2plus2equals.bsky.social
If 2. is small and is just rounded up, 2. + 2. can equal 3. For large values rounded down, it can be 5. It can never be 6.
I read historical documents a small chunk a day to understand them. That’s all this feed is.
6,387 posts
1,452 followers
1,324 following
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Sadly this is the horror every dystopian author thinks about.
comment in response to
post
It’s bad journalism to say non-lethal.
comment in response to
post
That’s the formal term.
They are very capable of being lethal and using the term “non-lethal” is inaccurate and bad journalism.
comment in response to
post
The term “less lethal” is what they’re often called formally to warn cowboy cops not to use them frivolously.
comment in response to
post
Toonen/4
Toonen is described as the author of the complaint, a citizen of Australia residing in Hobart, Tasmania.
Tasmania is the smallest Australian state and one that leans more conservative (the Australian Liberal party). In 1990, it was a comfortable Liberal win.
comment in response to
post
I mean it’s not exactly a priority but it’s part of who he was.
Anything beyond a cursory review will turn up a lot of unpleasant facts about historical figures.
It’s part of why putting the past on a pedestal is so foolish.
comment in response to
post
Toonen/3
The document starts with a reference to a rule 91 decision. According to this, that’s a request for more information made of the state party (Australia in this case).
Toonen submitted the complaint in December 1991, rule 91 in April 1992, decided 1994.
hrlibrary.umn.edu/hrcommittee/...
comment in response to
post
Toonen/2
There are three articles mentioned as “substantive” in the complaint - 2-1 (access to legal remedies), 17-1 (right to privacy, explicitly including a right to the sexual activity of consenting adults), and 26, (equality under the law generally).
17-1 is the main issue at hand.
comment in response to
post
34/Fred
Jackson closes his dissent with an evaluation of the recently decided Hirabayashi case as precedent, similarly war powers being used for unconstitutional actions.
He argues that the mild inconvenience of a curfew is not comparable to basically imprisonment, a major infringement of liberty.
comment in response to
post
Exiling them is the entire point of having a designated location to exile them to.
That’s what Israel is to some - a designated place to send exiled Jews.
comment in response to
post
Poland’s election results leave me concerned.
comment in response to
post
Sad but true.
comment in response to
post
My pet conspiracy theory is that antisemitism is 100% pro-Israel because it gives an opportunity and an incentive for the Jews to be forced out.
comment in response to
post
I think the challenge is that some things get labeled as “antisemitism” when they are antizionism or just criticisms of Netanyahu’s government or IDF tactics.
When the AFDL tries to silence people for challenging some sieg heils it’s easy to get frustrated and confused.
comment in response to
post
What they want in broad brush is similar, the extent is usually where they differ and where the wedge issues come in.
Israel being safe and Palestine being free are going to be a great example of things we all want but have a lot of differences in how we might accomplish them.
comment in response to
post
Kim Jong Un?
Li’l Kim doesn’t have that much impact. He could be a real regional threat but he’s not starting anything global.
comment in response to
post
Are the protests really about “hatred for those who are Jewish” or are they about the crimes against humanity like ethnic cleansing and support of despotic governments that have traditionally gotten protests out of American students?
The war isn’t even about religion, it’s about land.
comment in response to
post
Not enough information to say.
I wish I could say wait until the facts are in but given this administration’s history with facts I have little hope we’ll get those.
comment in response to
post
Are you equating protesting against violence with actual violence?
That would be a bit of a stretch…
comment in response to
post
Palestinian is a religion?
comment in response to
post
Standing with Netanyahu’s government is going to draw some fire - they’re doing some things that are… easy to criticize.
It’s not a question really of whether you stand with Israel - it’s a question of whether you endorse the horrors taking place at Netanyahu’s command.
comment in response to
post
Unfortunately the IDF is a useful tool in regional proxy wars.
Israel is our proxy in the region, as are the Saudis to an extent.
Still very Cold War at times.
comment in response to
post
That’s what they’re saying in public.
It’s not politically popular to even suggest that maybe things have gone a bit too far.
comment in response to
post
I sometimes call it Netanyahu’s government because “Israel” has a broader meaning and it becomes hard to separate the people and the religion and the historical kingdom that is the namesake of the current state.
If Trump renames the US “The Kingdom of God” Christians will have similar issues.
comment in response to
post
OK?
Definitely not OK.
Would it happen?
Sadly, it would not be beyond the imagination. People are foolish, especially when angry and desperate.
comment in response to
post
Then say that, rather than “I saw the video.”
comment in response to
post
33/Fred
Continuing with his dissent, Jackson addresses the reality of military orders as sensibly unrestrained by strict constitutionality so long as they do not persist past a clearly defined emergency. He argues that they are still unconstitutional and that endorsing that error creates problems.
comment in response to
post
Sure is politically convenient that the lack of consent is openly ignored, as well as all the other sins of Sodom, and it just focuses on one politically convenient talking point.
Church tradition failed on this one, and failed hard. Christe Eleison.
comment in response to
post
Something to always remember about the Russian people as well.
comment in response to
post
Ezekiel mentions a bunch of things.
There’s a bunch in the Talmud too. Sanhedrin 109b basically calls out abusive legalism.
comment in response to
post
Murder is still wrong either way.
Arguments for self defense here are next to impossible - attacking Jews in America doesn’t have much effect on Zionists.
comment in response to
post
“Saw the video” is not something to blindly trust anymore. Too easy to fake things these days.
I grant that the conspiracy theory nonsense is nonsense, but “the video” is not the only evidence that would be considered in court.
False flag attacks happen.
Trust but verify.
comment in response to
post
I guess you could blame the British for starting it?
1947, though, is a year worth talking about.
comment in response to
post
They won’t hear it.
Any criticism of anything even vaguely related to Israel will be interpreted as collectively blaming Jews.
comment in response to
post
“Strict but loving.”
Hmm.
Very generous to the character.
Great performance by the actress, but she’s as close to a villain as that movie gets.
comment in response to
post
Also the lower chance of arbitrary arrest and detention is a big appeal.
Not to mention the ideological purity screenings that might keep people from attending.
comment in response to
post
Had plenty of opportunity to do so as well.
Also, FWIW, Ezekiel 16:49 directly addresses the sins of Sodom.
“Sodomy” is not caring for the poor.
comment in response to
post
“Just following orders” is not a defense.
When they know those orders are illegal they are choosing to follow them.
comment in response to
post
“Only for married” is a convenient way to protect wifebeaters too. If they run and that means their kids no longer get healthcare it gives them a massive incentive to go back to their abusers.
comment in response to
post
My brain auto-completed -5309.
I guess I missed the 4.
comment in response to
post
I even played it in monochrome white!
comment in response to
post
I read through the MAHA statement. There’s a lot of it that, well, is just about the Standard American Diet (aka SAD) and really isn’t that shocking, but then it goes off on seed oils as if the current speculation about health concerns is undisputed fact.
A better-written-than-usual blog post.
comment in response to
post
32/Fred
Jackson argues in his dissent that Korematsu is being judged as committing a crime solely because of his race. He argues against hereditary guilt, referencing the Constitution’s prohibition on “corruption of blood” - an English legal doctrine that punished children for parental crime.
comment in response to
post
Map games exist to be consumed, and consumed they will be!
comment in response to
post
Which, unless the later seasons somehow deviate, should be pretty obvious from the show.
comment in response to
post
The deterministic fallacy that we are simply our genes expressed is biologically hogwash - regulation of gene expression is hardly a new field.
The heart has been replaced by DNA as the source of identity - we are p-zombies running a script.
comment in response to
post
30/Fred
Continuing with his dissent Murphy notes that some did prove disloyal, just like those of German and Italian descent who were judged individually, not as a group like Korematsu.
He argues all have ancestral loyalties - I’d add even natives have ties to their own nation not the US.