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For many #ConstitutionalLaw scholars, last years' #Dobbs decision on #AbortionRights at the #SupremeCourt came as a dismaying shock, because it showed conclusively that #conlaw wasn't a realm of ideologically consistent intellectual foment, but rather, a matter of *politics*. 1/ 
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Writing for @CreditSlips, the #FinanceLaw scholar #AdamLevitin admits to feeling a bit of schadenfreude in that moment. The "blue collar" law scholars in "grubby" banking and money fields have always treated the conlaw set as "slightly clueless toffs":
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🎉🇺🇸 Today marks the 169th anniversary of the Republican Party of the United States, organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on this day in 1854! Let's take a journey through its early history. #GOP #RepublicanPartyAnniversary
📜 The Republican Party was formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed for the possibility of slavery in new territories. Anti-slavery activists and former Whig Party members united to fight for a common cause. #1854 #KansasNebraskaAct
🤝 The party's name was inspired by Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party, emphasizing the Republican Party's commitment to the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. #Jefferson #Inspiration
HISTORIC THANKSGIVING AND THE ARMY
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY!
Thanksgiving wasn’t always the fourth Thursday of November.
#Armyhistory #USArmy #Thanksgiving #TRADOC #MilitaryHistory
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY!
Thanksgiving wasn’t always the fourth Thursday of November.
#Armyhistory #USArmy #Thanksgiving #TRADOC #MilitaryHistory
While the holiday has roots dating back to the Pilgrims and post-harvest celebrations, it wasn’t until the late 17th century that a Thanksgiving-style holiday became customary throughout New England.
The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings. During the revolution, the Continental Congress decided to declare several days of thanksgiving to help inspire our troops to victory.
As for #AbrahamLincoln on slavery, race, and the Constitution: it's not really complicated, but it is complex. It also changes over time.
He believed that slavery was immoral. He was very explicit about that. He believed it violated the principles of the American founding. Those positions never changed.
At a time when many people shied away from the issue of slavery's morality, Lincoln did not. Period.
At a time when many people shied away from the issue of slavery's morality, Lincoln did not. Period.
He also believed that the Framers/Founders were antislavery, and that the Declaration of Independence, the founding, and the Constitution pointed toward eventual abolition.
But he believed the Constitution constrained what could be done when it came to slavery.
But he believed the Constitution constrained what could be done when it came to slavery.
"Hume argued for moral relativism because no one can know anything for certain."
I agree with Hume. But would still want to defend & enforce certain Western values - in the West.
newdiscourses.com/2020/11/why-wo… via @NewDiscourses
I agree with Hume. But would still want to defend & enforce certain Western values - in the West.
newdiscourses.com/2020/11/why-wo… via @NewDiscourses
Some Western values, however, need to change, if we want Western civilisation to survive & prosper.
These values relate to the existential need for a sustainable global economy on our finite, vulnerable & overpopulated planet, & to the Orwellian nature of the #NationState.
These values relate to the existential need for a sustainable global economy on our finite, vulnerable & overpopulated planet, & to the Orwellian nature of the #NationState.
It is by deceitfully posing as our nation that mercenary #PatronStates (like Britain, France & America) trick us into loving #BigBrother. Thus are we ALL enslaved - rich & poor, Black & White, high & low IQ alike - to the Matrix of state & capital.
The Nazis took kinship & racial purity to criminally insane extremes, in overreaction to which, Western academia (incl. many traumatised Jews) went to the opposite, equally insane, extreme of denying the natural racial foundations of nationhood altogether.
This overreaction was rationalised under the slogan of #NeverAgain!
Because the Nazis had manipulated & abused German tribalism for their own evil purposes, academics demonised human tribalism itself, which is like demonising male sexuality in response to a series of rapes.
Because the Nazis had manipulated & abused German tribalism for their own evil purposes, academics demonised human tribalism itself, which is like demonising male sexuality in response to a series of rapes.
As terrible as Nazism was, the misconceived, trauma-induced response to it now threatens the very survival of Western civilisation itself.
Hitler would be delighted to know that those who thwarted him, as a consequence, are now destroying themselves.
Hitler would be delighted to know that those who thwarted him, as a consequence, are now destroying themselves.
I am a Native Briton & European who does not believe in the British state or its values.
And here's why: Britain is an Orwellian construct, based on lies, deceit & a regime of rewards & intimidation.
And here's why: Britain is an Orwellian construct, based on lies, deceit & a regime of rewards & intimidation.
Britain is a mercenary #PatronState deceitfully posing as a nation, in order to legitimise itself, its ruling elites & the immense power they wield & abuse.
This is how we are tricked into loving #BigBrother.
This is how we are tricked into loving #BigBrother.
The American colonies had to fight a war of independence to liberate themselves from British tyranny, but tragically soon succumbed to their own Big Brother, who, as in Britain, through lies & deceit, ensures government of the elites, by the elites for the elites.
We in the West are not nearly as free as we are taught to believe.
We don't have government of, by & for the people, which is Orwellian newspeak for government of, by & for the elites, to which #AbrahamLincoln himself (a lawyer) belonged.
We don't have government of, by & for the people, which is Orwellian newspeak for government of, by & for the elites, to which #AbrahamLincoln himself (a lawyer) belonged.
Our elites & other favoured clients of the state enjoy a lot of apparent freedom, because of their relative wealth, but in reality we are ALL enslaved - rich & poor, Black & White, high & low IQ alike - to #BigBrother & #TheMatrix of state & capital.
Most especially, those of us who are White are NOT free to express any sense of racial identity & solidarity we may feel, without being accused of #WhiteSupremacy, while other racial/ethnic groups ARE free to do so.
Humans evolved to live & survive in relatively small tribes, whose members cooperated in exploiting their natural environment. Different tribes would sometimes unite as a nation in defending their shared interests, as when the ancient Greeks united against Persian invaders.
However, as city states (tribes) gave way to states & empire, there was a fundamental change. Society ceased to be tribal & became an artificial environment, managed & exploited by its elites, who divided into a priestly & a warrior class.
The priestly class provided the brains & power of the Word, i.e. moral authority, while the warrior class provided the muscle & power of the sword. These two classes cooperated in lording it (quite literally) over the rest of society, & were joined by a merchant & other class.
🇺🇸 Los restos de la jueza #RuthBaderGinsburg entran a la Corte Suprema para su último adiós.
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#RBG
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El féretro de la jueza #RuthBaderGinsburg fue ubicado en el catafalco de Lincoln, que es la plataforma donde descansó el de #AbrahamLincoln en 1865.
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El féretro de la jueza #RuthBaderGinsburg se colocará en las afueras de la Corte Suprema para que el público pueda darle el último adiós.
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#RBG
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#RBG
The West is dominated by two self-destructive forces, both of which result from the perversion of evolved human nature in the artificial environment of civilisation:
1) Love of money (the most versatile form of power)
2) Hatred (or contempt) for our natural tribe, nation & race
1) Love of money (the most versatile form of power)
2) Hatred (or contempt) for our natural tribe, nation & race
These are the Western values (British, French, American, etc.) we are not taught about, because it would undermine the authority of the state, i.e of Big Brother & his minions, who rule over us.
Not that academics are deliberately deceiving us. They also deceive themselves.
Not that academics are deliberately deceiving us. They also deceive themselves.
Self-deception & Orwellian doublethink are our biggest problems, most of evolved human nature & its perversions residing in our subconscious, where our motivations are rationalised for conscious consumption, to deceive ourselves & others.
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people" is Orwellian bullshit, expounded by one of #BigBrother's prize minions, #AbrahamLincoln, who sacrificed 100s of 1000s of young American lives to preserve the Union & POWER of the federal state & capital.
What we have now, even more than in Lincoln's time, is government of the elites, by the elites, for the elites.
Let us put an end to the lies, the deceit & the regime of rewards & intimidation on which the Orwellian constructs of British & American nationhood are based.
Let us put an end to the lies, the deceit & the regime of rewards & intimidation on which the Orwellian constructs of British & American nationhood are based.
We need to turn society on its head. But without knocking its brains out in the process.
If we are to have government of the people, by the people, for the people, society must be organised grassroots-democratically from the bottom up, instead of from the top down.
If we are to have government of the people, by the people, for the people, society must be organised grassroots-democratically from the bottom up, instead of from the top down.
1. nemmeno con assassinio del presidente americano #AbrahamLincoln si pensò di procedere con esecuzione sommaria dell'assassino, ma la distruzione dello stato di diritto dopo l'#11settembre è tale che lo stato di diritto ormai rimane poco più di un guscio vuoto
2. #Guantanamo,#esecuzioniStragiudiziali con #droni in cui perfino i cittadini americani possono essere ammazzati senza mai sapere di cosa sono accusati, senza mai comparire davanti a un giudice e potersi difendere sulla base di garanzie costituzionali costati secoli di lotte
3. l'#indefinitedetention per cui chiunque può essere arrestato in USA e imprigionato anche per tutta la vita senza che siano mai formulate accuse a suo carico
In 1867, some two years after #AndrewJohnson assumed the Presidency on the assassination of #AbrahamLincoln, a crisis arose between the two #political branches of the government.
That crisis culminated in Johnson's impeachment in the House of Representatives and his acquittal by the Senate.
But with what "high crime" or "misdemeanor" was Johnson charged?
But with what "high crime" or "misdemeanor" was Johnson charged?
Johnson had vetoed a statute, the Tenure in Office Act, but Congress overrode his veto and the Act became the law. Under the TOA, the President was barred from removing any executive officer of the government whose appointment was subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
8 inspiring quotes of famous people.. #TooGoodNotToShare ..
✅Never play with the feelings of others because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a life time
#SHAKESPEARE
✅Never play with the feelings of others because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for a life time
#SHAKESPEARE
✅The world suffers a lot.NOT because of the violence of bad people, But because of the silence of good people
#NAPOLEON
✅I am thankful to all those who said NO to me.It’s because of them I did it
#EINSTEIN
#NAPOLEON
✅I am thankful to all those who said NO to me.It’s because of them I did it
#EINSTEIN
✅If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world
#ABRAHAMLINCOLN
✅Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow but it means that they have the ability to deal with it
#CHARLIECHAPLIN
#ABRAHAMLINCOLN
✅Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow but it means that they have the ability to deal with it
#CHARLIECHAPLIN
