Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time." -Frank Wilhoit
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  2. "a profound moral issue on which Americans hold sharply conflicting views" could just as easily have described segregation or countless other civil rights issues. It's utterly irrelevant to the matter at hand. Sometimes, even often, when people disagree on a moral issue, one side is simply in the wrong (as the right has been on EVERY civil rights issue in history).
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  3.  @jesseg8298  way to prove you don't understand or care about consent or personhood. Remind me again which party is defending child marriage?
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  4.  @pieppy6058  well, a LOT of transphobia, to be fair, but I assume that was a deliberate understatement.
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  5. *centuries
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  6.  @SandsBuisle  I don't play much magic anymore, but I prefer to call her "Ms. 'Jewish Space Lasers'" It takes longer to type, but I'm pretty insistent on the "Never Again" thing, so the constant reminder so no-one forgets for a second what she is is worth it. Not being the same acronym as a card game is a side bonus, and even more reason to call her that for fans of the game.
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  7. Safe isn't really an option anymore.
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  8. We can't be the land of the free unless we are the home of the brave, and we haven't been THAT in a long time if ever.
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  9. The only one who I've found to EVER stand on principle is Kyle Kulinsky. No surprise, he's a progressive.
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  10.  @1qtaz  I mean, the global resurgance of fascism has Steve Bannon written all over it. https://youtu.be/wO6uD3c2qMo
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  11.  @shmyules8711  I mean, without knowing, you actually have, because every movie villian is Donald Trump https://youtu.be/b7XXs3hzAMs (The hyperbole in that statement is much less than you'd expect, btw)
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  12. Most of the people calling it hyperbole are being flagrantly dishonest. Ignore them.
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  13. I'm not going to begrudge you your dark humor and schadenfreude, but do keep in mind that this circus is nuclear-armed and has the largest military on the planet. You have a big stake in which side wins.
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  14.  @jwhite-1471  check the video links I posted. A whole lot of independent artists already effectively work without copyright protection because they're producing works that aren't expensive enough to be worth the legal services to defend. They monetize based on donations and/or a pay for creation instead of a pay for distribution system.
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  15. Wow, you made a lot of people mad to get a comment with that many upvotes pushed down this far in the comment section, and considering who those downvotes came from, well done!
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  16. ​ @joshmich873 if you need to get permission in advance to do something, you don't have a right to it. The first amendment is VERY clear on this.
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  17. ​ @britishrocklovingyank3491 who's enforcing law anymore? They're just enforcing a dictator's will, not the actual law.
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  18. You might want to look back at the exit polling to see which generations voted for this repeatedly.
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  19.  @Kevin_2435  ...that is bizarre behavior.
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  20.  @SuchDoge4242  the right has always been the biggest snowflakes and pushers of cancel culture. Remember the Satanic Panic? Or the countless other examples. They do it all the time and then whine like babies when they get a fraction of it sent back. Always have. Always will.
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  21. We're not getting that anytime soon, whoever wins, unfortunately... (Not to imply that one option isn't significantly worse than the other, of course)
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  22. "Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past." -Jean-Paul Sartre, speaking of applicable to all fascists of which xAquinasx is clearly one if anyone is remotely familiar with fascists propagandists on YouTube and merely glances at his subscription list.
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  23.  @citricdemon  the idea that Congress would need to spell out every single right you have is contrary to the constitution, which you clearly don't care about, meaning your idea of "doing things the right way" is just dishonest garbage.
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  24. This is the kind of thing the 2nd Amendment was designed to deal with... I hope it doesn't come to that, but we are rapidly running out of alternatives.
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  25. I don't think we'll ever get rid of that distinction or stop needing to be particular about the difference between being a contractor and working as part of a company, but it's an area to be extra careful of, as it's ripe for potential abuse. Your gut revulsion to those with power trying to manipulate that distinction is well-founded and if I ever see a good way to solve the issue forever, it has my full attention.
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  26. ​ @lokiva8540 eh, she's not exactly anti-genocide when it comes to Ukraine. She is better on Palestine, though, yes.
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  27. Objection: No, I don't remember when Republicans cared about states' rights. In fact, I'm fairly sure neither party has ever actually cared about states' rights and that they've only ever used it as a justification for whatever they wanted to do, flipping back and forth at deciding issues at the federal or state level as politically convenient at the time. "States' rights" appears to only have ever been a political talking point or legal pretext for at least the last 200ish years.
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  28. The founding fathers seem to have left a fair bit to future generations to figgure out while the work was held together through a mix of forbearance carried forward via gentleman's agreements (which has been destroyed in the last decade overwhelmingly by one party) and the threat of violence "watering the tree of liberty" If we don't fix our systems in a big way stronger than they have ever been, we're gonna be in a really bad way, because we're in untenably precarious situation and I don't see many people trying to fix things beyond just going back to the status quo that gave us this mess in the first place.
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  29. ​ @marcpeterson1092 tough shit.
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  30.  @citricdemon  if you need to point to worship of the flag to "prove" your patriotism or devotion to the ideals the country was founded on, they're not things you possess.
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  31.  @citricdemon  no, it doesn't. It interprets the constitution in a way that says "if the government doesn't spell out your rights you don't have them" which is explicitly written against IN THE DOCUMENT. If we were talking about judicial review being ruled in some way that limits people's rights, you might have an argument, but it's the opposite. I also never said the founding fathers weren't patriots. You're displaying EXACTLY the kind of "convenient misreading" I was talking about and which your side has ALWAYS loved to engage in in your opposition to every single civil rights movement in our country's history.
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  32. So you're pro free speech AND pro genocide.
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  33. OBJECTION 16:04 "Everyone is onboard to help out as many people as possible" This is demonstrably untrue.
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  34. Copy and potentially pass on.
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  35. I mean the kekistan flag was created by fascists to mirror the Nazi flag, but I'm not seeing it in that frame unless I'm missing something. That said, the "alt-right" has basically taken over 4-chan and spread their propaganda largely through it (even before Qanon) so yeah, it's absolutely involved.
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  36. I mean, if providing more evidence would open him up to criminal prosecution for, say, terrorism (which his actions could easily fall under the definition of), this could easily be his best move as it keeps things in civil rather than criminal court. Pretty simple, really.
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  37. ​ @anannon8384  even just getting Hillary off the ballot would have solved 2016.
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  38.  @rmsgrey  unless they can justify it as a potentially profitable investment in PR, it does get onto shakey legal grounds, yes. Usually that's enough to justify whatever executives might want to do if they pair it with some investment into advertising or something to make sure people know they're doing it, but then if it doesn't turn out to be profitable after all, it's possible (even perhaps likely) they will be replaced by someone who will be more cutthroat than them. Corporations are effectively psychopathic homunculai created by tying a contract to a stack of money...or alternatively an AI set singlemindely on the goal of short-term profits, no different than an AI set to make as many paperclips as possible...even if it means destroying the world to turn it into material for more paperclips with the only difference between it and a classic rogue ai doomsday scenario being that they replace gears and circuits with people and they're not superhumanly intelligent (though advances in weak ai to supplement the human minds set to work in the algorithms of corporate beurocracy are starting to push that for some tech and investment companies) As long as you don't limit the idea of an ai apocalypse to needing to be made of metal and silicone, ones and zeros, we're actually living in a slow-moving one right now and haven't even realized it for what it is. Sleep well 😉
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  39. @Eric Lawrence Britt, Umberto Eco, "Palingenetic Ultranationalism", and "rebellion against The Enlightenment". By all means, educate me on how it differs from any of the above.
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  40. ​ @EmilyCheetham fascists happened.
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  41. The right Always Projects I know that sounds hyperbolic, but that's really what it comes down to.
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  42.  @Giantsfanlewis  Troll harder (& get this account banned too)
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  43. If we're talking about the "rights of potential people" then we're talking about a legal standard where the state could mandate women be pregnant as early and often as biologically possible, which of course would be insanity right out of the handmaid's tale.
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  44.  @tigernotwoods914  I'm expanding on your point, not disagreeing with it.
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  45.  @tigernotwoods914  yup, no biggie. It happens.
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  46. That's the idea. They want the "rights" of governments to supercede those of people because they are authoritarians.
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  47.  @J0SHUAKANE  notice that the closest you had to a counterargument was performative laughing at the least consequential part of my comment and contrast that with the evidence I pointed to in said comment. Is this some kind of public autohumiliation kink or are you just that desperate to cover for fascists?
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  48.  @o76923  that's an interesting point.
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  49.  @timoathetr  the Nazis made it one. They like to steal shit and dogwhistles and plausible deniability.
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  50. Reminder since it's been a while, Verison gave us Ajit Pai
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