same rules apply.
Hyperbolic rhetoric used by both sides of America's political aisle aside, few inhabiting even the most fringe elements of the conservative movement want Iron Curtain USA edition. What we do want is
1) To know who comes over the border and for the government to have some ability to locate them while they are here; with failures to check in during longer visits and over stays, resulting in some kind of response that does include tracking your butt down and with consequences like being required to leave and being ineligible for visa in the future.
2) Immigration restricted to the quotas specified by law, you know democracy! Vs the current system of executive fiat where each administration decides how much illegal immigration to tolerate.
3) Immigrants being persons who have shown a willingness to follow our process and obey our laws, vs masses of people who have already show they don't respect our borders or laws. We have a worder for illegal aliens - CRIMINALS we want it used, and we want our government to take their criminal behavior at least as seriously as Johny Scofflaw's mile high stack of unpaid parking tickets.
Want to end illegal immigration? inspect jobsites (Score:2, Insightful)
Hyperbolic rhetoric used by both sides of America's political aisle aside, few inhabiting even the most fringe elements of the conservative movement want Iron Curtain USA edition.
Immigrants only come here for jobs. Make it hard to find a job and illegal immigration will largely disappear overnight. All debate about immigration and walls is pure bullshit. We don't need border patrol. We need inspectors going to every shitty restaurant, meat packing facility, and factory in the USA every few months and delivering REAL tangible penalties to the employers who hire people illegally...but we don't...want to know why?...because our economy is a house of cards built on near economic sl
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Both parties since around WW2 killed a migrant worker law which made the process work with how things were. It made migrant work a huge problem when they killed it so the workers were best off to STAY once they get here. They used to go back home after the season. One party wanted to protect American jobs which demanded higher prices and the other party wanted very cheap labor for higher profits... and the public didn't want higher prices regardless. Inflation isn't actually "horrible" but people are all u
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We need inspectors going to every shitty restaurant, meat packing facility, and factory in the USA every few months and delivering REAL tangible penalties to the employers who hire people illegally...but we don't...want to know why?...because our economy is a house of cards built on near economic slavery that ensures desperate people work for below a living wage so the rest of us can have a higher standard of living.
And because many of the wealthy people, who pull the strings of politics in the US, benefit from those same illegal immigrants, who can't complain about working conditions or pay rates below minimum wage rates.
OK, Illegal immigrants? (Score:2)
You wrote all that and you are wrong on your first sentence, which means you lose your audience and your contention. You probably mean the "vast majority " or "most", but I guarantee not "all" come here for jobs...I know this for a fact. Do better with your rhetoric.
I am pretty confident that nearly everyone who came here illegally came for a job or to find a job. No one is leaving a palace in Guatemala to clean your toilets. If they merely wanted to get out of their country, I am pretty confident anyone in Latin America would be better off going somewhere else in Latin America where the cultures are more similar and people speak the same language (if you want to be pedantic, it's easier to learn Spanish for Portuguese speakers).
If you are coming to the USA beca
Meanwhile in Reality (Score:2)
Meanwhile someone with no verifiable identification what so ever can come over or southern border and we will take their word for it as to who they claim to be and just accept the children with them are their own and not trafficking victims no matter how little resemblance there is and just parole them have done little more than ensure they are not currently armed.
Of course in reality we do actually do our best to do background checks for all legal immigrants to this country and they do in fact go through a lengthy screening process.
As for illegal immigrants, of course we don't know anything about them on entry. Too bad no political party in the US is advocating for anything that would actually solve our illegal immigrants problem like going after the affluent Americans breaking the law employing these people. That might disrupt campaign contributions so better to go
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Re: Results of weak border policy (Score:5, Informative)
I have read Hamas' Charter, and there is no doubt they intend to destroy Israel. But they don't have the military power to do that; they have to coopt *Israeli* military power to achieve their ends politically, and they are quite evidently making progress toward that end. It should really concern supporters of Israel that Netanyahu's government response to Hamas' provocative atrocities is *exactly* what Hamas would have expected. It's a bad idea to give an enemy what he wants, but it can be tempting.
While the international condemnation of IDF humanitarian excesses doesn't serve the Israeli governing coalition's ends, ensuring that Israel's security will never be able to tolerate the existence of politically free Palestinians in the region does. To be fair Likud doesn't actually advocate *genocide*, they advocate the establishment of a Palestinian puppet state where Israel would control internal and external security and regulate the internal movements of Palestinians. Other parties in the ruling coalition advocate ghettoization, with Arab Israelis stripped of citizenships and pressured to move out of designated Jewish areas. By prosecuting the war with blatant disregard for civilian casualties, they ensure that even if they *do* "destroy" Hamas, the political goals of Hamas will never be defeated, requiring, if not outright genocide, permanent Jewish rule over Palestinian populations.
Moderate parties in Israel favor a two state solution which would preserve Israel's Jewish character and enable Palestinian political liberty. They support military action against Hamas, but with greater constraint and concern for humanitarian impact on Palestinian civilians. Extremists on both side are eager to prevent a two state solution from ever being possible, so they're all for atrocities against the other side, and willing to tolerate atrocities against their own because it bolsters their aims.
'with Arab Israelis stripped of citizenship' (Score:2)
Source please. NO party in the Knesset that I'm aware of is suggesting that.
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Michael Ben-Ari of Otzma Yehudit, a member of the ruling coalition, has called on Arabs to move to Arab countries.
Ben-Avi was banned from the Knesset (Score:2)
So it's notable that his views are exactly acceptable. But overall I get your point.
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That is quibbling. The leader of the party clearly wants to ethnically cleanse Jewish areas. If the party strongly disagreed with that he wouldn't be a member any more, much less the leader.
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There is little trust of the Muslims by Jews in Israel. Hamas has managed to annihilate the Israeli left and a bunch of Palestinians, but not much else. The antisemitic worms were crawling out of the woodwork long before October 7th. They just got louder with their munchings and crunchings of international morality.
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Just to be clear here, Hamas has about 40,000 members, and there are about five million Palestinians in the Palestinian territories -- 2 million in the Gaza strip alone. Just in the areas Hama controls, they represent 2% of the population.
My point is that extremist elements are working to foreclose any possibility of a moderate solution..
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All polling I've seen has shown close to or above majority support for Hamas. 40k soldiers, maybe, but it's a club most Palestinians would love to join, since Hamas steals from all Palestinians.
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Shhhh! Don't say the truth out loud. You'll be ostracized!
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"Read their founding documents and believe what they say."
Why, then, would we not also believe the Israeli government when they say they want genocide?
Or are you on a severely restricted (probably poisonous) information diet?
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Here's one from this month, for a recent example: https://www.commondreams.org/n... [commondreams.org]
But it is the regular issuance of this kind of statement from huge swaths of the current leadership's cabinet, over many decades, that really makes it clear what the intentions (and effects) are.
I don't even blame you for not knowing who any of these people are, or their histories. It's not something the US media ever reports on.
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I don't blame you for not knowing who these guys are, but I do blame you for pretending they aren't Israeli government officials when you are notified who they are.
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Zionists took a part of those conquered lands by force and express their cultural values. Hutsies butchered Tutsies in Africa. Alsas-Lorraine German/French battles are centuries old. American Indian tribes fought violently for lands east of the
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The logic never applies to white people who commit crimes.
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If you are conservative, then you have a hard time with change by definition (overall bias otherwise you are not generally biased; therefore, are not one.)
Don't limit yourself to branding labels promoted to control you and which actually stand for nothing of substance. It's just tribal identity psychology at it's core with some rationalization to make you feel like it is principled. Part of it may be principle, but part of it is just irrational emotion and for MANY people, it's mostly emotion and they just
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There is no more Republican Party. The people that were in the Republican Party have been forced out and replaced by a malignant, reality denying group of extremists who are 'Republican' in name only. I grew up with republicans, went to school with them, worked with them, ate dinner with them, and these people aren't republicans. They're just using the name.
So he gets free room and board for life... (Score:2)
A terrorism charge his way comes (Score:2)
A Jordan national damaging infrastructure in the US? Even if he did it for activist reasons, I know where this man will end up, and it might be somewhere in eastern Europe or in the south east of Cuba, and it won't be a vacationing spot...
This Guy Deserves A Metal (Score:2)
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Which metal? Iron? Copper? Mercury?
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Sabbath, or maybe even Burzum.
$700,000 that's CHEAP! (Score:1)
The revenge is only $17.50 per Gazan death
Your takeout meal probably costs more than that.
And while you are eating it, remember the Gaza people are being starved
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You are another person who probably hasn't thought through the situation over there. If you think about it, if we had cartels in Mexico launching missiles into the USA, how long would it be before the USA sent the military into Mexico to crush those drug cartels, and any civilians killed in the process would fall under, "we went in there to stop these rocket launches that are killing people in the USA"?
That was the typical situation between Gaza and Israel up until Oct 7th, and all those people talking ab
Reasonable response? (Score:2)
'Netanyahu is at fault for going way beyond a reasonable response'
What is a reasonable response to a criminal gang that kills over 1000 of your people and takes old people and children as hostages and continues to fire bombs into your cities randomly, often from locations where the you can only stop the rockets if you risk killing civilians?
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What is a reasonable response to a criminal gang that kills over 1000 of your people and takes old people and children as hostages and continues to fire bombs into your cities randomly, often from locations where the you can only stop the rockets if you risk killing civilians?
If that was the reality of daily life that Americans had to deal with, the majority would be demanding that we turned Gaza into glass. Hell, I'm generally not one to advocate for war, but if I had to regularly worry about being blown up while getting groceries, I absolutely would support my government removing the threat from the face of the Earth.
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Racist state of Israel? (Score:2, Flamebait)
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Why do you feel to compelled to support either of the genocidal maniacs trying to claim Palestine?
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You want to have your religious faith, and be peaceful non-bothersome, and quiet, go right ahead. The second you want pork removed from a menu, that doesn't specifically cater to your diet, or you think my wife should be restricted, or our laws should chang
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The side I've picked is humanity, meaning I cannot support either the genocidal Jews or the genocidal Muslims.
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1. Leave and disassociate completely.
2. Stay and your terrorists or terrorists supporters
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Netanyahu was elected, and he brings convicted terrorists like Ben-Gvir along to implement the genocide.
"Leave and disassociate completely" would be a wise, conservative course of action for America. Let the Mid-East fund their own endeavors. But if you expect the people living there to leave, you're delusional.
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The internation community rates radicals / extremists at about 20% of the Islamic population, that's a big enough group to label the overarching group as a terrorist group, regardless that 80% (ish) are peaceful and non-radicalized. If 1 in 5 bottles of water, didn't contain water, woul
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They would say everyone killed on October 7th was associating with the terrorist Ben-Gvir, and they could have just left. They would be just as correct as you are.
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They (meaning everyone who isn't a religious radical or greedy politician) would say Israel launched major attacks in 1948, 1967, and has continually supported terrorism for all the years in between.
You seem to have some very precise figures there about terrorism. They look quite precise but they're also getting thrown about randomly and incoherently. I'd just like to see the original terrorist census you're reading from, so I can maybe analyze those numbers in a coherent way.
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Lock the loon into a padded cell (Score:2)
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Ron came down hard on FPL who hates home solar and made it financially viable for consumers.
If you don't know what you're talking about, which you don't, you should remain quiet, lest you prove yourself a fool, which you have.
Research before posting nonsense.
Without Ron, I couldn't have my home solar.
Re:Why was he arrested? (Score:4, Informative)
https://floridaphoenix.com/202... [floridaphoenix.com]
Apparently DeSantis rejected $354 million for energy-efficient measures. I'd call that a gift for FPL if indeed FPL hates solar. He also approved a large rate increase for FPL. Even the Great Gasbag, the former alleged president, whined about it...but that was when DeSantis was running against him.
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Apparently DeSantis rejected $354 million for energy-efficient measures.
This state has also rejected the Federal ACA subsidies, despite having a rather large population that could benefit from them. It's Florida's Republican leadership's M.O. - they block or sabotage any efforts from the Democrats to actually help people, then claim that the Democrats are just wasting money on useless social programs, and Florida's electorate continues to fall for it.
You can't really place the blame on Ron, because the people of this state are getting exactly what they voted for. Having lived
Re: Why was he arrested? (Score:2)
All the evidence suggests that it's the people who live there who don't understand what's going on. Especially the people who can't just afford to move when it goes underwater. What's the average elevation of Florida again?
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that would require ron desantis to actually believe in something
Remember when the little guy was so gung ho on "vote fraud" that he had 20 people arrested [cbsnews.com]? According to his "tough" law on vote fraud, one can face up to a $5,000 fine and five years in prison.
And yet, when four people from The Villages were arrested for knowingly committing vote fraud (voting twice in an election), they all got community service [clickorlando.com] through a plea deal. Whereas, many of the group of 20 people went to trial even though they were told they could vote by election officials.
To summarize, when y
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that would require ron desantis to actually believe in something
Remember when the little guy was so gung ho on "vote fraud" that he had 20 people arrested [cbsnews.com]? According to his "tough" law on vote fraud, one can face up to a $5,000 fine and five years in prison.
And yet, when four people from The Villages were arrested for knowingly committing vote fraud (voting twice in an election), they all got community service [clickorlando.com] through a plea deal. Whereas, many of the group of 20 people went to trial even though they were told they could vote by election officials.
To summarize, when you're from The Villages and knowingly and deliberately commit vote fraud you get a plea deal so your life isn't ruined, but if you're anyone else you have to go through the court system as punishment for being an evil criminal out to destory "democracy".
Lessee - I wonder why they were treated so leniently?
One of the things that happened when the Republican party tried to end the USA by mentally masturbating their fever dreams in accusing Democrats of voter fraud and then finding out that yes, there was fraud. But that fraud was largely Republican MAGA types, and it showed that the old adage was true - "Be careful what you demand, you might just get it."
Re:Why was he arrested? (Score:5, Insightful)
Psychologists wanted to know if there were a difference between people who come from low corruption countries like Denmark or New Zealand and people from high corruption countries like Russia or Nigeria. So they set up an experiment in which subjects from various countries played a game in which they could cheat to win small amounts of money, but they manipulated one important variable: whether the participants thought *other* participants were cheating. It turns out that where you come from has no impact on the probability you'll cheat. What matters is whether you think other people are doing it.
So it should be no surprise when some Republicans who are consuming Republican oriented media claiming that Democratic voter fraud is widespread commit voter fraud themselves. If everyone else is doing it and you're not, you're a sucker.
I think this means beware of populist politicians whose campaign is based on claims the system is corrupt, although admittedly this presents problems for people living under systems that *are* corrupt. You need to look at what they proposed to do about the corruption. If they're propose transparency and accountability, great. If their pitch amounts to, "the system is a scam, put me in charge of it," then that's not a good sign.
Re:Why was he arrested? (Score:4, Insightful)
All this corruption comes from classism, all the upper class people believe cheating and stealing from the poor is 'good business', they see cheating and stealing as normal behavior.
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But cheating and stealing from other non-poor people is considered a heinous crime in those circles.
Unless the scam is disguised as a legitimate business proposal. Like, say, raising tons of investment dollars to litter cities across America with rental scooters. Convincing wealthy people to part with their money to invest in a sketchy business plan is really the only sort of wealth redistribution these sorts truly are okay with.
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It turns out that where you come from has no impact on the probability you'll cheat. What matters is whether you think other people are doing it.
Exactly. Thieves believe that everyone else is a thief.
So it should be no surprise when some Republicans who are consuming Republican oriented media claiming that Democratic voter fraud is widespread commit voter fraud themselves. If everyone else is doing it and you're not, you're a sucker.
I think this means beware of populist politicians whose campaign is based on claims the system is corrupt, although admittedly this presents problems for people living under systems that *are* corrupt. You need to look at what they proposed to do about the corruption. If they're propose transparency and accountability, great. If their pitch amounts to, "the system is a scam, put me in charge of it," then that's not a good sign.
Listening to Orange Jesus, that's his thing. He can't even give a policy speech. When his handlers tried to get him away from Sharks, electric boats and Ill fated Helicopter rides with Willie Brown. He didn't mention any policy, only that healthcare is going to get so cheap, so cheap, that the day he takes office inflation will go do so far, and how tic tacs work. Fact is, they have no policy, and no ideas other than being the whiniest babies ever sper
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It's bullshit and should be a crime for what DeathSantis did.
BUT
The difference is the Villages people weren't felons out on parole/supervision, the people DeathSantis rounded up were. They shouldn't have been treated that way, but a felon being charged with another crime is *always* going to get worse treatment.
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oh god this is what republicans are down to now? i knew they were down bad but you guys really are fuckin cooked, deep fried brains on the worst media imaginable.
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Since when is vandalism and damaging a power plant considered "peaceful protest"?
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