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by cmurf 4y ago
Empty property tax at up to 1000%. For full time occupied properties, a sliding scale rebate toward rent based on income.
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by cmurf 4y ago
Ooh! Is it a machine? Does it make it effecient to remove the head from many people? claps maniacally
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by cmurf 4y ago
Do many/most people really think they should have the ability to repair it? I'm not sure because they keep buying products where it's expressly not possible to repair it yourself or by a competent 3rd party. So I'm not r
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Cassidy Hutchinson: Why the Jan. 6 Committee Rushed Her Testimony(nytimes.com)
2 points by cmurf 4y ago|0 comments
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One Small Step for Democracy in a ‘Live Free or Die’ Town(nytimes.com)
5 points by cmurf 4y ago|1 comments
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by cmurf 4y ago
I expect this Court would find it a violation of he 10th amendment, leaving the issue to be decided only at the state level.
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by cmurf 4y ago
Justice in America isn't a right, it's a product you buy. Public versions should be non-existent or inferior. This is so that the best people get access to the best version of the product that money can buy. By definition in Ameri
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by cmurf 4y ago
Accountability is widely considered interference by people who think they are or above the law.
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Are the Last Rational Republicans in Denial?(theatlantic.com)
9 points by cmurf 4y ago|2 comments
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by cmurf 4y ago
As I read these, I think the Court must reject the concept of federal reviewability of elections presented by this theory. With respect to the Electoral Count Act of 1887, Congress needs to reinforce (a candidate receiving a plurality or ma
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by cmurf 4y ago
Textualism, Judicial Supremacy, and the Independent State Legislature Theory Wisconsin Law Review, No. 5, 2022 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4141535 They argue the theory is subterfuge. It actuall
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Supreme Court to hear case on GOP ‘independent legislature’ theory(politico.com)
21 points by cmurf 4y ago|15 comments
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by cmurf 4y ago
Why do you propose every single atom needs to be explicitly listed? 42 USC 7411 does grant EPA the power to determine what emissions need regulating, and how to best regulate them.
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by cmurf 4y ago
Not everything. It's abundantly clear from the Dobbs majority opinion they will not accept a Roe statue from Congress, that they would overturn it on 10th amendment grounds. It's not an express power Congress has, thus it's s
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by cmurf 4y ago
The dissent indicates the power is already explicitly granted in the EPA statute plain as day. It really isn't clear to me what language would satisfy the majority.
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by cmurf 4y ago
The world doesn't deserve world war. But Russia does. Russia has committed the supreme international crime, twice. These are invitations to world war, that's a central determination of Nuremberg trials, why we have the U.N., Genev
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by cmurf 4y ago
Some people want an autocrat, they wanted it to succeed. Some people are still experiencing cognitive dissonance, can't admit they've been conned yet again by Republicans into voting against all of their interests.
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by cmurf 4y ago
Clearly it will be struck down as unconstitutional by this Court as a violation of the 10th amendment. The Court already asserted the power rests with states, not the Congress.
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by cmurf 4y ago
There is very real and consequential disconnect between actual policy and polling, however. A fringe minority is setting policy for the majority, and will for the foreseeable future. If only more people were voting, the outcome would match
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by cmurf 4y ago
From the dissenting opinion: Those responsible for the original Constitution, including the Fourteenth Amendment, did not perceive women as equals, and did not recognize women’s rights...When the majority says that we must read our foundat
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Senator Cornyn: Now Do Plessy vs. Ferguson/Brown vs. Board of Education(twitter.com)
4 points by cmurf 4y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 4y ago
Requires either 50 states to change state law, or 3/4 of the states to ratify a federal constitutional amendment. And any of these requires the cooperation of the two parties to make it happen, or voting in their replacements. So it&#x
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by cmurf 4y ago
On the one hand: Mifepristone + Misoprostol, you can get them mailed to you anywhere in the country, even if abortion is illegal in your state. https://twitter.com/AidAccessUSA On the other hand: I support impeaching these
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by cmurf 4y ago
HN is very emotionally attached to the idea it's above politics. > Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity. This is pure hubris and stupidity. This country wouldn't be here w
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by cmurf 4y ago
I think it is a deep disappointment in a rotten culture that really is way off track. I think Pinkerton is right on paper, that humans are less shitty than they used to be. But we don't all live in an aggregated universe, we live in mi
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by cmurf 4y ago
Why does the storage size unit of measure have to do with addressing? That drive addressing uses the LBA-48 (bit) addressing has nothing to do with the fact the minimum addressible unit size, the physical sector is a base-2 value, i.e. 512
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by cmurf 4y ago
The Texas GOP platform also says gays are abnormal, calls for Texas to secede from the U.S., and that the Voting Rights Act 1965 should be repealed.
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by cmurf 4y ago
Not insane. Malicious. It's intent to intimidate or injure or kill. It absolutely should be an arrestable offense, but without witnesses or video, the police will not take it seriously. Those in aggressive driver areas should consider
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by cmurf 4y ago
It's the Democratic party, there is no such thing as the democrat party. I take it you're not at all familiar with Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, and it's embrace of the Dixiecrats, or actually quite a lot of relevan
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by cmurf 4y ago
>actively seeks to suppress and silence opposing views What's your best example of either of these? >while openly lying and distorting truth Same, best example of either lying or distorting truth. >The culture war will be foug

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