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Left of the Western Lands, thief of sacred objects, card cheat, the Karnak of software.

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Fair. With this court, a certain type of officer may be inclined to try their luck.

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Effectively, I believe you're correct, but Alito at least is notoriously thin-skinned. It's not enough for him to gleefully dismantle the rule of law, he also wants to be loved for it.

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They get to leave town.

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Also, the military is forbidden to obey an illegal order. They're not robots.

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This is completely antithetical to the bedrock principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. This Supreme Court is making Republican presidents into kings who are above the law

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You may be arguing that a feature is a bug. I wonder whether other folks at Tesla are glad when he's distracted, since it always seems that when the boss shows up it's all, "I SEE YOU STILL HAVE FEET I TOLD YOU TO KEEP SHOOTING."

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We apparently wiped out a strain of flu while mandatory masking for COVID was in effect.

I don't get the "oh it's just a cold" argument.

My neighbors don't want my cold either. I'll keep masking, thanks.

rdcu.be/dMlcw

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An academic friend of mine always bemoans the unquestioning support for any sports team expense contrasted with the trickle that's allocated to academics.

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Well,. mechanically. yes, but the marketing was to keep the unwashed masses from doing something stupid. Question: what is the poll test for 'corn fed' : )?

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IIRC, Jefferson opined that each generation should rewrite the Constitution entirely, so what's that? 12th, 13th Constitution? Impracticality aside in a much, much, larger country, there's a key point there about the past being impotent to address the problems of the future in detail.

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As much as I can endorse "Young Frankenstein" I still have to go with "Casablanca".

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I think a primary IS questioning the quality of candidates (understood that this process sucks too). The Electoral College not doing its job is how we got Trump, proving how an anti-democratic mechanism meant to "rescue" the country from a bad choice is just an anti-democratic mechanism.

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This has long been a trope, but I only realized it when watching Guardians of the Galaxy..2? After gleefully curb-stomping a lot of working people, the aristocrat receives mercy since his blood would taint our heroes, regicide evidently being worse than casual murder. *Ahem* I mean self-defense.

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Glad you enjoyed it! I saw it in the theater as child and it was a great vision of a future that people actually lived in, complete with labor disputes and coffee cups. At the time it was revelatory.

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Hmmm.. I think you're going to have to go for democracy then, with ironclad protections in custom and law for human rights. I would support America trying out this experiment.

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Clearly the candidate meant "black ops" jobs for which agencies always prefer to hire migrant workers.

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Yeah, it's just fanfic. Best for the blood pressure to ignore. Reality shows warped a lot of mental models out there.

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Which, somehow, is not a war crime. Because reasons.

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Your question was how a razor could be "woke", as I read it above.

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Here's a thought -- what if both candidates are okay with genocide?

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Two? HAHAHAHAHA. There is one branch of government, my friend. The Ayatollahs for Life.

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Yeah, well, that was always motivated rhetoric of the moment, just like it's a problem when the government permits gay marriage but not when it plucks books out of libraries. There's no logic or consistency to be found here, merely and increasingly naked agenda of oppression.

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I just grew up at the wrong time. My formative years were the aberration in American history and I'm irrevocably imprinted.

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Manisha Sinha's avatar Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social
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Historian here except for brief periods in its history the Supreme Court has been an entrenched obstacle to the expansion of American democracy hiding under the cloak of the Constitution even when they eviscerate it. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06...

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So much this. Break the administrative state through oversubscription.

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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it's time to bring this wonderful image (created by Anthony Michael Kreis) over to Bluesky

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I can't even begin to imagine what this does to court dockets all over the country, including theirs--not a disclaimer, I actually can't imagine. We're in uncharted chaotic waters by design, just like post-Dobbs, with probably the same unintended consequences all over the place.

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Of course, no one would accuse the MSM of paying attention.

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