The Daily Bard Digest

At 2024-07-02T19:09:13+00:00 on /r/reddit with a score of 3 points:

IANAL IANYL ATINLA and I'm not Reddit's lawyer. This is just me, griping —

I read the Texas law, TXHB20, when it was proposed and when it was adopted.

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/872/billtext/html/HB00020F.htm

It has a section, Section 8, which I call the Hydra.

Section 8. (a) … it is the intent of the legislature that every provision, section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or word in this Act, and every application of the provisions in this Act, are severable from each other.

(b) If any application of any provision in this Act to any

person, group of persons, or circumstances is found by a court to be

invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining applications of that

provision to all other persons and circumstances shall be severed

and may not be affected. All constitutionally valid applications

of this Act shall be severed from any applications that a court

finds to be invalid, leaving the valid applications in force,

because it is the legislature's intent and priority that the valid

applications be allowed to stand alone.

Etc, etc. it has many other clauses in that section all to the effect of "if a court leaves so much as an atom of this law in place, we intend to use it, now and in the future".

IMO it's the real payload of the bill, and it's a definitive signal that they will not give up on this power grab until it's entirely disallowed.

That's what that section says: They're not throwing in the towel on this. Ever.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Dallas with a score of -5 points:

I run a subreddit about terrorism, helped get a bunch of terrorists kicked off Reddit back in 2020, infiltrated lots of terrorist chatrooms, and there's been three attempts on my life since, by terrorists.

Sure is weird.

At 2024-07-02T19:09:13+00:00 on /r/reddit with a score of 4 points:

I would be glad to know which concurring opinion you had in mind when stating that the signatory/ies has a poor understanding of how Reddit works.

At 2024-07-02T19:09:13+00:00 on /r/reddit with a score of 2 points:

Thanks! I'll pull it to the top of my read stack!

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 3 points:

Fact check:

Moderators are allowed to perform fact check and to referee the debate, if the participants agree to that function of the moderators.

The participants did not agree to have the moderators perform fact checks at the debate.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/conservativeterrorism with a score of yall:

Alllright, that's enough.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 6 points:

Fact Check:

CNN never intended live fact checking by the moderators, and the participants did not ask for nor negotiate having the moderators perform fact checking.

Fact checking a live debate makes it take five times longer, and candidates can choose to rebut the lies of the other, or choose to just say "that was all lies — but let's talk about X now", to manage their own time and presentation.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of yall:

As a reminder: don't even hint at supporting homicide, or you will be permanently banned.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 4 points:

Today's SCOTUS decisions were them saying several times, "we are not a court of trying original questions of fact or law, we are solely a court of review of lower courts", which means that they are now and always will be passing the buck.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/conservativeterrorism with a score of 8 points:

Jesus Ducking Christ on a Pogo Stick

Vade Retro, Satanas

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/WhitePeopleTwitter with a score of 8 points:

Torba (the "worst person") is the owner and operator of Gab, which was in contention to be the successor to the_donald.

Alex Kaplan is a senior researcher at Media Matters.

Overall, it's clear: Twitter is now XChan. Even the worst person in the room recognises it.

We need to start organising to boycott it in every way.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/WhitePeopleTwitter with a score of 6 points:

Even the video of evidence of hate on Twitter is down, now - removed for violating YouTube's terms of service.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Witches with a score of 1 point:

If I commented in your subreddit in a way that explicitly or implicitly communicated to your audience that your community or tradition or culture was false, misleading, insufficient, untrue, etc,

What actions would you take on my account?

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 1 point:

When Sotomayor or Jackson comment here, in a manner consistent with their dissent, they will be excused.

If someone cites their dissent in a factual manner, they will be accomodated.

If someone advocates for the acceleration of partisan violence under the nominal colour of law, they will be banned.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Witches with a score of 1 point:

OK. Thanks.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Frickthealtright with a score of 1 point:

In the future, please report, downmarsey, and block trolls instead of engaging them.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Frickthealtright with a score of 2 points:

Thank you. Yeah, it's like a horrid advent calendar sometimes. "What's behind the next comment? Oh a dead pigeon".

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/conservativeterrorism with a score of 5 points:

This is f&&&&&& genius.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 1 point:

What does "TMD" mean? Surely not "Temporomandibular disorder"

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Dallas with a score of 13 points:

minimum speed

Part of it is that they don't want you to drive slow to avoid the toll charge.

Part of it is that they don't want you to slow to 3 kph & haul out a SAM or RPG and fire it at an aircraft.

If D/FW airport were designed today, there would be an outer tier of parking and transit into and out of the terminals and absolutely no thru traffic for the general public.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Dallas with a score of -4 points:

I run a subreddit about terrorism, helped get a bunch of terrorists kicked off Reddit back in 2020, infiltrated lots of terrorist chatrooms, and there's been three attempts on my life since, by terrorists.

Sure is weird.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/conservativeterrorism with a score of 8 points:

Fact check:

In the decision handed down yesterday, SCOTUS declined to decide what is and is not official and unofficial scopes of Presidential power, observed that lower courts had not addressed that question in general or in the specific case, kicked that question back to the lower courts and provided guidance language on the question.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 2 points:

The SCOTUS decision by Roberts is widely grieved because it sets into sharp relief that there is no legal precedent to distinguish between what is an Impeachable High Crime and Misdemeanour (which the Constitution provides impeachment of the President over) versus Official Acts For Which The President Cannot Be Prosecuted (as composed as a class of acts under this new opinion), and so there is nothing in precedential case law that says that a given assassination order / action or class of assassination actions as ordered by a sitting POTUS is an Impeachable High Crime and Misdemeanour or is an Official Act.

The opinion also appears to make it impossible to take actions to determine which the given act is, as per Justice Roberts, anything touching the scope of official duties can't be introduced as prosecutorial evidence.

So people are saying this ruling gives carte blanche to sitting presidents to assassinate political rivals and dare anyone to jump through the hoops to hold him/her accountable for it.

Whether or not such an assassination would be legal is also an unsettled question.

Edit to add: I believe that the ruling continues to allow the remedy of

POTUS does something awful

Congress impeaches and removes

Person who was POTUS now criminally liable for impeached crimes

But that's one of the big problems —

No one has been successfully impeached in over 100 years; experts call it a "dead letter law", and has been used appropriately only on Nixon and on Trump in our lifetime (neither of which carried through, in Nixon's case because he had a sliver of conscience and in Trump's case because he captured Congress), with all other invocations being political harassment.

Trump promises to be Dictator on Day One.

America either sees the Constitution fall this November or rejects that, electorally.

Which will require an overwhelming electoral turnout by people voting for the Democratic nominee, to overcome electoral vote leverage gerrymandering by the GOP.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/Dallas with a score of 1 point:

Mustang is certainly attractive for that scenario. I would suggest that it's highly likely that it's been accounted for in that case. (Think: traffic lights / traffic control / cameras / surveillance).

SH360 differs from Mustang in that it is a 50 MPH+ highway running from Grapevine or Mansfield with an extensive stretch of uncontrolled and unmonitored approach and egress surface (save for the "toll booths" at the airport), which makes it attractive to the kinds of violent extremists that have a cell of terrorists all deploying to hit targets independently (as they did in 9/11) at the same time. Undetected approach, uncontrolled terrain, choice of deployment / targets, ease of getaway. Or martyrdom in the ensuing firefight and chase.

Big and splashy and multiple targets and of course that would involve completely overhauling on a short time frame how people commute into all US airports, and close a major thoroughfare in the midcities permanently. Win for the terrorists. Billions of $$$$ spent on overhaul.

Taking out a single plane from a hotel room in the ascension path of a runway would be bad, but not the "D/FW airport becomes D/MZ airport" scenario that would ensue from terrorists exploiting SH360.

The metroplex was civil-engineered with the idea that gasoline would forever by be $0.25 a gallon and that redneck good ol boys would run "furriners" out of town by sunset and no one would dare to attack us on our own soil. These were faulty premises.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on /r/conservativeterrorism with a score of 8 points:

Fact check:

In the decision handed down yesterday, SCOTUS declined to decide what is and is not official and unofficial scopes of Presidential power, observed that lower courts had not addressed that question in general or in the specific case, kicked that question back to the lower courts and provided guidance language on the question.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on WhitePeopleTwitter with a score of 17 points:

Richter survived. She led a long, quiet life.

Many others did not.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on WhitePeopleTwitter with a score of 2 points:

I can definitely see why Dumbledore (who knew Voldemort would return, and absolutely knew that Snape was a turncoat against the Death Eaters) would feel the need to maintain Snape's social and academic positions — if you know war is coming, you form a polity, a coalition. You don't go about purging people. And there's various prophecies he had to deal with.

By the time she closed out the story, however, she had lost the "Hero en-nobles society by defeating the villain" plot

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on WhitePeopleTwitter with a score of 4 points:

<3

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on help with a score of 1 point:

https://old.reddit.com/prefs/deactivate/

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on AntiTrumpAlliance with a score of 2 points:

The SCOTUS decision by Roberts is widely grieved because it sets into sharp relief that there is no legal precedent to distinguish between what is an Impeachable High Crime and Misdemeanour (which the Constitution provides impeachment of the President over) versus Official Acts For Which The President Cannot Be Prosecuted (as composed as a class of acts under this new opinion), and so there is nothing in precedential case law that says that a given assassination order / action or class of assassination actions as ordered by a sitting POTUS is an Impeachable High Crime and Misdemeanour or is an Official Act.

The opinion also appears to make it impossible to take actions to determine which the given act is, as per Justice Roberts, anything touching the scope of official duties can't be introduced as prosecutorial evidence.

So people are saying this ruling gives carte blanche to sitting presidents to assassinate political rivals and dare anyone to jump through the hoops to hold him/her accountable for it.

Whether or not such an assassination would be legal is also an unsettled question.

Edit to add: I believe that the ruling continues to allow the remedy of

POTUS does something awful

Congress impeaches and removes

Person who was POTUS now criminally liable for impeached crimes

But that's one of the big problems —

No one has been successfully impeached in over 100 years; experts call it a "dead letter law", and has been used appropriately only on Nixon and on Trump in our lifetime (neither of which carried through, in Nixon's case because he had a sliver of conscience and in Trump's case because he captured Congress), with all other invocations being political harassment.

Trump promises to be Dictator on Day One.

America either sees the Constitution fall this November or rejects that, electorally.

Which will require an overwhelming electoral turnout by people voting for the Democratic nominee, to overcome electoral vote leverage gerrymandering by the GOP.

At 2024-07-02T16:53:06+00:00 on Dallas with a score of 1 point:

Mustang is certainly attractive for that scenario. I would suggest that it's highly likely that it's been accounted for in that case. (Think: traffic lights / traffic control / cameras / surveillance).

SH360 differs from Mustang in that it is a 50 MPH+ highway running from Grapevine or Mansfield with an extensive stretch of uncontrolled and unmonitored approach and egress surface (save for the "toll booths" at the airport), which makes it attractive to the kinds of violent extremists that have a cell of terrorists all deploying to hit targets independently (as they did in 9/11) at the same time. Undetected approach, uncontrolled terrain, choice of deployment / targets, ease of getaway. Or martyrdom in the ensuing firefight and chase.

Big and splashy and multiple targets and of course that would involve completely overhauling on a short time frame how people commute into all US airports, and close a major thoroughfare in the midcities permanently. Win for the terrorists. Billions of $$$$ spent on overhaul.

Taking out a single plane from a hotel room in the ascension path of a runway would be bad, but not the "D/FW airport becomes D/MZ airport" scenario that would ensue from terrorists exploiting SH360.

The metroplex was civil-engineered with the idea that gasoline would forever by be $0.25 a gallon and that redneck good ol boys would run "furriners" out of town by sunset and no one would dare to attack us on our own soil. These were faulty premises.

testing again. all comments went to the wrong thread