Awkwardly_Frank

joined 2 years ago
[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Most Americans question that logic, but, as money is speech, anyone who questions it in a public forum gets shouted down by those who can afford to speak more ~~"freely"~~.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

That's exactly the problem with the CASA ruling. It's not localized by state,or even locality. If it were the battles could be fought state by state. Instead every individual person must fight their battle alone unless they can convince a court to certify their class for a class action. Even then the conservative justices affirmed in concurrences that they foresaw that work around and signaled that they were willing to scrutinize class certifications.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Trump v CASA ruled universal injunctions beyond the power of the courts. That means that the ruling can only offer relief to the parties in the individual case. As credit reporting agencies are nationwide entities this case would, by nature, apply to those agencies across the whole nation. I will imagine that this ruling applies only to those agencies party to this lawsuit. Even if that's not all of the big three, this suit will still signal to the executive that action against other agencies won't hold up in court and the CFPB will likely just give up on the rule.

This is my understanding. I'm not a lawyer. This is not legal advice (tm).

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Says the senator of a state that takes $40 billion more in federal money than they contribute annually.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They are the very model of modern major generals!

 

You look like you could use one.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don’t get me wrong, I believe little donny debt-co wants to use the military to force compliance with his will, but I don’t think that clip says what you think it does. He states that the military isn’t for organizing drag shows “or spreading democracy at the point of a run.”

What the great Orange meme-cicle seems to be saying is much worse. He seems, to me, to be saying that the military shouldn’t be concerned with ethics or morality, but rather with raw strength of arms and the exercise of power to whatever ends the president sees fit.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Send a gift. If gifts will be received at the event ask a friend who’s attending to take it on your behalf. If you can come up with something small, but meaningful, it’ll say that you noticed the slight without saying it and it could still be an olive branch. Include a nice card that tells her how much you’ve appreciated her friendship and help organizing group events. She’ll either take the olive branch and open up or back off, or she’ll catch the slight, it’ll be entirely up to her.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Even were it true, which it is not, that the ruling classes push LGBTQ+ acceptance, Nutomic’s argument would be ignorant at best and dishonest. Either they don’t know of all the historic instances in which those in power have played both sides of an issue against each other in order to divide potential opponents or, more likely, they are willing to selectively overlook it to justify their prejudices.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My brother in Christ, that is just a club! You pay dues to belong and everyone elects the few most organized and functional people to plan events that everyone can enjoy. You can even kick it up a notch and make it a civil organization so that you’re accomplishing good works while hanging out with likeminded people. Society used to be full of such organizations, and it’s time we brought them back.

[–] Awkwardly_Frank@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Isn’t this just the story of the allied powers in World War Two repackaged into science fiction? The members were:

The British who were sort of friends with the Americans but regarded them as less civilized and less experienced in running a nation.

The French who literally fought the Hundred Years’ War against the English.

The Soviets who didn’t like any of those people and proceeded to argue with all of them thereafter.

The Americans who had existed for a little over a century, invented the nuke after winning a fight with a World power in an ascendant phase, and decided it was on them to guarantee World peace.