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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • Technically, SCOTUS didn’t do anything. They refused to take up the case, which means the 5th Circuit’s ruling, that superseded both lower courts that affirmed it was illegal by saying “we’ll address it next year after the primaries,” was the final say.

    The thing that needs to be made sense of is why the 5th Circuit is allowed to operate in bad-faith as a rubber stamp for everything Conservative.



  • This. All of this. It’s fine if the goal is to let the active communities bubble to the top organically, but that doesn’t mean much if people can’t easily find them.

    It would be nice if there was a way to load-share communities among the instances or something, kind of like a mesh network.









  • I don’t think it’s an agenda, I think it’s just poorly delivered. The facts are:

    • Teen hacks corps using a Fire Stick.

    • Teen has done something novel with proprietary hardware.

    I think it’s safe to assume that he’s intelligent and creative based on those two things. With proper guidance from the right kinds of people (including parents), someone like that could eventually put those talents to use on someone’s Red Team, or working with an intelligence agency, rather than doing something illegal to stretch their wings (fuck big corporations, but the law is what it is).

    I don’t think it’s unreasonable to note that his talents will be wasted by grinding him down in the justice system.


  • It’s not that simple, thanks to the Electoral College. If electing a president was based on popular vote, the last several Republican presidents wouldn’t have been elected.

    But thanks to how the Electoral College works, getting elected is based more on strategically winning specific states. Texas, for example, has several deep blue cities with some of the largest populations in the country. Yet, all 50-something electoral votes go to Republicans, because Republicans win the popular vote in the state. The will of those millions of people is discarded and flipped due to the other areas voting differently.





  • Reminder that this isn’t a GOP document, it’s a Heritage Foundation document (right wing extremists).

    They could try to follow it, but the Heritage Foundation ≠ GOP. If anything, the Federalist Society is a far greater threat, since they have tactfully and successfully infected the judiciary, and they don’t even have a public manifesto of this nature.

    This is certainly concerning, but it’s far from guaranteed to be utilized.


  • I recommend listening to Legal AF. They’re lawyers following the Trump case, and I think they’ll give you some hope and a good perspective on how fucked Trump is (the episode titles are a bit clickbait-y, but the core information is good). It’s helped me not completely give up and say, “Well, rich people always get off scot free.”

    Trump hasn’t seen justice, yet, but he also hasn’t been to court except to be arraigned. We all want justice yesterday, but he’ll have to defend himself for real early next year.