That is not how "law" works. A thing is lawful or not; "voters" come into the picture elsewhere, by voting for people to change the law. And this extra-judicial "voters" argument fails on its own logic: what power do voters have over a second-term President? Or have we just abandoned that law too?

People have overwhelmingly shown that they favor convenience and digital. That's why companies lean into it. The issue is that you don't *own* your digital copies. That's what needs to change.

Guys guys guys guys guys We're so close to the return of Falklands discourse

here is a thread. 🧵 Picture it - it's July 7, 1918. You are Stepan Kasimirovich Gil, the personal driver to Vladimir Lenin. The Boss has decided to go out to the former Left SR headquarters and see if he can get any information from the papers there. /1

Olá, bom dia, tudo bem? Eu sou mestrando em relações internacionais. Clausewitz foi uma das leituras fundamentais pra diversas matérias na minha graduação. Ele não leu Clausewitz. Obrigado.

Reading this just hurts so fucking much

Rutte is either an idiot or too clever by half. If he believes his flattery of Trump, he’s a dope. If he thinks he’s managing Trump, he doesn’t understand Trump is irrational and contains irreversible anti-NATO biases.

Why would any country ever agree to an arrangement with the US when this is how we treat our NATO allies?

Falkland Islands you didn’t need to go that hard

Besides that Bibi hasn't been threatened by a moderate over an explicit ant-genocider in his life, I don't think he's even thinking about a single American house seat in the middle of *waves hands everywhere in Levant's direction* all this shit

Really waited for both us and Iran to be knocked out of the Cup for this shit

He did not take kindly to it. Below is the article I wrote. His initial response was to post a meme at me "here is the attention that you ordered" which he later deleted. The he and his editor (Ryan Grim) started arguing that my article was the real error, because... www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/b...

Since folks are bringing up their "Klip is an asshole" story, here's mine. Four years ago he co-authored an Intercept story that was just... wrong. On almost every level. And helped kick off the MAGA obsession that the Biden admin colluded with social media to "censor conservatives." I called it out

Notably, while Ken is riding the Weekend at Mitch's bit here on Bluesky, he's brazenly unapologetic of his sexist Platner defense on Elon's Nazi site even as the Platner campaign implodes. So brave

Donald Trump has no shame, but Folarin Balogun is a class act. He spoke to Belgian head coach, Rudi Garcia, after the match. Garcia said of Balogun "He came to talk to me. I really liked that. It is not his fault. He is not the one to blame. That's what I told him." H/T @resistrebelrevolt.net

ICE detention kills another ally.

Man got Chotiner’d without even agreeing to an interview. Astounding

Let's make WRC here. I'm all in on Takamoto Katsuta

Anyway, if the USMNT ever want to be world class we need MLS academies to be much bigger and have way more openings for lower- and middle-class children. It's true but makes you a bore at parties so it's the perfect fact for Bluesky.

What ass defense

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

I dare not look up possession percentage, it'll depress me

he sure blew something up all right

USA defense is porous as hell, they can't keep the ball from Belgium

Roses are red the reflecting pool is noxious

*Looks at the entire Persian Gulf states and Belarus, Russia, and a good sized portion of African elites*

Pffft, ok now we know a nerd is feeding him lines. Because I wish there was a national political discourse talking about the distinction between Social Democracy and Socialism, much less between Communism and everything vaguely left leaning. No doubt he learned that term five minutes earlier

FIFA is corrupt; Trump is corrupt; the Balogun call was bullshit; the suspension of the call was bullshit; the appeal of the suspension is bullshit. Wow this is like the perfect storm for a discourse. You have all sorts of possible stances to take. Have fun everyone.

It was not an appeal, they simply wrote a letter asking FIFA to justify the unjustifiable Because FIFA cannot admit to corruption, they are pretending it was an appeal to avoid answering the questions

The U.S. couldn't appeal the red card either, so if Belgium is lucky FIFA could just do whatever they want separate from an appeals process in their favor anyway

This place gets into some Soviet Revisionism occasionally, so some good content needs to be launched into the void every now and again. The Soviets did sacrifice too much to fight fascism, but only after having others sacrifice first

Oh FIFA, please change

ACAB includes CHOP security

this came to me in a vision

Have another go at the keeper, Neymar, maybe you can watch it again on the way home.

It's very much this

Norway deserves to win because Brazil has angered the football gods. A team with that much attacking talent shouldn’t be allowed to play on the counter. The team who tried to play the best football should win.

Heaven is run by Scandinavian police, and full of Brazilian lovers. Hell is run by Brazilian police, and full of Scandinavian lovers.

Neymar scoring the penalty and immediately taunting the goalie

And he converts it. And beefs with the keeper. A fitting capstone to his troubled career.

Neymar doesn't deserve that ego stroke of a goal

Guys, Brazil, chill out

This is why the "Israel will just go to other countries and become their vassal instead" argument against cutting US support is always so funny. First of all: so what? And second of all: who, India? lol ok

"birthright citizenship is destroying this nation and everyone who benefited from it should be denaturalized and deported except this one guy, temporarily, for sports reasons" about sums up this administration

The solution to this red card suspension bullshit is obvious: FIFA should have an open, transparent appeals system for these situations, not left to the whims of whoever is in charge

A Dallas cop goes berserk on a World Cup team in a hotel lobby, the city's paper of record presents it as a both sides issue, then buries the fact that DPD was forced to apologize and never even attempts to name the officer involved or ask how he's being held accountable.

Watching the LDP go into contortions over the WW2 war crimes is a recurring plot point

sospx: y sospx: you can't do that! sospx: the last pope would NEVER have done that!! Pope Leo: yeah i ain't da last pope Pope Leo: i'm from Chicago

Balogun is back, baby!!!!!!

Justice Thomas saying that Balogun being a birthright citizen nullifies him playing for the USMNT