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  • Share of US Voters who've lied about their vote by generation

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  • Do people not remember how exhausting he was?

  • ‘It Smells Like a Rat’: The Nasty Feud That Could Flip Wisconsin

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  • They’ve sat on their hands while tens of millions are forced to work 2-3 jobs to survive, and even that only covers the bare minimum needed to live in most areas of the country. Most people can’t even think of going to a doctor or obtaining higher education now, because both are cost-prohibitive.

    We both can look out on society and agree that the way things are can and should be better, but I find it funny that you’re ostensibly arguing for progressive policy reform using logic that parallels the logic used by proponents of school choice. Stay with me, and I’ll explain how.

    I think we can both agree that in order for schools to function and be effective, they need some level of financial support to operate. It’s no secret that for decades, financial support for education has been slashed across the board.

    Proponents of school choice typically argue that if public schools will not or cannot perform at satisfactory levels, the students should be able to go to another school, and some level of pro rata funding should follow them to that new school. This effectively punishes schools that have been long-underfunded with financial support, which plays a factor in that under-performing, and then takes away even more financial support.

    Assuming you’re familiar with the procedural aspects of how governing works, you understand that to enact legislation and policies you’re in favor of takes a threshold level of support to accomplish that. Because of gerrymandering, antiquated frameworks for distribution representation, and the the Electoral College, Democrats have hardly been in a position to enact progressive legislation that isn’t obstructed by a president, one of the legislative chambers — or even once it is passed, that isn’t overturned by a Supreme Court detached from precedent and reason.

    In both cases, the support necessary to operate a sufficiently resourced school, or to get a piece of legislation across the finish line, is clearly lacking. The solution to that problem is more support, not less. Schools need more financial support to reach their goals, and Democrats need more support in Congress to pass legislation. The position you’re defending right now is now is effectively expecting schools/Democrats to do more with less.

  • What can we do for friends and loved ones drawn in by reactionary conspiracy theories?

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  • One tip I heard was asking “how” questions as follow-ups, rather than “what” questions? It tends to encourage people to think through how the conspiracies might actually work, rather than just jumping from point A to point B.

  • Beehaw, what is your opinion on right of nature laws, which recognize natural entities as having "personhood" or legal rights comparable to humans?

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  • Look, I’m not going to get into a back-and-forth with you about this because it’s not my area of expertise, but a cursory glance at the Wikipedia article, which was “supplemental reading” for the question of what people thought about the idea, suggests that the underlying legal mechanisms (admittedly, I’m analyzing this from jurisprudence of the United States so terminology and precedents may differ) have to do with granting standing to individuals and communities that otherwise might not have a direct enough connection to assert an injury. Some references, like to the Ponca, suggest that the goal is accomplished by enacting new criminal statutes; others by granting private citizens the right to sue those that harm nature.

    The legal mechanisms are not rooted in granting “personhood,” but rather providing means of protecting nature, which is a completely different legal approach. Nevertheless, the “personhood” approach was an interesting one, and because this is Beehaw, I thought entering the conversation could be productive and thought-provoking exercise.

    Again, I’m not going to spend anymore time researching source materials, but you have conflated “personhood” with environmental protection laws, which I was not addressing, and you have come off as rather condescending. If we had been talking about conventional environmental protection laws, I would have agreed with you that the law doesn’t associate legal liabilities with nature, but instead, you hijacked the conversation and changed the discussion. You suggested that the statement I made before you changed it was addressed to your new conversation, and suddenly what I said was “absurd.”

    If we are actually talking about the premise of legal personhood rather than just ways to protect the environment, then the parallels to considering that a concept, like a corporation, could have legal rights and liabilities associated with agency are actually really analogous, and in the litigious society we live in, would become a matter for a court to decide.

  • Beehaw, what is your opinion on right of nature laws, which recognize natural entities as having "personhood" or legal rights comparable to humans?

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  • Woah, you’re coming in a little bit hot, there. The post asked for community thoughts on granting “personhood” to natural entities, and that’s all I did.

    Also, the parallel I was making wasn’t to say that natural disasters would gain personhood, but rather natural disasters could be considered tortious conduct by a natural entity, which this post contemplated as gaining personhood. The point I was making was simply to suggest there are some thought exercises about tort law that are worth considering before moving forward. It isn’t absurd to suggest the possible parallels between a legal entity (I.e., corporation) being proximally related to tortious conduct and a natural entity, like a mountain, being between proximally related to what might be considered tortious conduct (e.g., a mudslide) under the proposed legal regime.

  • Beehaw, what is your opinion on right of nature laws, which recognize natural entities as having "personhood" or legal rights comparable to humans?

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  • I admit this analysis is off the cuff.

    I think it could be helpful as a form of defense and protecting nature, but there’s the other side to the coin, which is, how do you then “hold nature accountable” for its “actions?” By that I mean natural disasters. For instance, if a mudslide occurs, how do you hold that mountain accountable? Do the victims of the mudslide then have the right to seek damages from that mountain? Could compensation come in the form of granting the victims the right to cut down all the trees on the other side of the mountain so that the timber can be harvested to compensate the victims for that natural disaster?

    I think granting personhood is going to create issues from a legal standpoint and coming up with consistent precedents around agency and action. I’m not sure that this avenue of approach necessarily solves the problem at hand, which seems to be that we’re trying to prevent human beings from destroying the Earth. In that sense, it seems like the most effective and more direct response is to restrict the actions of humans rather than granting personhood to something else.

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    EXCLUSIVE: Apology letters surface in Fulton Trump case

    www.ajc.com /politics/exclusive-apology-letters-surface-in-fulton-trump-case/O6YKFRXE6JAS7FX724K36FGZQE/

  • The contradiction of environmentally sustainable supercar manufacturing

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  • As well-intended as this article might have ascribed, it felt like it was all over the place.

  • Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices

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  • I have a counter-point that I’d like to hear your thoughts on: at least to some degree, it seems like part of the housing crisis is caused by private equity firms not being restricted from buying up property, artificially reducing the supply of housing that can be purchased by then renting it out, which artificially increases the cost of housing and making it less accessible. More of the population then has less wealth, while smaller portions of the population end up with more wealth, again making homeownership farther out of reach.

  • Lubbock County becomes latest to approve “abortion travel ban” while Amarillo City Council balks

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  • This is a facially stupid law. (And by “facially stupid,” I’m not even addressing the morally bankrupt policy implications, but rather critiquing the framework that is wholly untethered from how the law and a system of justice works.)

  • Rishi Sunak saying ‘a man is a man and a woman is a woman’ branded ‘sickening’ and ‘ridiculous’

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  • That’s why they’re choosing to pick on them.

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    Virginia election officials acknowledge voters mistakenly removed from rolls

    www.vpm.org /news/2023-10-03/voter-removal-virginia-process-change-vsp-elect
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    Sen. Dianne Feinstein dies at 90

    www.nytimes.com /2023/09/29/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-dead-senate.html

  • Kevin McCarthy Will Devastate Poor Americans in Order to Win Over the Far-Right

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  • … the cruelty is the point.

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    2024 polls: Trump leads Biden by 10 points in general election poll

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  • Look, this is politics and all, but blatant false equivalencies in a world of disinformation is dangerous, unenlightening, and unproductive. I’ll leave it for now, but try to be more thoughtful in the future.

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    Louisiana police accused of ‘unconscionable’ abuse in ‘Brave Cave’

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2023/sep/23/louisiana-police-brave-cave-baton-rouge-warehouse-torture

  • Russia dismisses Ukraine peace plan: ‘Let’s decide it on the battlefield’

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  • This sounds a lot like Hitler in the late 1930s (in the lead-up to World War 2).

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    North Carolina House approves election board takeover ahead of 2024

    www.nhregister.com /news/politics/article/north-carolina-house-approves-election-board-18376813.php

  • Whole Foods argues it can ban BLM masks because the Supreme Court let a Christian business owner refuse same-sex couples

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  • It’s not about refusing to adopt a “race ideology” that suggests racism; it’s the refusal to acknowledge statistical evidence, the refusal to investigate the law and history of this country, the refusal to recognize cause and effect, and the refusal to appreciate that some times, empathy simply is not possible. It’s the refusal to recognize that history has an impact on the present, and to make the future better than the present, we must make the present better than the past. What suggests racism is being presented with all of that information, and take a stand against making things better.

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    Georgia grand jury recommended charges against 3 US senators who are allies to Donald Trump

    www.usatoday.com /story/news/politics/2023/09/08/georgia-grand-jury-recommended-charges-lindsey-graham-david-perdue-kelly-loeffler-cleta-mitchell/70793991007/
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    Two ex-Proud Boys leaders get some of longest sentences in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

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  • Groups seek to use the Constitution's insurrection clause to block Trump from 2024 ballots

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  • To be fair, “liberal” was in the title when I posted the article, but I, like you, thought that was misleading, so I left it off.

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    Groups seek to use the Constitution's insurrection clause to block Trump from 2024 ballots

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    Issue 1 could be headed for recount in Clark County, where voters rejected it by 1 vote

    www.whio.com /news/local/issue-1-could-be-headed-recount-clark-county-where-voters-rejected-it-by-1-vote/Y55FB3WYLNFBPGGS2H7VWNK6IA/
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    Trump Seeks to Review Classified Evidence at His Own Secure Facility

    www.nytimes.com /2023/08/09/us/politics/trump-classified-evidence.html

  • (August) What are you working on now, DIY?

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  • Thank you! The surfacing part was actually done mostly by hand because if a chicken and egg situation of making the inside components and adding the hinge, without throwing things off balance on the lathe. But after four prototypes, I definitely learned a lot!

  • (August) What are you working on now, DIY?

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  • Thank you!

  • (August) What are you working on now, DIY?

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  • I turned a ring “box” on a lathe and my fiancée said “yes!”

  • Judge rules Trump false election claims while in office covered by presidential immunity

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  • Depending on the timeline, it isn’t unreasonable to expect an amended complaint based on allegations in the indictment that was released by Jack Smith yesterday.

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    Biden Overhauls Military Justice Code, Seeking to Curb Sexual Assault

    www.nytimes.com /2023/07/28/us/politics/biden-military-sexual-assault.html
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    House Republicans line up behind McCarthy on the Biden impeachment seesaw

    www.politico.com /news/2023/07/26/impeachment-politics-biden-mccarthy-garland-mayorkas-gop-00108235
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    PragerU Says Florida Teachers Approved to Use Its Class ‘Curriculum’

    www.thedailybeast.com /right-wing-prageru-says-florida-is-first-state-to-permit-its-curriculum-in-schools
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    Michigan attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/2020-election/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-efforts-overturn-2020-rcna94838
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    Trump posted what he said was Obama's address, prosecutors say. An armed man was soon arrested there

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    Swing state Republicans bleed donors and cash over Trump's false election claims — Reuters

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    A Delaware city is set to give corporations the right to vote in elections

    www.cbsnews.com /news/seaford-delaware-corporate-voting-llc-trust-elections/