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Attorney. Public Defender.
Columbus OH, ⚫️🟡, crown jewel of the Midwest.
Raised in Sudbury ON. 🇨🇦⬆️
Participant in the 200+ year liberal project.
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Discussion Master
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It won’t though. This is Americans we’re talking about. Is it happening on the futon?
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Elon Musk doesn’t give a fig about the deficit.
He’s trying to get back into the good graces of society because his personal brand and car company are destroyed, but he’s too socially inept to even say something human-ish.
Also, it’s too late. He’s branded MAGA and he can’t go back.
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It’s the beginning of the end for Elon. They’ll pull his contracts, initiate investigations into DOGE, and blame all of the adminstration’s sins on him.
Tons of Dogebros available to roll up and write statements “Elon made me hack into the top secret government systems”
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He disregarded originalism whenever it suggested an outcome that threatened his personal worldview.
It doesn’t mean he didn’t write some banger decisions, like Crawford, which were out of step with ‘the right’.
But they always served his self- image of “I, Scalia, iconoclastic genius.”
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Wrongly so.
Read Section III of DC v. Heller. Then tell me where the fuck did “nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill” come from his historical exegesis.
Outcome-driven to his core.
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Justice Souter was great and principled!
I fell in 😍 with the Taylor modified categorical approach!
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As a thinker too.
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I could not imagine showing my face in society with an opinion like that.
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She still cursed us with “All I Wanna Do”. And others.
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JD Vance is the poster child of one whose allegiance is ruled by expedience.
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Oh, did I miss a USA Today article?
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“China First” huh!
For them, and not for us!
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Damn, leave the rhythm player out of it!
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If it was genocide against Boer South Africans, that would be a serious indictment of his presidency!
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I don’t read state media.
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Just bribe Trump, what’s the big deal? It’s just a vig.
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Delightful.
Die, Tesla, die. It’s just a matter of time now.
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I’m just glad FEMA thugs ain’t out there trying to create contract with them under Admiralty Law.
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*nearly* unbroken. 74 of 80 legislative years.
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Are you referring to the 40 year nearly unbroken Dem dominance in both House and Senate from 1955-1994? That’s all I can think of….
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Teach him strong values of kindness and they will carry through.
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They do not. I never experienced the urge to be cruel. I would estimate only 25-50% of boys did.
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Columbus, Ohio - just fucking nothing. A few rumblings of clients in court being carted off by ICE, but it’s still a rare affair.
It’s so weird, the country is falling to pieces but my daily life is wholly unaffected.
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What are all those woke green and orange things doing? Where’s the meat???
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You have won the Olympic gold of missing the point.
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lol.
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If he pops a $1 k check in people’s pockets in October, it’s another Republican landslide.
Never underestimate the moral degradation of the American electorate.
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Never thought I would live to see that day.
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Preach.
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And it was so obvious. I mean, he just fucking declared it, over and over.
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Naw bro.
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The electorate already proved itself depraved.
We lived amongst these chucklefucks for decades and somehow deluded ourselves into thinking that when things got really important, they would do the right thing.
Consider me, for one, disabused of that notion.
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Feingold was the only Senste NAY vote on the Patriot Act, and I’d classify him as a liberal.
Boxer YEA
Wellstone YEA
Leahy YEA
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I don’t know which imaginary liberals live in your head, so I can’t meaningfully respond.
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Oh for sure. I don’t even see how that’s debatable.
Most likely America itself is done, but I guess there’s the outside chance that an outsider seizes power and throws every single Trumper in prison for life. Not counting on it.
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It’s always been so. Liberals’ principles stand in the way of unlimited personal power for the sociopaths who invariably rise to the top of leftist movements. That’s why they hate them.
I’m no historian, but you can see it in the French and Russian revolutions quite clearly.
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One fights our people, the other fights other people.
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I put on this record for the first time in a decade and something flew into my eye as soon as the lead guitar hit its broken, soaring intro. Didn’t even make it to the friendship-breakup vocal duet. Then, I thought of your post 😎. Cheers!
youtu.be/3KzK5d4jXKM?...
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*clomps along the snow to Theresienstadt, quite irritated with the drop in my 401k.*
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I’m pretty uninitiated, but I found the claim that, in the US, “secular things acquire the function and qualities of sacredness”, tying it to the faith/works distinction, and pointing out Reagan’s inversion of the ‘city on the hill’ metaphor compelling.
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More walks makes sense.
Pitching team willing to risk a walk to try get the out, because the second run doesn’t matter very much, and you get a chance for a double play even if you do.
More double plays would follow from more walks.
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Love the question.
I guess my personal answer is tiny acts? Teach young people a love of reason one at a time. Do my fucking job well. Call out bullshit.
I think Trump’s answer is economic depression. Make it clear to people that the rules apply to them by showing them hunger and disease.
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It may be, but it is unacceptable.
Such has yielded the conclusion of contemporary politics: Trump, forever.
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Did you read the thread? I found it perspicacious and its premise well-defended.
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Mr. Holiness, Sir, I’m here from the Practical Atheists, Sir! Please Sir, we don’t want them, Sir!
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If you don’t fail them, they will grow up to be staffers in the Eric Trump administration and will perpetuate war crimes in the great Canadian invasion.
You owe an F grade to the rest civilization.
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Fail them all.
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Wow. You’re brilliant.
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As this American lawyer has begun the early stages of learning Canadian law, my #1 revelation is how absolutely totemic American law’s relationship to the founding documents (and other texts and symbols) is.
Truly dysfunctional when you see it from without.
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I’m like, ‘no Pope please! We don’t want them!’