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Sci-Fi, board games, UX, politics, sarcasm, laughter, science, ally. It's a strange Venn diagram. I probably have more toes than you. Just got here. Looking around for a bit...

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The Almighty Tallest 's avatar The Almighty Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social
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Seems important idk

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Ryan Estrada's avatar Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com
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Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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An ideology that believes itself supreme believes itself perfected. Exceptional. Which means that cannot countenance improvement. Which means that it it sees improvement itself as an enemy. Even knowing true things about itself. Especially that.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Accommodating exoneration is what supremacy needs. Supremacy believes itself to not only be good but uniquely good—the best ever. Selected by God for a manifest destiny. A city on a hill. The greatest country ever. Those who practice it INSIST on being told that they are very fine.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Supremacist belief is hateful. It's ugly. But it's the instinctive accommodation of that belief that makes us a supremacist culture. Accommodators can be very respectable and nice. Very fine people. They can run fact-check websites for example. Or read them.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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On one side were those who marched to defend their heritage: a celebration of traitors who murdered their fellow citizens in order to preserve the institution of chattel slavery. Trump asked: How dare we impugn them, just because of the apparently coincidental direct allyship of overt Nazis?

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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So that's the sleight of hand. Now the big lie. The big lie is that nobody with "very fine" qualities can be a white supremacist or a Nazi; therefore nobody can ever be considered a Nazi as long as they present some good quality or another. But the opposite is true.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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What Trump said is that there are "very fine people on both sides." That would be the side counter protesting against the Nazis who organized a pro-Confederacy protest. And then the side full of Nazis and those who found common cause with Nazis. That's the "both sides."

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Let's do the sleight of hand, first. The article chooses to answer the question "Did Trump call Neo-Nazis and white supremacists 'very fine people'? This answers the wrong question, which is what is done when the goal is avoiding the actual questions.

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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I want to dig into this, since my book VERY FINE PEOPLE comes out today, and it's in large part about precisely this sort of polemic trickery in service of bullshit apologia of supremacy. There's a sleight of hand at the start that catapults us into a massive lie.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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I think the article has been updated since you read it, but the comment about a "joke" is in p5 (not p8) and doesn't seem to be in reference to a bedtime.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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I was thinking about this yesterday. Can anyone name an original business or tech idea that Elon has come up with or been the first to develop? I don't think there is one. Being a 2nd, 3rd, or later mover in a space isn't bad (usually better, probably), but that's not what he gets credit for.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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I read about this a day or two ago, and my experience designer brain kicked into gear immediately.

This will make the overall user experience worse and decrease accessibility for the site because gesture based controls are kind of shit.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/201403...

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Parker Malloy had a good breakdown of this story and how it's being misrepresented by most outlets (notably the NYT and fox, which serve as sources for the article above). In short: the Whitehouse position does not lend support to homophobic or transphobic positions and has been misunderstood

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Coming soon to an America near you!

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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After the last 10 Days, that's totally reasonable

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Gonna have to reform the curricula a bit. Conlaw is now part of American History. Soviet studies is run by the law school. Journalism is now a minor in sport studies. Computer science is run by the business school, contains no programming, and business majors are dualed with "creative fiction"

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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I want to see somebody cross reference Aileen Cannon's call logs and emails with those of alito, thomas, gorsuh, kavennaugh, and roberts

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Anyone who has experienced abuse recognizes this language very, very well

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Look, you can't be a dictator on day one (but only for a day *wink*wink*nudge*nudge*snicker*snicker*) without the proper legal framework in place, and now it is. 3 meals and hard labor for everyone! Huzzah!

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Your comment assumes they actually want to restrain him

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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One of the biggest promises of MAGA is being able to hurt women for any reason or for no reason at all.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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So, then that footnote really isn't very meaningful. Sounds kind of useless, in fact. (I appreciate you entertaining my foolishness. This is all very frustrating as a layperson. I imagine it's worse for lawyers)

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Mark Cuban already asked chatgpt about it

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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That makes sense. Given this decision, would an article's source be permitted to testify about the official act? It seems like they wouldn't.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Yeah, that's the one. I really don't see how that's honest reasoning from the majority since the prosecutor can't ask "why" the (in this example) the executive order was written, but I'm not a lawyer (obviously). So maybe I'm missing something else.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Yeah, there's no question a pardon would be offered, and it would be executed in advance of any investigation

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Maybe i misunderstood what Roberts said about using the "public record," but...maybe? I assume Roberts includes news reporting in his definition "public record" since nobody would include "bribe me" in a signed document. 🤷‍♂️ (I'm sure it's not, but if roberts can bullshit, then so can we, right?)

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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The Roberts Court has made it very clear that precedent is barely even a suggestion.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Don't forget that Roberts thought of that. See, the person could just tell a newspaper and have a story printed about the conversation, and THAT could be used as evidence. Not the actual testimony of course. Only the article. But that should be plenty of evidence, right? Because that always works?

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Elad Nehorai's avatar Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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The NYT is a conservative mouthpiece

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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Those stories are already running (thanks 77-year-old rep daggett), but there will definitely be stories about biden needing to immediately exit the office as well.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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That's where stop the steal REALLY started

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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I'm glad you mention the pardon power. I feel like that's not getting nearly enough, because while presidential immunity is a problem, the pardon power is what will really make it work.

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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This seems...not good? ...Alito’s statement last July to The Wall Street Journal about Congress and the court: “I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it...No provision in the Constitution gives them” — meaning Congress — “the authority to regulate the Supreme Court — period.”

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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At least until the supreme court says he can pardon himself or he fires people at the DoJ who refuse to drop the cases. So the DoJ has until the christmas holiday to wrap things up (if trump wins)

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Benny6Toes's avatar Benny6Toes @benny6toes.bsky.social
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You misspelled "broke" in your headline

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