What Is the Third Term Project? Pro-Trump Group Bids to Change Constitution
t3rmit3 @ t3rmit3 @beehaw.org Posts 38Comments 1,991Joined 2 yr. ago
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MLK never stops being relevant and right to a 'T'.
You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Gov. Hochul is the only route I can viably see to Adams being removed, and I hope she is brave enough to take that step.
Apologies, I do not mean to be discouraging anyone from actions that they can take. Whatever people in and around NY/ NYC can do on a practical level to facilitate his removal, I am all for.
We have ample reason to be discouraged, but I’m not sure targeting the only block of voters and potential activists who might actually both give a shit and be educated enough to get something to budge in order to inflict depression is a good strategy.
To be frank, I don't think that Beehaw is or can safely be a space for organizing activists, and I don't think it has the reach to be having any kind of external impact. Apart from it being at a very high level a space for left-oriented folks to talk, I think Beehaw is different things to different people, and that may or may not include being an impetus to real-world action. For me, it's definitely a space to escape from the stress of being surrounded by conservatives in my day-to-day, and sometimes that escape may end up being more venting than rallying. I have probably been more negative recently than I could be, but I don't think it's useful or healthy to simply pretend at, or certainly enforce, positivity.
I have been pretty disheartened and negative recently, and I will work to not project that here because I don't want to and never intended to be pushing my own stress onto others (yourself included), and seeing as I clearly have, I apologize.
the kind of things we’re signalling to the rest of the left... may be actively making the situation worse.
Not to make light of the situation, but I can't tell if you or I think things are more dire. :P
The history of openly and notoriously corrupt mayors remaining in office in NYC makes me highly dubious that Adams will be removed.
They know exactly how to manipulate him. Trump is demanding ownership of Ukranian ports now, as well as natural resources, in exchange for aid we already gave them. He's going to sell Ukraine down the river out of spite, and try to get rich doing it.
Man, I return my cart religiously, but I loathe that guy. Talk about self-appointed cop mentality.
He's not changing anyone's mind or behavior, he's not actually making anyone's job easier (I know, I used to corral carts at Safeway), he's just decided to "annoy the annoying", and thinks it makes him anything but also annoying. Not to mention he's not doing this as some kind of unseen act of moral fulfillment, he's literally doing it to make money. Karens are bad, whether you think they're pestering the right person or not.
He's not even a narc, because narcs report to someone with authority. He's just taking it on himself.
/rant
This is just him manufacturing a dip for his friends to buy in on, and to pressure the bosses for bribes.
Yes, but the architectures they are dropping are older 32-bit ones. That's why I said support is "dying", not "dead".
The changelog itself notes that this is about 32-bit support:
Debian's support for 32-bit PC (known as the Debian architecture i386) now no longer covers any i586 processor.
Understandable, but still kind of sad to see support for 32-bit dying. Mostly because it makes me feel old. :P
haha, that would honestly be hilarious for a whole slew of personal reasons.
Honestly, FedRAMP's not a bad idea, it's just badly implemented. The JAB route is basically pie-in-the-sky unobtainable without a congressperson pulling strings for you or previous multi-agency contracts, and lots of agency sponsorships are basically just doing the pre-FR dance anyways.
Absolutely unhinged. You can tell from the writing alone that this was one of Musk's college-age flunkies. This is tinpot dictator stuff.
And man, as an IT security person with FedRAMP experience, seeing a ".gov" site running a wordpress server with a bunch of default plugins enabled, with a Let'sEncrypt cert, with no advisory banners or anything, is infuriating all on its own.
Been playing Avowed, and enjoying it a lot. It's a really good AA rpg in the POE universe, and the worldspace is probably the prettiest I've seen in the past couple years. I think the last time a game really 'wow'ed me with visuals, to the point that sometimes I just stopped to appreciate the view, was TW3.
Also played some Avorion, which scraches my Eve Online itch without having to actually play that, and Mabinogi (Frieren crossover event), which was the first game my partner and I played together 15 years ago. It's gotten so many QoL updates in that time that there's almost no 'grind' anymore, and it's so much more laid back than other MMOs, and has so much content.
Plus, Trump likes the dictator club. He’d rather he, Putin, and Xi spent those dollars on presidential yaughts and focused on locking up dissidents than having an arms race among buddies.
This is my read too.
The part about not wanting this to become Reddit is more about content and site ethos, not size.
And sure, there are some ex-redditors whose views may not be welcome here, but there's no need to put disclaimers in every comment.
I expect a solid 8/10 game, given The Outer Worlds and POE. Looking forward to the exploration more than anything.
It's not small. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is 95/215 House Democrats. It's half the damn party.
If they left, the Democratic Party would collapse, so it's insane how senior Dem leaders treat them. Democratic leadership sucks at coalitions, though, or even listening to voter sentiment, so I don't expect them to learn anything from all their recent anti-progressive actions that have been blowing up in their faces.
Its not "hijacking" to push for policies in their own party.
There aren't really options to catch microdebris. It's best to safely deorbit satellites before they die, so they won't break up and become debris later on.
There are thousands of debris pieces being tracked, but there are many thousands more that are too small to track, and we just have to hope that they're not too far off the original craft's orbit or debris cloud. Even just one single bolt moving at orbital speeds, e.g. 20,000 miles per hour, will mess up your day if it hits your rocket, and you won't ever find it until it's too late.
I am skeptical this is about Trump or 3rd terms at all, apart from creating the veneer of legality their base uses to continue their calculated disregard for the harm they are doing. They know that an Amendment is impossible to pass via congress in this climate, so I wonder if this is just a vehicle to re-interpret the requirements for a ConCon (Article V Constitutional Convention) amendment.
For a little background, Article V of the Constitution stipulates that Amendments can only be passed by 2 methods:
This has been attempted not infrequently, but has never successfully happened. All 27 Amendments have been passed through Congress, and a ConCon has never been called since the first one (when the Constitution was initially ratified). It's a particularly fancied route by Conservatives, because 1) Red state legislatures tend to be more 'radical' conservatives then their respective congresspersons, and 2) there are no fixed limits on what can happen in a ConCon: you could call one for any stated purpose, and then just decide to propose whatever the hell you want when you're there.
Article V is also very short, being one single sentence. This is the entirety of the text:
Given our current SCOTUS and Trump and his ilk, I would be worried that they will try to "re-interpret"
to mean 3/4 of the states present at the ConCon. In a scenario where 34 states (2/3) hold one and exclude others from taking part, this could lower the number of states required to ratify a new Amendment from 38 to 26, putting Amendments squarely within reach of Trump's 2024 bloc of 27 states. At that point, they could literally "amend" in anything and everything.