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[–] arensb@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You assume that the originalists on the court care what the framers of the amendment thought, when it goes against the decision they want to render.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

And yet, somehow this article does nothing to dispel my opinion that a lot of people like Trump because he says the fascist part out loud.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unless I'm mistaken, a regent is someone appointed to rule temporarily, e.g., if the rightful king or queen is still a child, a regent can be appointed to rule until they grow up.

Maybe a non-binary ruler can be "Emperox"?

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I believe that's the tl;dr summary of the article in the OP.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

From the article, I get the impression that the number in the headline is a severe undercount, because a lot of people in charge of running anti-domestic-terrorism programs in the military don't see the value in them, so they either don't see the problem in their ranks, or turn a blind eye to it.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"When somebody tells you who they are, believe them."

No. Donald Trump told us he was a brilliant deal-maker, a stable genius, and a gifted billionaire.

A better idea is to do as Maya Angelou said: when somebody shows you what they are, over and over, believe them.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The nafety for safety.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That's what Republicans do. The platform is what they run on. And the Republican platform is "whatever Lord Trump wants."

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

I’m pretty sure I saw that headline, with X = Obama or Elizabeth Warren or someone. Then it got shot down because… Idunno, they probably would have blown it all on rent and food and car repairs instead of Job Creation.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We're not the kind of authoritarian follower that propaganda machines like Fox work best with. We have our flaws; just not that particular one.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (9 children)

This.

McCarthy did the right thing for once, and came up with a solution to the looming shutdown that managed to pass by getting both Republican and Democratic votes. And he got shitcanned for it.

The message here is that as far as MAGA Republicans are concerned, bipartisanship is a firing offense.

[–] arensb@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Remember that when push came to shove, Democrats kicked Al Franken out of the Senate, while Republicans doubled down in their support for Roy Moore.

 

At some point, I ran across an argument along the lines of: "We hunger, and food exists. We thirst, and water exists. We feel horny, and sex is real. We yearn for God, and so I conclude that God exists."

Now, I can easily pick this apart a bunch of different ways, the easiest one being that just because you want some to exist doesn't mean that it really exists. But what I'm really hoping for is a couple of counterexamples: something like "Yes, well, we all want a unicorn, too, but unicorns don't exist."

This particular one doesn't work because wanting a unicorn isn't a universal desire the way food or sex are (even counting asexual people, we can still say that the vast majority of people want sex). But maybe some of you can think of something.

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