Archangel1313
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- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 18 hours ago:
That would be “the carrot”. Trump prefers “the stick”.
- Comment on Trump 'thinks' Zelensky ready to give up Crimea to Russia 1 day ago:
Was that based on Zelenski saying that would never happen?
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 1 day ago:
Yeah, never watched it. I’m not that much of a masochist.
- Comment on Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you? 2 days ago:
You are not describing a “friend”.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
If you had to pick either one of those fingers to call the “middle” one, it’s pretty obvious which one better fits the description.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 3 days ago:
Remember when this stuff was called "the quiet part’, and it was considered bad when you said it out loud?
Yeah…good times.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 4 days ago:
This is the biggest anti-endorsement I’ve ever heard. Thank you for telling us all that. I will absolutely never be using this browser.
- Comment on Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for her plastic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer 4 days ago:
They’re all criminals.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 4 days ago:
They protect their own.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 4 days ago:
Also those people…“We need to ban all forms of weather manipulation technology, because space lasers or something something…”
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 5 days ago:
It’s called the “Laken Riley Act”, and it allows for the deportation of people who have simply been “charged” with a criminal offense. They don’t have to be tried or convicted…just officially accused.
- Comment on Trump attacks Zelensky over possibility of Crimea going to Russia 5 days ago:
Trump said on Wednesday in the Oval Office that he found it easier to deal with Russia compared to Ukraine.
No shit. They just tell him whatever he wants to hear, and then do whatever they feel like, right after. Trump doesn’t care about the outcome…he just wants his asshole tongued.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 6 days ago:
Congress recently passed a law that allows people to be deported without due process. They’re not trying to stop him…they’re actively helping him.
- Comment on The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy 6 days ago:
I’m having a hard time understanding why the fuck this matters so much. You’d think they were discussing critical, top secret information. But, nope…just who the next Pope is going to be.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 6 days ago:
That is sage advice. I think I’ve been doing it wrong, this whole time.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 1 week ago:
The dislike of Discovery is a totally valid opinion, but this is a poor & disrespectful take.
Except this is what I disliked about Discovery. You’d have ten minutes of activity that actually moved the plot forward, followed by twenty minutes of crew “checking in” with each other in order to discuss everyone’s feelings about what just happened while also rehashing events from past episodes. It was like watching a Spanish telenovela, where every second piece of dialogue was intended to remind you of what happened in the last episode…just in case you forgot.
Every episode was 3/4 dialogue, discussing what we all watched happen in the first 1/4. It felt like every season should have taken 3 episodes…not 14. In the last couple of seasons, I literally skipped entire episodes, and it did nothing to impact the plot.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 1 week ago:
Thank God. This would have been 2 straight hours of mind-numbing dialogue between characters about how much they’ve been through together and how much they’re going to miss each other.
- Comment on Trump posted a photo of Abrego Garcia’s hand with an MS-13 knuckle tattoo. Internet sleuths say it’s photoshopped 1 week ago:
According to court documents, the only “evidence” they have that he was a gang member, is the testimony of an unidentified informant that was never cross examined in court. He testified on paper that Garcia was a member of a branch of MS-13 that is only active in a part of New York that Garcia had never been to before.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 1 week ago:
Twitter, of course. Elon’s already made it quite comfortable for them over there.
- Comment on Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals 1 week ago:
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 1 week ago:
“El-mo”? More like “El-NO”! Amiright, guys?
- Comment on Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals 1 week ago:
They’ve all lost billions since he took office.
- Comment on Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals 1 week ago:
It’s like they’re actively trying to do as much damage as possible, to literally everything.
- Comment on Man deported to El Salvador will never live back in US, says White House 1 week ago:
This is insane. They just keep lying about this guy, even after admitting they were wrong, in court. You can’t tell the truth to a judge and then walk out of the courtroom and say the opposite to the media outside. What the fuck?
- Comment on Top Donald Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chinese communications tech 1 week ago:
Oops. There goes the US communications tech industry, I guess.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
So, all those research papers were written by AI? Huh.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
So, is your account just restricted in Turkey? Or everywhere, based on local Turkish law?
- Comment on US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada 2 weeks ago:
“I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better,” Atallah said. “Things actually changed to the worse.”
And, all of a sudden…I stopped feeling bad for this guy.
- Comment on Trump-backed bill to stop 'rogue' judges passes House 2 weeks ago:
“It has already been established before that rights reserved for US citizens do not exist in the same way for aliens.”
Nope. That is not true at all. It is established law that the rights afforded by the Constitution apply to all individuals within the United States, regardless of their citizenship status. They are inalienable. That word has meaning. They don’t necessarily apply to other countries, because those countries have their own laws…but inside the United States, the Constitution is the “law of the land”.
“They should identify the potential conflict and, based on that, potentially hold what’s going on.”
That’s literally what challenging these orders in court, does. If someone believes that a law or executive order is in violation of the Constitution, then they need to bring a challenge to court, and let a judge decide. The Judiciary’s entire job is to rule on whether or not these things are “Constitutional” or not. And since you can’t just bring a case before the Supreme Court without going through the lower courts first…that’s where you start.
The lower court judge makes a ruling. If the administration wants to appeal that, then it goes up to the next higher court for their ruling. If you don’t like their decision, you can appeal it again…all the way up to the Supreme Court. That’s how it works.
“Just as such, if there was some fatal flaw or conflict of interest discovered with how a judge or detective conducted himself, it would not justify releasing all the connected criminals immediately. Rather, it would justify reviewing all these cases and then releasing people whom it was determined to have impacted.”
And see, you’ve got this all wrong. In this country, you are innocent until proven guilty. The entire point of the justice system is to “review all these cases” individually, and a judge needs to sign off on whatever outcomes are decided, whether that’s by jury or otherwise. But each case needs to be tried in court, and the sentence is decided there as well. The president doesn’t have the legal authority to simply dictate a new punishment for them. All he has is the power to pardon someone…not to redefine their punishment. That is not his job.
- Comment on Trump-backed bill to stop 'rogue' judges passes House 2 weeks ago:
That process still needs to happen. You can’t just assume what the final outcome is going to be, and just proceed as if it can’t be challenged. That defeats the entire purpose of judicial review.
If there is even the slightest possibility that the order given, is in conflict with the Constitution…then allowing it to proceed at all, is also a violation of the Constitution. Putting that order on pause, until the review process can be completed…all the way up to the Supreme Court if necessary…is the only logical option.
Or do you think it’s fine to keep breaking the law for potentially months, until the Supreme Court can confirm what even the lowest courts were able to determine was illegal?