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Zaktor ,

The only way it makes sense is if it’s reading between the lines that the Supreme Court is signaling racism is now ok. These people have simple minds, affirmative action and the CROWN Act are just both wokeness, so if one wokeness is torn down, then the rest should be soon to follow.

Zaktor ,

This exact same school district already lost a pre-CROWN Act federal lawsuit about requiring Black students to cut their hair.

It’s the exact same case, except the new kid’s hair is less long and since then (literally in response to it) Texas passed the CROWN Act to make it explicit. Nothing changed to make it allowed, they just decided to keep doing it. And I’d say it’s pretty safe to call the judge, who ruled against a previous federal ruling and the law explicitly added in response to the previous violation, is just another Republican racist with no concern for the law. Feels like we need a new round of federal supervision for civil rights in South.

Also, all this seems like something a journalist might want to include in a story.

Zaktor ,

And he literally already lost a court case about requiring Black students to cut their hair but kept doing it anyway.

Zaktor ,

They literally already lost a federal case on the exact same issue (with, surprise surprise, a pair of other Black students). The CROWN Act that is being referenced here was passed because of that past case. And “long hair” is a style, and one with particular relevance to some cultures (some Native Americans and in the past case the student’s family from Trinidad).

They’re not sticklers to the rules, they’re just racists echoing the racists of the past by policing and restricting non-white hair styles.

Zaktor ,

He set out to be an asshole, but complained that being an asshole wasn’t profitable enough so the other assholes made sure he was well taken care of.

propublica.org/…/clarence-thomas-money-complaints…

Zaktor ,

And their target is specifically people who likely can’t think about Reddit, the company, objectively because being on Reddit, the website, is such a large part of their personality.

Zaktor ,

The functional part (avoiding incentivizing corruption) could be handled just as well by giving them lifelong pay (and financial reporting). The winds of justice being determined by when an old person dies is not a necessary feature.

Zaktor ,

Is Hawaii thumbing its nose at a ruling? I assume California is the jurisdiction most likely to eventually say “make us”.

Zaktor ,

I saw zero spam and multiple posts talking about spam.

Zaktor ,

They were directly responding to a comment about European values.

Zaktor ,

Kinda need the senate in there, too.

Just an off-topic reminder to people that who controls each branch of government isn’t three independent variables. With the senate map favorable to them, if Trump wins the presidency, Republicans probably also won the House and Senate.

Zaktor ,

Anyone projecting 75 years into the future is just making things up and doesn’t need to be covered as a news story.

Zaktor ,

It’s not a matter of doing math well, it’s that your unknowns destroy any prediction you’re making. If you’re doing it correctly you’re expanding your error bars as you get further into the future. By 75 years out you’re all error.

Zaktor ,

A projection 75 years in the future? Yeah, that’s almost certainly bullshit. Short term predictions already have optimistic and pessimistic paths based on how we as a society react because this isn’t just a physics problem, it’s heavily reliant on culture and policy and technological advancement. And birth rates are even more reliant on culture and policy.

Zaktor ,

Except birth rates aren’t physics that will progress if left alone, they’re dominated by cultural choices that are impacted by economics and governmental policy. There’s no such thing as “without other factors”, because they’re unable to predict fundamental inputs. What’s China’s economy going to be like in 75 years? How about their food supply under climate change? Is modern day “China” even going to exist? The CCP itself is only 75 years old.

They can’t predict the inputs for 75 years, let alone their feedback into birth choices. It’s just a highly simplified math sim with arbitrary coefficients for the few things they try to model. Pull a different number from your ass to plug into the economy growth box or add a new function to represent widescale automation and you get whatever number you want. You can look at macro birth rate trends for a single country and think “yeah, I could fit a pretty good exponential decay line to that”, except then you look at another country that had the same birth rate in 1950 and the coefficients change. And since it’s exponential those little coefficient tweaks make a big difference 75 years later. In 1950 did anyone have any reason to think that Mongolia’s 75 year birth rate would be twice that of China? Or South Korea’s would be 60 percent?

Zaktor ,

“Hey, here’s a possible future. Not the most likely or even the most accurate to some imagined neutral policy position, just one potential future. Or maybe even not a potential future if we’re missing a key impact.” It’s all bullshit man, with practically zero prescriptive value. One of the broadly assumed core components of birthing decisions, economics, is almost unpredictable even 20 years out, let alone 75. The simulation-based social “sciences” are just prettied-up hunches and guesswork in anything but the shortest of terms.

But I agree that they aren’t meant to be proven, because that’s a very convenient space to work in when your methodology is “I made a guess about the coefficient” combined with “what if complicated things were actually simple”. Garbage in, garbage out.

Zaktor ,

That’s going to be an issue in 10-20 years. Who the fuck knows what it’s going to be like 75 years from now. We’re talking about a span of time as long as Communist China has existed. 75 years ago computers barely existed.

Zaktor ,

Social sciences and hard sciences are not the same thing. Social “sciences” are largely unfalsifiable and dominated by the “unless modified by human action” caveat that breaks predictions. You can predict very general trends like “fewer births”, but in 1949 you couldn’t look at the populations of Mongolia, China, and South Korea and know that they would have vastly different birth rates 75 years later.

Zaktor ,

If we could jump to the period of drone-on-drone warfare, great, that would be less horrible, but we’ve been going through a lot of drone-on-human warfare and it’s pretty bad.

Zaktor ,

The carrier strike group still has its planes and sensors and so on. Drones are more like upgraded missiles. Powerful missiles made ships vulnerable, but they didn’t obsolete navies.

Zaktor ,

Drone-on-drone warfare is nearly purely economic. The war is won by maintaining your drone protection and destroying enemy production centers until it’s clear you can just keep destroying their infrastructure until they submit.

Zaktor ,

And my point is that the purpose of a carrier strike group isn’t just to blow enemy ships up. Subs and missile are already much better at that and we haven’t replaced our entire navy with them.

Zaktor ,

LOL, what clever reverse psychology Mr. Putin! We will definitely all buy that you want the guy pushing to arm your victims rather than the one who wants to give you a free pass. It’s frankly shocking how bad they are at their overt manipulation. Their propaganda videos for conservative westerners are incredibly poorly done, like they have no idea what sort of cultural styles appeal to which segments of the US population.

“‘I’m very conservative and traditional’: meet Teddy Boy Greg, a famous barber living in Moscow, 100% tattooed and 100% in love with Russia.”

Zaktor ,

I can’t remember if they’re actually pro-Russia, but I chose an instance that doesn’t federate with Hexbear for exactly the reason that I don’t have to see their trolling. Reddit was nicer once CTH got banned and Lemmy is much better without Hexbear.

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according to multiple sources familiar with the intelligence.

Sounds like multiple sources are violating the laws about classified information. Is the urge to gossip with your reporter “friend” really that overpowering?

Zaktor ,

Why? This isn’t revealing anything individual people need to react to and isn’t showing mismanagement or corruption within government that needs to be fixed. What are you going to do in your life knowing this?

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Because they’re allowed leave?

Zaktor ,

If he’s gonna die in a hospital, it’s going to be in an American hospital due to our terrible health care system!

Judge to consider whether to remove District Attorney Fani Willis from Georgia election case (apnews.com)

As soon as allegations of an inappropriate romantic relationship between Willis and attorney Nathan Wade surfaced last month, speculation about the future of the case began to swirl. Even if the prosecution isn’t derailed, the upheaval has certainly created an unwanted distraction for Willis and her team and could undermine...

Zaktor ,

Take a second and explain what you think the supposed conflict is. What are the two conflicting interests and how would they result in a miscarriage of justice that would harm the defendant?

Zaktor ,

That the smart bullets have killed so many thousands of women and children is just evidence of how serious the Hamas problem is.

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per the IDF.

Ah, so more unsubstantiated bullshit. If they wanted to be believed, they shouldn’t have lied the first, second, fifth, or twentieth time before.

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a wave of suburban discontent fueled by the crush of migrants arriving at the southern border and in New York City

You live in the suburbs in a state nearly as far from the southern border as possible, wtf do you care about some migrants in a city of 8.8M?

Oh, just it’s just racism isn’t it?

Zaktor ,

The narrative of this is just bonkers. They’ve stripped out the thing they want the most, because that thing might help accomplish things they want, and accomplishing things they want would make the guy who threatened their lives less likely to win.

Why isn’t the Biden administration suing Texas for taking over the job of Border Patrol? (www.nbcnews.com)

The Biden administration has not sued. It did win a Supreme Court ruling that it could take down the razor wire that Texas has deployed in Shelby Park and elsewhere, which the administration said has led to drowning deaths among migrants. It has now cut razor wire in some sections of the border, but not in Shelby Park, which it...

Zaktor ,

I frankly question needing the court at all. This isn’t a confusing case of constitutional law in need of clarification. The federal government owns the border and anyone trying to stop them should be arrested.

The official said that between the fight to pass a border bill, defend Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in an impeachment fight

Ok, since these two fires have extinguished themselves…

…ignite another fire at a time when the administration wants to appear tougher on border security.

So tough they’re backing down and letting a state handle it? Right now they couldn’t even get to a starving asylum seeker in that area to preemptively expel them. Backing down when someone takes your shit and maybe considering possibly asking someone else to tell them not to isn’t projecting “toughness”.

Zaktor ,

Enforcing federal supremacy is neither scorched earth nor of negligible value. And I pointed out how muddling around and backing down makes Biden look weak.

All this talk about Republican traps is the same dumb shit where Democrats continually backed down from Trump because they thought he was some sort of political mastermind and any action would just be playing into his hands. The idea that the masterstroke for Democrats to just sit back and let the electorate come to the obvious conclusion that they’re the adults in the room is just an excuse for baked in cowardice. They’ve done this time and again and it never works out. People think they’re out of touch and dawdling and this is just a silly game while the Republicans are left to control the narrative, ratchet up to the next level of provocation, and look tough during troubled times.

Abbot isn’t some sort of political mastermind. These guys aren’t geniuses, they’ve got stupid playbooks they’re almost forced to follow because they’re competing to be the dumbest idiot of the dumb-dumb party and the moment they step out of line their lunatics fall on them. The only reason it works is because they’re almost never confronted with power.

And again, this is a convenient time when both the right political move and the right governmental move are the same thing. The federal government needs to shut this down yesterday. They have supremacy over the border and a call to allied states to send troops is blatantly rebellious. States can’t be allowed to play at rebellion, because when you let that grow you get closer and closer to the real thing. They’re just being performative blowhards, until they aren’t.

Zaktor ,

That would only be true if the state then sent armed agents to prevent the FBI from arresting a pot dealer. Having different rules is vastly different from claiming territory and excluding the federal government.

Zaktor ,

They’ll welcome us as liberators!

Canadians worry US democracy cannot survive Trump's return to White House, poll finds - Reuters (news.yahoo.com)

OTTAWA (Reuters) - About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said the United States is on the way to becoming an authoritarian state, a poll released on Monday said....

Zaktor ,

lol

Zaktor ,

That’s not the only way they can be compared to Ronald Reagan. I think at this point we’re pretty much guaranteed to have some dementia in office.

Zaktor ,

Guess that answers the question of whether he was a Kremlin plant.

Zaktor ,

Three times 5% is 15%, and that just gets further from 9000 the more total signatures he had. There’s no math that works out.

Zaktor ,

Weird how the human rights record of Yemen is suddenly an important news topic right when the West is ramping up for military conflict with them. It must have just started, because otherwise this would be a cynical ploy to drum up support for war.

Zaktor ,

To do what exactly? Are we going to then do the same thing to Saudi Arabia, where we actually have some moral entanglements and some ability to influence?

There’s nothing someone in the West is supposed to do upon learning this fact. There’s no aid to withdraw or vacations to cancel to try to influence them to be less horrible. The only leverage is war.

Zaktor ,

So we’ll do Saudi Arabia next?

Zaktor ,

They’re being sarcastic. We’ll beat the drums about the Houthis persecution because we want people to be angry at them (and thus supportive of greater military action), but the Saudis do the same thing (plus murder American journalists) and our presidents give them hugs.

Zaktor ,

This would fit in very well with a dysfunctional local government sitcom:

When Officer Alfeldi arrived and insisted that Falcone wear a mask, he responded “that he was engaged in constitutionally protected activities, including his remaining unmasked, and that he would not put on a mask unless defendant Alfeldi advised that he would be arrested for not doing so.” Id. Officer Alfeldi assured Falcone that he would not be arrested, so he remained maskless. Moments before the Board convened, Falcone “served what he believed were legal papers on each Board member.” Id. He then spoke at the podium for public citizen speakers—still maskless—and was approached by a second police officer who again directed him to wear a mask. Falcone responded by pointing out that the officer himself was unmasked.

Zaktor ,

If it helps, they were both shot down by the District court and while their suits requested injunctive relief (which was moot shortly after filing as mandates ended), they also wanted compensation. So the only result potentially being delayed was them getting money.

Trump is not immune from prosecution in his 2020 election interference case, US appeals court says (apnews.com)

The ruling is significant not only for its stark repudiation of Trump’s novel immunity claims but also because it breathes life back into a landmark prosecution that had been effectively frozen for weeks as the court considered the appeal....

Zaktor ,

They decided 5-4 on the settled law that the Federal government has authority over the border. The 5 were on the correct side, but it should have bee 9-0. I wouldn’t put money on them being chastened by public backlash.

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