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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 8h

Negative

For starters as a logical matter there is no universe in which this meets the intended purpose of reprogramming language

But as a legal matter you've got to have a valid appropriation to transfer the monies into

Congress appropriates some things on a multi-year basis and others annual

eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 10h

The DoD is allowed to transfer this money per statute apparently (though this is outside of my area). The CR in March upped it to 8 billion.

Of course it has. It always does. Sec 8005 of DOD Appropriations, for starters…

That one provision now allows for $8b in transfers, per March’s full year CR:

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 5h

This is an astoundingly ignorant thing to say. Did the American eradication of smallpox make the world worse? What about its campaigns against malaria, or HIV, and Ebola? To say nothing of its support for labor movements behind the Iron Curtain like Solidarity or its support for Brazilian democracy.

Seymour Smoke @bone2meetu.bsky.social · 8h

The collapse of U.S hegemony is a good thing, we shouldn’t dictate the entire world, we shouldn’t have an overriding veto at the UN and everything the US has done internationally since the 50s has made the world objectively worse

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 5h

The US had quite a lot to do with the end of great power colonialism. It crushed Imperial Japan, threatened to crash the Dutch economy if it did not grant Indonesia independence, and forced the British and French to back down during the Suez Crisis, ending Britain and France's tenure as great powers

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, that's my point. The Nuremberg Laws were not written in imitation of Jim Crow, despite what many people like to think. The Nazis *did* look at American segregationist policy when they were drafting their legislation, but it was *not* the reason they drafted it, nor did it have much influence.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 8h

Your obligatory "*Hitler's American Model* doesn't say what you think it says" post here.

Nazi Germany's jurists examined Jim Crow, of course. But their ultimate judgment on the system was that segregation was insufficiently racist and would be ill-suited for use by the Third Reich.

READ THEORY:

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 8h

The US is not responsible for every evil in the world, any more than the USSR or the British Empire were. The tree of evil has many, many, many roots, and while the US government has done several reprehensible things over its quarter-millennium tenure it is hardly a unique Great Satan.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 8h

To re-up a frequent recommendation of mine, the best treatment of this is Whitman's *Hitler's American Model*, which (contrary to the provocative title!) argues comprehensively that Nazi jurists looked at Jim Crow, decided it wasn't extreme enough, and rejected it.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 14h

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

I love guys who are just blithely confident in their ignorance, they read like one statement on a tankie forum four years ago and now they think they know everything about one of the most involved conflicts in human history.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 13h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

even if you take the most wildly generous interpretation of 'jumped in' as meaning June 1944, and not say, September 1943 (invasion of Italy), or November 1942 (North African landings), let alone December 1941 (entrance into the war), the Soviets were still fighting hard battles in Eastern Europe.

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“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 14h

DFAS does not work this way and they'd have to do some Real Adult Crimes to move this money around that is specifically earmarked for MILPERS, and not in the cute way they've raided MILCON or nuclear modernization programs in the past

“Hey man did you get QA to sign off?” Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 14h

"Money Colors Are A Thing" I shriek, as I am walled up like Fortunato

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