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Texas Border Update
The situation I laid out in last week's culture war thread is developing(https://www.themotte.org/post/824/culture-war-roundup-for-the-week/178887?context=8#context). Apologize for two top level posts in three days on the same topic, but it's a developing situation and there'll probably be a transnational thursday thread post on it as well(is it the right topic for that? Dunno but I think this is going to need regular updating).
First, rep Henry Cuellar has accused the Texas National Guard in their takeover of Shelby park of causing the deaths of three migrants. It's perhaps worth noting that Henry Cuellar is a firm blue dogger who is conventionally considered the most conservative house democrat; he doesn't support open borders.
Greg Abbott has already responded. Here is the statement from the Texas military department.
Now I have about the same attitude towards "we shouldn't have a border because then people might die trying to cross it" as our resident white nationalists do- and will also point out that there were migrant drowning deaths before the Texas military started putting up razor wire, and that hypothermia is just what happens when you try to swim across the Rio Grande in January during a cold front. But, this was clearly 100% illegal under the injunction against CBP cutting border wire, which specifically allowed CBP to dismantle state border barriers in the event of a medical emergency(which was definitely happening). The refusal to remand migrants into federal custody is also new and I think like 110% illegal.
The federal government has sent this letter. Especially relevant is this paragraph
So Texas is directly nullifying federal law and the federal government has given until EOD Wednesday to stop. My sympathies reside with the state here, but "where does it all end" is what more or less dominates my emotions- Greg Abbott is, as I said in the comments on my previous post, not someone who does things without thinking them through and he is well qualified in constitutional law. He knew this was going to happen and he has plans for what to do about it. Something tells me that plan is not "let federal officials serve a warrant", and I doubt the CBP is willing to use arms to do so- if their union's endorsement of Greg Abbott's initial actions tells me anything it's that they'll refuse orders to potentially shoot at operation lonestar or state personnel- so is the plan to put the federal government between a rock and a hard place to erode their power? If there is a state which benefits from eroding the power of the federal government it'd be Texas, but Abbott numquam iacuit aleam et habuit fidem before.
Nice! Note that it’s iecit rather than iacuit, and I feel like Latin wouldn’t do two coordinate clauses joined with a conjunction. Maybe a participle phrase, eg Abbotus numquam fideliter credens aleam iecit.
It’s rare in Latin, but I was going for the calque; I think ‘custodente Fidem numquam aleam iecit’ would be the proper classical phrasing stylistically.
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I read "habuit fidem" more as keeping faith (as in, acting trustworthily (or so, that's not quite right)) than as believing.
Not sure what the best way to put that in Latin is, but I don't think fideliter credens works, if I'm right in interpreting it that way.
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My life was much happier before I learned that Veni, Vidi, Vici could (as speculated for ancient Latin) or does (for Church Latin) sounds more like Wini, Widi, Wicky.
Just diminishes the gravitas of the whole thing doesn't it?
I'm sure many a Romaboo/Grecophile is in denial that their tasteful grey or white sculptures just had the garish paint peel off.
Imo they weren't actually garish but the people doing the reconstructions (basically just guesses based on very little physical evidence) knew they'd get more attention and iconoclast street cred by making them look awful.
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In Ecclesiastical Latin, it sounds the same as it does in English (edit:or rather, I suppose I should say that the common pronunciation of that phrase among English speakers is the modern ecclesiastical Latin one). I agree that the original pronunciation is a severe let-down.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet …
Vici is related to victory. And the hard c=k is manly.
c===3 is manlier.
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