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@E1war @SecRubio The rejection of the ICC is a longstanding policy of the US, and it is important to continue, no matter whom it might inadvertently benefit.

@SecRubio And that arrest warrant they have for Netenyahoo has nothing to do with it?

The International Criminal Court seeks to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law — empowered to prosecute and arrest our citizens at will and existentially threaten American sovereignty. We will teach the ICC the full meaning of American resolve.

@SinCitySnark @TRUF_NYC @DisrespectedThe Under the 17th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the governor appoints.

@TRUF_NYC @DisrespectedThe Under SC law, the governor appoints someone to finish out the term. It's really not a big deal.

What the fuck is this?

@TRUF_NYC @DisrespectedThe No. Governor appoints. 17th Amendment.

@DisrespectedThe Shouldn’t there be a special election

@Sherman1890 @brianlfrye Great point

@oshane @brianlfrye I agree, part of rationale for the current term was to keep USA policy in agreement with the EU (altho other countries have shorter terms). In any event, different terms among countries can be a real headache, particularly for digital content that has no boundaries.

An observation: It’s a shame people need to have physical libraries at all, at least if what they care about is information. There is no reason other than transaction costs caused by copyright that all books aren’t automatically available to anyone who wants to use them.

I like it when my enemy is eager to die. That means he and I have the same goal. Islam has been trying to invade the West since Anno Domini 711. And the West's great weakness has never been unwillingness to die. When the guardians of the West had to die to defend Europe, they faced death willingly. More of them in antiquity, less of them today, but ability to absorb causalities has never been our problem and never will be. Our problem is not unwillingness to die. Our problem is unwillingness to kill. This is why the current Muslim invasion of Europe is leaving its AK47s at home. It's a tactic. They have discovered that rifles are a liability, and they are better off without them. Why? Because the rifle increases our willingness to kill them more than it increases their ability to kill us. The tactics have changed, but the war is the same. We're not at war with Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ISIS, Al-Shabaab or JNIM. We're at war with Islam. It's the same war we've been waging since 711. They want to kill, enslave, or forcibly convert us, and we don't want that. That's what a war is, guys. You may not like that. Doesn't matter. We are not talking about what "should" be. We are talking about what is. We don't get decide or not if we are at war with Islam, because Muslims have decided they are at war with us. We are better at fighting wars than they are. Because we are better at hurting people than they are. So if we are willing to hurt them, we win. If we continue trying to not-hurt them, we lose. Because that's not how you fight a war. It really is that simple.

@Sherman1890 @brianlfrye That should also work. I’m not sure the lifetime+70-year / 95-year regimes are the type of rent-seeking that are good for society.

@oshane @brianlfrye maybe. Actually a re-registering requirement every five years or so, together with a fee, might serve to make out-of-print works more widely available.

@Sherman1890 @brianlfrye Congress should thumb its nose at Disney and reduce copyright back to 14 years, as it was ~1789.

@brianlfrye One of the biggest problems remains ophan books, which are not old enough to be in the public domain (roughly 1929 or earlier), but not commercially valuable enough to keep them in print. Mainly, the copyright period is too long.

@amazonquick This isn’t how contract review works at all.

@BarExamTutor I just talked to Mitch last night. He said he wants us to drastically defund the Pentagon.

Are there people who think Mitch McConnell is still alive? I’m not actually saying with any certainty that he’s dead, since I don’t know. I’m just curious if there are still people who think he’s alive. To my mind, if he were alive we’d know he’s alive. And since we don’t know he’s alive (we’ve only heard from others who claim he is), that leads me to think he’s dead.

@BarExamTutor The ABA is trying to dig up the desiccated corpse of the labor theory of value.

A lawyer whom I tutored for the bar exam stopped charging hourly rates at her firm because the talent and systems she accumulated allows those lawyers to perform excellent work efficiently. And there’s no reason for the firm to make less money simply because the work is delivered more quickly. I think the ABA has this wrong.

@solirvine The labor theory of value was debunked decades ago. The ABA is wrong to presume that value is definitionally tied to effort.

The ABA thinks lawyers charging for the value of their output rather than the amount of effort required is unreasonable.

@SinaiLawFirm Richard Nixon was the most popular president ever elected

The Richard Nixon resurgence movement is 100% fueled by sick edits and its undeniable proof edits are the most important form of media right now

@prestonjbyrne Hahahaha. The police? LOL. Maybe try a federal court first and enjoy dismissal of the motion to domesticate their “judgment” with prejudice.

Ofcom has told the Independent newspaper that they intend to work with American police and the courts to recover fines from 4chan. This is legally illiterate. If they really want to sue us in the United States to recover a foreign censorship penalty, we welcome the fight.

@CJGRISHAM @libsoftiktok I’ll help.

@libsoftiktok I am defending him and will ensure that this doesn't go unanswered.

Female Texas Cop THREATENS to ticket a retired officer and Christian street preacher for "offensive speech" Cop: "If someone is offended by your talking, then we have a problem..." Man: "You're going to ticket us for 'offensive' speech?" Cop: "Yes, I am" This cop is blatantly violating the 1st Amendment

Critical theory was a Soviet psyop from the 60s/70s designed to decay the USA from within becausee they tried class warfare earlier and it didn’t work. Americans were too optimistic about class upward mobility. They turned to race and other inherent biological differences. I absolutely despise CT and its progeny, but I am objectively impressed that the plan of a long dead country and its intelligence apparatus is still working. CT is essentially a form of quasi-living memetic warfare that has outlasted its creators.

If you don't already know what critical theory is, I recommend you do some independent research and figure it out. Because, right now, literally every manmade problem in the USA is a function of critical theory. Defeating critical theory is the most important task for American survival.

Your critique of the Miranda musical is spot on. But Alexander Hamilton was as self-serving as they came. He was power hungry, conniving, petulant, and deceptive. Hamilton was angry at Washington for pardoning the farmers in the Whisky Rebellion because he wanted them all hanged as a show of national power (ignoring the massive hypocrisy in light of the American Revolution). Many of his articulations about the proposed constitution in the Federalist were deflections for what he wanted to accomplish—a nation without actual federalism to put Americans in bondage to a central bank. Thomas Jefferson saw him for what he was and pleaded with James Madison to see it too. Aaron Burr’s bullet should have come 20 years earlier.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is one of the great disgraces to an American patriot's memory in modern culture. Alexander Hamilton died the way he lived, defending the republic he helped build, taking a bullet from a sitting vice president rather than betray his principles. He wrote most of the Federalist Papers. He built the financial system that let a broke, war-torn collection of colonies become a country that could actually pay its debts and stand on its own. He created the Coast Guard, the national bank, the customs service. This is a man who genuinely believed in the American project and gave everything to it. And what did we do with that legacy? We turned him into a mixtape. We flattened one of the sharpest constitutional minds this country ever produced into a finger-gun revolutionary who raps about being "young, scrappy and hungry." We took a man whose whole life was an argument for strong institutions, order, and national credit, and sold him to teenagers as an anti-establishment rebel, which is almost the exact opposite of what he actually stood for. The musical skips his elitism, sands down his real politics, and dresses a hard-nosed banker up as a street underdog because it makes a better hook. And the cherry on top: In the musical, the historical character of Alexander Hamilton and the other founding fathers were white, but they are intentionally portrayed by Black, Latino, and Asian actors. The show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, designed this deliberate casting to tell "America then, as told by America now," and to emphasize the story of immigrants building a nation. An absolute propagandizing of history that the low IQ masses eat up and believe as fact. In a serious country he would be punished for spitting on the memory of the men who actually built this country. This will only keep getting worse as these tribalistic people elect their own members into our institutions. That is not a tribute. That is a costume. A real patriot got buried under a soundtrack, and a whole generation now thinks they know him because they memorized the lyrics.

In a world where many celebrities hide their faith, K-Pop star Siwon Choi proclaimed the Gospel and the name of Jesus. The South Korean singer recently went viral after sharing the Gospel during a live performance. Quoting Acts 16:31, he declared: “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved—you and your household.” As the performance ended, the words “Jesus Lives” appeared on screen. Despite his global fame, Siwon has never hidden his Christian faith. He continues to use his platform to point people to Christ.

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn. The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed. Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit. Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do. They took until there was nothing left to take. America had a greater advantage than all of them combined. And rebuilt the nations it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Not almost unprecedented. It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization. The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead. Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world. That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet. Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination. No other country in history can make that claim. Not one. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has blood in its history. But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter. It’s what it does when nobody can stop it. When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of. By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it. Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision. The values that built this country didn’t just shape America. They shaped the modern world. AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive. 1945 was the first test. AI is the last. That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to. The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

4 years ago, both of my grandparents passed away, starting a court battle that's put 200 years of Texas history for sale. The estate includes hundreds of acres near Marble Falls, TX, that have been in my family since before Texas was Texas. Stephen F. Austin himself granted this land to my ancestor, Captain Jesse Burnam, in the 1820s, one of the original "Old Three Hundred" families. There are stories of him fighting off Native Americans and fighting in wars! That land stayed in our family for five generations. There's a state historical marker on it, placed by the Texas Historical Commission in 2014. My family has never had money in the bank kind of wealth. But I wouldn't sell this land for millions of dollars. Some things matter more than money, and history and nature are two of them. My aunt, the executor, has managed this estate about as badly as it's possible to manage one, burning hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees fighting my mom and uncle, to the point that land had to be sold just to cover the bill. Yes, there was a will involved, but it's complicated... Now, more than 150 acres of it are listed for sale by my aunt. My aunt has no heirs of her own tied to this place. And beautiful, spring fed land that survived the Texas Revolution, five generations of my family, and a war with Mexico might get bulldozed for a subdivision. What I'm hoping for is that it doesn't end with a developer. If you know a rancher, a conservation buyer, a family, or a land trust looking for real Texas Hill Country land with real history, let me know.

@ProfRobAnderson quadriceps curl is the king of exercises.

If you could only do one weight training exercise, which type of bicep curl would it be?