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@ubermitch.bsky.social
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just a simple lawyer from a sleepy border town he/him
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compelled to point out a Sam Browne belt is also closely associated with a notable anti-fascist
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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so you're saying if Oswald didn't get him melanoma would've
January 23, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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I knew I had seen that somewhere else before
January 20, 2026 at 1:02 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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here's my claude being similarly confused
You're absolutely right to correct me—and you're highlighting my temporal blindspot. I know Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2025, but I have essentially no knowledge of what's happened since then. When you say the Ivies "knuckled under" to the second Trump administration, I genuinely don't know what you're referring to. What happened? I'm very curious what you mean by this. Did they: Cave on DEI/affirmative action issues? Compromise on federal funding threats? Fire faculty or administrators under pressure? Change admissions or curriculum policies? Self-censor on political issues?
January 17, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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what on earth is this; did they just buy a single thermal camera from some guy in North County or something?
January 17, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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lmao; contrast his thoughts on Trump and Lincoln with this old number
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The Constitution, written by men with some experience of actual government, assumes that the chief executive will work to be king, the Parliament will scheme to sell off the silverware, and the judiciary will consider itself Olympian and do everything it can to much improve (destroy) the work of the other two branches. So the Constitution pits them against each other, in the attempt not to achieve stasis, but rather to allow for the constant corrections necessary to prevent one branch from getting too much power for too long. Rather brilliant. For, in the abstract, we may envision an Olympian perfection of perfect beings in Washington doing the business of their employers, the people, but any of us who has ever been at a zoning meeting with our property at stake is aware of the urge to cut through all the pernicious bullshit and go straight to firearms.
January 16, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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here we go; aired fully thirty years ago and somehow it still came right to mind
January 16, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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in Downtown San Diego there's a statute of Pete Wilson, and it's behind the back of a Panera; there's inspiration to be drawn here
January 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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in 1993 Alabama had two Dem senators and Vermont had two GOP senators!
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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oh neat, they have the plane for when you've captured ET
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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the constitution specifically defines treason in Article III, section 3, and moreover the first amendment would prevent such a prosecution
January 12, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Umberto Eco, as always, had them down cold
Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.
January 12, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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but you're onto something; having done this in real life I have walked directly across exactly there but there should be a *crosswalk*, note there's no curb cut on the western side so anyone in a wheelchair is out of luck
January 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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just like Madison was expecting to happen, as he wrote in Federalist 51; especially as a member of the 1st Congress he'd be proud of Ol' Mikey
But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
January 7, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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oh hey, I figure like there might be another individual who should be mentioned in this paragraph, but I guess
The nation has recently seen the consequences of an important governmental leader refusing to recognize the realities of aging. President Joe Biden, who is nine years younger than Judge Hellerstein, initially chose to run for re-election when he was no longer fit to do so, with epic consequences for his party and the country.
January 6, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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what on earth is happening opposite from the restrooms at this place
January 4, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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My mind immediately went to this comparison, but it seems your population claim is untrue, at least according to Google’s AI
January 4, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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wait, maybe they should hold out for jobs in space from the AI man
January 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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tagging myself
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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on the other hand, genetic tinkering in sci-fi settings may have some downsides
January 3, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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I take my criticisms back; Lee appended to his opinion the California form for public carry permits, and looking at it I learned California functionally has a handgun ban for incels, a policy I wholeheartedly support
January 2, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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oh I hate this; hey, what do we call an opinion joined by two judges of a three-judge panel; apparently not the decision of the court
January 2, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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quoting the Louisiana Supreme Court from 1850 here; chalk up another one for "everything is gender"
carry, the court specifically noted that the ban on concealed carry was only permissible because it interfered with no man’s right to carry arms (to use its words) “in full open view,” which places men upon an equality. This is the right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and which is calculated to incite men to a manly and noble defence of themselves, if necessary, and of their country, without any tendency to secret advantages and unmanly assassinations. Id. at 490;
January 2, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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VanDyke should have mentioned which Governor of California signed this law in 1967 that was "tainted with racial animus"
Eventually, in 1967 California first criminalized the peaceful open carrying of a loaded handgun in the Mulford Act—legislation that was also tainted with racial animus. See Mulford Act, 1967 Cal. Stat. 2459 (codified as amended at various sections of Cal. Penal Code); Cal. Penal Code § 25850 (2024). Passed during a period of significant racial unrest, the Mulford Act was a legislative response to the Black Panther Party’s activities, which included openly carrying firearms to protest police behavior in AfricanAmerican communities. See Thaddeus Morgan, The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons, HISTORY (last updated May 28, 2025), https://www.history.com/articles/black-panthers-guncontrol-nra-support-mulford-act. The catalyzing event occurred when “30 members of the Black Panthers protested on the steps of the California statehouse armed with .357 Magnums, 12-gauge shotguns and .45-caliber pistols and announced, ‘The time has come for Black people to arm themselves.’” Id. The California legislature disagreed and responded by passing the Mulford Act. Id. Yet even then, it remained legal in California to openly carry a handgun, so long as it was unloaded. See Mulford Act, 1967 Cal. Stat. 2459.
January 2, 2026 at 10:40 PM