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Kieslowskifan1@kieslowskifan1.bsky.social |
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Kieslowskifan1
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This is why Project 2025 is so much more terrifying. A lot of policies can be set up by these chuds at the lower level, especially since we know how disinterested Trump is on day to day governing.
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Kieslowskifan1
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One interesting factoid about JFK was the speech he was going to give in Dallas in 1963 has three ideas: a promise to fight communism across the glove (esp. in SE Asia), increased military spending, and an impending round of tax cuts. www.jfklibrary.org/archives/oth...
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Kieslowskifan1
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I chose the wrong week to read up on the Nuremberg trials and how their defense lawyers justified their pleas of not guilty.
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Kieslowskifan1
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One of the useful ways to think of this abomination is it is specifically to help Trump and his policies. It's not really designed to enable a Democratic president to enact Dem priorities by executive fiat. The Constitution makes the president CinC, but says nothing about healthcare or student loans
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Kieslowskifan1
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I am glad I was not the only one to get AJP Taylor vibes from this book.
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Kieslowskifan1
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The question I have is that even in a hypothetical situation of a successful impeachment how does it get enforced under this decision? Could the President claim it is an illegal coup to to head off such an instance? Not a lawyer, but this reeks of bad law.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Ugh. Isn't the bog-standard hagiography about Washington was he refused to be king? Founder worship as i learned it was predicated on their embrace of checks and balances. But now it is just vacous right-wing nationalism.
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Nate Ledbetter
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They didn't just make Nixon retroactively right, they have overturned Nuremberg.
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Kieslowskifan1
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They should have asked Roberts "by law, you mean a convoluted set of vague restrictions you create to hamstring or enable a president based on partisan affiliation?" The brazen hypocrisy of the Roberts court.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Schmitt and Ernst Jünger, another disenchanted German right winger, spent the war writing to each other about Moby Dick and what it was like to be at sea with a mad captain in command.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Carl Schmitt, one of the legal theorists behind the Nazi seizure of power, would have loved this ruling. He also could have provided a warning that enabling the sort of person who could have used this power would not be the most trustworthy individual.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Ironically, it was the French constitution and the rule of law that deposed him in 1814. Napoleon preferred constitutions that were "short and vague" but there were provisions for the Senate to remove the Emperor. Talleyrand and a clique of like-minded Senators were able to accomplish that.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Under these rules, could Biden bomb the Republican National Convention citing an imminent terrorist threat and cite national security to not disclose any further details?
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Kieslowskifan1
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He didn't say you couldn't kneecap the law.
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Kieslowskifan1
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The irony for me is I have been reading about the Nuremberg Trials and this decision is practically how defence attorneys defended Nazi war criminals: obeying the state was legal and the Fuhrer's official acts were sacrosanct.
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Kieslowskifan1
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And all the sanctimonious talk of small government and state tyranny was just a lie.
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Aaron Rupar
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I feel like this should go without saying but the only sane & responsible vote is November is the one that prevents Trump from taking office & finishing off American democracy. Unless something extremely surprising happens, that choice will be Joe Biden. And in any event it will be the D nominee.
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Kieslowskifan1
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The thing that occurs to me is that way back in 2016, the debates showed a sharp and competent Clinton while Trump was unprepared and pushing bad ideas (eg take the oil) but post-debate media sidestepped that to focus on how unlikable she was.
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Kieslowskifan1
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I remember in 2016 that Clinton was clear and dynamic while Trump was not, yet media discourse was dominated by how unlikable she was and could not convey that.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Archer + Yahtzee?
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Kieslowskifan1
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Hey, he was at least a good musician when Bill was the lead singer for Billy and the Boingers!
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Kieslowskifan1
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It is also really good sausage. We really liked the Cheesy Goddess of Bratwurst.
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Kieslowskifan1
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One of the problem with our popular culture is we depict racists as people so vile that even real life racists in the audience will hate them.
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Kieslowskifan1
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I am curious what your thoughts on this monograph is. It has been tempting me on Audible www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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I remember Jabes et al's book on the Macchi C.202 that one of the Italian plane's drawbacks was that propeller synchronization meant weight of fire was less than it was on paper (the Macchi's wing mgs were often removed). I immediately thought of the Ki-43 as another fighter with this handicap.
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Kieslowskifan1
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The best thing to come out of that movie youtu.be/u1kqqMXWEFs?...
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Kieslowskifan1
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NGL, an upper level course on how Japanese concepts filter into Western self-help and business cultures would be rather interesting.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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They're not gonna deport 20 million people. They're gonna deport the labor organizers, the guys who ask for raises, the guys who leave the pork processing plant to get a better job elsewhere. Our agriculture sector runs on immigrant labor and draconian immigration laws are about giving bosses power
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Kieslowskifan1
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This is just idolatry
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Kieslowskifan1
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Ahhh, but the government agent at the film says the Ark is being worked on by "Top...Men" so instead of Top Secret, it is *Top* Secret.
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Kieslowskifan1
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I read somewhere that evangelical protestants are becoming the very image of the irreligousity that Luther railed about and it has stuck with me ever since.
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Kieslowskifan1
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My favorite little Reagan era moment is when the Soviets torture one of the POWs over a bag of US food aid. It is just an extra level of cartoonish evil and such a deliberate bit of set decoration. Part II is a much smaller movie than the original. Its wilderness scenes all look like a cheap set.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Not to overburden your list, but Graeme Callister has a forthcoming book from Pen & Sword, Waterloo and the Attack of the I Corps, that does a deep dive into the social makeup of Napoleon's army in 1815. Callister also did a three-part podcast too podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the...
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Kieslowskifan1
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It has been a while since I read it, but Rory Muir's Salamanca 1812 does seem to fit this description of social history on a tactical level. IIRC there was a small section on how officers kept time as timepieces became more common.
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Kieslowskifan1
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One from the UK would probably answer Vance in ways he would not like www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-e...
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Peter Sagal
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Kieslowskifan1
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It's a window into the zeitgeist (it came out in 1972) that the dirtiness of guerilla warfare and its eschewing of traditional hierarchies (e.g. civilian vs. combatant, front line vs. rear, etc.) would come home to roost in U.S. soil.
With luck, @jbouie.bsky.social will explore this in the podcast.
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Kieslowskifan1
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That was something the film changed from the novel. BookRambo is WAY more violent than the movie one. The narrative mentioned how as a vagrant he slit the throat of a black man trying to rob him and he kills several people in his escape. His Green Beret training contributed to a hair trigger temper.
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Kieslowskifan1
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IIRC, the sheriff in the original novel was a Korean War vet that resented how Vietnam vets got too much attention and were bums while his generation buckled down from a less than satisfactory war and built US prosperity.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Calvin, for all his flaws, had empathy and creativity, two character traits Trump does not possess. www.gocomics.com/calvinandhob...
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Kieslowskifan1
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Yes!
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Kieslowskifan1
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We found a visual metaphor for rainbow capitalism!
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Kieslowskifan1
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I remember one of the old Flight magazines articles by Corky Meyer that the Zero was the best frontline fighter for a low-time pilot. Its handling were much more forgiving than hotter contemporaries and he even suggested to Grumman that they license it postwar for the sport plane market
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Adam Serwer
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People will point to something and say “see voting doesn’t do anything” and it’s literally just the consequences of Republicans winning elections
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Kieslowskifan1
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Road repair costs, the true Achilles Heel of Reconstruction. 🙄
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Kieslowskifan1
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Regulate the supplements industry. Seriously. So much of their ad revenue and revenue streams comes from this sector.
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Kieslowskifan1
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And the other response then is to mock you for going through the trouble of all the documentation. Ugh.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Yes. As someone who listens to both Unclear podcasts, you clearly find politics boring. /s Seriously, I love your political digressions when discussing these films.
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Kieslowskifan1
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Sorry, I wasn't clear there. I meant it is weird how these types never seem to think this.
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Kieslowskifan1
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It is a weird notion, but people can simultaneously be dissatisfied with the political status quo AND be intimidated by creeping fascism.
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