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wildcat09

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  1. I agree with the bolded. As for Hamas' intent, yeah it's absolutely genocidal. I'm not very familiar with the new(ish?) framework of determining proportionate military responses, calculating estimated civilian casualties, etc. and how they balance e.g. Hamas' genocidal intent with its actual capacity, so I can't really speak to that. Bit of an aside here, but have you been to the Museum of Communism in Prague? That place is fascinating.
  2. Payment of taxes is an element under the 5-year adverse possession statute, but that also requires that the adverse possessor claim under a "duly registered" deed. I've never been able to figure out what "duly registered" was intended to mean, so I guess it just means recorded. Also, adverse possession typically isn't available in cotenant situations, as both have an equal right of possession so possession by one isn't "hostile" to the other's rights. And I think cotenant heirs typically have a higher bar than that. I'm really not knowledgeable about the procedural aspects involved, unfortunately.
  3. I think the parallels between the Armenian genocide and the current situation in Gaza are pretty obvious. The Young Turks thought that the land known as "Turkey" belonged to ethnic Turks and used violence and the threat of violence to force millions of Armenians to relocate to Syria. As they were carrying it out, they denied that they were attempting to kill Armenians and claimed that they were simply resettling them for the safety of the empire and those who deny the Armenian genocide today claim that they only intended to resettle Armenians as a defensive measure, not kill them. I think there's room for reasonable debate whether what Israel is currently doing qualifies as a genocide as defined by the Geneva convention. But the only reason I think there's room for debate is that I think there's tensions among Israel's current leadership about the goals of their current actions, and the perpetrator's intent is a central component of genocide as defined by the Geneva convention. I think there's also a pretty good argument to be made that the Geneva convention's definition is insufficient and doesn't cover certain acts of ethnic cleansing that most people would reasonably view as genocide (e.g. the Trail of Tears). But to say it's anti-Semitic to see what Israel is currently carrying out as a genocide is absurd.
  4. If you read the article, that's exactly how one group of heirs managed to keep their land. Funny enough, I'm not really sure it was a proper application of adverse possession (the case law on adverse possession in Texas is basically incomprehensible), but it was certainly the just outcome. It seems pretty clear that Bill Youngkin knowingly lied to a Texas court as part of a fraudulent scheme. He should be disbarred and it sure seems like there should be grounds for criminal charges against Youngkin and Capps here, though it seems incredibly unlikely this will ever be investigated by law enforcement. Though perhaps there's potential for a 1983 civil rights claim?
  5. I just figured he'd rather leave his kids to starve than even think about them long enough to use them against his ex. Being completely absent from his kids' lives was a pretty consistent thing until Grimes dumped him.
  6. It’s pretty wild that Musk, who has clearly demonstrated that he doesn’t give a shit about being a decent father and has even publicly stated that being a good father isn’t important, has basically kidnapped his kids from their mother.
  7. Remember how you were feeling in October 2022? Remember how sure you were that a red wave was coming?
  8. This doesn’t seem great.
  9. Don’t. She sucks extremely hard as a person too.
  10. They had a group text named "wire fraud."
  11. SBF's and his co-conspirators' stupidity made the government's work extremely easy.
  12. How many fucking times do people need to tell you to link to what you're quoting man?
  13. It's amazing. You've been watching them for years and constantly wrongly predicting their behavior because you fundamentally misunderstand how fascists think and operate and yet you've learned nothing. They're not fucking binary logic machines that operate on "If ---> Then" calculations and all of your "if that's what they wanted to do the only way they could possibly try to go about it is this way that I would do it if I was them and they're not doing what I would do so I must be right" is fucking constantly some of the most wrongheaded thinking about any topic on Surly. Trump is campaigning where he is right now to raise the most money he can for his legal defenses. He doesn't even think he needs to turn out voters and he's sure as shit not worried about only visiting the most important states an entire year before the election. Yes, he's a stupid, irrational dipshit. ALL FASCISTS ARE. That doesn't mean they're incapable of some basic planning. They're not even hiding their plan, we've got a fucking thread on it. And Tuberville's actions are absolutely part of that plan. Because it doesn't take a brilliant mastermind to understand that when you want to illegally seize and hold power, it helps to not be opposed by the military. Especially when they already tried once and failed because they'd wrongly assumed the military would be on their side. If Trump wins, he wants to be able to promote officers who pass his loyalty tests so that he doesn't have to step down at the end of his next term. That's what this is about. Is it a guarantee Tuberville will succeed in his goal? Of course not. But even if he doesn't, he's still thrown a huge wrench in the middle of functioning government and harmed Biden's ability to protect our national security, so it's a win win. And we know Tuberville is down for this shit, because he was involved in planning 1/6. Again, it doesn't take a genius to do this math. This isn't complex or sophisticated. it's exactly as stupid as it looks, because, get this, FASCISTS ARE ALWAYS AS STUPID AS THEY LOOK. And yet they're still often very successful at seizing power and doing shitloads of damage, because they operate in broken systems against people who refuse to understand the threat they pose.
  14. Of course he is. The older GOP Senators weren't down for the coup attempt either.
  15. I think the point is that tubs is doing it out of stupidity. The people who suggested him doing it, on the other hand Tubs was already involved with planning their first coup attempt. Sure he's stupid, all of these assholes are, but that doesn't preclude him from doing this as part of an intentional effort to help make their next attempt succeed.
  16. The contents of the classified documents are completely irrelevant to the crimes charged.
  17. "Sure they tried the violent coup once and it only failed because the military refused to go along with it. Why would you think they would try to replace military leadership with loyal cronies and try again?"
  18. It's really not a great look though when they fucked up and omitted the word "not" from the final sentence of their brief.
  19. It's incredibly obvious that this is what she's doing.
  20. His bill doesn't cover PACs, which is where all the dark money is.
  21. What a fucking dipshit. Nobody ever seems to get that fucking around leads to finding out.
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