TheSanSabaSongbird

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[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's a right because it was deemed necessary to the security of a free state. But the individual right to bear arms was meant to be as part of a "well-regulated" militia, not simply as "everyone can have whatever weapon they want."

Even our current very loose and I would argue inaccurate interpretation of the 2nd does not contemplate the idea that private citizens should be allowed to own tanks or heavy machine guns or SAMs without a ton of oversight.

And of course none of this touches on the elephant in the room which is the rather obvious fact that if we take originalism seriously, then we have to concede that Madison's conception of the 2nd as being "necessary to the security of a free state," no longer applies since he was specifically concerned with large-scale civil insurrections such as Shay's Rebellion or slave uprisings, and we know very well that militias can play no role in putting down such incidents in a modern context, and to the contrary, generally only serve to exacerbate tensions and escalate violence.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Except that there are other restrictions and as has already been pointed out, you still can't own any weapon you want. This fact is something you should be admitting and grappling with. You can't simply ignore it, as you seem to want to do. It may be that there's an intellectually coherent way around it, but if so I have yet to see you or anyone else, let alone the SCOTUS, lay it out.

This intellectual inconsistency is, I would argue, a direct result of the fact that all of the decisions you mention above are based on a faulty reading of the 2nd.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 5 points 2 years ago

I don't get it either. WTF?

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 3 points 2 years ago

Also, one idea is that UBI would give people the financial space to pursue their own interests which in turn could easily --at least in some cases-- be turned into productive businesses of their own.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Plenty of talk about Georgia being purple though too.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

Most Israelis are Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 0 points 2 years ago

No, they're not killing civilians deliberately, they just aren't being very careful about it.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Because the chances of Earth being a one-off are vanishingly small given how large we know the universe to be.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

Luckily Desantis is no Trump. I will die before I'm able to wrap my head around what his followers see in him, but for whatever reason he pretty much really can do whatever he wants with zero repercussions. Desantis just doesn't have that.

Again, I will never understand it.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 0 points 2 years ago

This is revisionist tripe. The real reason we were slow to enter the war was that doing so was hugely unpopular among the two largest ethnicities in the US; Irish-Americans and German-Americans, for very obvious reasons. There were other reasons as well, but it's just a fact that Irish-Americans, many of whom would still have a living memory of the famine, were hostile towards the British, and German-speaking Americans, of whom there were millions, entire towns in fact, had no desire to go to war against Germany.

You leave this out because it's not convenient to your narrative.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 2 years ago

Right?

I feel like it's something we might want to run with, like bring back gendered English!

English also used to be much more case-based as well. We still do the same things in modern English, but we don't do it with grammar and instead use syntax which isn't as cool.

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's fair. My mom passed away last year which just means that you're even that much more correct.

That said, I'm in my 50s so both my parents are dead which is pretty regular at my age.

I'm still getting used to not having parents, but at my age it's to be expected and probably easier than it would be were I younger.

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