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The phrase “due process” has been coming up a lot in the news lately, and it seems like way too many people somehow don’t know what it means

I’ve heard people say that only US citizens are entitled to due process. I’ve heard people say that you don’t deserve due process if you’ve broken the law. If you’re in the country illegally, if you’re a member of a gang, if you’ve committed a violent crime. The problem with putting any condition on due process is that

“due process” is just the process of finding stuff out.

Due process is finding out what your name is, your citizenship/legal status, your gang membership, your criminal history. Due process is finding out whether you’ve committed a crime, based on what evidence and defense is presented to a court. (I do believe due process also includes fair sentencing, ie after it’s determined that you have committed a crime, then there’s a process to determine what your punishment should be; but this rant is about the “finding out” part)

If we grant that any particular category of people isn’t entitled to due process in the US, how do we find out whether someone belongs to that category without first applying due process? without due process, police can just point at anyone they want and say “they’re a gang member, arrest them,” and then never check whether they are in fact a gang member.

due process is not some privilege reserved for respectable law-abiding US citizens. due process is how we find out who you are and what you’ve done, instead of just going by “trust me bro.” without due process, there’s nothing to stop you - the person reading this - from being deported on a whim without ever getting a chance to say “but I’m not a criminal”

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Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

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I was in the reviews for a listing for a tungsten cube for reasons that are not important, THIS REVIEW IS CRACKING ME UP

Having a dense cube communicates status to women and business relationships. #mycube

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More celebrities need to say stuff like this

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Come For The Cosmic Awe, Stay For The Skeletons In Spacesuits: Adam Rowe On Sci-Fi Art Of The 1970s – Unquiet Things

An interview with @70sscifiart!

Image: Bruce Pennington’s 1974 cover to A. E. van Vogt’s The World of Null-A

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Yaoi Jesus and disciples Kaworu Nagisa and Nagito Komaeda

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shut up i love them so much

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manga panel bsfoomf (best friend oomf) requested like last year & i forgot abt 🗿 whoopsie

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this post is so funny to me because this is absolutely a thing and was very popular at one point. people already did it 40 years ago and its called new romantic

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90s anime women were so fucking beauitful god bless. i miss them so much

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JACK: It's Yukai smoking one of these things and then an image of Yukai smoking one and then an image of Yukai smoking one and then an image of Yukai getting grabbed by a Hexcoat. He looks all the way up at it like, "what the fuck?" (Perpetua Prelude 06)

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i just think itd be funny if kittypets were a little more familiar to twoleg things such as: cars and bad words

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under the weasel moon

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just remembered to post days old selfies here and you can thank me for it tbh

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a silly one- they argue in the bungalow

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New Friends at the Table season Perpetua has decided to put itself directly in my wheelhouse. Here's Elena and Veile!