Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "LegalEagle" channel.

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  2. I think something that gets missed with the nostalgia goggles on is that Indy is not a paragon. In fact, the only difference between him and Belloq at the outset is that Belloq is a Nazi, and his arc in the film is re-examining his moral compass through the filter of the hunt for the Ark. Rewatching it as an adult brought a lot more depth than I recognized as a kid. I think the second movie messes this up by having him learn the same lesson again, except it’s canonically earlier.
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  3. I've been waiting for deliberations in this case for over a month now. The main thing that struck me is that both tech companies and creators are siding with the status quo, which is unusual, while the main opponent...is Josh Hawley.
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  4.  @teresas8173  He was called America's Mayor just because he happened to be mayor during 9/11. It completely turned around his public image...until he tried running for President in 2008.
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  5. It all started with a badly-timed bald joke.
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  6. I regret confusing her with Naomis Klein, Campbell, and Harris for the last 20 yars.
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  7. Okay, you have to do something on Action Park.
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  8. “Favorite” is a misinterpretation. “Chosenness” is just a contract with God to fulfill certain ritual obligations, whereas everyone else just has to follow 7 basic moral laws (assuming God doesn’t have other contracts with other groups, which isn’t to be taken for granted). All of which is to say a legal argument could be made by these fundamentalist groups that they’re not allowed to dance but other people are. Which of course defeats the justification for a civil ban on dancing, but that’s ancillary to an ecclesiastical argument.
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  9.  @trajancaesar2662  I don't think you can assume that, because the court is now dominated by religious conservatives who may share Hawley's vision– keep in mind, the dude wants to outlaw pornography and premarital sex, which would absolutely overturn existing precedents, and the court is in the habit of doing exactly that for exactly those reasons.
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  10.  @Mark-qq9cd Apparently he thought rising to the occasion was a temp job.
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  11.  @vylbird8014  I wish we'd had this expression during the Vietnam War.
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  12. You know that’s only Massachusetts, right? The US has very diverse origins, all with their own unique political cultures that have contributed to the whole; from Jamestown to New Amsterdam to Alta California.
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  13. I wish people would bring this up more.
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  14.  @tensemurm5924 The English Civil War happened after the founding of Massachusetts. It’s very frustrating every time I see British commenters equate the US with Puritanism as if that never happened there (and implicitly conflating the very northern 17th century Puritans with the mostly Southern, 20th century Fundamentalist movement when the two cultures are directly opposed).
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  15. "They'd go on and on about all of the inaccuracies and silliness...then in a low voice admit that watching the movie was why they became fighter pilots in the first place." Oh, so it really is just like Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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  16. Ken White called it "a love letter to corruption." Like, he pardoned people he didn't even like just because he sympathized with them for being corrupt.
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  17. A whole lot of YouTubers did; I got a sneak peek in the EduTuber Slack channel and it's very respectable.
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  18. The radio snippet wasn't a news story; it was an ad by the tort reform lobby.
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  19. The Sriracha factory was in Irwindale, not Irvine. The good people of the San Gabriel Valley will not stand for this continued erasure!
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  20.  @TreyRuiz  In many cases, people started them intentionally because it was not common for insurance to cover earthquakes.
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  21. Scowl Owl is truly the Alex Rubinstein to LegalEagle's Jon Bois.
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  22. He also had a weird obsession with eradicating ferrets. He lost his shit on the radio calling ferret owners perverts.
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  23. Makes sense since she can't even get a bus to hit on her.
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  24.  @Black_Caucus  Correction: they DO live in the 1950s. Most cities had extensive public transport networks prior to the 1950s.
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  25.  @ItsBofu  Bernie Sanders is only the 3rd-most left-wing US Senator. It's just a branding thing.
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  26.  @poodypooroo Tommy Tallerico? Your mother must be very proud of you.
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  27. I still don't understand why you would want your consulate to circumvent fire codes.
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  28.  @themanhimself3  Ritual halacha only applies to Jews. In Jewish theology, non-Jews only need to follow seven very basic moral laws given to Noah. Also mixed fabrics and tattoos were only ever self-policing violations and weren't subject to trial by an ecclesiastical court. Also the prohibition on mixed fabrics only applies to wool and linen.
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  29.  @joachimschoder  It belongs to the international community, who already signed (along with the US) a treaty on international copyright law that Congress was merely complying with.
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  30. ​ @stephencody6088  I'm a millennial and I was left on my own by 8. Hell, I now live in a country where kids are let loose in the city on at that age.
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  31.  @michellesmith7704  The President is not an Emperor. Congress, state and local government, and local referenda matter.
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  32. My favorite Onion headline is "Next Tarantino Movie An Homage To Beloved Tarantino Movies Of Director's Youth." And ten years later, it actually came true.
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  33. "Do you know what the punishment is for treason?" "First time!" "I've never heard of a second!"
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  34. I haven't watched yet, but assume this is about a criminal duo of a Belgian king and a bespectacled adult alternative singer.
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  35.  @CartoonHero1986  Yeah, look it up; I'm sure it's here on YouTube. In any case, ferrets were made fully illegal in New York City. California as well. 7th Heaven had a Very Special Episode about why owning a ferret is wrong.
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  36. ​ @asneakychicken322  Furthermore, most slaveowners weren't plantation owners. Though most slaves were on plantations, the majority of slaveowners (some 20% of the overall southern population) owned a single digits of slaves in domestic or business context. Assigning the entirety of slave society to the top 2% is a cop-out.
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  37. I imagine LE prefers to get paid.
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  38.  @WindFireAllThatKindOfThing Who thinks that? Every joke about government employment I’ve ever seen in media is about the fact that it’s stable but low-paying.
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  39. It was a tentpole!
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  40.  @LegalEagle  Hey, I got "bespectacled" right.
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  41. Who can forget the song inspired by the time Kenny Loggins was kidnapped by Jimmy Buffett and had to be rescued by Michael McDonald and James Ingram?
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  42.  @robertnett9793  I have genuinely met archaeologists who did.
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  43. Weren't there 10 justices under Lincoln?
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  44. 75% of the states, in fact.
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  45. Why is there a grid covering your thumbnail?
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  46. God I miss Drunk History.
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  47. On Monday I went to see See How They Run and there was a family– parents and kids– talking through the whole movie, playing with their phones, definitely not even watching. Apparently so many people complained that an usher came in to keep an eye on them, but unfazed they kept going until he had to kick them out. I'd never seen that actually happen before.
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  48. Well, that's the greatest thumbnail of all time. Shut it down, everyone.
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  49. More than anything else, I'm shocked and appalled that lawyer bars aren't a real thing. I know for a fact that cop bars and actor bars are real, and lawyer bars are such a common media trope, even in things that aren't generally about lawyers.
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  50. Nixon wasn't ousted by the Republicans. He was pressured by a Congress that was controlled by the Democrats, and some Republicans joined them out of electoral self-preservation.
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  51. Recent polls show that Americans are pretty firmly opposed to ending birthright citizenship. But the current position of the White House is that polls are Democratic psyops anytime they don't show Republicans winning.
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  52. Charl is love. Charl is life.
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  53. Where the hell is escheat, socage, burgage, or the bailiwicks of Gerard d'Athée?
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  54. "Look it up, it's true!" –James Somerton
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  55. I got a Nebula subscription today and I owe it all to our lord and savior Charl.
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  56. "Oh Rudy, you've done it again!" –Seth Meyers
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  57.  @raushanaljufri  You're right. I had to take a law class for film school and was assigned to re-litigate the Royal Pains lawsuit between Hayden Christensen and the USA network, which used the 9th circuit doctrine of implied-in-fact contract as a persuasive precedent and applied it to the 2nd circuit, thus making it binding in that jurisdiction.
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  58. OBJECTION: Where did you get that tie!?
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  59.  @jolly_39  The Russian monarchy had already been abolished for 8 months when the Bolsheviks seized power.
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  60. "He became non-linear."
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  61. "Ain't no rule says a convicted felon can't be elected President." –Air Trump (1997)
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  62. Taiwan’s constitution is amazing.
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  63. It’s been the top story in Israel’s evening news for the past week. And we get less US news than most European countries.
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  64.  @takatamiyagawa5688  "Outside of the Americas" The "A" doesn't stand for France.
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  65.  @CitanulsPumpkin  As a fluent speaker of Californio Spanish (which is somewhere between), Mexican and Castilian Spanish aren't remotely mutually incomprehensible, as you suggest.
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  66. I wouldn't lump Tip O'Neill in with Newt Gingrich. For one, they were in opposite parties and hated each other.
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