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  1. 1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

    It’s like the judge doesn’t even know about the very big, very powerful disclaimer clause 

    Very sophisticated. A lot of people don't know how sophisticated. A lot of people would be shocked at how sophisticated. Very, very, tippy top sophisticated.

  2. 1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

    I am currently unemployed and most likely looking to switch careers.  I'm getting closer and closer to just finding a way to grift these stupid fucks.  I just need to do it in a way that doesn't actually support the Rs or their dotard cult.

    1. start a church

    2. ???

    3. profit

  3. 45 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    Impartiality.....haha haha haha.... ohh yeah...  that is a real good one.  Impartiality is for idealistic law students and those employing cognitive dissonance, in other words, morons

    Yeah. I feel this. 

  4. This law / concept has been around for x number of years without being directly overruled or contradicted. That weighs in favor of not overturning said law unless major shifts in public opinion or unforeseen negative consequences have arisen that are attributable to said law. 

    In the perfect world of legal theory, it helps build consistency (and thus legitimacy) regarding how laws are made, enforced, and interpreted. No “gotcha” judgments. 

    It’s efficacy can be argued, for or against, by folks here who are much smarter than me, but it has been used as a shield against changing controversial laws. Conservatives clung to it pretty hard throughout the “rights revolution” of the last 80 years, but really had a hard on for it during the civil rights movement.  
     

    Now that the major decisions which created the rights revolution have existed long enough to warrant such consideration under stare decisis, conservatives have easily dispensed with it. Because hypocrisy. 

  5. 6 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

    I mean, if we ever pull out of this death spiral and get some non-partisans back on the Supreme Court, I think there's a pretty sound basis for just saying "fuck your stare decisis for all decisions made where Thomas and Alito were part of a < 7-vote majority, given they are bought and paid for."    

    Dobbs killed any notion that a conservative dominated Court gives a shit about stare decisis when it comes to liberty under the 14th Amendment due process clause. Thomas's concurrence was pretty plain in that. They'll pay lip service to equal protection under the 14th, but they'll come for that too when the opportunity presents itself.

    If we ever get out of this place, conservatives can take stare decisis and shove it up their ass. 

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  6. 11 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Serious question, which traditional powerhouses aren’t going to have the NIL to compete? Seems to me the traditional big boys are only going to get bigger and better. 

    The more rational sooner fans up here are pretty worried that NIL + SEC + Crypt Keeper will send them on a Nebraska-esque slide.

     

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  7. 22 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    You know what the move to the SEC has done? For a long time, we all knew about the "weird" of A&M. Going to the SEC brought it national. It's now talked about throughout college football. Hell, the ad they did had to address it.

     

    I know when patently weird people approach me with the line “We’re not weird”, I immediately take them at their word. 

    These folks took PR lessons from the FLDS. 

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  8. 5 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Oklahoma's Department of Education announces a partnership with PragerU Kids earlier this week as State Superintendent Ryan Walters said it offers educators more options. Several days later, Oklahoma's biggest school districts tell DoE/Walters to fuck off and they're not going to use them.

    https://www.koco.com/article/oklahoma-school-districts-opt-out-lesson-plans-prageru/45027081

    Sure, Jan.

    Yeah. It's been 0 days since Oklahoma was a shitshow.

    The larger districts, as mentioned above, have told Ginger Shitheel to more or less fuck off. But I imagine what's left of the rural schools will slowly start letting that shit leech in, if they don't make a big spectacle of adopting it outright.

    I don't put it past them to try and force the issue down the road. Like everything else, they're not satisfied with just breaking everything in the public sector. 

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  9. 2 hours ago, The Royal We said:

    I think it's terrifying, but it's not just that people don't think he's doing a good job; it's the consensus among the FNC injectors that the country is going to hell in a hand basket and it's all Biden's fault! I've told co-workers and family members that I think Biden is doing just fine and they look at me like I've got a third eye coming out of my forehead.

    I'm not telling them that Biden is the best POTUS of all time (like many thought about Trump), just that I think he's doing a good job given the turd burger he inherited. Nope, the low unemployment rate and inflation lower than the rest of our global peers is just a giant conspiracy to hide the truth that the economy is in shambles. No one wants to work any more! Oil would be ~$50/bbl if we would just drill ANWR! The record number of Border Patrol apprehensions show that Biden's open border policy isn't working!

    I told my dad a while back that we couldn't even agree on a shared reality any longer, much less discuss policy disagreements. He just shrugged and I'm sure thinks it's me who has been indoctrinated. But I'll keep banging my head against the wall whenever possible because I don't know what else to do.

    Holy shit. Are you me?

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  10. 1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

    The world was pretty much an oligarchy of white landowning men at that time, at least the prosperous western world.

    That doesn't change the fact that the premise of the nation was revolutionary at the time and remains worth preserving.

    I've always looked at this as the goal. The words were written by folks that obviously didn't fully embrace them, but that's what we're supposed to be doing: working to try and match those words with reality. The words, not Thomas Jefferson's itinerary, are supposed to be the destination. 

  11. Yeah. In Flanders Fields has been celebrated as some of the most poignant wartime literature in history for the better part of 100 years.

    Not that I'd expect an ex-football coach who crawled out of the bathroom window of a Lubbock Chili's to know that.

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  12. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

    A good portion of my second run through undergrad dealt with European politics throughout the interwar years, specifically how movements like fascism, Nazism, ultra-nationalism, and totalitarianism managed not only to gain traction, but come to be embraced by majority populations and how that in turn allowed those folks to carry out some of the most horrific crimes humanity has ever recorded. 

    This stuff reads a lot like that stuff. It's not a 1:1 (it more resembles the lead up to the Spanish Civil War than 1930s Germany, imo) but it's closer than I think most ever imagined. And yeah, the danger goes beyond Trump. This roadmap is simply waiting for the next GOP winner. And at some point, there will be another GOP winner.

    Short of continuing massive voter turnout and... I don't know... hyper-vigilance(?) I'm not sure how else you combat this. In Spain, the pendulum between right and left governments in short succession finally broke out in civil war when Franco and the military chose a side. In Germany, beyond all the economic factors from Versailles, the left wing went after each other (socialists v. communists) while trying to fend of the Nazis electorally. Everyone is well aware of how that plan worked out.

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