I would love that as much as anyone, but does anyone here seriously believe this will happen?
Hoping, but in no way expecting.
Lock them up!
A futur defeat and knowkout for Imane Khelif. Anyway it's just a question of $$$
I'm not sure how I feel about cyberbullying being punishable with jail time
I am sure. It's caused suicides.
Same with “SWATing”, giving every asshole access to the internet has caused real physical harm to many people and should be punished severely.
Harrassment and defamation are real charges regardless of whether they happen online or not
Jail time... no fines. Fines mean nothing to these people... jail time!
I'm not sure, I don't care about fines, but I think Imane Khelif would deserve some compensation for what they put her through.
So, a jail sentence and generous damages payed to the victim would be an ideal outcome from my point of view.
That would be a civil suit that would need to be brought separately.
Agree, but you know that's about as likely to happen as Trump serving time. The legal system likes money as much as everyone else.
Jail time...
...and fines?
I know... I can only hope and fantasize...
There's a zero percent chance either one of them sees the inside of a jail cell.
Sure, but maybe she could get money for damages. Apparently she was living in poverty prior to the Olympics, like a lot of other Olympians from developing countries. Having to do sex work or rely on money from their family and community is pretty common, unfortunately.
They could do a tour
This is a screenshot of the Daily Mail tweet, Where is the meme....
"MANIFEST MANIFEST" ? IDK
Political posturing will always trump (ironic word there lol) the actual theme that's supposed to exist.
No different from Reddit.
In a perfect world, this would happen. In reality, nope. But let's enjoy the fantasy, for a few minutes, of wealthy shitheads having consequences.
The fantasy could be a reality if we collectively agreed that we demanded it.
The French did something about it, a few hundred years ago. Just saying.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Credit: Sidney Harris
Yeah, people are acting like this is up to chance - rich people throw money at their problems, and so long as someone is willing to spend their time catching it instead of doing their job, it works. It's going to work. The 5 year sentence is for poor people they want to get rid of, not for rich people they want to profit from.
But let’s enjoy the fantasy, for a few minutes
I'm so tired of living in a fantasy world.
Ok, so this IS the Daily Mail, they're notoriously shit reporters. That said:
Please please please please please please please
I don't think there is anything false with what they said, it's just stating the punishment for the crime. Now, whether those punishments actually happen is the question.
I wish Joanne had gone the Enya route and finished Harry Potter and the Writing Quality of Diminishing Returns, disappeared with her wealth into the highlands, did some occasional projects, and just never spoke again. Maybe some occasional rumors would pop up about her having a panda ranch that she kept for demolition derbys or something weird. She can go suck a railroad spike.
Seriously. She has been such a massive disappointment. The fact that she feels like she has to be actively hateful, makes it all the worse. Just shut the help up and enjoy your gobs and gobs of money.
And nothing of value will be lost.
Literally, they don't produce anything. They would probably accumulate more wealth while in prison. In my ideal society the judge would hit them for a percentage of their net worth.
Our courts are ran by money, seriously doubt they'll even get probation
We all know this will never happen, but a guy can dream...
Honestly, I couldn't understand why people called her a TERF for the longest time, I figured she was just a TEF. But her outburst calling this "the new men's rights movement" has me understanding now. With that said, meh. But maybe I've grown up around too many crazy people for it to register any more.
I think being trans-exclusionary makes you a radical per se.
Not really. Other than the perpetually online, a majority of people believe that trans identities in women's sports is wrong. I don't know how to fix that perception, but it's a pretty common viewpoint.
Being trans-exclusionary everywhere ELSE absolutely, you would be considered a radical.
But before "Gender Identity" even became a thing, sports had some pretty simple rules: If you take substances to modify your body, then you're excluded from competition.
Unfortunately, that's the primary basis of gender identity nowadays, so it's a natural consequence. Notice that the problem never really even gets discussed in men's sports (except by reactionaries) -- because there being any kind of physical advantage in the male category is negligible at best.
I think the R is also because she posts all the fucking time about it. I assumed she had some dumb reactionary views but wasn't quite sure why that was so newsworthy (I'm sure lots of people have dumb reactionary views, esp the ultra wealthy). But she literally posts all day every day about it, it's fucking bonkers.
Make them cellmates and they have to share a phone.
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