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cornlover.bsky.social@cornlover.bsky.social |
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🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️
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I love Slavic faerie tales; they’ll be like “there’s this creature that eats your feet if they dangle out of bed at night - also it’s a dead abandoned baby with the face of an old man that screams like a thousand mothers mourning their sons lost to war and it shits black rotting fish”
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Mr Posts
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Paul Krugman
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Labour’s campaign was extremely cautious, and given past defeats I understand why. But now the UK center-left has a huge majority in a system with many fewer choke points than in the U.S. Let’s hope they’re ready to govern like the dominant party they now are
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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You're so mad😂
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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War Takes
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I think we could all use a bit of pick-me-up right about now, so seeing as it's July 3rd, why don't we once again reflect on one of the greatest white supremacist self-owns in military history:
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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Voting matters. P.S. If that statement makes you angry, feel free to express that anger at me so I know to block you. kthxbye
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Micah
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this is one of my least favorite tropes and it is especially ridiculous when the heroes have just shot their way through an army of mooks to get to the villain oh, you can kill 475 henchmen but the guy who is actually responsible for ordering them around is a step too far? do you hear yourself?
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Robert Daniel Pickard
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the whole point is for law professors and lawyers to pretend that the law is a neutral process and not fully contingent on who is holding the hilt it has nothing to do with the law, it has to do with their denial about what they've dedicated their life to
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☀️ Starshine
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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers
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Peter
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the worst dudes online are the guys who are like “the time for electoral politics is over, it’s time for guillotines.” yeah bud i’m sure you’ll stop posting and get the ball rolling on the guillotines any minute now.
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e.w. niedermeyer
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had to gently break it to my mom that her friends who are already planning on moving to Italy may not in fact be escaping fascism to the extent they think they are
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Brendan Nyhan
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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It's been going on since I joined BlueSky. I have more than a couple people blocked because they want to do mental acrobatics instead of admitting that Biden is better for abortion and LGBT rights.
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Pwnallthethings
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Micah
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the Supreme Court, not content to immunize only Donald Trump from prosecution, retroactively exonerates Richard Nixon for Watergate
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mx elle is eepy
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people get mad when i say this, but i do in fact place significant blame on rbg for not fucking resigning when she could and should have.
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Micah
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few people outside of the ones actually writing these terrible rulings bear more responsibility for our current state of being than RBG and furthermore, while I think she is easily our best active Justice, Sotomayor should resign and be replaced by a 45-year-old in perfect health by November
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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Separate but just as important. The president speaking in a official capacity is judged by the SC to most likely be immune. So using Biden as an example If he was to make a speech to the country doxing every Republic Justice's address and calling on Ds to "fight like hell" that would be legal.
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Andrew Kinsey
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I'm reading the opinion and it says he enjoys absolute immunity regarding threats to fire the attorney general if they don't do what he wants. So, he could easily just say "investigate or prosecute my friends and you're fired" and he's 100% immune, right?
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Radley Balko
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Good point from Sotomayor here. By barring prosecutors from probing a president's intent, Roberts renders the entire "official vs. unofficial" distinction meaningless.
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Micah
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the decision lays out - explicitly in the case of the DOJ and implicitly in case of the military - that a president can order the prosecution of or a military strike on anyone he doesn’t like and fire anyone who doesn’t comply until he finds someone who will he may not be prosecuted for this
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David_j_roth
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Sending a bunch of based realtors and off-duty cops into the Capitol building to murder the speaker of the house, in my official capacity of President of the United States.
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Max Kennerly
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Brendan Nyhan
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T̶h̶e̶ a̶r̶i̶s̶t̶o̶c̶r̶a̶t̶s̶!̶ Originalism!
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Faine Greenwood
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I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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It's quite simple. Just because you can do your presidential duties does not mean you can convince people that you can. Being a presidential candidate and being a president are two different things.
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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I don't know if I'd go that far but I'm fully aware of how effective Biden has been. However, not everyone is terminally online like you or me and the average voter really doesn't know shit about what Biden has done plus they at the least dislike him.
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Nerd
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I don't think Biden has Reagan's '84 approval rating
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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So you run an open convention and if she's the best option she'll get the votes.
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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Polls were even/down for Biden before an awful debate which if you're D basically automatically equals a loss. I'm not sure Harris is automatically the answer because she was very unpopular in 2020 but it's been 4 years so her polling #s could have changed.
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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It's up to Biden and what he says to do with delegates.
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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It doesn't have to necessarily be Harris. It depends on what Biden would say he wanted his delegates to do. Also depends on how bad the polls next week are. Because if the polls are bad next week.
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David Gillant
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My version: Joe Biden is the best president of my lifetime, and also he's terrible and old and I hate him
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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Agreed, my opinion changed in the last year when I ran across a thread on Reddit listing the accomplishments of the Biden presidency.
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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It's probable this election won't be the last chance we'll have to reverse this stuff but why would you take a chance on this when you consider how important it is.
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Zetsubo
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Joe Biden is terrible and old and I hate him and I will walk backwards over broken glass and hot coals to vote for a bubbling caudron of aerated sewage instead of fucking Donald Trump
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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I think a lot of pro-labour don't realize by virtue of every president having been terrible for labour since Eisenhower. Biden has been one of the best presidents for it since Eisenhower and FDR.
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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I want him to drop out because I'm not confident he can win the election anymore but the only way he drops out is if he decides to. There is no other mechanism to get another candidate in there. Also still voting for him in November if he hasn't dropped out.
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Sam Welter
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You may well be correct. My only point is to put more context around the two issues in which so many online leftists lose their collective minds. We may want Ol' Joe to do xyz on Israel, but to jump on @tft.io 's hobby horse, there are people with very different views.
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Micah
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almost the entire “should Biden be replaced on the ticket” conversation is about which choice (him staying or him dropping out for Harris) has the best practical chance to beat Trump in November “how to Not Trump” is the overriding concern
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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I will say I am actually very surprised and happy with the amount of work his administration has done on climate change and going after corporations. He's one of the strongest Democratic presidents on policy we've had in a little while. But he doesn't make me enthusiastic to vote like Bernie did.
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Micah
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I feel like the main political divide on this website is between “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I hate him” and “Joe Biden is terrible and old and I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a rancid ham sandwich against Donald Trump” very few people are actually huge fans of the guy
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@cornlover.bsky.social
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Oh my god I went down the rabbit hole. "Why January 6th wasn't an insurrection". It's irrelevant what label you use. Trump full throatedly encouraged people to storm the capitol. Trump delayed deploying the National Guard. Etc. Don't care what label you use it was literally absolutely terrible.
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