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by gwright 6y ago
The rise of non-state actors has definitely complicated public policy regarding the use of force. IANAL, but it seems like much of the legal frameworks around use of force, just war, etc. is predicated on Westphalian sovereignty, which does
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by gwright 6y ago
> where once again we went to the Middle East based on "terrorism" A little more complicated than that: invasion of Kuwait, 1st Gulf War, chemical weapons, WMD confusion, violation of UN sanctions, post 9/11 fears/unk
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> The critical point is that the US has never cared about any other country in the world. Every foreign policy decision is based on what is advantageous to the US at the time. s/US/<any-country>/ Acting according to
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by gwright 6y ago
I learned about .invalid last year and had an immediate use for it where we needed a syntactically valid email to match a schema but didn't want it to be deliverable. I discovered quickly that some other systems wouldn't accept th
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by gwright 6y ago
That does seem a bit unusual but then again the amount of attention that social media (and media in general) is getting lately is basically off the charts.
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It seems completely infeasible to me to think that Congress and its staff is capable of drafting reasonable legislation without considerable input from the executive agencies. I understand the general conflict of interest you are concerned
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See my response to your other comment above.
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This report suggests that this sort of thing is not uncommon but that it rarely takes the form of a complete bill, which is closer to your term "draft legislation". Redlining an existing statute with changes is what the DOJ publis
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by gwright 6y ago
> I mean that the DOJ's opinion on what the law should be is literally without merit Same for the CDC, FDA, EPA, IRS, HHS, etc.? I suppose the President should also be forbidden from proposing legislation and for asking any of his a
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by gwright 6y ago
It happens all the time. It is a completely mundane part of the daily functioning of government.
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Why are there so many people here surprised that executive departments participate in proposing legislation? It seems like completely normal activity to me.
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> DOJ really should back off here > They can recommend all they want Isn't that what they are doing, recommending? Your statements seem contradictory.
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What are you getting at here? That the Constitution doesn't prevent Congress from passing a law that prohibits the DOJ from participating in the formulation of public policy? This just seems like a nonsensical rabbit hole to explore t
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> It blows my mind this isn't a separations of powers concern to even allow these people to draft language or make any statements on the record of what they think the law ought to be. That seem to be an untenable position. Legislati
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by gwright 6y ago
I think it is a fools errand to try to rank executive overreach, but how would you compare this to Obama’s drone strike policy and targeted killings including American citizens?
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Is that your legal opinion? I mean the executive order does reference: Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States C
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by gwright 6y ago
If you read the Executive Order ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or... ) you'll see that this is yet another aspect of Trump's overall policy of confronting China's growing influ
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by gwright 6y ago
Too bad that wasn't actually the way you win a Presidential election. There is an actual rationale for the Electoral college. Go ahead and argue for different rules but pointing out that the results would have been different if the rul
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by gwright 6y ago
> You mean if CO2 is not causing a global warming? I'm not exactly sure what part of my comment you are referring to. If it is the last part regarding our understanding of global climate, then perhaps I can expand my comment a bit.
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> and if we don't do what's in our power to avert it, we'll wipe a large fraction of us off the planet and precipitate world war. This is definitely the approach ("avert") that is assumed in almost all discussion
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I feel like that it is necessary to be more specific in order to justify using force and abandoning the system. In Portland, who is targeting minorities? What does "targeting" mean? If the elected officials are sympathetic to tho
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by gwright 6y ago
Thank you for responding. I am too far away from the details and the history of the Portland police department to pretend to know what the right course of action is, but it seems to me that the "non-peaceful" part of the protest i
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by gwright 6y ago
Here is what I can't figure out. What would have to happen in Portland for the protestors to stop protesting? What would represent success? I honestly don't know. Am I wrong to think that most residents of Portland would like the
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by gwright 6y ago
My understanding is that the "traditional" notion of civil disobedience excludes acts of violence (the crimes that the parent was probably referring to) and for the participants to be willing to accept punishment for the law that
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by gwright 6y ago
> If not, then those people might actually be correct. This doesn't seem reasonable to me. The amount of misery and injustice that would accompany any sort of dissolution of civil society would be enormous and with no path towards s
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by gwright 6y ago
> Then we do not live in a democracy with a rule of law. Why have the constitution at all? The concept of checks and balances is an attempt to mitigate this problem. The "higher authority" is the other branches of government. B
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by gwright 6y ago
I think this illustrates a weakness of legislation via ballot propositions. It is too easy for the resulting statutes or articles to be contradictory or become out of sync with new realities/data and there is no legislative mechanism t
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by gwright 6y ago
That article isn't about COVID in isolation it is about whether the drastic economic shutdown was an appropriate response. I think that is still a very debatable item, but data from Sweden, for example suggests that it wasn't a go
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> If a lot of people don't want to be cops who are subject to such restraints, good. I don't want cops who use force casually. What we have now is a system that throws the book at anyone who takes or threatens life (with far hi
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by gwright 6y ago
> In your original comment, you literally said pumped hydro (along with others) was an imagined technology. I also said: > Future imagined technologies and/or infrastructure Sure I could have been clearer but the entire thrust of

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