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Lawmakers proposed a law that would allow them to eat babies. Since lawmaking is a process eventually this eventually morphs into a law that only allows the eat
by michaelmrose 6y ago
Lawmakers proposed a law that would allow them to eat babies. Since lawmaking is a process eventually this eventually morphs into a law that only allows the eating of teenagers and then only those who also have red hair or blue eyes.
Without infinite time lots of people only know that the bill allows eating people and aren't entirely clear on the exact criteria of people allowed to be eaten.
A process that starts in extremely bad faith is unlikely to be negotiated into something reasonable. The best solution is to keep threatening lawmakers who pass stuff like this with replacement in hopes that nothing lands because there is no universe in which they are capable of producing good legislation on a topic they know less than nothing about.
- anticensor 6y agoHow is E2EE related to cannibalistic eating of humans?
- callalex 6y agoIt’s called an Analogy. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analogy
- cinquemb 6y ago> The best solution is to keep threatening lawmakers who pass stuff like this with body bags and toe tags FTFY ;)
- michaelmrose 6y agoThe problem of course is that every faction in American politics has lots of guns. Unless you want to be ruled by whomever can prevail thunderdome style in an all out war we need to keep solving things with voting and debate.
- cinquemb 6y agoThe way things are set up, one can only vote and debate for people who routinely get "persuaded" by K street when elected
- salawat 6y agoWhat is this K Street you speak of, if you don't mind my asking? I've not heard that turn of phrase before. If I had to guess it's a name given to the phenomena by which what a freshly elected legislator ends up doing once they get to Washington D.C. tends to differ from what they actually get to do based on having to grapple with the political realities at the National level. This would include exposure to well funded lobbyists as well. But that's just a guess...
- cinquemb 6y agoThe way things are set up, one can only vote and debate for people who routinely get "persuaded" by K street when elected And I would say that in response to `salawat`: >> This would include exposure to well funded lobbyists as well. (Also including organizations like CFR/Sunlight Foundation/etc) Largely determines: >> the political realities at the National level If people want to pretend that engaging in more of the same that got us to this point is actually a solution, that's fine by me since I moved out of the US almost a half decade ago; I read enough of history to see how things like this eventually end up and I don't want to be near it. My labor, knowledge and time is better spent elsewhere until things change, for better or for worse. My fellow citizens stateside can vote and debate on people untill kingdom come