“we will kill” is that very Christian?

I think you’re right. But I’ve always also believed there are others that get rich that aren’t that way. Like maybe they are full of talent and energy and luck and wealth just happens to them; they’re not cunning and predatory. I don’t know how the pie chart would break it down.

When I was in school years ago and renting, the only times I didn’t get my security deposit back (2 out of 6 landlords) was with the 2 wealthy ones - they each drove Mercedes, had been corporate officers and had enormous homes. It’s just the way some rich people are.

The Judiciary has reversed itself before, … could our recent experience with ballrooms, crypto, etc. be brought to them as n some way to revisit Citizens?…. i.e. constitution is not a suicide pact.

But please do have more children as our population is declining and we need consumers and soldiers

Small things too - the price of Halloween candy at the grocery store comes to mind.

Maybe that Kant thought the social contract arose from reasoning is a source of difficulty. He probably wasn’t thinking motivated reasoning.

@jamellebouie.net nailed it when he recently wrote in the NYT of Trump : “far from being the avatar of some imagined authentic American, Trump is just a politician”

Notwithstanding the constitution and laws, I have confidence that the Robert’s court can delay their ruling for months and then, eventually, say it is for congress to act. That said, I truly don’t get how justices that lamented a lack of civics understanding act this way.

If we had a more functional judiciary, this one-person setting taxes for all on a whim would have been solved months ago. So confusing! does a post constitutional U.S. even have a judiciary?

Not sure what he’d be, but it wouldn’t be president of the United States, just literally speaking.

So that your papers will be in order.

In some future will an angry mob back up pumper trucks, fill it up with sewage, and then use back hoes to crunch it all up and put it in dumpsters? Or will it be preserved as a museum to corruption? Impossible to know its fate other than it can’t last forever.

Why can’t the U.S. just fly a small drone to the boat, get a close up view, talk over a loud speaker and get them to stop for inspection? Do we not have any small drone capability?

It was more urgent for scotus to deep dive conversion therapy than to speedily take up whether a president can proclaim tariffs absent congressional approval. Conversion therapy was obviously a more “major question” for them. They’ve been looking small, political, petty.

Now an ex-R, I felt this “it’s just about power” in 2004 when after years and years of “fiscal responsibility “ and “national debt on future generations “ I saw Rs cut taxes and raise spending. It was just talking point B.S. to get ahead in elections. So after 28 years as an R I left.

I guess the new, high physical fitness standards will help troops outrun drones. Good plan and focus?

re PITA, I read somewhere that native people used to pound the nuts and boil them in pots of water and skim off the yummy floating stuff on top.

It’s more than just lawerly vs. engineering, it’s also for awhile been “marketing “ vs. “making.” As more and more U.S. citizens made their livelihoods selling, these citizens also joined corporate boards, town councils, school boards. And eventually selling completely took over our politics.

“might not have been legal”. This terminology is so widely used, even when something is illegal. Maybe substitute “violated U.S. laws of war, laws of the high sea,…”. Treaties ratified are U.S. law.

I’ve always wondered if in Rucho vs Common Cause, SCOTUS members had had programming experience, had used Monte Carlo methods, if they would have seen how simple the solutions were. For them it was inscrutable. They could sincerely try to be humble, lifelong learners and revisit. Pls.

As free exercise is ascendant in U.S. jurisprudence, a person could reasonably refuse to bake a cake for anti-lgtbq and anti-immigrant citizens as Jesus stated there were 2 most important commandments, one of which was “love thy neighbor” ?

Totally agree! Golfing while destroying the world holidays are too numerous.

And the pets being eaten

Maybe time to put identify friend or foe tags on law enforcement.

So would this from B. Franklin

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remember all that time ago when he called the cave rescue diver hero a “pedo guy?”. wtf

Good discussion. One kind of singularity though is when individuals don’t believe that courts and law firms are effective and independent. In that world, a citizens interaction with law enforcement becomes entirely different…potentially every where all at once. Chilling

“double secret probation “. Anyway, my favorite example still is when FBI had to overfly DOE sites to establish that DOE was illegally handling waste, and telling its contractors the activities were classified. Old trick still works.

he likes orange?