Do I have to explain how messed up this is?

[Playinghardball]

[ZombieHorde]

1. I didn't follow the trial, but I thought the defense chose not to use SYG. nt

[Igel]

3. Yup. GZ. Not SYD.

Unrelated, but it was mentioned, seems sort of self-defense-y, so aren't they *really* the same thing regardless of what the law actually says and what was said in court? I mean, really. Picky, picky, insisting on all that expert knowledge that's so, well, expert. And relying on really wonky things like word meanings and definitions. Puh-lease! /snark

It's turning out to be a common claim. Not so much the truth as just truthy.

There's also a bit of a difference with the two self-defense claims. One was, according to two witnesses, almost certainly pinned and unable to get away. (Moot point if he would have. The evidence was he couldn't.) The other was, by her own admission, physically left the premises for the purposes of getting a gun so she could return with it. Neither of these things is like the other.

So it's obvious that they must have identical outcomes.

[Decoy of Fenris]

2. Apparently, yes; Barely rescued from sinking. n/t

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. You can try, but the authoritarian "we can fix this from within" people aren't

going to understand the words you type. They think there is nothing really wrong with how things are because, after all, it's really working out pretty well for them.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job (lifestyle, privilege, portfolio,etc.) depends on not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair