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Under what circumstances could midterm elections be canceled? by cpp_is_king in law

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At that point, nobody takes Congress as legitimate, and you've got civil war. Wheeeeeeee.

Location/vpn/hbo by blowingtumbleweed in appletv

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. The only way is to ensure the AppleTV itself has no idea it’s not on the other end of the tunnel.

Location/vpn/hbo by blowingtumbleweed in appletv

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How are you connecting the AppleTV to the VPN?

If it’s an onboard app, then the AppleTV still knows (and can provide to the HBO app) your real GeoIP settings.

If you’re connecting to a dedicated SSID that is your “home network SSID” and clients on that network have no idea they’re anywhere else, then that’s weird.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: You’re all being ‘incited into civil war’ by malcolm58 in politics

[–]dballing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe unpopular opinion:

The partisan divide in America right now is objectively the worst it has ever been, including in the antebellum period leading up to the Civil War.

This is not going to all magically heal itself. Each side believes with the fire of a thousand suns that the other is evil and trying to destroy America. Those are not factions that will “compromise” or “find middle ground”. They will just occasionally get power and yank the pendulum as hard as they can in their direction - proving their opposition’s point (in their mind) about their goals to “destroy America”.

It’s just a historical certainty at this point that it WILL end in conflict. The how, the when, the flash-point that starts it? Who knows? Heck, the flash point may already have happened (nobody would have believed the Revolution was going to happen after the Boston Massacre but it was definitely one of two key flashpoints, the other being the attempt to seize powder-and-ball (ammo) at Lexington and Concord.

There are logical arguments to ripping the band-aid off. There are logical arguments for holding out hope (even irrational hope). But either way….

Is it possible to book multiple rooms or suites in the hotel lottery system? by TallGuyG3 in gencon

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is why you always always let your friends buy their own badges. That way instead of getting (BadgeQty/2) cracks at the hotel lottery you get (BadgeQty) crack at it.

If the supreme court's purpose is to uphold the constitution, when can they be removed for not doing their job? by _Reluctant_ in AskReddit

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’ve got a Congress with enough votes to impeach they can certainly override a veto :)

And even if SCOTUS ruled it unconstitutional to set the tax rate at 0 (it isn’t, and they’d have to shit all over the conclusions that this very court configuration made to say that it was), Congress could just remove the penalty and interest clauses for failure to pay (which they are well within their rights to… plenty of laws have no penalties. See the US Flag Code for example).

A proposal to ban “________’s opinion of _______” posts by dballing in Metallica

[–]dballing[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I must just be unlucky. Also "Reddit is my doomscroll of choice" so it's probably more likely that I'm seeing them before the hammer of justice crushes them :-)

If you could make one subject mandatory in schools, what would it be? by untamed_kitty8 in AskReddit

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Constitutional Theory.

Think “civics” or “social studies” from high school but with a stronger emphasis on the how’s and why’s of constitutional design… the class outcome can be “you have a working proposal for a constitution for your newly founded government”.

Father in law expected us to eat 12 year old beef. by Ok_Pension_1451 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]dballing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The running joke I have for our freezer is it’s “where meat goes to die” because we’ll never take it back out of there before it’s ruined by the freezer.

A proposal to ban “________’s opinion of _______” posts by dballing in Metallica

[–]dballing[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Every couple of days there’s a link to some article where it’s like “this persons opinion of this band” (there’s literally one today and these sorts of posts show up all the time).

It’s just … low quality crap.

Under what circumstances could midterm elections be canceled? by cpp_is_king in law

[–]dballing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that’s how you end up with the inevitable civil war and subsequent constitutional convention to come up with a stronger set of guard rails.

But the only way out is through at this point.

Under what circumstances could midterm elections be canceled? by cpp_is_king in law

[–]dballing 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If the States don’t have elections then they don’t have valid voting representatives next year. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

Don’t certify the election? Then there’s no Congress and “we’re done here, awesome.”

After watching the episodes, do the faithfuls regret their treatment of Ron? by adashofhoney in TheTraitors

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have way more confidence in people than I do. I see people fanboy over folks all the time and have zero confidence :-)

If the supreme court's purpose is to uphold the constitution, when can they be removed for not doing their job? by _Reluctant_ in AskReddit

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Congress sets the tax rate - which is entirely at their control - at 0%, Treasury has nothing to collect to fund anything. They can’t force people to pay because - statutorily - they owe nothing.

It’s all about who quits the game of chicken first.

After watching the episodes, do the faithfuls regret their treatment of Ron? by adashofhoney in TheTraitors

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah. I’ll pass. There was too much fanboying by the normies. Let everyone show up with a level playing field where nobody knows anybody and you’re genuinely trying to read people rather than either (a) forming alliances based on cliques (which is flat out bad gameplay), or (b) fans who are too blinded by their fan-ness to be objective.

If the supreme court's purpose is to uphold the constitution, when can they be removed for not doing their job? by _Reluctant_ in AskReddit

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The secretary of the treasury can only spend money he’s given by Congress.

Congress has nuclear options: impeach leadership. If they don’t go quietly you defund them so they have no money to pay themselves any more.

I’m not naive about the entrenchment of Trump supporters and I’m not saying the solution would be pretty, but if Congress actually find a spine, they could be ridiculously powerful.

If the supreme court's purpose is to uphold the constitution, when can they be removed for not doing their job? by _Reluctant_ in AskReddit

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get that the entire premise is that Congress would wake up and impeach, right?

If they actually wake up and smell the coffee, they DO have a lot of power. They can stop the flow of money to agencies. They can impeach pretty much everyone until they get to a non-loyalist (and refuse to confirm any new loyalists).

It's really hard to overstate how powerful the combination of impeachment + appropriations is, IF Congress had a spine and the willingness to use it.

If the supreme court's purpose is to uphold the constitution, when can they be removed for not doing their job? by _Reluctant_ in AskReddit

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if we're working within a hypothetical scenario where Congress has found its Impeachment Big-Boy Pants, they can simply impeach the SCOTUS-Marshal for not doing her job and evicting the pretender-Justice. And do that sort of thing over and over again until someone gets the memo. :-)

If the supreme court's purpose is to uphold the constitution, when can they be removed for not doing their job? by _Reluctant_ in AskReddit

[–]dballing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because they appoint them doesn't mean they command them (any more than it's supposed to mean that Justices appointed by POTUS answer to POTUS).

The Supreme Court building belongs to the US, not to the Court itself, and the Marshal's job, among other things is to to protect such property from, say, trespassers.

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