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That rule that says you can't be racist if you think you're not racist.

No. "The Republicans" did not prevent indictments for the coup leaders. Stop talking nonsense. That isn't how criminal indictments work.

They staged a whole goddamn coup on live TV and none of the ringleaders were even indicted.

No. The prosecution of crimes against democracy was both urgent and essential. It should transcend the results of elections or there is no point.

Universal jurisdiction applies to war crimes.

I am not super sold on how great AI is, but I agree that *if it works for you* then $1000/mo/dev isn't that much. (At least in expensive places like Europe & North America.) Tools that make you more productive tend to cost money.

If you want to stop the war, you should be pragmatic by not stopping the war, thus attracting the very nuanced votes of centrists who do not want to stop the war.

It won't work, and you won't get elected or anything by doing this, but on the other hand it won't stop the war either.

YES THIS ABSOLUTELY.

At least when the Supreme Court ruled emoluments were out of their jurisdiction.

Post from Tom Nichols: "A good example of why we need answers about strategy: We're destroying refineries and oil production. If the goal is to immiserate the Iranians..." and there's more but my point is made.

Counterpoint: No we do not need answers about strategy. We need the war to end now, because wars of aggression are wrong. You can't justify a war crime by citing "strategy" no matter how brilliant or clever it may sound.

dammit you made me literally truly actually laff out loud

Clearly, many Dems *are not opposed* to this war.

An obvious tell is when their statements focus on the process of consultation without saying WAR BAD STOP WAR. That's a tacit acknowledgement that they're okay with the war itself.

This is gonna sound great at the war crimes trial.

Oh Bruen is complete bullshit.

If legislatures are constrained by "tradition" then there's no point in having legislatures.

Wrote a whole column claiming that torturing Iraqis was doing them a favor.

Yes it was, because there had just been a failed coup. Democracies that let coups slide *are not democracies.*

Okay, okay, I'll pay for a subscription already. This is really good work.

That is not opposition to the war, that's complaining about the process.

It wild that a cop can be seen doing this EVEN ONCE and not be blacklisted forever.

Not many things in law are as clear and simple as the 14th Amendment Birthright Clause.

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Yes and!

I'm pretty sure we can tinker with process but the underlying problem is clientelism. You get elected by doing favors, not by creating great policies.

I mean just listen to the budget hearings.

"okay so abolish the police then"
"literally nobody says that though"

And the gaslighting over it! Liberals going "well nobody really means literally defund the whole entire police."

Yeah they do. The slogan came from people who do in fact want $0 funding for cops. Police abolitionists do exist.

Liberals turned disagreement into denialism.

TBH I didn't think Obama was golfing that much.

We love to see it.

Cleveland lost SO MUCH good housing because of finance bros and their manipulated derivatives. Not because of immigrants, who are busy fixing things and building new communities around West 65th and other places.

💥 Let's go ahead and undermine the professionalism of the Planning staff by pretending that small-minded local elected officials know more than they do about traffic engineering and traffic calming.

💥 It's petty! We're allocating $2.3B and you want to quibble about flexposts? This is how fools prioritize things.

💥 The way Polensek stared Calley M. down with his demands and went (I swear I am not making this up) "capiche?" like a mob boss. What the hell.

💥 It's inherently clientelistic. If your Council member is personally dictating every detail of your street environment, then YOU as a constituent become accountable to THEM personally. It's a machine-boss move. It gives the Council member a whole extra set of levers and incentives to distribute.

My favorite bit so far is when Polensek went on a whole harangue about lane "delineators" (which I think are the same as "flexposts") in the streets, and demanded individual personal veto power over every such installation in Ward 10.

There are so many things wrong with this:

I'm not a lawyer but ISTM that judges need to sanction a LOT harder and a LOT faster than they have been.