liljustice.bsky.social
leftist lawyer 🌹🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇱🇧
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So many pundits who rail against “woke culture” have never really inhabited the spaces they complain about. You see this with most posts about universities, cities, cancel culture, etc. They’re criticizing a caricature they imagined.
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Truer words never spoken, Viceroy
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Fuck Gorka. Bring Abrego Garcia home.
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In addition to all the other reasons why this is bad, I’ll note that Kansas City is a very blue bubble within Missouri and is often punished by Republicans in Jeff City for daring to vote for Democrats
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And what do the gain in the tradeoff? Zilch. Conservatives hated them already and have their own party and candidates to vote for. Leftists hate them for betraying them on policy after paying lip service to their causes. Liberals hate them for rubber stamping trump’s appointments without pushback.
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Kamala’s lethal military, Newsom throwing trans kids under the bus, the 180 on police funding.
They’ve very publicly thrown out all their supposed values and in the process are destroying their credibility for the rest of their careers.
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You have to remember that at its core the legal profession is amoral. Our ethics are entirely based around loyalty to the client and the few rules that acknowledge a greater responsibility are relatively novel.
These guys are basically mercenaries with the veneer of credibility that academia brings
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Are there any lessons we can learn from Poland? I assume Tusk faced similar challenges after taking power back from PiS.
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Lmao Adams sold out his most vulnerable constituents to save his ass from prison. He’s already demonstrated he lacks the capacity to govern in the best interest of NYC.
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I’m finishing up Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy by Eric Weitz and would recommend that if you’re looking for history with some lessons for today
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Increasing the labor supply while carrying out mass deportations… lowering aggregate demand without a recession… who’s gonna tell him this is all a pipe dream
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Spot on. Gaza was also a huge problem for turning out the base. And a lot of people didn’t take the “threat to democracy” angle seriously because DoJ failed to expedite criminal cases against trump. People saw he never faced legal consequences and assumed the crimes must not have been significant
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This particular lawyer was part of DoJ during trump’s first term and quit his partner position at jones day to come back for more. He’s not some misguided believer in the right to counsel, he’s a complete MAGA zealot.
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Smaller compounding pharmacies will fill the gap, but they are subject to inconsistent regulations across the states and I expect execution complications to increase as a result. See Clayton Lockett of Oklahoma for example.
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How is a republic supposed to function, how is public debate facilitated, when the people can’t even agree on reality?
People need real journalism they can trust and talk about with each other. The news media oligopoly must be broken up if faith in media is to be restored.
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Here there be nazis, trolls, misanthropes, and liars. They sow chaos and amplify conspiracy theories for fun. And enough people fell victim to it that the notion of a shared understanding of reality seems lost.
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The internet made it obvious that the media lies all the time. But, when people stop listening to legacy media and start “doing their own research,” they are extremely susceptible to misinformation and end up worse off. Because online there are forces at work much darker than wealthy interests.
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This is pretty misleading
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Ah yes of course making music sucks. This is why thousands of young people in every generation since the invention of the gramophone poured their blood, sweat, and tears into independent music production with basically zero chance of ever making money off it.
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Ah so Drake is a human trafficker. Got it. Masterfully done Mr. Graham
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Given the persistence of leftist infighting over the last century, I don’t think he’d be surprised. The person deriding Finland is a communist or anarchist, not a democratic socialist.
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But now it seems media outlets believe that canceling far right creators and embracing identity politics leads to less views. They’re going to follow the money even if it means platforming nazis. We need to show them it’s not worth it financially.
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The sad thing is Sam Hyde’s career looked like it was over a few years ago. Cancel culture succeeded at blocking him from a mainstream audience - like when he lost his adult swim show.
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It’s an apples to oranges comparison - Dylan is a master lyricist and storyteller whereas Petty is a master songwriter and frontman - but if the comparison is being made then Tom takes the cake as the better musician. There’s a reason covers of Dylan songs are often better than the originals