A thing I desperately need people to understand is that "illegal" does not mean "impossible." Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it can't be done. Israel's genocide is illegal. DOGE is illegal. Sending people to CECOT is illegal. The law is not a force field. - ThreadSky

leftistlawyer.com • 3 days ago

A thing I desperately need people to understand is that "illegal" does not mean "impossible."

Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it can't be done. Israel's genocide is illegal. DOGE is illegal. Sending people to CECOT is illegal. The law is not a force field.

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danepopfrippery.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hell theres still ppl in jail or with marks on their records for being caught with a joint. Yet most of the country weed is now legal.

Segregation was legal, comstock was legal…like its so embarrassing (my fam has been vs me on this lately & i have no time for it)

riversandseas.bsky.social•3 days ago

american "take a civics lesson!" libs are genuinely the most propagandised people i have ever met, who genuinely seem to think that laws have magic powers that will instantly strike down anyone who breaches them. i dunno exactly how american civics lessons work, but they must teach some wild shit

riversandseas.bsky.social•3 days ago

ps for a short but informative read on this topic i highly recommend david graebers "fetishism as social creativity" (its not about what the title might make you think)

discchoco.bsky.social•2 days ago

Meanwhile anyone who actually remembers US civics knows we used to have shit like the 3/5 compromise and that the amendment "abolishing" slavery carved out an exception for prison labor

riversandseas.bsky.social•2 days ago

yeah but you dont need a civics lesson to know that your country is complete dogshit and always has been, and these civics lessons sure seem to convince a lot of american liberals that somehow it isnt?

discchoco.bsky.social•2 days ago

Most of the time appeals to Textbook Civics, much like appeals to Econ 101, are a pretentious way of saying this is why we can't have nice things". It's less "this is great!" and more "this is the best we can manage"

arthuragain.bsky.social•3 days ago

The law is in the remedy.

stopgenai.com•3 days ago

OJ Simpson murdered people? But that's illegal! 🙃

randyhermanlaw.com•3 days ago

Stabbing people is illegal and yet many people get stabbed

ethicking.com•3 days ago

Hell, speeding is illegal and just about everybody who drives speeds at least sometimes

leftistlawyer.com•3 days ago

Every day people tell me that if a person is doing it, it must not be illegal, or if it is immoral or wrong, it must also be illegal. That's not how anything works.

But trust me when I tell you that the law is completely a list of consequences that depends upon enforcement to matter.

baddielynn.bsky.social•3 days ago

I prefer Brennan Lee Mulligan's anarchist halfling definition wording

doogie2k.bsky.social•3 days ago

And, of course, vice versa

You might not be, say, openly funding terrorism according to the letter of the law, but if the government decides you are, especially right now...