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Alt Dicta

@AltDicta

Just law and politics and trying to be reasonable. Usually pestering (relatively) smart people making bad arguments.

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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter If you oppose socialist policies (as your post implies), then certainly you are taking the same position as a great many, if not most, billionaires. Does your expression of anti-socialist beliefs on social media inherently lack seriousness? I could go on and on.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter Springsteen supports No Kings, but Musk and Trump oppose it. Are you just a pawn for billionaires Musk and Trump? Do your posts inherently lack serious political analysis and beliefs simply because Musk, Trump, Thiel, whoever might also support the same positions?
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Ann Bauer
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
I don't get all the crowing about 200,000 people at the No Kings rally in St. Paul. Bruce Springsteen played a free concert. Only 200,000 people showed up. That actually kind of surprises me.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter Billionaires are on all sides of the issues, so it’s not quite that simple. May I suggest that the content of the policies supported or opposed matters?
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Ann Bauer
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
@AltDicta If the funders of No Kings are billionaires, it's because they have an interest in pushing this agenda. Occam's razor.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@rockytfs @annbauerwriter I referenced “the other side” because I know she agrees with positions on the other side (which billionaires also famously support), but I didn’t call it “her side” because I know she has an independent streak and can’t be pinned down so neatly. My critical thinking is fine.
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rick stanfield@rockytfs·
@AltDicta @annbauerwriter So many words, so little said. When one speaks of “the other side”, it’s clearly implying one has a side. Pretending you didn’t imply that, shows a lack of critical thinking skills. Uber wealthy people are supporting both Reps and Dems, Antifa, “No Kings”, MAGA. Not in doubt.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter @Jerwi57 You can reasonably accuse Bernie of lots of things—of being unrealistic, of being a hypocrite, of whatever—but you can’t reasonably accuse him of supporting billionaire-friendly policies or attracting supporters who favor billionaire friendly policies.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter It’s also hilarious to try to spin No Kings into a billionaire-supportive thing when *Bernie Sanders* was a headline speaker.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter It’s lazy to attribute one side’s activism nothing but manipulation by billionaires and wanting to see Springsteen play a song or two.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter Funding is also such a red herring for No Kings. You need a stage, some audio equipment, a permit, and security. It does not require billionaire benefactors to produce. It’s a political rally, not the Super Bowl halftime show or a presidential campaign.
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Ann Bauer
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
@AltDicta If it's true that oligarchs are funding No Kings (and if you count Springsteen himself, who is worth $1.2 billion, it certainly is), you have hordes of taxpayers struggling to make ends meet marching in support of policies that benefit billionaires. That doesn't sound serious.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@annbauerwriter You can ridicule this type of thing, but it’s a big mistake to say it’s not about serious political analysis and beliefs to people.
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Ann Bauer
Ann Bauer@annbauerwriter·
Put aside Bruce fans, of which there are many (confoundingly, at least to me). It was an EVENT - Bernie Sanders, Jane Fonda. It was a celebrity thing and people love that. They go to take photos they can post. Has nothing to do with serious political analysis and beliefs.
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Solo 🥀@Trillest115·
@CaseyMattox_ Am I crazy or is Eric straight up wrong about the question presented? Does it not say mandatory LWOP for felony-murder?
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Casey Mattox@CaseyMattox_·
Merits of the decision aside, I do like it generally when state courts take their own state constitutions seriously and don't just treat them as copies of the federal constitution. Make your own mistakes so the rest of us can see how that works out.
Eric W.@EWess92

Does the Constitution prohibit life without parole? Yes--but not the constitution you are thinking of, says the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Pennsylvania's highest court agrees that LWOP is not Eighth Amendment "cruel or unusual" but violates PA's own constitutional analogue.

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Dan McLaughlin@baseballcrank·
That moment when a lawyer arguing before the Court can feel the trap door opening beneath his feet:
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@EWess92 @nytimes (1) Comey, Letitia James, the so-called seditious six, Jerome Powell, Chris Krebs, Adam Schiff, Lisa Cook, Jacob Frey, Tim Walz, and that’s off the top of my head; and (2) the defamation cases were frivolous and you know settlements do not mean they had merit.
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Eric W.
Eric W.@EWess92·
The @nytimes has published another calumny against President Trump. Yet the Supreme Court ends up catching strays. The Supreme Court has been "remade" by President Trump and now abandoned responsibility? No. The Court is the only bulwark against questionable lower court decisions
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@AliceFromQueens @showmeopie 1968 style chaos wasn’t inevitable, but it was a clear risk among other risks that a Kamala candidacy didn’t entail.
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Alice@AliceFromQueens·
@AltDicta @showmeopie knife fights are good. the idea that this would lead to 1968 convention chaos was just moronic
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Opie 🚂
Opie 🚂@showmeopie·
People say stuff like this but never offer up the alternative - who would have been stronger than the sitting VP? Either when Biden stepped down or if he had done so earlier? It’s not clear to me how she was weaker in comparison to Trump, an old moron she vaporized in a debate.
Alice@AliceFromQueens

@showmeopie If defeating Trump was a matter of life or death, we shouldn't have run a weak candidate, regardless of her race and sex. To do otherwise was profoundly neurotic, as I said at the time, and now you can thank your neurosis for four more years of Trump

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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@AliceFromQueens @showmeopie But getting everybody to *agree* on one is a whole different issue. Democrats would have got behind whoever got the nom ultimately, but until that point, it would have been a knife fight with no clear process to select that nominee.
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Alice@AliceFromQueens·
@showmeopie Any of the big Democrats in the mix who could handle themselves on camera and wasn't affiliated with the Biden admin would've done better. This is so obvious I can't believe anyone still argues otherwise
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@AliceFromQueens You may not have thought avoiding the friction points was worth nominating Kamala, but there was a rational, mostly non-racial case for doing so. And Biden’s preference was a huge factor. It took long enough to push him out—we didn’t have much time for more negotiation.
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Alt Dicta@AltDicta·
@AliceFromQueens I disagree that three on my list were “direct functions” of a racial neurosis. Race may have played into or enhanced some of them, but all of them would have been friction points no matter the VP.
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