@christopherrufo @AndrewCFollett How long did you work at Panda Express?
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JJC
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Would you rather be a black slave in the antebellum South or the assistant manager at Panda Express?
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@christopherrufo You’re right but you’re also the wrong messenger
You went from being a failed filmmaker to being a glorified influencer
Telling people to work at Panda Express will always feel phony
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This post cuts to the heart of it. There is a cohort of frustrated young white men who, feeling that they cannot improve their own circumstances, would submit to slavery under the right ownership. This is a disaster, and the root of it is psychological, rather than material. We have to teach our young men how to take mastery over their own lives, despite the reality of anti-white discrimination, or they will submit to the slavery of resentment, nihilism, addiction, despair—or worse.
The Preservative@preservatism
I would rather not be black, nor could I be. But if the question is whether I would rather be enslaved or continue in my current circumstances, I'd have to ask by who?
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@InquisitiveUrsa @jimmy_esq Because there is no way to allow such suits without also infringing on the rights of the natural persons involved
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq How do you conclude that the NYT has constitutional protection from suits for ordinary libel without concluding that it has 1st A rights? (Note that the court in that case did conclude the NYT had 1st A rights in line with prior precedent and that hasn't been controversial.)
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Is there a more grotesquely misunderstood Supreme Court decision in history than Citizens United? Nearly everyone who complains about it seems to have no idea what it was about or what the reasoning was. It's just vibes.
Anders Åslund@anders_aslund
John Roberts' verdict on Citizens United in 2010 allowed unlimited amounts of dark money in US politics, abandoning all limitations & transparency. Roberts also voted for Trump's immunity. John Roberts is the 2nd greatest culprit in the destruction of US democracy after Trump.
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@InquisitiveUrsa @jimmy_esq Yes I agree with it
I don’t think you need to settle the question of first amendment protection for corporations in order to reach it, or at least the question about the free speech clause
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq I'm curious about our core disagreement here. My understanding is that you are acknowledging that NYT v. Sullivan is correct? Am I wrong?
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq Yes. Corporations have to have first amendment rights or you chill free speech and press. The same applies in other contexts including Citizens United.
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@InquisitiveUrsa @jimmy_esq Of course, regulation of corporate spending had a long history too
With NYT v Sullivan, you run into some difficult issues with regards to first amendment protection. There is no way realistically that you could punish NYT without chilling free speech and press
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq Corporations have had first amendment rights for a very long time. NY Times vs Sullivan was from 1964 and that isn't the first such case.
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq In the modern world corporations are major actors and permitting the federal gov't to impose liability on corporations for speech would practically end freedom of speech at a national level, therefore corporate entities need to have freedom of speech in order to effect the 1st A.
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@InquisitiveUrsa @jimmy_esq True
But I have yet to see a good “living constitutionalist” case for citizens united
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq The framers of the constitution believed and didn't believe a lot of things that we now hold as key parts of the Constitution.
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@InquisitiveUrsa @jimmy_esq I mean, we could do these hypotheticals for hours, but none of it changes the fact that the framers of the Constitution did not believe corporations had first amendment rights
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq Can the government criminalize or impose civil liability on those entities for their speech without constitutional restriction?
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@InquisitiveUrsa @jimmy_esq Well “censor” sounds an awful lot like prior restraint which is neither here nor there
And censoring individual journalists implicates their own free speech rights
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@WTPDavid @jimmy_esq “A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence”
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Thomas, I admire your consistency for flawed takes outside the norms of decency and out of bounds of most 1L law students. You have a poor knack for politics and there's a reason you are widely despised on this forum. Most ignore you out of irrelevance, but when you comment on a decorated combat veteran of integrity, we fellow vets are compelled to correct you as an ignorant turnip. Don't open your filthy sewer on this forum again unless I give you permission.
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“Over the course of three years, Mr. Mueller successfully prosecuted dozens of killers, helped bring down the homicide rate and showed grace in comforting survivors.
He also answered his own telephone: ‘Mueller, homicide.’” nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/…
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@LexIustitia @jimmy_esq Then they shouldn't have to pay taxes either.
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@varadmehta I was just on Reddit and people there were convinced that Russiagate had been vindicated
Hard to see how any partisan divide can be overcome with that much of an epistemic bubble
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The theory of obstruction of justice the Mueller investigation was working under with regard to President Trump was bullshit then and it's still bullshit now.
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@EdAsante77 I agree, but I think anyone cheering an assassination is worse than just cheering a death from natural causes
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@LexIustitia I think the president should be a step above other people or folks posting stuff on social media.
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This is correct. His day will come and half the country will say stuff like this as well.
Jon Favreau@jonfavs
One day, Donald Trump will die, and his supporters will try to punish the people who say things like this.
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