I do. As such, I find it mystifying that with such a narrow lead in Congress, the republicans are shredding the constitution with no meaningful resistance. There is no supermajority in the legislature today, and yet the TAKE IT DOWN act sailed through with zero issues, and, in fact, unanimous democratic support. Don’t tell me that Biden was too worried about convention, because he issued pre-emptive pardons for his staff and family; he was worried enough about fascism to bend the rules for him and his, just not worried enough about it to do the same for the rest of us.
As such, I find it mystifying that with such a narrow lead in Congress, the republicans are shredding the constitution with no meaningful resistance.
Because laws are toothless when not enforced, and guess who controls all the levers of enforcement currently?
There is no supermajority in the legislature today, and yet the TAKE IT DOWN act sailed through with zero issues, and, in fact, unanimous democratic support.
… why is that particular bill a problem?
Don’t tell me that Biden was too worried about convention, because he issued pre-emptive pardons for his staff and family; he was worried enough about fascism to bend the rules for him and his, just not worried enough about it to do the same for the rest of us.
Because laws are toothless when not enforced, and guess who controls all the levers of enforcement currently?
Dude, I’m just dead fucking tired of the republicans having like a three seat lead which means that they’ve got an unstoppable majority to vote for pouring orphans into the shredder just for shits and giggles, but then democrats are one seat shy of a supermajority and it’s just excuse after excuse after excuse why we couldn’t get the most boring dollar store version of a left wing policy passed. “Oh, well, Kristen Sinema kicked my ice cream out of my hand :(”, “fox news is gonna be real upset, guys”, “okay, but what if we met the republicans halfway with their counter proposal of ‘go fucking kill yourself’?”
… why is that particular bill a problem?
It’s like if DMCA fell into that same chemical vat that made the Joker. What the bill says it’s for seems harmless enough, but basically it opens the door for anyone to threaten any platform over almost any content they don’t like.
According to congress.gov, it specifically covers:
an adult subject where publication is intended to cause or does cause harm to the subject, and where the depiction was published without the subject’s consent or, in the case of an authentic depiction, was created or obtained under circumstances where the adult had a reasonable expectation of privacy; *
So, here’s the problem, the text of the bill defines the publication loosely enough that a political cartoon about Trump could plausibly get hit by the TAKE IT DOWN act, because he’s an adult subject, the publication is arguably causing him harm, and it was published without his consent.
Wait, what are you saying Biden should have done?
The moment he knew Trump, the guy he campaigned against as being a dangerous fascist, won the election, he should have started executive ordering the tools of fascism dismantled immediately. Order ICE dismantled or severely dismantled or furloughed, order the NSA mass surveillance program put on pause or dismantled or furloughed, and if the SCOTUS deems the EOs junk, then the SCOTUS does that, fine, but he could have at least tried to take these tools off the table instead of just trying to shield him and his.
Dude, I’m just dead fucking tired of the republicans having like a three seat lead which means that they’ve got an unstoppable majority to vote for pouring orphans into the shredder just for shits and giggles, but then democrats are one seat shy of a supermajority and it’s just excuse after excuse after excuse why we couldn’t get the most boring dollar store version of a left wing policy passed. “Oh, well, Kristen Sinema kicked my ice cream out of my hand :(”, “fox news is gonna be real upset, guys”, “okay, but what if we met the republicans halfway with their counter proposal of ‘go fucking kill yourself’?”
It’s considerably harder to play by the rules than it is to ignore them. Regardless of whether you think that’s the tactically correct choice at this junction, such asymmetric power will always be the case whenever there is a party that is openly hostile to the basic functioning of the state and too popular to repress or ignore.
So, here’s the problem, the text of the bill defines the publication loosely enough that a political cartoon about Trump could plausibly get hit by the TAKE IT DOWN act, because he’s an adult subject, the publication is arguably causing him harm, and it was published without his consent.
I feel like that’s a really questionable reading of the text, especially considering that even progressive Dems supported it.
The moment he knew Trump, the guy he campaigned against as being a dangerous fascist, won the election, he should have started executive ordering the tools of fascism dismantled immediately. Order ICE dismantled or severely dismantled or furloughed, order the NSA mass surveillance program put on pause or dismantled or furloughed, and if the SCOTUS deems the EOs junk, then the SCOTUS does that, fine, but he could have at least tried to take these tools off the table instead of just trying to shield him and his.
I mean, I don’t disagree that that would’ve been preferable as at least symbolic resistance to fascism, but it also wouldn’t have changed anything.
Biden is the man who lost the republic, and is very core to this whole fucking disaster. I just don’t think that, in broad strokes, he had the power to meaningfully restrict the tools the fascist regime incoming has to play with.
I mean, other than not appointing fucking moderates in the Justice Department and attempting to run again, thus cratering the Dem campaign before it began. But if either of those happened, we might not have lost the election to fascists to begin with.
I do. As such, I find it mystifying that with such a narrow lead in Congress, the republicans are shredding the constitution with no meaningful resistance. There is no supermajority in the legislature today, and yet the TAKE IT DOWN act sailed through with zero issues, and, in fact, unanimous democratic support. Don’t tell me that Biden was too worried about convention, because he issued pre-emptive pardons for his staff and family; he was worried enough about fascism to bend the rules for him and his, just not worried enough about it to do the same for the rest of us.
Because laws are toothless when not enforced, and guess who controls all the levers of enforcement currently?
… why is that particular bill a problem?
Wait, what are you saying Biden should have done?
Dude, I’m just dead fucking tired of the republicans having like a three seat lead which means that they’ve got an unstoppable majority to vote for pouring orphans into the shredder just for shits and giggles, but then democrats are one seat shy of a supermajority and it’s just excuse after excuse after excuse why we couldn’t get the most boring dollar store version of a left wing policy passed. “Oh, well, Kristen Sinema kicked my ice cream out of my hand :(”, “fox news is gonna be real upset, guys”, “okay, but what if we met the republicans halfway with their counter proposal of ‘go fucking kill yourself’?”
It’s like if DMCA fell into that same chemical vat that made the Joker. What the bill says it’s for seems harmless enough, but basically it opens the door for anyone to threaten any platform over almost any content they don’t like.
According to congress.gov, it specifically covers:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/146
So, here’s the problem, the text of the bill defines the publication loosely enough that a political cartoon about Trump could plausibly get hit by the TAKE IT DOWN act, because he’s an adult subject, the publication is arguably causing him harm, and it was published without his consent.
The moment he knew Trump, the guy he campaigned against as being a dangerous fascist, won the election, he should have started executive ordering the tools of fascism dismantled immediately. Order ICE dismantled or severely dismantled or furloughed, order the NSA mass surveillance program put on pause or dismantled or furloughed, and if the SCOTUS deems the EOs junk, then the SCOTUS does that, fine, but he could have at least tried to take these tools off the table instead of just trying to shield him and his.
It’s considerably harder to play by the rules than it is to ignore them. Regardless of whether you think that’s the tactically correct choice at this junction, such asymmetric power will always be the case whenever there is a party that is openly hostile to the basic functioning of the state and too popular to repress or ignore.
I feel like that’s a really questionable reading of the text, especially considering that even progressive Dems supported it.
I mean, I don’t disagree that that would’ve been preferable as at least symbolic resistance to fascism, but it also wouldn’t have changed anything.
Biden is the man who lost the republic, and is very core to this whole fucking disaster. I just don’t think that, in broad strokes, he had the power to meaningfully restrict the tools the fascist regime incoming has to play with.
I mean, other than not appointing fucking moderates in the Justice Department and attempting to run again, thus cratering the Dem campaign before it began. But if either of those happened, we might not have lost the election to fascists to begin with.