silent_water [she/her]

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Cake day: 26. oktober 2021

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  • yup, you got it. comms are communities, which is why it’s /c/comm_name on lemmy. an unfederated/local-only comm is only visible through the instance that hosts it. you can access it without logging in but only via the hosting instance.

    e.g. people from other instances don’t need access to the instance feedback comm and shouldn’t be able to participate in internal discussions about instance policies.



  • So, would official acts as president be legal by definition?

    yes, and further that any exercise of constitutional authority is an official act.

    Would there be such a thing as an official act as president that may otherwise be criminal?

    in the prosecutable sense? no. the president is no longer bound by congressional authority.

    And how does the ruling protect against treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors (specifically, the past part)?

    courts won’t do shit about it, congress will have to (lmao)

    How is this ruling not in direct contrast to the constitution?

    the constitution is toilet paper and always has been. scotus just wiped some diarrhea with it.







  • it’s not a strategic vote! it’s an abdication of strategy that pretends only the current election matters! it assumes the present is eternal and that no electoral strategy could ever consider the future. an electoral strategy would admit the left has no real power absent a dedicated bloc and would work on creating one. to do so, you must be willing to sacrifice a few elections, because you must withhold votes and force the democrats to the bargaining table. otherwise you will forever be trapped in a cycle of voting for the “lesser” evil. FPTP does not preclude a long-term electoral strategy.



  • until and unless we collectively withhold our votes and so express real and actual power, the left will always remain powerless. repudiate the democrats or be forever doomed to an endless cycle of voting for the “lesser” evil. (no moral calculus can ever frame a genocidier as the lesser evil - he’s so far beyond the moral event horizon that I no longer care to calculate)






  • there are exactly 4 division algebras (over the field of real numbers): the real numbers, the complex numbers, the quaternions, and the octonians. you can’t add any more complex parts because you lost associativity with the octonians. I’m not entirely sure how the first domino leads to the last, though.