I’m not in a spot to listen to the audio, but Cory Doctorow is always insightful on these things.
Amazon has been fucking over the book industry and small authors since its inception…Amazon literally began as a startup that massively disrupted publishing. Any author that can diversify their small business (because most authors are one-person small businesses making modest livings or below-poverty livings, the Stephen Kings and J. K. Rowlings are rare) to get some of their work out of Amazon’s grip should.
And audiobooks sell well, so if you can sell them without handing a big ol’ chunk of profit to Amazon, you should try.
Some authors find a way to game Amazon’s system now and again to make profits, but it’s very perilous locking all your income to one predatory distributor. You never want all your eggs in one basket.
I get the republicans are rich and tax cheats. But do you really think only Republicans are going to oppose it? No rich democrats ever cheated on their taxes?
That shows disrespect to a free and independent media. It’s blacklisting one of the nation’s largest and most widely read newspapers, Karine. That shows contempt for a free and independent press.
she violated the recently passed city law that prohibits civilians from bringing firearms to protests, the police said
At no point in time was anyone menaced or injured as a result of her possessing the firearm
Unless she was threatening someone (the article makes no claim she did), she will be acquitted. One does not have just one right at a time, one has all their rights all the time.
Cities can absolutely pass enforceable gun laws. She brought a firearm into a prohibited place, that’s not a right.
And concealed carry should be exactly that. If people can easily see it, that’s effectively brandishing (in areas without open carry). That was made abundantly clear at the CC class I attended. Now it’s open carry here and doesn’t matter.
A law that makes it illegal to exercise 1st Amendment rights and 2nd Amendment rights at the same time will not withstand scrutiny. Neither of those rights are mutually exclusive.
I suppose we will have to see how the case goes. Bruen specifically prohibited broad restrictions on what a sensitive place can be. ‘Anywhere people are exercising 1st Amendment rights in public’ is almost certainly going to fail this test from Bruen.
A firearm ban at protests would not qualify as a broad restriction. It is targeted towards a particular type of gathering where emotions can run hot, things can get violent quite easily, and the use of a firearm, even in an otherwise legitimate scenario, would cause a ton of collateral injuries or deaths via a crowd crush.
Bringing a gun to a protest is by definition intimidation. Best case scenario you are willingly placing yourself in a situation where you forsee the “need” to use a deadly weapon. You do not go to a protest with a gun out in the open for others to see just to defend yourself.
A law that makes it illegal to exercise 1st Amendment rights and 2nd Amendment rights at the same time will not withstand scrutiny.
Maybe not at the federal level, but there’s a whole gauntlet of “the 2nd amendment is just a suggestion” types to get through before the case makes its way up there.
Bitch if you can’t see how bringing in a gun is an inherent act of menacing then you’re the exact kind of ignoramus who should never be trusted with a firearm.
War crimes are war crimes even if you feel like you have a good reason (hint: there’s no good reason to cut off the watersupply to an entire population.)
Or maybe let the Palestinians take care of their own security because it seems the only palestinians with guns do so illegally and fall in with Hamas. How do we expect a peace treaty work otherwise? Do we expect to make sociopaths like Hamas docile with peace?
That’s just it. Hamas does not want peace with Israel. They want to see 100% total eradication of the Israeli state. There is no reasoning with extremists. I’m surprised so many people here are pro-Hamas.
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