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What they look like and the exact words that were said could potentially be pretty goddamned important to the case.

Because its not good enough.

Man, “secret police” went from hyperbole to reality REALLY fucking fast.

Depends on your alternatives I suppose. If your options are: “Go to a concentration camp without a name in some other country” or “get prosecuted for shooting the guy who was going to send you there and maybe end up in regular prison” or “die trying”, then maybe its not so clear.

They are 100% going to leave these morons holding the bag. They are pulling shit like SHOWING them a hard copy of these orders and then keeping it so there is zero evidence linking their conduct back to their leadership. The buck stops with the dumbasses on the ground.

Yeah, the problem is that Europe is going to dick around not doing that while the other side is actually using bullets.

Assuming it isn’t intended to return to earth at terminal velocity the station will ALSO need to bear the mass of arresting its descent, so no, that wouldn’t do much.

My point is that it was a bad analogy because that’s exactly what it is.

Right, except that a bowling ball weights about 6kg and a tennis ball weighs about sixty grams, so we would only need to build a platform that weighs 1% of the total mass of earth.

Except that you would drag it out of geostationary orbit every time you used it? Like no matter how heavy it is your still moving it closer every time you pull on the cable. You would need to constantly thrust equivalent to the mass of the cable and whatever the cable is pulling. At that point aren’t you still basically just launching shit?

The more you think about it the dumber it gets. You would need to constantly move reaction mass to to the platform to create that thrust, but you’d have to use that thrust to counter the mass that you are bringing up. It’s all the same problems as conventional rocketry.

How do you anchor the end in space so that you don’t just retract the cable every time you try to use it?

Sorry that facts make you sad.

George Washington was a traitor who engaged in an insurrection.

I’m not comparing Trump to George Washington, but I’m pointing out why the American Constitution doesn’t really have a developed concept of treason or any broad exclusions to eligibility for the presidency. The election itself is the qualification.

I didn’t call you shit.

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Because he was democratically elected by the deeply stupid people of the United States and a pretty fundamental element of American democracy is that there is very little that can be done to thwart the will of the people, no matter how stupid it is.

Add to that the fact that a stupid president presents a massive economic benefit to anyone that can keep his attention for more than five minutes and he is predictably surrounded by people that benefit from his continued presence.

His mistake in the first term was trying to be a real president and surrounding himself with people who wanted the same thing. This time it’s just criminals all the way down.

All radios anywhere have this weakness, including the little radios in all your wifi-enabled devices. If they are shutting down meshtastic they are also shutting down all the local networks.

It isn’t a judges job to decide this, that’s why we have public health officials and scientists.

A judges job is to decide if this law violates other laws.

Sounds like they aren’t paying you enough if your role includes being a performer.

They sure can, but its unlikely to achieve very much. Now, if a whole bunch of countries got together to do it AND they were willing to endure the enormous financial cost that comes with it, that might actually do something.

People who stayed home with fascism on the ballot are as good as fascists themselves.