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CBJSprague24 posted:I mean, 15 second spots about power of attorney and why your meat may smell funny overseas would get way more attention with these people. Wrap it up
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Niger (Nijèr), not Nigeria, two different countries, that's important to remember. And sure looks like it And the demonym is Nigerien. Because that's not confusing at all.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I mean, 15 second spots about power of attorney and why your meat may smell funny overseas would get way more attention with these people. By the gods! I've been fleeced!
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SquirrelyPSU posted:https://twitter.com/nateraymond/status/1684994741820096512?s=46&t=RbRF48xIfQ0dFH4bQsb3RA From the article: quote:By comparison with the previous eight decades or so, the court has frequently declined to defer to elite political opinion, and as a result it has made news in other ways. A draft abortion opinion was leaked to the press. An armed man was arrested outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and charged with attempted assassination. The justices have come under attack from President Biden (“this is not a normal court”) and Democratic lawmakers. Partisan journalists have tried to gin up “ethics” scandals and incite animus against disfavored justices.  quote:The same attention to history informs Justice Alito’s textualism. “I reject the idea that a statute should be interpreted simply by looking up the words in the dictionary and applying that mechanically,” he says. Justice Gorsuch did something like that in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020), in which the court held that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination “because of . . . sex,” covers “sexual orientation and gender identity.” maybe we can start with the author
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CBJSprague24 posted:I mean, 15 second spots about power of attorney and why your meat may smell funny overseas would get way more attention with these people.
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busky embeds now work on discord, wonder if they will work here. https://bsky.app/profile/aminus.bsky.social/post/3k3mrhjrpfl25 nope
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ded posted:busky embeds now work on discord, wonder if they will work here. I do wonder if when randos like me get bluesky invites, it gets wrecked by too many. Or maybe it silos into an elitist left-wing twitter while X just kinda tanks. I do miss some of the more prolific posters that jumped ship as soon as they could.
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Epiphyte posted:Why? Milo and POTUS posted:Gotta know about the meat thing It's called gonorrhea.
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The only fuckfest I witnessed was gravity and the big green weenie eiffel tower me.
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Epiphyte posted:Why? I imagine it's related to stuff like the commissary in Naples selling packaged frozen corn beef years past its expiration date.
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So, this is a thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/us/politics/biden-military-sexual-assault.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur quote:Under the rules established by Mr. Biden’s order, commanders in the military will no longer have the authority to decide whether to pursue charges in cases of sexual abuse and a handful of other serious crimes. Instead, that decision will fall to the new, specialized lawyers, White House officials said.
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bird food bathtub posted:So, this is a thing. One weird trick to punish sexual assault. Canadian generals hate it!
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I don’t see the DoD falling apart and losing a war because we removed the mercurial commander factor from sexual assault UCMJ action. Hell, one less thing for that commander to worry about. Should make them more effective. And god knows they’re not effective now, hence all the goddamn raping.
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Re: Meat, I was never in, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjXNs4Xz6As
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CBJSprague24 posted:Re: Meat, I was never in, but: I think one goon called this lady "Grocery Goebbels".
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Zamujasa posted:From the article: First amendment literally exists for this reason
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CBJSprague24 posted:Re: Meat, I was never in, but: This is probably a good time to remember when the freezer on our submarine broke, and we would pull the rotten meat off the pile, exposing just-barely dethawed meat that was still edible. After about a month we ran out, and powdered eggs were our only protein source. The Navy has since fixed that, by loading hundreds of pounds of freeze-dried meat onto boats, it may be disturbing in terms of texture, smell, and taste, but it is very unlikely to make you sick! LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I don’t see the DoD falling apart and losing a war because we removed the mercurial commander factor from sexual assault UCMJ action. There's no way it's anything but a good thing, 100% there's still commands out there protecting sexual assaultists, and drumming their victims out of the service for "causing problems" it needs to loving stop, and real, impartial investigators are a good first step to making that happen. Do I have faith this will be enacted well by the services? Of course not, but one can hope.
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Elviscat posted:There's no way it's anything but a good thing, I'm seeing it through an optimistic lens, hoping the world becomes a better place for it. It will at the least be harder to spread the good old boy's club protections to an external third party that doesn't have any concerns from inside that chain of command. In a good world they're detached enough that their only motivation is to drop the loving hammer on assholes doing this poo poo and I'll take commanders motivated by fear for their own asses as an improvement over the current system of assuming they're all good people.
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1685257020549607424?t=KyPolJHyiEYecmc7SYFcHA&s=19 lol, lmao, rofl
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I think it's a step in the right direction for sure. Are they also changing the reporting criteria? If not, the cases can still be misrepresented.
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Wasabi the J posted:The rich white dudes that decided this whole government thing needed a king that they didn't call a king This is not remotely the case. They were all deeply opposed to the idea of centralizing authority in the Presidency. Washington, during his own term, was attacked as a tyrannical king for exercising authority as it had been delegated to him anyway.
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I suppose the special prosecutor for military sexual assault thing depends on the wording of the order. If it's "do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, call special prosecutor immediately" and a commander refuses, you've disobeyed a direct order from the CIC. As long as there's a mechanism to report THAT, which I'd hope the special prosecutor would have, the fear of instantaneous career death would keep things pretty honest. I hope. I really do.
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https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1685371659727888384?t=aI0VSxdKirk2MNFnfjwAuA&s=19 Agent Orange having a normal one. Also, here comes the Third Mattering?
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I agree with Trump on one thing: charges should have been brought long ago. I disagree with the doctrine of “you snooze, you lose” though.
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Criminal charges have the "one shot, one kill" rule,l. If you gently caress up, you don't get to try again, so they need to get all of their ducks in a row before going to court. For something as big as this, I understand that you want someone to "DO SOMETHING!!!!" but that's not the right way to proceed unless you personally plan on taking direct action. This is how justice goes when you want to take down the biggest fish in such a way that they can't wriggle free.
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Also some of the crimes in question like the classified doc stuff only happened in June 2022.
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If they had brought charges any earlier he would be complaining how it's a rushed hit job pushed through before all the facts had been fully investigated. There's no scenario where he wouldn't be whining about it.
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That's always been Donnie's best political trick. He pretzels nearly everyone into thinking ten moves ahead in eleventy dimensional chess, so they'll gently caress up doing something stupid that doesn't make sense. And if they don't gently caress up, he just eats the pieces. And if they complain, he punches them in the face as the crowd cheers. And that's kind of the environment the DOJ faces. Smith appears to have taken a "gently caress it, let's just make the best case(s) that we can and shut up otherwise" stance. Donnie's going to complain and call you a communist hitler in front of two minute hate rallies one way or another, so might as well follow the book. Donnie will end up burning half the book and eating the other half, but at least you'll probably be out of punching range. facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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A.o.D. posted:Criminal charges have the "one shot, one kill" rule,l. If you gently caress up, you don't get to try again, so they need to get all of their ducks in a row before going to court. For something as big as this, I understand that you want someone to "DO SOMETHING!!!!" but that's not the right way to proceed unless you personally plan on taking direct action. This is how justice goes when you want to take down the biggest fish in such a way that they can't wriggle free. but if that fish gets elected president and pardons himself before you can convict 
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Oh look RFK Jr's Super PAC has direct ties to GOP whackos https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...2WjoQlzUx3Ot_XA quote:There’s nothing abnormal about a candidate getting a Super PAC, even a candidate making a long-shot bid like Kennedy’s. What is abnormal, however, is that Kennedy is running as a Democrat in the Democratic primary, while the creators of the Super PAC have a deeply pro-Donald Trump bent — including ties to arch-MAGA officials such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos, and Herschel Walker.
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CommieGIR posted:Oh look RFK Jr's Super PAC has direct ties to GOP whackos I’m glad you posted this but it’s also the least surprising news ever
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That Works posted:I’m glad you posted this but it’s also the least surprising news ever I know, right?
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That Works posted:I’m glad you posted this but it’s also the least surprising news ever Really a shame that this is too long for a thread title because this is basically every CE thread since early 2020.
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Started seeing ads on nytimes homepage for that no labels nonsense. Wonder if it’s gonna be a negotiation ploy by Manchin to have Biden allow for West Virginia voters to ground up and crushed into gravel for pipelines, like how George Wallace used to get concessions from the GOP by threatening to run third party to take away the Deep South. (Strom Thurmond wanting to keep that as a pro-segregation strategy meant a plan to do away with the electoral college narrowly failed.)
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More shocking news https://twitter.com/jake_hanrahan/status/1685103790968500225
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entrenched people with power fail to accomplish anything useful while constantly allocating themselves more resources and further entrenching themselves and their power? well i never.quote:“When it comes to fighting crime, we know what works: officers on the street who know the neighborhood,” Biden said.
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Police do their real job with nearly perfect effectiveness
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Milo and POTUS posted:Police do their real job with nearly perfect effectiveness Harass minorities? 100%. The majority of police work is pretextual traffic stops which are almost exclusively targeted at minorities. Cities are giving 1/3-1/2 of their entire budgets to minority harassment squads.
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