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It's probably better than we could have reasonably hoped for with this court, but a 4/4 split that doesn't create any nationwide precedent to enforce the super unambiguous "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" language in the first amendment is still pretty bad. We dodged a bullet but the gun is still loaded.

Because the Supreme Court divided evenly, its decision is not a binding precedent nationwide and sets the stage for the entire court to reconsider the issue in a future case, perhaps from another state.

Good that people are doing that, but I don't think that excuses Sig. Like, if Nerf sold a gun that discharged accidentally they'd probably eat a product liability lawsuit over it, I don't know why a firearms manufacturer should get a pass.

Oof, geeze, this article was my first exposure to this issue and I hadn't considered this, but between a for profit business lying to avoid product liability lawsuits (which they probably wouldn't face anyway because court decisions have made them basically immune) and police officers lying to avoid being held accountable for their actions (which they probably wouldn't face anyway because etc.) I could believe either scenario. Honestly it's probably both at the same time.

e; Sometimes I start a comment and forget where when I come back to it

Unlike you facebooks twitters telegrams and what have yous, Lemmy World bans users before they commit their terrorist acts

The poor FBI agents assigned to us have to be so bored

They've been winning it for a long time because multiple governments around the world have outlawed dissent in a lot of different ways. This event isn't going to change anybody's opinions on the underlying conflict it's just going to make everyone dig in deeper.

There's a huge difference between an article being mass downvoted by salty users who don't want to face an unpleasant truth and an article being removed by salty moderators who won't let their users even be passingly exposed to that truth. I've experienced that first one on .world but I haven't ever had a problem with the second yet.

If they did and the article was posted to this community it would've been buried by downvotes

I don't think that's quite the whole story when supposedly Muslim governments like Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been doing so much to help the US and Israel recently. Powerful people bully less powerful people and try to use whatever the local religion is to justify themselves after the fact.

Being on the left means people don't have to be just like you for you to care about them

Yeah, age isn't so much the issue when we have decent older people like Bernie Sanders and younger douchebags like Josh Gottheimer running around, the problem is that newly elected Democratic party members have all been told that they need to vote for the people who have been in DC the longest and one day eventually it will be their turn

That would be bad enough on its own, but coupled with the destruction of any kind of campaign finance regulations making it a lot easier for moderate Democratic party members to secretly work work with rich donors and Republicans to make sure progressives don't stay in DC for long, we've ended up with a senior group of Democratic lawmakers who have shitty policies their voters hate and only know how to solve their problems through hippie punching

Replaced with someone over 70? You know the party's Democratic

Another one of the dumbest things - we already paid Boeing to build a new Air Force One from scratch a few years ago, so this Qatari bribe is a totally redundant waste of money

Since when does Israel give children warning shots?

mfw the intelligence is manipulated to prop up an idiot president's plans for violence

I don't think the problem is as bad on all the .world communities, but it certainly is embarrassingly bad on a few of them. I could speculate as to why but I don't know anything for certain, so I'll just try to keep posting things I think people should be reading.

They weren't, they're still being paid as campaign consultants and think tank writers and pundits and etc., totally different realm of people than the non-partisan public servants Trump has been attacking

Things may have changed outside of Congress, but they haven't changed enough inside Congress yet. This is a few weeks old but it's the most recent quote I can find from AOC on this (also, I'm including some stuff before her quote that I think I underscores the problem)

In stepping aside, Connolly has renewed the debate among Democrats of age and experience versus youth and energy in countering President Donald Trump’s agenda. He’s tapped Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., the third-most-senior Democrat on the committee, to serve as the interim ranking member. Younger members like Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Robert Garcia of California have expressed interest in taking over the role — but so has the 70-year-old Lynch.

Tellingly, Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that she wouldn’t be among those seeking the spot now that Connolly will be stepping down. “It’s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary,” she told reporters, saying that she’ll instead “be staying put at Energy and Commerce.”

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/aoc-house-democrats-oversight-committee-connolly-retirement-rcna205195 (arc)

I like the literal meaning of the words, but given the history of Abraham Lincoln's assassin famously saying it and my personal experience with people who regularly use Latin phrases (outside of scientists, almost exclusively a bunch of snobby over educated dumbasses who can quote old dead white guys at length but somehow still aren't sure if we're in a constitutional crisis or not), I'd rather come up with something new that essentially means the same thing

I wish it was self destructive but the people at fault here don't get destroyed at all, they've been happily moving from job to job in DC for thirty years or more while the Democratic party and the country has gotten destroyed

"What about"

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-ronny-jackson-drugs-dementia/