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by generj 4y ago
With a five day trial set in only a few months, most likely the costs will not be astronomical. From the arguments, Musk’s team plans on spending tons of money on experts focusing on the spam issue, whereas Twitter is sidestepping it as non
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This ensures a resolution well before the end of the year, probably Twitter favorable. It’s interesting the Musk approach is to continue to loudly pound the table rather than the law on spam. Oh to be a fly on the wall in the lawyer’s offic
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by generj 4y ago
It didn’t work well at all. We had frequent economic panics all through the 1800s and early 1900s. When the US rose to power (1930s to 1940s) gold was mostly not used in practice due to international traffic being mostly blocked (due to nat
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The US stigma is interesting, because Lidl stocks more high quality goods than many other stores. E.g. the jelly is from Germany, the chocolate is inexpensive yet fair trade. I don’t know if I eat cheaper at Lidl but I eat better . The che
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Bork’s appointment problems stem from Reagan’s essentially rewarding him for obstructing impeachment of Nixon. I’ve never understood why the Democrats are painted as the bad guys interfering in a non-partisan appointment of Bork. Nominating
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That’s not an answer though. The parent to your comment is asking what caused CTCL to give more to Democratically aligned counties. Everyone agrees it happened - I am just unconvinced it has a strictly partisan explanation. They are asking
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I wouldn’t want all voter access funds channeled by the Koch brothers, but if they decide to fund non-partisan GOTV efforts, I would applaud it. Even if they ended up donating more to areas likely to vote their way. More voting is good pe
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The ACLU dislikes any restriction based on national security. I imagine they’d make the same arguments regardless of which party removed TikTok. But the broader public, reporters, and experts absolutely base their decisions on how trustwo
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But couldn’t that simply be explained by GOP counties applying for less aid? So long as every county could receive funds equally, the fact some received less isn’t at all damning.
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Sort of a fruit of a poisoned well - if prior trade action hadn’t been transparently lying about a national security pretext warning about TikTok would have been received better.
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Expanding and insuring ballot box access shouldn’t be considered partisan. That it is represents a failure in whatever party seeks to restrict voting.
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I read through the DOJ notice and it warns of multiple targets including abortion clinics. After the leaked draft, they say arson attacks occurred to pregnancy resource centers. Another area of concern is violence being directed against “Fi
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Principles such as refusing to condemn the former President’s coup apparently. Or even watch evidence about it. I have condemned terrorism on the left, for example eco-terrorism (which seems to have thankfully died off). I didn’t read the D
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I don’t think the Court was intentionally abused though. The Left doesn’t have an equivalent to the Federalist Society that carefully evaluated every candidate to see if they held pro-LGBTQ positions for decades in order to eventually legal
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I like this proposed mechanism. Unfortunately it would require a constitutional amendment and so is unlikely to happen. But the benefits are obvious: No mucking around trying to interpret legislative intent, just get new legislative intent!
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But relatively few people believe this. Maybe 30% of the country, and even then it is unclear how earnestly they do because most people who are staunchly anti-abortion support or use other techniques which functionally destroy embryos and f
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Oh I’m sorry did the protestors at Amy Barret’s house break in and smear feces on the walls? No, they just peacefully assembled? Yeah that isn’t an insurrection by any means. People loudly protest all the time, that isn’t the same thing as
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by generj 4y ago
It is supposed to exist to further a functional legal system. But it has been long since been perverted into a nakedly partisan purpose. At least four sitting justices were put on the court specifically to ensure this ruling occurred.
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It isn’t silly, the state legislatures deliberately crafted more extreme bills in the hopes of overturning Roe, then the GAs all they could to expedite them up to the Supreme Court. The boundaries of Roe v Wade have been debated for a looon
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But removing the filibuster wasn’t even in the tables or discussed half-way seriously when those majorities had power. It used to be the filibuster was rarely used and the Senate actually compromised to create legislation. There is effectiv
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Unfortunately amongst the general public the outlandish fringe theory is more common than reasonable theories. Source: my extended family
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Rand Paul isn’t credible on nearly any topic, but especially not SARS-CoV-2. We are talking about a man who proposed banning masks on public transit, knew he had COVID but didn’t inform anyone but instead spread COVID amongst a bunch of eld
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Remind me which side recently had a coup?
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You do realize this exact same argument was made for decades as the Federalist Society worked to make today’s ruling happen?
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Except of course for all the medically necessary abortions which are extremely scientifically justified. This decision will almost certainly kill thousands of women annually.
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I didn’t downvote, but there are lots of useful things hobbyists do with this chips. WiFi enabling homebrew CNC machines for example. To which you may say, just buy a cheaper USB cable. That’s fair, but a homebrew CNC maker could have just
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Having thousands of “workers” die in order to host a high prestige sporting event is definitely bad taste. Of course there are cultural differences as well, but modern-day Spartas with 90% permanent underclasses are fundamentally repugnant
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If it is a slippery slope, why have sin taxes have been limited to nicotine and alcohol despite existing for literally centuries? Internalizing externalities is one of the primary functions of government. I’m incredibly happy I rarely have
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Fiduciary responsibility is a myth. Company officers basically have to yell into a megaphone “I am making this decision to harm the company, there are no possible upsides to the company for this action” to be liable.
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They immediately pivoted towards a moon base race in the series. Landing on the moon was just what had to be done in order to enable entering the moon base race.

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