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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I mean, “internment camp” is just an accurate description regardless of conditions. It is a camp where civilians are imprisoned or “interned” without formal charges or sentencing by the standard criminal justice system. That it’s an internment camp isn’t even a debatable point.

    It’s the euphemism they use to avoid “concentration camps”, which is what these are due to the awful conditions. Those have an even worse reputation because they often turn out to be death camps. Weirdly, if you put people in inhumane conditions you necessarily dehumanize them, and at some point you just start killing them rather than keep an increasing number of people you don’t see as people alive in increasingly poor conditions.



  • Technically we’ve always been there, it just hasn’t mattered because both meant the thing wasn’t happening in a consistent manner.

    “Blocking a rule” is how they seem to be phrasing “vacating a rule”. The court held that the FTC didn’t follow the procedures it was given for establishing rules, and so the rule is malformed and void.

    The supreme Court restricted nationwide injunctions, which are a type of court order forcing or prohibiting action, usually pending appeal to prevent further damage.

    It’s the court deciding a rule wasn’t properly formed vs a court giving an order that reaches outside the scope of their jurisdiction.

    Since a federal appeals court is an arbiter of federal law, deciding that a federal agency made a rule wrong is inside their jurisdiction.

    It should be the case that a court can order you to stop breaking the law and you need to stop everywhere. The notion that the court can order you to stop dumping shit in a river and you can just move upstream across state lines and be fine is preposterous.





  • There’s also the family that uses mayo and only goes shopping once a month or whatever. Some of those bigger jars are something like two normal sandwiches a day for a month, which is totally possible if you’re packing lunch for two kids.

    Some of our preposterous containers of food are because some people decide to live unreasonably far from a grocery store, or just go shopping infrequently and buy huge amounts of food.
    (This has the side effect of making them buy bigger cars to hold the groceries and family that now has to come along because it’s such a long trip, and that makes it miserable so they try to do it as infrequently as possible, so they need to buy a lot of groceries to hold them over. )












  • Those examples are from 105 and 60 years ago.
    There are ways to make the point you’re going for, but invoking legislation that old doesn’t do it.

    Am I sympathetic to people who are ignorant and so voted against their own interests? Sure, a bit. A lot of southerners would take issue with trying to defend them with cries of "don’t blame them, they’re too stupid to agree with me!” though.
    Am I sympathetic to people who have been systematically disenfranchised and economically abandoned? Of course, I’m not a monster.

    The fact remains that a lot of people in red states earnestly believe in what they vote for. You can talk about class consciousness all you want, but the people fighting the culture doing so because of manipulation by the rich or powerful in a class war does fuck all to help the people loosing said culture war. I’m sure the suicidal trans kid takes great comfort that the people voting to make them illegal are just misled.

    They’ve had every opportunity to inform themselves. Maybe eventually they’ll hurt themselves enough to stop fighting the culture war you don’t want others to fight.