stuckinbathroom
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stuckinbathroom
9d ago
Well, there is 8chan/8kun, which was founded over a decade ago by a guy who thought 4chan was over-jannied
stuckinbathroom
13d ago
What’s the Chinese for “Is that a heat-seeking missile in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?”
stuckinbathroom
30d ago
Maybe they thought it was a lieutenant junior grade lmao
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Yeah, more like “wither Canadian identity”, am I right?
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
Not that this is politically feasible in the slightest, but here are 2 possibilities:
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SCOTUS interprets the relevant clause of Amendment XIV Section 1 (“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”) such that the children of work visa holders are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, and therefore are not citizens.
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The work visa program mandates regular pregnancy testing of all female visa holders with immediate deportation of any found to be pregnant.
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
But seriously: apartheid-era South Africa attempted to do pretty much exactly this. The plan was to establish separate, independent, sovereign states for blacks to live in, with blacks being allowed to enter white South Africa only temporarily as "guest workers". A fun bit of historical trivia: by the end of apartheid, the South African government had declared 4 such "black homelands" to be independent*, and had deemed some others "self-governing", with an eye towards eventual independence. As far as I know, this is one of only 2 cases of a post-WWII nation-state willingly separating from, and granting sovereignty to, a part of its territory (the other being Singapore's expulsion from Malaysia in 1965, though I suppose the Velvet Divorce could arguably count as well).
Related to the foregoing, apartheid South Africa also had a kind of internal passport system which allowed blacks to be present in urban areas only with government permission, which was generally granted only for purposes of employment by a white employer.
*a claim recognized by no other national government, nor by the UN
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
“We wanted workers, but we got people instead” —Max Frisch
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program” —Milton Friedman
stuckinbathroom
1mo ago
To add color
Heh.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
(apparently marijuana counts as a psychedelic as well)
[citation needed]
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
"Bioethics" has not done a single good thing since it was thought up and belongs on the railroad tracks.
But what if I don’t pull the lever?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Praise the Omnissiah.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
My point was, there are (as in any big-tent party) multiple wings/factions within the Democrats. The hardcore idpol progressive leftists—the sort who are alleged to be antisemites who care more about DEI bona fides than competence—are one such wing, but there are at least 2 others: the anti-idpol class-first leftists (roughly corresponding to Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren supporters) and, for lack of a better term, “The Blob”, aka the centrist PMC/technocrat wing who may pay lip service to DEI but remain staunchly pro-Israel (basically Clinton and Biden supporters).
It’s not obvious to me that the idpol-left faction has taken over the Democrats to such an extent that they can purge competent Jews as mentioned above.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
The second half of 3 as well as 4 presuppose that “leftists” control hiring, and promotion to leadership positions within the Democratic Party infrastructure. Is that in fact the case?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Perhaps OP is getting confused about the changes introduced by the 12th and the 17th Amendments. The 12th (as you said) gave us the modern system whereby electors vote for both president and vice president, superseding Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution. The 17th Amendment provided for the direct election of senators by the people of each state, superseding Article I of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by the state legislatures.
Per Article II and also, with minor changes, per the 12th Amendment, in the event that no presidential candidate achieves a majority of votes in the electoral college, the House will choose the president. But at no time did the Senate ever vote for the president.
Bingo. There’s also the additional layer of meaning arising from the fact that the French droit can mean “right” as in “right-wing” or as in “legal right”; and also (as an adjective) “not crooked” or “upright”
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
The English word boor is indeed cognate to the Dutch/Afrikaans boer; both etymologically come from roots meaning “peasant farmer”. The English word villain comes, via the French, from a Latin word with the same meaning.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Freddie deboar
It’s DeBoer; he’s (nominally) a Dutch/Afrikaans farmer, not a swine.
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
whether anyone has been gauche enough to articulate the quid-pro-quo or not, it's there.
Well in this case, articulating the quid pro quo would be rather droit, no?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
The DoE was made in the fires of Congress. Only there can it be unmade.
But seriously though, it’s one thing for the President to fire anyone who serves at his pleasure, to leave the office of a cabinet secretary vacant indefinitely, or even to axe entire orgs that were created under executive authority. However, constitutionally, how can a federal department—or any other entity created by Congress—be legally dismantled, except by legislation to that effect? Seems like a blatant violation of Article 2, Section 2
I am aware that Musk is likely exaggerating for effect—in fact, he might not even be exaggerating, but describing the truth on the ground rather than as a legal fiction: if the DoE exists on paper but has no personnel, no money, no responsibilities, and no authority, then (when restricted to 280 characters) it’s quite fair to say it “doesn’t exist”. But my question is precisely about the legal fiction of the matter, the collective delusion if you will: to truly end the DoE in the eyes of the law, doesn’t Congress need to do something?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Let me guess: you just finished watching Evangelion for the first time?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
One is also reminded of New Zealand PM Robert Muldoon’s famous quip that Kiwi emigration to Australia “raised the IQ of both countries”
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
P Escobar describes the monopolisation of local civil society thus
Not sure I would trust the King of Cocaine on this, but then again I imagine he has significant experience in dealing with various arms of the US federal government
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
Unrelated question: why is this (Bulgarian?) word for dog so different from the Russian/Ukrainian/Belarussian (собака/сабака)?
stuckinbathroom
2mo ago
He had me at “Radicalizing the Romanceless”
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