According to Wikipedia, on paper yes but in practice the duty to retreat has been upheld in case law.
Even if you have a jurisdiction with rock solid castle doctrine, using that as a defense for shooting at law enforcement is a perilous legal strategy.
Right but if everyone stays peaceful then the de facto martial law won’t become declared martial law.
And this is clearly beneficial because of all these benefits of being under de facto martial law instead of declared martial law like
Not convinced yet? Well you see there’s also a host of benefits you get from quietly obeying and surrendering your rights like
If everyone stays peaceful, surely the jackbooted thugs who delight in hurting and killing citizens and immigrants alike will… continue doing that.
Executive orders shouldn’t have the ability to make law or ignore laws. The legislative branch passes the laws and the executive branch is supposed to faithfully execute them.
An executive order is meant to lay out how the executive departments should carry out the laws passed by the legislative branch. And if they overstep that by failing to faithfully execute the laws or creating their own laws out of executive orders, the judiciary is supposed to act as a check.
Our constitutional order seems to have completely failed. The legislative branch is in a state of permanent deadlock, except when it comes to tax breaks for the uber wealthy and defense spending. So EOs have expanded in scope and the judiciary has just shrugged and decided that the whole separation of powers and checks and balances thing isn’t worthwhile anymore.
Another fun thing about tariffs. Those domestic producers that are being protected by tariffs will increase their prices to as high as can.
For example, let’s say an American company can sell a widget for $5 and a Chinese company can sell it for $4.
You slap a 100% tariff on the Chinese widget, now it costs the consumer $8.
The American company can now sell you the widget for the initial $5 and leave $2.99 on the table, or they can jack their price up to $7.99, be cheaper than the Chinese widget, and increase their profits while gesturing around vaguely at “market conditions”
End result, you pay more for the widget, more than it the foreign producer used to sell it for and more than the domestic producers used to sell it for.
Now imagine you make something that has dozens of inputs and that happens to every input.
Truly a golden age
Wait until you get denied healthcare because the AI review board decided you shouldn’t get it.
Paper pushers can absolutely fuck your life over, and AI is primed to replace a lot of those people.
It will be cold comfort to you if you’ve been wrongly classified by an AI in some way that harms you that the AI didn’t intend to harm you.
Anyone remember in 2020 when the people elected the Dems to hold the republicans accountable for their many crimes committed out in the open and they dragged their feet until “oh no, well it’s too late now”
If the Democratic Party can’t deliver things that voters want then the voters stay at home and the democrats are shocked like pikachu.
And beyond racism it is happening in blue cities.
His supporters are primed to think that cities are dangerous places already, and that a city led by liberals is in shambles, and that all the people living there are lawless liberals that deserve punishment.
They are cheering about this because they see it as sending their troops to go hurt others. Whether those people are other because of their race, their religion, their gender, their sexuality, or their political beliefs.
And when these same people find out that something about them or a loved one makes them other they will act shocked. They will protest that they aren’t an other they are in the in-group.
And then they will learn the true nature of fascism. The in-group is constantly shrinking, because there must always be an other to blame. And they will learn that lesson too late.
Better than most but at the end of the day it would have been nice to give that money to the people that built the company he sold for $1.6B.
I would think there’s a lot of talented people that worked hard to build the value of that company such that he could sell it for a huge amount of money.
Definitely better than buying a yacht, but he still got to decide what to do with the value created by others.
AppNexus employs 1000 people across 5 continents. If the ceo has an extra $1.5B kicking around he could have given every person that helped build AppNexus $1.5M, which is a truly life changing amount of money for your average person.
In this case I think it’s distraction.
It’s amazing how easy it was to subvert all checks and balances and criticisms by just always having a few more awful things ready to go.
Video showing your paramilitary murdering citizens, boom release some Epstein files
Credible evidence that you are a pedophile, boom racist meme
People upset about racism, boom attack trans kids or something.
As long as there are a couple outrage plates spinning he can always just wander over to another one if people start getting too upset.