[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Federal and State are both pardonable, it is just different entities.

Federal means no parole.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Only if you have broadband in the grave with you.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah, got rid of all my CDs a few years ago and now I'm buying them back a bit at the time because of all the stuff that is going out of print and you can no longer stream.

Should have just stored everything.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

The US has already dropped two nukes on South Carolina.

What more do you want?

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

X, the cowpunk band from Cali, would like a word with you. They were formed in 1980 and still perform.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

That isn't actually Popper. That is Marcuse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Marcuse

That crappy cartoon gets shared a lot but it does not actually represent Popper's views.

It is, however, A very accurate description of Marcuse's views. It even looks like him!

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

No, it is about people fundamentally misunderstanding the case and continuing to misuse a paraphrasing of a dictum, or non-binding statement, from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Incorrectly, acting as if it was a an actually point if law.

If used correctly, then it would be about protesting war. But people rarely understand what was said under Schenck v. United States, nor do they understand that it was overturned.

Brandenburg v. Ohio changed the standard to which speecg speech could be prosecuted only when it posed a danger of "imminent lawless action," a formulation which is sometimes said to reflect Holmes reasoning as more fully explicated in his Abrams dissent, rather than the common law of attempts explained in Schenck.

Fire in a theater is meaningless and useless.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

No, the case was about protesting war.

So, whenever you use this trope, you continue to support the idea that protesting war is criminal and protesters should be imprisoned.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Feinstein was on the following committees. You don't think she pushed California's interests in every one.

  • Committee on Appropriation

  • Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies

  • Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

  • Subcommittee on Defense

  • Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development (Chairman)

  • Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

  • Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

  • Committee on Rules and Administration

  • Committee on the Judiciary

  • Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism

  • Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights

  • Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law

  • Subcommittee on the Constitution (Chairman)

  • Select Committee on Intelligence

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

That would be from a different state and then that state would lose the power of having a senior committee member.

There is a reason Senator Robert Byrd was the longest-serving U.S. Senator. Serving three different tenures as chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations enabled Byrd to steer a great deal of federal money toward projects in West Virginia.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The only reason there is power in her seat is the Seniority System. Whoever takes her place will have no power relative power, and will have to work their way up the ranks.

People talk about term limits, the easiest and most effective change would be to eliminate the Senate Comittee Seniority system.

[-] BuckyVanBuren@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

2008 for me.

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