Snake with Feet

@ChurchOfMoons it’s because (1) outsourcing (2) employers are holding out to see what AI can do (3) rising cost of living has made quality labor more expensive

If you're ever curious why young people are having a hard time getting employed, read about 50 posts from the average Digital Circus discourse guy

@TheIllegit why are you seeing “hasan” do anything at all? Is he reviewing a book or a movie you like? Is he debating someone you like? Why does anyone care what he says?

Reading 'Stalin's War' re: Soviet total duplicity and bad faith in diplomatic relations, and how various parties kept being fooled by this, and then seeing Hasan go "some people are saying murder is justified by the 'social murder' of capitalism... not me, though."

@taobanker There is a Very large wretched group that refuses to interact except for brief periods which they spend pretending to be ok

real life is actually an insane white pill. i'm irl right now and people of all different shapes, colors, and genders are having a good time. 99.9% of complicated social theories are just a cope for genetic autism.

@MittBloomberg @canderaid But that’s not true either. Libya liberalized because of rising unemployment.

@Snake_With_Feet @canderaid Maybe don't bankrupt your country trying to build nukes? He gave up sure...but too late.

Fuck Obama, he's a war criminal who killed my second cousin. *three replies down* So what if my second cousin was the keynote speaker at QaedaCon 2011. I don't see how that's relevant.

@Orthon_Spaceman It’s very simple. The guy I like has inherited superior traits from his ancestors; he is irreplaceable. The guy I hate is a blank slate product of his social context; he could be swapped out for any dumbass off the street.

My theory is that Foucaul got biopolitics wrong and that the total state prefers blank slateism. RWers assume this is a purely LW relativist impule but I suspect blank slateism/heritability debate also has a sort of ”locus of control” dimension to it which no one speaks of.

@FrenlyOfficer Naval base in falklands is used to threaten latin america iirc, which owes europe a lot of money.

The first permanent human settlement on the Falkland Islands was by Englishmen. There’s absolutely no justification for it belonging to Argentina other than their desire for it. The geographic proximity argument applies equally to a UK claim on the Southern Cone. But people need to understand that Trump operates by very simple and very practical principles: 1. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. 2. You bust my balls, I bust yours. He’s about as complex as a vending machine, but people still choose to scream and curse at him instead of putting coins in the slot.

@MittBloomberg @canderaid This was, again, at the request of the Western powers. The IMF requested a drastic reduction in the dominant role of the public sector, with which Libya duly complied, laying off 400,000 public sector employees.

@Snake_With_Feet @canderaid So, African despot overspends on guns leaves nothing for butter. In a state-dominated economy that never works forever.

@germanicgems I believe many artisans left.

I question the idea that American emigration from Northern Europe was a massive brain drain. The old burgers, priests, and wealthier farmers all remained. E. A. Ross, The Old World in the New (1914):

@BarneyFlames you often have to show intent to defraud, and there is often an exception for “bona fide labor disputes.” This makes it a very difficult case, but hey, employers wrote the legislation

If leftists believe there's a lot of wage theft by actual corporations, why aren't elected leftists prosecuting it ? Big corporations are not a sympathetic defendant

Its virtually never prosecuted because it doesn't exist outside of like immigrant business owners making their cousins work for below minimum wage

@MittBloomberg @canderaid He did it, apparently with the approval of the United States.

@Snake_With_Feet @canderaid But when Gaddafi did that...after making his economy dependent on subsidies...

@MittBloomberg @canderaid I’ve been saying we should do that for a long time. Unfortunately, I believe they need it to destroy foreign countries with. Anyway it creates jobs in my area so whatever.

@Snake_With_Feet @canderaid Maybe spend more on subsidies and less on shiny military?

@gynepareidolia @PompeyTrogue And in QI cases, the court has, as my professor put it “a lot of wiggle,” regarding whether a constitutional right was clearly established. “Remember,” he said to me, “how this gives courts a lot of wiggle.” And so I did remember.

Unless you're referring to municipalities, which have a whole separate pattern or practice analysis, the analysis that's unique to 1983 is qualified immunity, in which the relevant inquiry is whether the conduct violated a clearly established right. Because of QI there's no need for a court to determine whether the right in fact exists. The substantive right itself can be determined through a balancing test, but the 1983-specific analysis has no actual balancing test.

I didn't appreciate this until I read some Supreme Court of Canada opinions, then looked into other nations' high courts We Americans take for granted how smart, fair, and eloquent our judges are and how developed and good our law is, on the whole. It's so much worse out there.

@atlanticesque @gynepareidolia @PompeyTrogue ok hater

@gynepareidolia @Snake_With_Feet @PompeyTrogue No offense but this is a good sign it’s time for me to mute this exchange lmao

@gynepareidolia @atlanticesque @PompeyTrogue Wtf is an H? And yes I looked it up that is close enough to what it is.

@gynepareidolia @atlanticesque @PompeyTrogue Got a B plus, and sounds like you read marbury lol

@Snake_With_Feet @atlanticesque @PompeyTrogue LOL. Yeah, and it is the province of the judiciary to say what the law is. You sound like you're in high school. I need to start going back to just asking "what grade did you get in Fed Courts?" before I get into legal arguments with people who sound like they haven't taken it.

@gynepareidolia @atlanticesque @PompeyTrogue “Constitution is not self-enforcing; you need a procedural vehicle. You can’t sue under the 4th amendment by default; but 1983 creates a procedural vehicle for the enforcement of substantive law.”

@gynepareidolia @atlanticesque @PompeyTrogue And I am just reading off the notes from my 1983 law school class with a federal judge.

@gynepareidolia @atlanticesque @PompeyTrogue Dumbass, how does the federal judge rule that an act constitutes a violation of the fourth amendment? By finding it unreasonable.

@Snake_With_Feet @atlanticesque @PompeyTrogue No, the question in a 1983 case is whether a specific court has ruled that a certain set of circumstances constitutes a constitutional violation in a certain case. You seem a little lost. Is this from an undergrad paper you're working on or something?

@nicolegelinas That’s why they want a funny sort of revolution where people march around with flags and banners until everyone in office resigns. The revolutionary government would then immediately betray the working class as it always does.

Many people advocating for the socialist revolution don't seem to grasp that they'd be on the wrong side if the revolution actually happened. We saw this in 2020. If you've got a five-bedroom house and a "cabin" upstate, don't be talking about stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, cuz someone may actually take you up on that idea! Be on your own side.