Taxation without representation

Maybe I’m taking this too literally, but… Huh? Half our representatives suck, but they are the ones voted in.

Huh?

At first I thought it was Instacart with fewer things available. After reading the press release “news article” it looks like it’s a way for people to buy things (no doubt at inflated gig economy app prices) for a party they aren’t necessarily hosting. Basically chipping in however many dollars but with a thing “attached” to it.

Yeah, if I’m hosting a party I’m not making people use that.

Her district is red enough to support her batshit insanity. Georgia as a state as a whole, especially one that goes into a runoff, probably not. They did reject weirdos like Kelly Loefler, after all.

But I’m usually very bad at calling things like this.

“Due process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.”

Even if that were true, a deported person is generally sent back to their country a free (wo)man. Unless the destination country has other business with them, they’re free to return to life as usual. When you are paying someone else to imprison them, it’s not deportation. When you do it without due process, it’s a concentration camp.

HCR 1013, which would proclaim in Oklahoma that “Christ is King,” arguing that it excludes Oklahomans who identify with other religions as well as Oklahomans who are not religious

So… Christ is who Christians worship. Glad the legislature could clear that up for us.

The original is blocked in the US, but I found this and it seems to work: https://youtu.be/tDYjZ36IGfE

Definitely a pretty good representation! You know, as good as you can get when your instrument is grooved asphalt and rubber

It’s a different song that I don’t recognize, but it does sound correct for whatever it’s trying to be, if that makes sense

Congratulations. You did a great job ignoring the rest of what I had to say.

And tying it to the Bluesky system? Not sure the cost of that (I swear I saw it was a potential monetization they were looking into) but also the time to figure it out isn’t practical for everyone.

Must be 4/20 somewhere…

For what it’s worth on the voice thing, assuming that’s what “he sounds like that” refers to: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/29/nx-s1-5279176/rfk-voice-spasmodic-dysphonia

That’s the result of a rare neurological condition known as spasmodic dysphonia, which has afflicted Kennedy for decades.

If you’ve got any evidence that it was heroin that caused that neurological condition I’m all ears, but we have a pretty reliable source on this one.

That’s great for an organization like NPR which may have the resources to tie its own domain name into Bluesky. For some freelance reporter or otherwise verifiable person, I’m not sure it’s quite so practical.

Colorado’s Supreme Court found that he engaged in an insurrection and was therefore ineligible. Then SCOTUS basically said “uh, this gives me the federal feelsies because it’s a federal office, so Congress has to do it”

Feels like all Congress has to do is say that the first term didn’t count. But to be honest I can see poor health catching up to him first anyway.

If they are, and there isn’t anything to display it, how are we to know what’s been vetted and what’s slipped through the cracks? Especially on a new account?

I made it on the fly, but the point is that the clout goes away when 1) you’re not my senator, 2) you’re not a legislator in my country and 3) you go against everything I stand for - what kind of clout am I supposed to feel from someone like that?

In my broken mind, it has been for years!

I mean, I don’t totally disagree here, but I’m not sure what kind of clout that’s supposed to hold under team Trump.

Like, understanding this isn’t a perfect analogy, if I were working in an American prison holding a Russian prisoner and a Putin-aligned legislator wanted to see that prisoner I would take great pleasure in telling them to fuck off if I had that power.

Most of them are attempts to pat themselves on the back for being so funny

I think Lemmy can get alarmist at times, sure. But when people are getting punished without due process, that’s a big deal. When the Justice department admits they made a mistake but have no interest in correcting it, that’s a big deal. When judges (and the Supreme Court) tell them to figure it out (edit: and they don’t), that’s a big deal. When the reason they give (the people are deported to another country and in their custody) is essentially a workaround that the Justice department came up with, and they don’t have any meaningful consequence to stop them from doing it again, that’s a big deal.