anon_
3mo ago
I could be into a more narrow version of the 2nd Amendment that restricts gun ownership to only certain highly vetted groups.
As I'm fond of jesting at people with similar agendas: I completely agree and I graciously accept the responsibility of appointing and chairing the 7-member commission that is in charge of vetting.
anon_
3mo ago
That's true but if some percentage are coming over the border they must be doing so because it is easier than the visa-overstay method.
Moreover, anyone who overstays a visa has been processed & fingerprinted by USCIS on entry and so is at least partially a known quantity.
anon_
3mo ago
I'm confused. /u/gilmore606 was claiming that skimming the top off the rest of the world is immoral for other reasons. Your response is seemingly unrelated.
And surely the Chinese or Indian Silicon Valley bro is paying a bare minimum of $80K in fed taxes. More if you count various CA/local taxes in there.
anon_
3mo ago
Thanks for the insight here.
At best, Lynch as CEO and Chamberlain as VP of Finance managed to miss tens of millions of dollars in not-quite-honest claims by their CFO; more likely, they at least futzed with the truth, if not necessarily to the point of it being covered by a law.
That's a nuanced position. And I understand that one can conclude that even if they didn't (quite) break the law, they were less than honest in the commission of their legal obligations.
The driver of the car, a 49-year-old woman from Haddenham, remained at the scene and was assisting officers with their inquiries.
This does not sound like the behavior of a deep state super assassin. If true, this would update against foul play.
anon_
3mo ago
Yes, but even they are not permitted to make such policies explicit and legible.
An unevenly applied law that notionally applies to all is still better than different laws for me and thee.
anon_
3mo ago
The emperor or his governors are the most likely culprits to decide they need some extra grain so their army can conquer/defend.
anon_
3mo ago
If that foreign currency can be exchanged for goods and services that are useful here, that part is deflationary.
In the case of the Saudis, they already denominate oil in USD and there's nothing else to buy with the riyal so yeah. But for Euro or Yen ...
anon_
3mo ago
This surely can't be entirely true. It would be quite surprising if there were zero or negative returns to ingenuity and assiduousness.
Of course you might be ingenious on your own little farm and do things smarter than the next guy. But beyond a certain size/scale, there is certainly a negative return because your success attracts some bellend to come and take it.
To some extent, this is a circular problem. There's little protection against expropriation, so lots of it happens. Most wealth is therefore expropriated (at least once) and hence there is little social support protecting wealth from expropriation.
Look at the chart of global GDP.
anon_
3mo ago
The efforts necessary to secure the border and to police the presence of illegal immigrants in the country now would require abrogations of civil liberties that would be totally unacceptable.
There's a lot of weight resting on the and conjunction in that sentence. The first conjunct seems doable without much harm to civil liberties, and it seems like it is relying entirely on the second conjunct to support it.
FWIW: I do think that importing low-skill labor is important and generally a good idea within some bounds (and, equivalently, a bad idea if executed poorly).
anon_
3mo ago
Isn't this also true on the level of cities & states in the US? CA/NY/TX soak up the top talent, but even within each of the states, the directionality of it is pretty stark.
anon_
3mo ago
Fully agree. Americans will absolutely tolerate that Taylor Swift or Warren Buffett are totally unequal to them, but they will not tolerate a formal legal system that deems them so.
anon_
3mo ago
I understand acquittal as a legal concept but were they narrowly acquitted or was it a slam-dunk acquittal? And did that acquittal turn on factual or legal matters?
Also, what came of the motor vehicle accident? Did the car and driver just disappear into the ether (suspicious) or is there a legal docket somewhere in Cambridge where some old lady is gonna be tried for grossly negligent driving resulting in grave injury (or whatever the equivalent English charge is).
I feel otherwise you're handing us a tiny sliver of half-baked facts and just wanting people to run with it.
anon_
3mo ago
Someone who believes the lunch was misplaced is operating off mistake theory. Someone who thinks the lunch was stolen is operating off conflict theory. Neither is better than the other, both are appropriate in some situations and inappropriate in others. You can't simply discount either without crippling your ability to reason about the actions and motivations of others.
There's another analogous dimension -- tug of rope vs pulling the rope sideways.
Just as neither conflict/mistake is better than the other, so to is the distinction between shifting power/preference between parties vs pushing outwards towards the Pareto frontier.
anon_
3mo ago
Maybe he wanted to do it, but he's got his military deployed in Gaza and the cumulative drag of that operation is already starting to pinch.
Not like this.
anon_
4mo ago
The issue isn't the specific fact pattern (which, as you say, is a slam dunk for CU) but that anyone can manufacture that fact pattern. The charade of setting up a separate entity that receives unlimited contributions and then makes independent expenditures doesn't actually change the underlying state of affairs.
There's no set of rules that prohibits that kind of laundering without also sweeping in sympathetic plaintiffs like CU.
anon_
4mo ago
Sure. And asking how much security they provided requires addressing the counterfactual
anon_
4mo ago
This is effectively the argument that Lucas Critiqued.
In fact, it's almost exactly analogous to the Fort Knox example given in the article.
anon_
4mo ago
Right, which means all the (right-wing)-hyperbole-about-the-(left-wing)-hyperbole was completely off the mark.
anon_
4mo ago
Indeed. Who wants to be the trigger happy sniper that shot a local cop with a wife & kids.
anon_
4mo ago
Just to provide some counter-narrative evidence, apparently Crook had researched both Trump and Biden campaign schedules and had, for all appearances[1] picked Trump as he passed within 50 miles that week.
Note saying the rest of the post is wrong about incompetence, but as I see it, the guy on the roof there couldn't figure out if the perp was local PD and didn't want to start a friendly fire incident before someone deconflicting them. The fact that local PD was stationed in the building actually makes this narrative more plausible that maybe one of their guys would go out on the roof.
[1] Appearances, reality, etc...
anon_
4mo ago
What I mean is that the ruling mentioned appears to postdate the actions under question.
anon_
4mo ago
referred to money spent on this scheme as an "input" to writing a blog in some way that is not an accurate representation of the DC Circuit's interpretation of the law
This is kind of acausal right? The created a record that, in 2016, did not reflect the Circuit's interpretation in 2024.
The term "proposed" here is giving it way too much credit. It's been proposed in the sense of "included in a campaign speech" and not "included in a budget sent to Congress" let alone "included in a bill actually sponsored in the House of Representatives".
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