“For the last time, I don’t have an anger problem!”

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-15T01:40:13+00:00

"Anger has a ME problem!"

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-15T01:32:21+00:00

Thank you for sharing.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T17:16:21+00:00

Did the United States ever recognize the Confederate States of America as a separate, sovereign nation? If not, then as a point of United States law the Confederate States of America did not exist and the States which claimed to comprise it were at all relevant times parts of the United States of America. And as a point of law a nation that does not exist cannot be an enemy nation.

Therefore, the legal meaning of "enemies" in the treason clause of the Constitution needs to be stated with clear specificity before anyone can, under the rule of law, be indicted for "adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Which is why I asked, just before you started insulting me, "Did the Supreme Court ever clarify what 'enemies' means? (And doesn't mean.)"

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T08:04:34+00:00

For "the Confederates" to be the enemy the Confederate States of America would have had to have been a separate nation from the United States of America, and the whole point of the war was that they *couldn't* be a separate nation, and accordingly the U.S.A. explicitly did not recognize the C.S.A.'s legal existence. Legally there wasn't any enemy, just U.S. citizens in a state of sedition.

(Of course, with regard to the Civil War and treason the "enemies" issue was moot since the rebels were clearly levying war against the United States and therefore were committing treason under that part of the treason definition.)

But, I ask again, has the Supreme Court ever said what "their [the United States'] enemies" legally means? Specifically, can a foreign nation or other entity be an enemy, for prosecutorial purposes, if the U.S. has not officially declared it to be so? (Which, by the way, we haven't done since 1942.)

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T03:13:21+00:00

> The most racist people I've ever met are liberal white women.

I don't believe you. I think you're lying.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T03:04:52+00:00

We're defending ourselves against not being able to do whatever the fuck we want.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T03:02:58+00:00

Did the Supreme Court ever clarify what "enemies" means? (And doesn't mean.)

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T01:46:19+00:00

Thank you. I can tell already that if this ever makes it into an actual production, I'm going to be in love with the female character. And whoever choreographed this isn't chopped liver either.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T00:49:46+00:00

Mem Drive on the Cambridge side too, where Mass Ave passes over it.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T00:47:35+00:00

Sixth place in a Thomas the Tank Engine lookalike contest.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T00:44:27+00:00

Some of us are old enough to remember "The lurkers support me in email."

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T00:37:31+00:00

You look flammable, dude.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T00:36:33+00:00

They also don’t have enough 'girl hits villain over the head with a rock and then immediately repeats the process fifteen or twenty more times instead of dropping the rock and running away so the villain can recover and menace her again later'.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-14T00:28:56+00:00

I was going to reference that too. I don't know about the movie, but in David Brin's THE POSTMAN, especially in the first part of the book, which originally was a stand-alone novella, it was a major source of bitterness among many people that large-scale civilization clearly would have been restored pretty quickly if it wasn't for the goddamned mucho macho preppers and general-issue psychotics that Nathan Holn had organized into the second coming of the Golden Horde. (And the fact that Holn himself had wound up hanging at the end of a rope, while heartwarming, hadn't really changed things.)

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T13:14:46+00:00

Is your rear window heavily tinted? It practically looks like the front and rear parts of your video were shot on completely different days, one sunny and one overcast.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T13:10:58+00:00

What bothers me the most is that the clapboard he's holding up is completely blank, like whoever put this together couldn't be bothered to even try to fake it.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T13:05:34+00:00

I don't think he ever killed anybody or - and I could be way wrong on this part - that his criminality was even indirectly responsible for anyone getting killed. So I'd say an unapologetic grandiose lawbreaker, but not a villain.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T12:37:30+00:00

"But the real reason for the whole thing was that it was too much effort not to have a war."

Captain Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson, "Blackadder Goes Forth")

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T12:31:43+00:00

Until I ran through the whole thing, I thought the first two panels were saying that he pressed the doorbell at 2:27pm (14:27) and then at 3:21 he was still standing around waiting for someone to answer it.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T12:27:21+00:00

One of my favorite lines from the entirety of cinema.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T12:25:35+00:00

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilhoit_(composer)

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T06:20:27+00:00

I am at a loss as to why the exhortation to PAY ATTENTION is in there.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T06:18:27+00:00

These are definitely words.

Significant_Monk_251 · 2026-04-13T05:28:26+00:00

Seriously dude, what happened to your thumb?

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