andyburke

He does not.

As wild as this timeline is, let’s remember it could be worse. Vote. Care for your friends and family. Keep trying to make the world a little better.

No, no, you see: the OC got 'em and now we know they’re not a true xxxxxxxxx and therefore their opinion doesn’t matter, in fact, their life may even be forfeit.

Well regulated capitalism has produced more human advancement than any other economic system we have tried.

You’re not alone. There are dozens of us who believe in humanity and progress and realize that some amount of motivation (within reason) helps humans to achieve beneficial things.

Here on the fediverse we may be getting targeted by outside actors who want nothing more than to foment violence in western democracies.

True leftists reject violence in all forms. It is coercion. It is evil. End of story.

The only time violence is justified 8a in self defense or the defense of others. Political change must be achieved through peaceful means if you want the result to have any chance of enduring.

Anyone on here advocating for violence deaerves to be labeled for what they are: part of the problem with the world today.

Well, good to know there’s no way forward but your way.

True, but I don’t know everyone’s situation.

But they didn’t. The guy had me in the first half when he cried because Buzz Aldrin didn’t like him. Elon wasn’t always so obvious with his bullshit. There was a time when he looked minted as a purveyor of a bright future - the mask slipped.

I feel bad for the reasonable employees at SpaceX - this sucks for decent people.

Anyone who continued to run anything clearly from Russia after seeing the past decade of their trajectory under Putin is of questionable competence.

byyyyyeeeeee

If you are a reporter, I do not see how you could use or trust that platform at this point.

Are you running Home or a Pro-like version?

Install any popular Linux distro. They are all so much better than any proprietary OS. And if you are running relatively common hardware, everything will just work.

Any sense on if the Twitter engagement is real people?

I worry with a profit motivated place like that that they’re incentivized to trick me, to make me feel like it’s a more vibrant place than it is in reality.

If you empanel a grand jury and present them with compelling evidence that the president accepted a bribe for a pardon, you could presumably indict them.

From there, you would present this evidence that there was a quid-pro-quo bribe and presumably the defense would move to dismiss under “it was an official act, can’t prosecute”. The judge would then need to decide if there is sufficient evidence to call into question if the act was official, given that the president cannot give an illegal order as an official act. If there’s enough evidence, presumably the judge wouldn’t dismiss and the trial would continue. (If they did dismiss, presumably the prosecution could appeal to a higher level court,)

I am just not clear on why everyone both thinks, and seem to want to think that this has given up the ball game and now the president is a king.

I am trying to argue in good faith. I just don’t agree with you that the president can now do whatever they want. If they could, Biden could order the assassinations of all Republicans sitting in congress, for instance - presuming your reading of this is correct, what’s to stop him? If you think it’s just that he’s not bold enough, perhaps you should call the whitehouse and give your opinion on what he should do with his newfound powers.

Legal orders. The president is bound by Article II, Section 3.

I’m not reading this. Your first sentence is incorrect.

The trial court is supposed to determine if there is sufficient evidence such that is not a mere allegation?

Personally I am ok with courts not being able to deem something unofficial based on allegations rather than on a decision.

Yes, and I sadly had to agree with John Roberts, not a good place to be.

The doomerism is just ridiculous to me.