netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
Almost simultaneously, the DOJ has announced that they will begin prosecuting J6 protesters who did not enter the Capitol building but were present in the demonstration outside. These protesters are expected to be charged with something more than misdemeanors.
Expected by whom?
Let’s make a prediction: out of cases brought against outside demonstrators, I don’t think very many will see felony charges. Perhaps none. The government has already picked its low hanging fruit—you’ve listed plenty of them. If they haven’t already been brought in, why do you think that will change?
As for Ray Epps, I do believe the truth is still an absolute defense against defamation. That makes it very hard for him to win dishonestly. If the suit succeeds, it means the centerpiece of right-wing media couldn’t put together enough evidence to cover their asses. If it fails, perhaps you’re on to something, but at least the plant won’t get a payout for it. I suppose the most likely outcome is a settlement, which could happen either way.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
I think discussing any of these morons’ manifestos is counterproductive and in poor taste.
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Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
Jesus Christ.
I can think of half a dozen reasons it’s not particularly funny. Starting with demographics. Perhaps you ought to take it as evidence that the “diversity” party cares about literally anything else? No, surely not.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Legislate it. Use those red legislatures and Senate committees. Collect evidence about how many votes are harvested, then rub it in during campaign season. Make anyone who hands their ballot over to a collector feel like a rube. Run sting operations and put those collectors in jail when they violate state laws.
My single voting issue is electoral reform. If a candidate makes a pitch for literally anything other than FPTP, they get my vote. The existing mechanism has robbed countless third parties and compromise candidates of representation. But it’s still better than rule by force!
We talk a lot on this board about dangerous precedent. Letting an interest group invalidate an election by storming the legislature is particularly bad. One big step closer to bringing out the guillotines or the gulags. The road to hell is paved by people who insisted they’d break the rules in service of an abstract ideal.
It doesn’t matter who would have won the special election. The cat would be out of the bag, and any sufficiently violent group would have a veto of electoral results.
I didn’t comment on the sentences because I didn’t want to go through sentencing guidelines today. My impression was that they were in line. Maybe other commenters will have better answers.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10mo ago
As someone who
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hasn’t been asked to “participate,”
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doesn’t know anyone in court over gender, let alone castration, and
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has seen no signs of increased gay depravity…
Prove it.
From where I’m standing, the sea change comes from trans activism getting into the Overton window—and from the media realizing what a good wedge it makes. I don’t think gay rights have gotten any more invasive since gay marriage. You’re hearing more about them because the movement has picked up some easier targets.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
the boomers were not white supremacist enough
No way! The Civil Rights movement was correct. It also doesn’t imply either 1. or 2. It is perfectly possible to move to the Midwest and dodge all those dirty minorities. Curiously, this isn’t enough to earn you a nice school and job. It does depress housing prices, because for some reason, Bumblefuck, Kansas isn’t actually that popular.
I don’t think it’s accurate to call Hispanic immigration a product of Boomer anti racism, either. More a corporate/laissez faire policy.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13d ago
That’s not a nullification. I’d say the correct remedy for opposing a law is challenging it in court, and Abbott’s doing that. But since this isn’t a law passed by Congress, it’s hard to fault him for instructing his administration on how to implement their administrative change.
Now, there’s a little problem. The USED already implements other Title IX athletics rules. Seeing as those aren’t being challenged, I assume Congress explicitly delegated the power at some point. Either that, or it was assumed through the ever-popular federal funding mechanism.
So what makes this different? If it were an Executive Order, I’d understand the case for a Constitutional violation. But this is a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.” See here. It sure sounds like business as usual. If so, the federal government has its obvious recourse: cut federal funding. No Constitutional wrangling necessary.
That’d probably be a big win for Texas Republicans. The rule is being spun as “destroying women’s sports” already. Actually reducing any federal funds? Free leverage for Abbott. As much as I resent the guy, he’s set up a decent gambit. Hard to blame him, when Biden’s agencies are being such partisan hardliners—
Taking those considerations into account, the Department expects that, under its proposed regulation, elementary school students would generally be able to participate on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity and that it would be particularly difficult for a school to justify excluding students immediately following elementary school from participating consistent with their gender identity. For older students, especially at the high school and college level, the Department expects that sex-related criteria that limit participation of some transgender students may be permitted, in some cases, when they enable the school to achieve an important educational objective, such as fairness in competition, and meet the proposed regulation's other requirements.
Oh.
Well, no one was going to look at the actual rule, anyway. And if they did, they’d surely see that it’s a trap; no restriction could ever survive the captured, liberal media blitz. And if it did, the deep state would bury it. And if they didn’t, those partisan judges would have to legislate from the bench to stop it. And if they didn’t, well, Biden would obviously send the 101st Airborne to escort a minimally-sympathetic trans woman into your daughter’s locker room. Or worse, do it himself. And you don’t want Sleepy Joe near your daughter, do you?
Far better to make political hay now, before all that unpleasantness can get started.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Notice that I did not say anything about slaves. The “garbage cause” I had in mind was secession first and the social order of the Old South second. There’s a nice letter that sums it up:
The South, in my opinion, has been aggrieved by the acts of the North, as you say. I feel the aggression, and am willing to take every proper step for redress. It is the principle I contend for, not individual or private benefit. As an American citizen, I take great pride in my country, her prosperity and institutions, and would defend any State if her rights were invaded. But I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation. I hope, therefore, that all constitutional means will be exhausted before there is a resort to force. Secession is nothing but revolution. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many guards and securities, if it was intended to be broken by every member of the Confederacy at will. It was intended for "perpetual union", so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a government, not a compact, which can only be dissolved by revolution, or the consent of all the people in convention assembled.
The words of a man with allegiance to, and respect for, a higher federal Union. His personal loyalty to Virginia won out, in the end, but it wasn’t an easy decision.
“War of Northern Aggression” is pure, ahistorical revisionism. It was the South that agitated for dismantling the Union, the South which passed Articles of Secession, and of course the South which fired the first shots.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
7mo ago
Shrug. It’s really easy to find fraud cases where a seller misrepresented the property, but those are usually on a much smaller scale. Plus Trump only took out loans based on his claims; he didn’t actually transfer any property. NY §63(12) prosecutions, on the other hand, are common enough. But they are usually corporate fraud schemes.
I dunno, I want to challenge you to find a real estate SFC which inflated value but didn’t get called out. But I know that’s unreasonable.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8mo ago
Get thee behind me, fedposter.
That strategy is stupid. Giving up on society and becoming an outlaw has to be one of the worst possible outcomes for your life. Dying in a ditch in Idaho buys you nothing. It buys your family nothing. It’s a waste of time and effort, and it’s only by rejecting such masturbatory romanticism that we as a species have ever accomplished anything.
At least if you emigrate, you can pretend to be doing something more productive than taking a giant, steaming shit on the commons.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9mo ago
Why not?
There exists some fraction of the population which experiences gender weirdness. Trans or at least nonconforming. Making a modern-era game where they’re conspicuously absent would be…editorial. Not reflective of the world around us. Like making a medieval game without religion, or a Wild West game without rifles. It’s something that happens, but I can see why one would prefer to be accurate instead.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11mo ago
In 2016, were you asking if Hillary was about to have her own Rubicon moment?
Wow, I’m starting to understand why Fox hosts enjoy bringing her up. Unlimited ammunition.
These are both stupid parallels. Other commenters have covered the reasons why our modern Caesars aren’t war heroes steering armies via a spoils system, so I’ll go for a different tactic. I hereby announce my candidacy for President of the United States. I have the full backing of the Game Theory Party, and I expect no disruptive charges while I am running. Also, I expect one million dollars on my desk by next week.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
I agree that the reordering reflects badly on both the FBI and the prosecution. I agree that it should reduce their credibility, and that we should be skeptical of anything they say, checking it against actual evidence. Fortunately, we have actual evidence reviewed by a third party—the scans which revealed this inconsistency.
The change between those scans (taken in late ‘22) and today does not affect the substance of the case. A change before those scans could, but I haven’t seen anyone with actual skin in the game make that allegation.
Who have you seen propose this “chronological order” defense? Perhaps Trump’s counsel? Because I don’t think they’re disputing the authenticity of the special master scans.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
26d ago
That’s stupid. No, worse—it’s a bailey, an attempt to distance white nationalism from the poor optics of boots meeting necks.
Civic nationalism pretends race-blindness right until it comes time to judge whether someone is capable of meeting this nebulous standard. And what do you know, suddenly it’s time to fall back on population statistics and half-assed sociology. How convenient it is to use skin color as a proxy!
netstack
Texas is freedom land
28d ago
I assumed you were being facetious, and I started to write a response about the elite college mission. But it’s possible you’re dead serious, and have some alternative structure in mind. This is why we have a rule about speaking plainly.
In the interest of not misrepresenting you—do you believe elite colleges spend more or less time teaching people things than they did in the 1950s? And do you think that should actually change?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
No, they’re not. I would bet money that we don’t see anything that could be considered a “pogrom” in the next…five years? Ten? I dunno, make your offer.
That’s not to say there won’t be violence! I just feel like your read on the motives is completely off. You’re acting like dumbass Palestine protestors are about to start lynching people. No! They’re going to keep marching around and getting pepper sprayed. I found one death, probably from getting bludgeoned by a counter-protestor. Is that a pogrom in action?
Or, to take a step back. Would you say Nybbler’s example, the Detroit riots, were a pogrom? What about Floyd/BLM or Ferguson protests? Because if so, I think you’re using too broad a definition. Unrest in the US is about getting something, not driving someone out.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6mo ago
Strauss apparently committed 47 rapes over a period which included Jordan’s entire tenure as assistant coach. After which he was finally ousted in a “closed-door hearing”. Clearly enough people were aware of his tendencies. Why assume that didn’t include his assistant coach?
By analogy, let’s say your resume mentions that you were managing accountants at Arthur Andersen until, say, late 2000. Would an employer be wrong to ask some pointed questions about your knowledge of Enron? To assume that, as someone on speaking terms with various convicted fraudsters, you might have had some involvement?
Now, that doesn’t make any specific accusations credible. I don’t find it reasonable to blame Jordan, and saying “no, I didn’t” should be fine. It would be even less reasonable to try and blame you or me, given that we’re several degrees more distant from any such situation. We are obviously “truly innocent.”
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Texas is freedom land
10mo ago
If you believe that gender is sufficiently innate, then there is no recruitment. There is only whether or not you let them suffer.
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Texas is freedom land
10mo ago
I think the author of this piece is a hack, and that you’ll accept anything for evidence so long as it flatters your worldview.
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Texas is freedom land
3d ago
“Have you stopped beating your wife?”
I’d say the Stormy Daniels prosecution is probably unjust in that it wouldn’t be happening but for Trump’s political status. Low confidence.
The classified documents, on the other hand? Nothing I’ve seen suggests that Trump was innocent, or that a random citizen could get away with doing the same thing. While I was surprised that it escalated to a trial, I don’t think it’s unjust.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
17d ago
I don’t either.
If you expected this, don’t act so sore when it happens.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1mo ago
Israel's motive and tactics for dealing with the Gazans generally, but especially the impending Rafah Aktion, mirror the Revisionist interpretation of the resettlement of Jews in Eastern Europe.
The Revisionists have spent decades trying to make the Holocaust look as tame as possible, emphasizing all the ways that Germany could have been doing it as a perfectly normal resettlement policy. Then when Israel does anything resembling resettlement, what do you know, suddenly that’s super evil and completely unjustified. Oh, how the tables have turned!
Is that really the best you’ve got?
I have only ever noticed Revisionists really talk about Revisionism.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing. You are remarkably consistent.
I’d like to see you elaborate on Biden’s “promotion” of the crisis. I tend to agree with @hydroacetylene that the economic incentives are going to dominate; are the Feds not enforcing that? They’re still detaining and deporting significant numbers.
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