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BigNote,

They probably passed the Lemmy Bar exam.

BigNote,

Not true at all. There’s nothing in your comment indicating even the most basic knowledge of the law.

BigNote,

Right. There’s nothing difficult about your idea and I definitely get it.

My point is only that it has no basis whatsoever in the reality of US jurisprudence.

It’s nice that you have these ideas, just know that they are completely irrelevant in a legal context.

BigNote,

It was meant to preclude those who had served in the confederate army and government from holding elected federal office, so in practice, at the time at least, a prior conviction for insurrection was not required. That said, it’s not clear how it would apply to Trump.

BigNote,

The Cold war called and wants its meme back.

I’m not saying they wouldn’t happily get back into the business of helping to undermine and overthrow democratically elected regimes if they thought they had a good reason, just that they haven’t really done so since the end of the cold war.

Zelensky dismisses compromise with Putin, pointing to Prigozhin’s death (www.cnn.com)

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader whose plane crashed weeks after he led a mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership – shows what happens when people make deals with Russian leader Vladimir Putin....

BigNote,

No, you shouldn’t do it because it’s stupid. If you had real arguments you would use them, but you don’t, so instead you trot out this garbage. It’s a sign of intellectual weakness and dishonesty.

BigNote,

This doesn’t mean what you seem to think it means. It’s not the case that Russia is somehow holding back and has huge additional reserves and resources that it can throw at the conflict. The Russian military isn’t about to collapse or anything, but it’s not doing great either and has largely been exposed as far weaker than was previously supposed.

BigNote,

Conversely, if you actually are an expert on a specific subject, reading any comment thread about it is very disheartening and will leave you wondering how much bullshit you’ve accidentally ingested and taken at face value from other threads about which you are less knowledgeable.

BigNote,

You’ve made a pretty pathetic case for yourself. To me it looks like you are the one who feels threatened and insecure. I guess it’s hard to know how you look to the rest of us.

BigNote,

It’s really quite simple; all of the wealth has gone to executives and shareholders.

Regular working people have been fucked.

BigNote,

The point is that unlike with SCOTUS vacancies, there’s zero chance that Newsome appoints someone with radically different politics from Pelosi, so the analogy kind of sucks regardless of what you think of him.

BigNote,

This doesn’t seem like a bad faith question at all.

BigNote,

Doubt it. The smart money says that he did it because he does a ton of business with the Chinese and is very nervous about being seen to actively take sides in a way that would cause them to see him as a potential security threat.

BigNote,

You would have a point were I simply speculating, but I’m not.

I am simply stating what the most well-informed and knowledgeable sources are saying.

You would know this if you had sanitized and healthy media consumption habits, but you obviously don’t.

BigNote,

It’s not. His actions can be deplorable without actually being illegal. The Lemmy Bar Association is about as legally competent as my cat.

Huckabee: 2024 will be last election ‘decided by ballots rather than bullets’ if Trump loses over legal cases (thehill.com)

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ® on Wednesday said 2024 will be the last election “decided by ballots rather than bullets” if former President Trump doesn’t win the presidential race because of his various legal battles....

BigNote,

The senior officer corps of the US military despises Trump, for obvious reasons.

BigNote,

‘The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.’

-Bertrand Russell

It’s Russell’s corollary to the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

BigNote,

It’s not irrelevant at all. To the contrary it speaks directly to his moral character.

BigNote,

Really? I had no idea. It turns out I make a lot more money than I thought.

BigNote,

It’s not rational. Evolution has hardwired us and every other organism that has the necessary neural architecture to fear death and seek to avoid it. A species that didn’t have an instinctive and heritable aversion to death would not last very long.

BigNote,

Describe your “aversion” to death any way you want to, if in the end it results in something that very much looks like fear, I think you’re making a distinction without a difference.

BigNote,

I don’t think I follow your arguments. Is there a way you can rephrase your point such that a dummy like myself might understand it?

BigNote,

I’m not talking about anyone being justified; I am talking about realpolitik and the fact that in international relations it’s often the case that what ought to be is often in direct conflict with what actually is.

It would be awesome if we could live in a world of absolutes wherein national interests never conflicted with moral ambiguity, but that’s just not reality at all, sorry to inform.

BigNote,

All languages are internally inconsistent and tend to fracture syntax and meaning over time and across space. This is not unique to English and in fact is an inherent concomitant with grammatical and linguistic recursion.

Were this not the case, we’d all be speaking some kind of universal “proto-language” that arose out of our origins as a species in east Africa.

BigNote,

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