New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down
New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down
The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 eclipse is an event significant to many religions and that the lockdown violates their constitutional rights to practice their faiths.
NEW YORK (AP) — Inmates in New York are suing the state corrections department over the decision to lock down prisons during next Monday’s total solar eclipse.
The suit filed Friday in federal court in upstate New York argues that the April 8 lockdown violates inmates’ constitutional rights to practice their faiths by preventing them from taking part in a religiously significant event.
The plaintiffs are six men with varying religious backgrounds who are incarcerated at the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne. They include a Baptist, a Muslim, a Seventh-Day Adventist and two practitioners of Santeria, as well as an atheist.
“A solar eclipse is a rare, natural phenomenon with great religious significance to many,” the complaint reads, noting that Bible passages describe an eclipse-like phenomenon during Jesus’ crucifixion while sacred Islamic works describes a similar event when the Prophet Muhammad’s son died.
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Yes, I can only hope you’ve been deeply high this whole time. The alternative is concerning.
I think it's kind of adorable that you took everything I said seriously.
… you really aren’t the smartest cookie. Almost impressively so
At this point I just need to assume that you're on the spectrum.
In which case, I apologize if it was inappropriate to mock you for not realizing that my comments were silly jokes (essentially dad-level).
Yes well, maybe look in the mirror if we’ve come this far and you didn’t realize I was calling your ‘dad jokes’ embarassing- and that I did not actually believe you for a moment thought I had found a talking cookie.
Really, it’s genuinely impressive. It’s like you started playing peak-a-boo with a grown adult, who then called you an idiot for doing so, and then you interpreted that as if you were actually disappearing and got scared.
Keep going, I love to hear from you.
It's fine if you don't get it... as we all know jokes become funnier the more you explain them...
But maybe I was intending to show my complete ambivalence toward you and the original topic of this comment thread by continuing with obviously awful, anti-jokes that were related to your comment, but not to the actual content of the comment? To refuse to engage with anything you said, and instead choosing to make the dumbest, most annoying jokes ever in the hopes that you'd just go the fuck away. You'd think most people would get the hint and just ignore it.
And then when it clearly triggered you very quickly, and the ad hominems started flying... I knew that I had to continue.
You made yourself a mark when you thought my "jokes" were being told in earnest, but you showed everyone who you really were when you almost immediately resorted to personal attacks.
What was that about being on the spectrum
Well, 1 - you think I wanted to have to explain a, frankly, stupid throwaway bit to some rando on the internet because he just can't grasp the concept of someone on the internet acting differently in a comment for laughs?
And,
What was that about being on the spectrum
2 - Unlike your comment, my comment about being on the spectrum was 100% neutral, or if anything, pretty friendly I thought. Kind of a bit low to use that in a derogatory way.
All because I called you a little gullible. This is incredible.
Is that what it was? You think I gave a shit about that? You definitely have it twisted. I made a corny joke and it triggered you. I probably should have just let it go there, but sometimes I just can't help myself...
And the funny thing is, looking back at your ad hominems.... They're just soooo bad lol. That's why I kept going. Just go back and look at the shit you were saying, it's so dumb lol.
My jokes were completely neutral, and at first I thought they weren't that bad. Like the Baltimore thing? You're the one who made it personal.