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  • Yes, Trump is back. Yet I remain hopeful about America | Robert Reich

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  • I like Aztec history way more than U.S.A. history

    I'm not sure that I would want you in charge :)

  • President Biden pardons family members in final minutes of presidency

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  • I don't think that's a settled matter.

    From the Wikipedia article about Burdick:

    Although the Supreme Court's opinion stated that a pardon carries "an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it," this was part of the Court's dictum for the case. Whether the acceptance of a pardon constitutes an admission of guilt by the recipient is disputed. In Lorance v. Commandant, USDB (2021) the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that "there is no confession and Lorance does not otherwise lose his right to petition for habeas corpus relief for his court-martial conviction and sentence. The case was remanded for further action not inconsistent with the court’s opinion."

  • Yes, Trump is back. Yet I remain hopeful about America | Robert Reich

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  • the slave owning richest man in the country turned warlord

    Washington? He was rich but he wasn't the richest man in America either before or after the revolution.

  • Biden Reportedly Spending Final Hours of Presidency in ‘Dark’ Mood: ‘Never Stopped Feeling Angry’ After Being Forced Out

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  • Somehow he's not near the top of my list of people to feel sorry for.

    Biden has been absolutely consistent about is this belief that he believes that had he stayed in the race, he would have defeated Donald Trump again

    And this is one reason why. He was dead weight that held back Harris (or someone more capable that might have emerged if there had been a competitive primary).

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  • Yeah and I didn't support it, but if he wants to flip-flop then I'm not going to look a gift house in the mouth.

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  • decline into fascism

    I think you are mixing things up. The Biden administration is the one attacking the right to free speech. Trump may not have the right motivations but I'm happy as long as he moves in the right direction.

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  • It was a smart move by TikTok, and not something so dishonest that it would burden my conscience if I were in charge of making it.

    If the Democrats hadn't wanted to give Trump free publicity, they shouldn't have supported an unpopular law that went into effect the day before Trump was inaugurated.

  • Biden pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Milley, Jan. 6 committee members

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  • The fact that this was a good idea is humiliating.

  • What's your most non-mundane possession?

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  • Are you near NYC?

  • What's your most non-mundane possession?

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  • It's not an element. It's a chemical that was used for stripping paint, but the government banned selling it to the public as a paint stripper just because people kept dying.

    I'm a spiteful libertarian. I do not tolerate the government's attempts to protect me from my own bad judgement. Therefore I legally bought a gallon of it from a chemical supply company. (Why did I think I would need a gallon?) I tried to make my own paint stripper from it but I couldn't get it to form a gel. (How could I have known that randos on the internet could provide wrong directions?)

    I haven't gotten rid of it because it was expensive so now it just sits in my freezer. I'll give it away for free to anyone who wants to come pick it up...

  • What's your most non-mundane possession?

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  • I have a gallon of methylene chloride.

  • Please ban hammer, do you thing...

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  • Truly an enemy of the people.

  • TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order

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  • TikTok also was and still is acting like the law is in force - the law does not require it to shut off. They aren't taking any legal risk.

  • TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive order

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  • Note that the law does not prohibit TikTok from operating. It prohibits companies like Google and Apple from distributing it, and according to this article, they are in fact not distributing it.

    Even as TikTok was flickering back on, it remained unavailable for download in Apple and Google’s app stores.

    TikTok shut off voluntarily and that appears to have been an excellent PR move, but we won't know for certain until Trump does or doesn't do something about it in the next few days.

  • Why Trump's new love of TikTok is dangerous | Trump's sudden love of TikTok shows he needs disinfo more than he hates China

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  • Nor is this a "free speech" issue. The right to speak out, even online, has not changed. The government's authority here is to determine what foreign companies are allowed to operate within our borders, a nearly ironclad power.

    This could be true if the ban was content-neutral but, on the contrary, the ban is explicitly intended to limit Americans' access to content that the government disapproves of. The right to free speech includes the right to hear. Americans have the right to listen to Chinese propaganda if they so choose and banning TikTok is exactly the same sort of censorship (differing only in degree) as the Chinese government's censorship of information coming from outside China.

    The whole idea of using government coercion to control "disinformation" is censorious in a way that violates the 1st amendment. People have the right to speak, the right to listen to, and the right to encourage others to listen to even the things that the government considers to be harmful lies.

    I don't care why Trump reverses the TikTok ban, as long as he does.

  • Wyoming GOP Vice Chair Posts Racist Trump/Obama Meme Then Claims 'I'm Not Racist' After The Backlash

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  • IMO the racist interpretation is that it's funny because while the stereotype is true, the idea that behavior alone could bridge the distance between white people and black people is ridiculous.

    The anti-racist interpretation is that it's funny because in order for the stereotype to be true, the ridiculous notion that Trump is black and Obama is white would also have to be true. For the people who like Trump, there's also the implication that it's wrong to discriminate against someone just because according to the stereotype he's more likely to be a felon, given that someone who definitely is a felon is also the right person to be President.

  • TikTok is offline in the U.S. after Supreme Court upholds ban

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  • It's an own-goal for Biden - an unpopular law that starts being enforced the day before Trump gets to stop enforcing it.

  • Both valid

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  • Ponies, here?

  • Wyoming GOP Vice Chair Posts Racist Trump/Obama Meme Then Claims 'I'm Not Racist' After The Backlash

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  • The joke:

    The post to his Facebook page shows a picture of President-elect Donald Trump speaking to former President Barack Obama at last week’s funeral for Jimmy Carter. A caption above the photo reads: “Do you realize, by the time I’m sworn in I’m going to be a felon that worked at McDonald’s? I’m blacker than you.”

    I think there is both a racist and an anti-racist interpretation of this, but I also think that someone laughing at the anti-racist interpretation would probably know better than to post the joke publicly without context.