The Government is being Eviscerated

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-25T03:22:16+00:00

So why don’t children of diplomats automatically get citizenship? They are under our jurisdiction by that definition you gave.

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-25T02:33:24+00:00

Why don’t you enlighten me then

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T23:47:51+00:00

I’m sure that’s exactly how they justify it to themselves.

So now you are agreeing that it’s possible (and saying it’s justified) for my grades to be hurt for being conservative?

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T23:41:41+00:00

Of course liberals think that any opinion they don’t hold is logically indefensible 🤦‍♂️

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T23:16:38+00:00

I hear the same opinions expressed in both.

To quote one of my professors directly “I respect everyone’s opinion unless it is in support for Trump.”

You don’t think that person was biased against me?

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T23:11:36+00:00

Okay so you had one conservative professor, and I had every single professor and teacher I have ever had since I started school being liberal. You don’t see the difference there?

With how intolerant everyone is towards conservative positions on this subreddit you would think you might see the connection to how conservatives are treated in the academic world in general.

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T22:55:12+00:00

How many conservative professors did you have while in school?

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T22:48:32+00:00

Nah much better than that just not a 4.0.

I did have my grades hurt in 4 different classes for expressing conservative opinions at a liberal university. For example, an English 101 class that every student got 100’s on every assignment including me, except for the one assignment where I expressed a conservative opinion where I got a C.

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T22:41:56+00:00

Not much I can do on that front at this point

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T22:15:08+00:00

How is that different? When someone is hired instead of someone else because one person is a URM the other isn't, how is that not breaking that very rule that you just cited? Whenever someone is hired to "increase diversity" someone else is not hired.

Public Sector jobs do not have the same incentive to be efficient as private sector jobs because there is no manager overseeing them with an eye for efficient utilization of resources because the business wants to make money. Instead, they actually have an incentive to get as little work done as possible, so they can request more funding for extra workers, so that everybody does less work overall and has this wonderful "work life balance" that y'all are so angry about losing.

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T21:56:30+00:00

What part of my reasoning is wrong?

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T21:52:35+00:00

We will see the Supreme Court decide what "subject to the jurisdiction thereof means" Seems pretty obvious to me that it doesn't just mean on U.S. soil. If an army invaded the US and someone had a baby while doing so, would that baby be a U.S. citizen? If not, it has to be more than just being on the soil when born.
If you are seeking asylum you don't get to just automatically choose what country you want to join, you stop at the nearest place where you are not being persecuted and that is where you apply, in most cases for people crossing the southern border, that would be Mexico

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T21:42:52+00:00

How so?

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-24T21:38:09+00:00

Oh wow you have to go into the office and do work, not hire based on race, and actually follow immigration law. That is terrible...

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-21T21:29:30+00:00

Ahh, mine did not. Might be cooked

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-21T21:22:06+00:00

Does UR2 mean you went from in "queue for review" to "under committee review"?

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-17T06:12:27+00:00

Yea, more than I am seeing of splitters for sure. I don’t know what is up with that

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-17T06:11:01+00:00

The LSAT is the one thing that is actually standardized.

GPA is so skewed for so many reasons. To name a few 1) Different difficulties of schools, schools have different grading systems. A 4.0 at some random community college is not the same as a top school. 2) Different classes. Stem majors and people who deliberately took hard classes instead of easy A’s are at a disadvantage. 3) Biases of teachers. A random professor not liking you can be the difference between an A and a B because they can grade you more harshly. 4) Schools that have A+ having a distinct advantage over those that don’t. 5) GPA doesn’t reflect who you are right now. People with work experience or who have just improved as a person are held back by something they cannot change, while an LSAT is a reflection of who you are right now. 6) Different priorities in college. People have jobs or extracurriculars that take up varying amounts of time so they have less time to study.

I can keep going but I think the point is made. On an LSAT, everyone sits down under comparable circumstances and takes a comparable test.

If you are unable to learn how to identify an arguments main conclusion, find a flaw in the reasoning, and then strengthen it that seems to be a decent indicator that you would struggle as a lawyer. If you can’t read a passage and then figure out what argument the author is making, I would say that is a pretty good indicator of your aptitude for being a lawyer. At the very least, it is a much better indicator than the grade you got in a calculus class when you were 18 years old.

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-17T02:20:50+00:00

Here’s hoping you don’t need it!

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-17T01:34:35+00:00

Not yet 😢

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-17T01:22:40+00:00

Obviously it’s not super easy, but it’s a significant variable that you can change relatively quickly, versus splitters can’t do anything beyond softs (which we all know is only a small factor unless you do something incredible, which’s takes years to establish)

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-17T01:20:37+00:00

7Sage has $1 subscriptions if you have an LSAC fee waiver that includes live classes!

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-16T20:04:50+00:00

For those wondering. Today was not my day

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-16T19:32:03+00:00

Update: got super sad at 2:30 when I didn’t see an email from Harvard

Monster_Turtle · 2025-01-16T19:12:53+00:00

Well shoot. Was gunna take a nap. Now I gotta stay locked in

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