pimento64

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

*"*GOUGE HIS EYES!"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is also a faux pas in the United States, it's overly formal and the preferred vernacular is "GET ON THE GROUND, BOY! STOP RESISTING!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's extremely important that we act swiftly, effectively, calmly, and objectively to effect actual change to avert further catastrophes and heal injustices. Histrionics do not further that goal, and if you can't open your mouth without spewing them, then you should keep it closed and let the adults work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Really, it's a film about family

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is nonsense. What are you trying to say?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They did, it's just locked behind a box labeled "break glass in case of mid-season writers' strike or imminent cancellation"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mt Olive is great if you want pickled giant grasshoppers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This wiki also features articles on Krull, the Allspark, and the Chaos Emeralds. I can only assume this all takes place in the Tails Gets Trolled universe.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

He didn't veto everything, he signed a bill that will expand the state's ability to involuntarily institutionalize homeless people. He's a real humanitarian.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In his veto message, Newsom cites concern about creating a costly precedent by adding benefits to the state’s Affordable Care Act insurance exchange, known as Covered California. A legislative analysis estimates the added cost at about $11 million.

In 2019 a similar bill passed unanimously and was sent to Newsom. At the time, [...] Newsom asked [the bill author] to rescind the bill with a promise to create a budget fix. That “fix” came in the form of the Hearing Aid Coverage for Children Program. The program, which received $16 million its first year, distributed hearing aids to 39 children

"$11 million actually going to children is completely unacceptable, but $16 million going through my sketchy slush fund is A-OK"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The point he's trying—but failing—to make is to invoke the core underpinnig of American legal philosophy: that people intrinsically have rights as an aspect of their being, and that they grant their government limited authority to regulate rights in order to ensure that nobody's rights get taken away or trampled on. Though the Declaration of Independence isn't part of the Constitution, it's useful rhetoric for understanding the legal philosophy of the United States, where everything I just said is phrased as:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed [...]

He idiotically phrases this as "divine power" probably because of this passage, but the actual salient point is that laws and states simply do not possess the power to grant or bestow the rights that already exist independently of them.

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