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SwampYankee 85 points a year ago

If the Feds are willing to illegally federalize National Guard troops, and the National Guard in any given state is willing to obey those orders, it tips the scales significantly. States need to start taking measures to ensure their National Guard is truly under their control. These are the "well regulated militias" referenced in the second amendment, and if they are subject to the whims of a federal tyrant, then the second amendment is moot.

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SwampYankee 78 points a year ago path: 0 17576585 17576689, hotness: undefined, score: 78, children: 1
SwampYankee 60 points 5 months ago

“I hadn’t had the conversation with him yet, or talked to him about situations like that yet,” she told the network. “It absolutely disgusts me and breaks my heart that our children are subject to this, especially in this day and age.”

Well, at least the game was teaching him to avoid pedophiles, you know, since you weren't.

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SwampYankee 44 points a year ago

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12406

Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.

As Newsom stated in his letter, the order was not issued through him, therefor not pursuant to the law, or in other words, illegal.

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SwampYankee 36 points 10 months ago

I've always had the sense that MTG is sincere, but incredibly stupid.

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SwampYankee 36 points 7 months ago

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SwampYankee 32 points a year ago

It didn't even get the rhyme right...

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SwampYankee 28 points a year ago

... By which time the kid may have been gone, or at least far enough away that he would have been hard to hit.

Or, you know, this violent, impulsive sack of shit may have had 10 extra seconds to think about what he was doing and be like "oh yeah, I don't want to go to prison".

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SwampYankee 26 points a year ago

Those are pee pads it's laying on and its pupils are super dilated. Probably coming down from anesthesia or something, could have been as simple as a teeth cleaning.

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SwampYankee 21 points a year ago

Centre Street in Boston. Amusingly enough, this video starts a stone's throw away from a major transit hub connecting three commuter rail lines to the T.

And worth noting, it looks like this backup is almost entirely caused by the reduction to one lane at the Allandale Street intersection due to construction.

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SwampYankee 21 points 7 months ago

That or all out war between Israel and Lebanon.

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SwampYankee 20 points a year ago

Vladimir, STOP! :'(

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SwampYankee 20 points a year ago

Take that, American companies that import Indian goods!

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SwampYankee 19 points 5 months ago

This is probably the best comment here so far. To emphasize the interceptor missile point, the US yesterday pulled interceptor systems from South Korea. You know, the place next to the nuclear-armed country that likes to lob missiles into the ocean just to show off. It should go without saying how dire the situation is if the US is redeploying interceptors from South Korea. Once interceptor stocks are depleted, Iran will be able to consistently, successfully strike targets inside US allied territory. There are some rumblings that Iran's success rate is already increasing. Once this happens, Iran has the US & Israel backed into a corner even more than they already do.

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SwampYankee 17 points a year ago

The national intelligence director said she was referring Obama administration officials, including ex-FBI director James Comey, to the Justice Department for prosecution over allegations they had “manufactured” intelligence to substantiate the idea that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help Trump beat Obama’s former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

James Comey, huh? The guy who dropped the email scandal in October 2015 and handed the election to Trump? That James Comey?

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SwampYankee 16 points 3 months ago

Chiropractic in the US refers exclusively to the practice of musculoskeletal manipulation and "adjustment". Yanking on and twisting joints to get them back into the "right" position. It can work in specific circumstances, but can also further exacerbate some conditions. Someone who is only a chiropractor typically does not or is not allowed to administer invasive procedures such as the cortisone or lidocaine shot that I assume you got. That's reserved for actual doctors here. Sounds like the person you saw would be more likely be a physiatrist or physical therapist in the US.

Basically chiropractic is a separate education/licensing process, and requirements vary by state. Most states, for instance, don't require chiropractors to carry malpractice insurance. That means if they put you in a wheelchair, they declare bankruptcy and start a podcast or become a personal trainer or some shit, and you get to battle them in court while in crippling pain, and then max out your insurance deductible every year for the rest of your life. People who practice chiropractic may have additional qualifications and licenses allowing them to write prescriptions and do minor invasive procedures such as injections, but that's not too common.

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SwampYankee 16 points a year ago

Mysteriously died in a federal prison under the Trump administration.

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SwampYankee 14 points a year ago

It's also not irony.

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SwampYankee 14 points a year ago

Well, Newsom is suing which is... fine. I think he should deploy his remaining 20k troops to kick the (4700 and counting) feds out, but that's playing with fire. Going forward, as I suggested, states need to make sure they control their Guard deployments. This could take the form of legislation or executive orders at the state level, or, since it's already federal law that the orders go through the governor, a simple memo informing the Guard that anyone from command down to rank & file will be immediately arrested for following illegal orders.

And on your other comment, yes, by the letter of the law that was illegal, although it was a slightly more complicated situation because as the article states:

Eisenhower and Faubus agreed that the Arkansas National Guard would remain at the school to maintain order, so the black students could attend.

... then Faubus reneged on the agreement.

Whatever. Right now, in the time that we are currently living through, during which an unhinged aspiring dictator is deploying military forces on US soil for immoral reasons, is not the time to equivocate about legality.

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SwampYankee 13 points 3 months ago

I really enjoyed Cities Skylines 2 even at launch.

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