It actually is peeling off the Q-Anon crowd... and they're the ones who are most likely to rid him of turbulent priests.

That's a big part of his leverage... so both are important to keep in people's
minds.

Donald let his lackeys axe a ton of ATC Jobs for no stated reason except "Increasing Efficiency", and then started fucking with the benefits package.

For most people, the job isn't worth the gray hairs with those features. Without them... what idiot will take it?

Speaking as someone who considered going into ATC, and decided not to due to it largely being a sea of absolute shit, there were two good things about that job.

The first was the stability. As long as you didn't fuck up, it's a job until your mandatory retirement.

The second was the benefits.

"Metroid" is the Chozo Word for "Ultimate Hunter."

They created the Metroid Species to destroy the X-Parasites... but the word also fits Samus as the greatest Bounty Hunter ever.

More importantly... the US won't enforce judgements to those excluded elements of the Berne Convention. 3/3

Our most recent Berne Convention Implementation Act explicitly *doesn't* implement Moral Rights.

We only recognize them in the narrow field of Visual Arts... and then only in very narrow circumstances.

The only two we recognize in that case are the Rights of Attribution and Anonymity. 2/3

Yeah... might want to read your own source.

Those Moral Rights are mostly recognized in Civil Law Jurisdictions. The US (where most of the AI Boom Companies are located) explicitly *doesnt* recognize Moral Rights to work. 1/3

This will result in the Republicans wanting to take away this "Dangerous Weapon" the Democrats are using... and then we throw our support behind a Constitutional Amendment to end it.

They intend to enforce a permanent Majority on procedural grounds... but it's easy to eliminate.

We just have to pick up the same tool, and show them WHY it is wrong. We have to gerrymander the Blue States into a majority, and lock down the House of Representatives.

The Republican Party intends to take full advantage of Gerrymandering because the fact that we *don't* gives them an advantage.

They get the proper number of Representatives from Blue States, the Gerrymandered over-representation from Red States, and a Structural Advantage in the Senate.

Your ideals are cool and admirable, and should be enshrined in law.

THEY AREN'T, and acting like they are will hand the house to the Republicans.

The only solution I can see if "Pick up the same weapon, use it to destroy Republican Power, and then ban its use when you have the power to do so."

So what's your solution to the Republicans giving themselves a permanent House Majority through Gerrymandering?

I did.

I just said that it's probably legal to do it on stuff that's in Public Domain.

Yes... they've managed to make a machine that's wrong a little over 60% of the time, and present things in a compelling way that makes it sound right.

Very impressive.

Legally, probably not.

What they're doing is basically what IP Law was designed to prevent: Having your work taken from your hands and used to create its direct competitors during the period of exclusivity.

I don't like how LONG that period of exclusivity is... but it exists for this reason.

@transtextual.bsky.social, been a couple of days. You enjoy looking up Warframe?

Yeah... was about to commission something today. Unfortunately, my Exalted Game got killed... so... don't really need the art anymore.

Keeping you on the list if I ever get to be a player again.

You got me that way.

Then they got blindsided with: "That's THE EVERGLADES. It's protected by the Wetlands Act."

So now their planned defense against Human Rights violations has flipped to being DOOMED on other grounds.

Yeah, that's the impression they wanted to give... mostly as cover for how shit their pop-up-tent prison was put together.

I think they were just planning to go: "Those are temporary and we're trying to get in compliance" to buy a few stays if someone brought a Human Rights claim.

It's INCREDIBLY rare for a case with a Preliminary to not end with a Permanent Injunction.

However... Preliminary Injunctions are also basically permanent.

By law, they're only given when there's a high likelihood of success on the merits. If a Judge gives you a Preliminary Injunction, it means they view the case as being one-sided in your favor as a matter of law.

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It's because Preliminary Injunctions cannot be permanent.

They're meant to maintain the Status Quo while a trial is underway, so that irreparable harm (Read as: Money can't fix it on its own) isn't done in the meanwhile.

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They could put floaties on him by ruling that Congress can't delegate Tariff Powers at all.

Just make Constitutional Law say that Tariffs are Congress's exclusive domain. You don't even need to torture the language to do it.

The resulting infusion of cash back into the economy would probably be enough to make the economy bounce back on its own.

It also comes with LITERALLY every company in the US being able to actually plan and make decisions again... which will get money flowing as well.

It occurs to me that SCOTUS could bail Donald out at any point they feel like it.

Just rule that the Court for International Trade got it right, the Tariffs never existed in the first place, and bounce refunds back to every Importer who paid.

Two witches in a window. Pretty gay.

New art? In this economy?

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I'm taking the Alt Text as an IOU.