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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

This is a good example of how politics has become a team sport. These people are about winning, scoring points and supporting the team. Nothing else matters. MAGA offers more entertainment to him, so he's rooting for MAGA. That's what politics is these days, and it's not just a right-wing problem.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

*Unless they cross the Brandenburg line. Lighting up a cross in the middle of an alt-right protest and screaming "I know where nonwhites live, let's get 'em" would be intended to result in imminent lawless action. That you can punish.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

Again, unanimous decision. They stuck with the past 100 years of 1A analysis that "Congress shall make no law" means Congress shall make no law. You can punish arson. You can punish trespassing. You just can't punish someone for being a racist asshole*.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

Expanding the court until it changes its views on the First Amendment is unlikely to pay off. Among other things, liberals value the First Amendment too. Consider RAV v St. Paul. The Supreme court unanimously struck down a law criminalizing *cross burning*.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

For example, I have a lot of beets. I was thinking of making a beet cake. It's a thing. Cream cheese frosting. That seems like a much better way to spend my afternoon than taunting the alt-right.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

I mean, I could go on Twitter and find MAGA accounts and say things like "Trump got covid and looked sooo scared hahahahaha loser" and post pictures of my vaccination records. I guess that would be owning the rights, but why would I want to do such a thing?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

What does he get out of it, though? I can understand botfarms that are just spreading misinformation or creating conflict. It's dumb but cheap. This seems like a real person spending his time typing this stuff. Does it give him a high?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

Laugh if you will, but sometimes those consultants earn their fees simply by stopping the client from doing something stupid. The correct answer might well have been "just drop the +, my dudes, it's confusing. Just focus on Apple and TV and stop trying to be cute"

Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

I unironically love this shit, the process is very funny to me

“after months of extensive work we have removed one (1) character from your logo. that will be eleven million dollars please.”

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Apple TV+ has rebranded to Apple TV

It's their 'vibrant new identity'

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

In any case, relying on Schenck is misplaced. The new standard is much higher. Some speech can be deemed dangerous, but only if it's likely to result in imminent lawlessness. Keyword is "imminent". Not contributing to some future possible harm.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck...

Schenck v. United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

That case was overruled by Brandenburg, but that hasn't stopped other states from using that logic. Trump wants to jail anyone who burns a flag or identifies as Antifa because some ideas are just dangerous to society. That's the standard you're proposing we rely upon.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly! The court in Schenck said that allowing a person to speak out against the draft is like shouting fire in a crowded theatre, and such speech is too dangerous to allow to be said in public. That's what you want?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

Then there’s the “spike protein” gibberish. Yes, viral protein in the body is not good. Guess what else results in spike proteins? The virus itself. I’d rather have a little fake virus in my upper harm than real virus in my lungs.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

If they left it there, okay, maybe. Inside, they go into graphene and exosomes and magnetism. They also say “well, just take antivirals instead”. I guess a pharma company selling a vaccine is evil, but selling antivirals is noble and good?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 10h

I’d have more sympathy for Covid vaccine skeptics if they didn’t offer such stupid alternatives. Coronavirus vaccines aren’t as effective or durable as other vaccines. Some of the newer variants aren’t that dangerous.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 11h

Do we really want to have a national debate at this moment in history over how 1A should read?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 11h

Some states would move to criminalize all sorts of left wing and right wing speech. SCOTUS would have a chance to reopen a lot of historical freedoms. Some states would like to revisit the whole freedom of religion thing.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 11h

How would you even create this? It’s a nice goal, but you’d have to amend the constitution to do it. At present, Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of press or speech. No law. You’d have to change that. The second you open that can of worms, they would be a rush to take power.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 11h

Sure, *if* we had a way to make a fully independent, neutral agency with members not subject to removal then MAYBE we could improve the situation. Thats a fantasy at this point, though.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 11h

Except the Fed, which SCOTUS says is special because it has a special history and should be treated in a super special way.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 11h

Also, any body that sets policy would be subject to Presidential authority to set direction, plus there’s no way to mandate the appointees would indeed be bipartisan. This is a weakness of our constitutional system. There is no good way to create a genuinely independent agency.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 13h

The year is 2036. The techbro/abundance movement amended the Constitution to allow Elon Musk to run for President. Mamdani coasts to an easy win. Due to ill-advised campaign funding decisions, the assets of the Tesla/SpaceX bankruptcy estates are acquired by Antifa.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 13h

Like, tell HBO to fire John Oliver or the FCC will lean on CBS affiliates and hurt the upstream network. The current regime could do that, I guess, but how’d that end up with Kimmel?

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 13h

Also worth adding that neither Fox nor CBS have broadcasting licenses. The affiliates have them. Sure, there could be some extortion opportunities, though.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 13h

I think it’s a genuine troll. Probably got tired of the echo chamber on Twitter and came here. It’s almost refreshing that it does not seem to be AI. I’m not getting off-shore bot vibe either. It’s more like bored white nationalist posting from their booth as a parking lot cashier.

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Jeffrey F Steiner @jfs.bsky.social · 14h

I maintain Gavin Newsom could be worse than Trump. Not in all ways, but net effect.