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Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleges “invasion” of land on US/Mexico border
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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Buying land gives them the legal ownership of it, allowing them to stop others using it.
Why do you assume they need to build something on the land?
The US federal government could simply file for eminent domain on the land (pay the holder what they (feds) deem fair value) and build the wall CAH planned to disrupt.
Their goal was to make it as difficult as possible. Sure eminent domain was a possibility, but they expected it and I imagine planned to fight it.
Elon filed for Eminent Domain?
No I was talking about the base idea of buying land on the border to prevent Trump from building a wall while he was in office.
And how is that relevant to SpaceX using it illegally?
It isn't just as your previous comment on if Elon filed for eminent domain wasn't because that wasn't the subject that comment was addressing.
The comment I originally addressed was on them buying land to stop it from being used. Which CAH did to prevent a Trump admin from building a border wall. I was pointing out how that their actions in that matter didn't suit their intended purpose because of the governments ability to seize private land with compensation for public use.
And if they had been threatened with eminent domain, I am quite sure they would have followed through with their promise. This was to make it as difficult as possible.
I'm not nearly as inventive or funny as those guys but they could have covered every inch in razor wire fifteen feet high, wrapped around rebar and tamped ten feet into the ground every three feet. But I don't think they would do anything that would hurt someone. They would come up with something more difficult and funnier.
Right, and Elon is currently using it, not the US government. So your comment about Eminent Domain is a non sequitur.
The comment you originally addressed said nothing about the US government.
That did a good job didn’t it? Plenty of ample evidence that worked eh?
Did I say they need to build anything on it? How did you get that from my comment?
No, this is that. SpaceX is squatting on their land and they’re suing. That’s how property rights are enforced
Why are you complaining about what they did when it's someone else that illegally used land that they didn't own?
If you own a plot of land you're free to use it by doing fuck all with it, it doesn't give anyone the right to use it and it doesn't mean you're being irresponsible by not doing anything including not putting up a fence, it's other people's responsibility to make sure they respect the limit of the property they own.
Yes that can go on the border, and almost every farmer knows to do this to prevent people like hunters from accidentally using your land.
You can’t just buy land and expect people to not use it, that’s almost negligence for anyone who spent their money expecting CAH to do this, if anything they’ve opened themselves to be sued by the people who spent the money doing this in the first place.
Your thoughts on land ownership are making me chuckle a lil.
Guess what, there's actually a government program in some agricultural areas, that pays landowners money to literally do nothing with their land, so it can act as a sanctuary for wildlife. Doing nothing with land is perfectly legal and sometimes even encouraged.
Now, owning and doing nothing with HOUSES is downright immoral, yet we don't fine those people either.
They put up a No Trespassing sign. With Texas castle laws, idk if they even needed to do that and they can literally shoot trespassers on their property.
Man one of these neighborhoods popped up out of nowhere. A bunch of half million dollar homes with barely any yard, 1 floor, 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, no HOA yet every single house has the same damn decorations.
What the absolute fuck is wrong with this country
/edit: lmao.
lol no way 🤣
Nice
Play stupid games, get banned. Lol
Did Trump build his wall on it?