Lazy SCOTUS Isn’t Even Trying Anymore

Posted on by Lone Candle

The Supreme Court has always had elements of reverse engineering where justices reach their conclusions based on political ideology, then reverse engineer a legal argument. Their political ideology may even design their legal philosophy from the very beginning of their legal thinking! However, the justices on the right seem to even be dropping the reverse engineering, and getting more sloppy in their legal thinking, pushing forward their political ideology and partisanship even more. Bush V Gore may have been the moment that the conservative justices crossed the Rubicon and realized that they can get away with pushing partisan, ideological agendas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yrj66mQQOM

Why One Lawyer Resigned When His Firm Caved to Trump: An Update

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Multiple law firms gave in to illegal, autocratic demands by the president. When it came down to it, big law firms didn’t want to risk resisting an aggressive president. Democracy is vulnerable and we won’t keep it unless people defend it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8mCMe9MDpk

Why US Politics Is Broken — and How To Fix It | Andrew Yang | TED

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The US electoral system pushes politicians to the left and right due to primaries, where politicians need to win over a small number of more polarized voters. We can change this system into non-partisan ranked choice elections so that politicians don’t need to bend over for the extremes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ws3w_ZOmhI

Why Everything Is More Expensive | David Dayen | TMR

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Private electricity companies are supposed to have their prices managed by governments because they form natural monopolies, but they make tons of money because they capture the government and screw over the electricity user.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfRKOlqRG8s

Bringing Back the Battleship? – Railguns, US Shipbuilding and a 35,000 ton bad idea?

Posted on by Lone Candle

Larger ships are vulnerable to modern weapons. With a larger ship, you have more eggs in one basket. If the enemy takes out that one ship, you’ve lost a lot of firepower. Even with anti-missile and anti-drone defenses, the enemy only needs one good hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvUbx9TvOwk