arthur_trudeau

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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
That's quite the unsupported claim, which is why I wish I could find the decision. Enhancing penalties in certain situations is incredibly common, even with respect to trespassing - trespassing in certain industrial facilities, or in
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
When your job is, eg, slaughtering pigs, or swearing at engines, or dealing with abusive customers (or abusive editors I suppose), you might reconsider.
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
You don't in general have a right to trespass, or break-and-enter, and record what you find.
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Would you want someone secretly taking video of the most embarrassing, context-free 5 minutes they could find of your job, and invoking a mob to attack you on that basis? These environments, or disrupting their operations because you'r
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Reporting on legal decisions is garbage when it doesn't even include the name of the case, or better a pointer to the opinion, so I can read the ruling myself. But it seems tenuous to me to claim that the state can criminalize trespass
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
The Russian invasion was in a large part driven by the population of Afghanistan rebelling against the central government attempting to impose that sort of liberalism. This isn't particularly controversial, even the baseline Wikipedia
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
I am in dead seriousness not interested in playing just-the-tip with social engineering in central Asia; nor am I interested in wielding one segment of their population as a weapon against another in an attempt to "reform" their s
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
I definitely can be asking why the US apparently has an interest in spending vast amounts of money and lives, mostly from flyover country or Afghanistan itself, in the interest of changing Afghan society in a direction most Afghans aren&#
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
I mean, if the US had lost a war, been occupied by people with the explicit stated goal of destroying their existing social fabric, who then heavily funded and sponsored "suffragettes" at the point of a bayonet after stating this
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Right, the US project for 15 years now has been explicitly to destroy their traditional society via, amongst other things, emancipating their women. My question is why I or other Americans should care about that goal. It seems like a trave
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Why in the world should we care, especially when the overwhelming majority of their countrymen don't believe they should be engaged in the activity at all?
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
That is incorrect. The Supreme Court's decision is with respect to "overconcentration" of blacks, in a context where, when divided, they were able to elect their preferred candidates. Their guiding principle is still that b
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Current US law requires racial gerrymandering to ensure blacks are able to elect black congressmen. This bill does not obviate that requirement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/0
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Economists would label it basic price discrimination, albeit with a floor of 0, and as a way to suppress competition rather than capture value on the low end.
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
If you think "nazi ideology" or their actions are uniquely horrible, you are either historically illiterate, or so parochial that only their particular victims are of concern to you. History, especially twentieth century history,
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Defense contractors are more prominent, but I would be astonished if they were not heavily targeting generic US tech firms as well, especially those involved with key infrastructure components and services. This becomes a lot easier when a
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Money laundering in practical terms means whatever the government wants it to mean. It has been successfully prosecuted as the simple deposit of funds the government doesn't like the origins of. The obstacle isn't law, it's
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Palma competitors routinely hit out to 1000 yards with iron sights (in reality, aperture sights). They are extremely effective.
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
It's somewhat surprising for the NYT to put forward the proposition that ethnocentrism and disregard for worker safety is a part of Chinese culture, but I guess I'll take their new wokeness as a sign of progress.
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Reading between the lines, a lot of the mole suspicion seems to focus on ethnically Chinese CIA employees.
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by arthur_trudeau 9y ago
Note that this is "low income" for the purposes of eligibility for HUD programs. Through the Obama administration, those programs have had the goal of dispersing black and hispanic families into white (and usually high income) ar