• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      19 hours ago

      law is the profession of specifics… it’s not sophistry; it’s technicality

      just like trump is not a convicted rapist: he was convicted of sexual assault

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          18 hours ago

          the law is not intended to deceive. the words are complex by necessity, but complexity is not sophistry

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            i think i see the problem. i think you’re an Aussie. in your legal system that might actually be true. i’m in statesia. in a past life i wrote a few entries in the Code of Federal Regulations, if that gives you some guess to the quality of the thinking in there. looking for sense in the government is the quickest path to insanity

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      I’m not though. They’re truly different things and I promise I’m not arguing in bad faith.

      The differences I mentioned are material, especially that an executive order cannot arbitrarily criminalize something.

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        i think it’s that we’re arguing from different perspectives. for most people, a law is a regulation is a procedure is an executive order. they all carry about the same weight. when you actually deal with legal specifics the differences matter but to most folk they’re cinnamon rolls.

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      We gonna find out but they’ve also just straight up stolen cash from the government so its gonna be fun*, fam.

      *fun as in lets cut the wire on a bomb and hope we successfully defused it.