If only the Golgafrinchans had put the factory owners and entrepreneurs on the B ark instead of the telephone hygienists…
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Well those that stayed behind did die of a disease spread from a dirty telephone, so…
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Any cop that thinks they need to look for a job because they could be held responsible for their actions has my approval to do just that.
Good riddance
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With that concentration of billionaires, it probably wouldn’t be safe to even hassle the servants. DUI billionaires are probably carefully escorted to a passenger seat, and driven home.
What’s a bored fascist to do without an underclass to rule with borrowed authority?
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They’ll probably be headhunted by DHS before the week is out.
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I’d be glad to throw a chain around their gated communities to keep them all in.
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This is also a great snapshot of how the right wing propaganda machine works:
- Respected newspaper writes article about reasonable bipartisan local policy
- Online right wing rag writes bizarre panic piece about the other article, misquoting and misrepresenting every aspect.
- Right wing rag article summarized as a meme or listicle, so the story becomes “Colorado Dems arresting police for doing their job, all police quit” or some such.
- Meme spreads all over Facebook, having lost all connection to any original source that could be checked
- My dad quotes this to me at Thanksgiving, and I can’t even respond because, while it’s clearly nonsense, the layers are so deep I can’t hope to pick it apart.
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No, it’s even worse than that. Since Pearson v. Callahan, it’s more like “Oh, was that bad? Should I not have done that? Well, since no court said so beforehand, we can just keep doing it until a court does.”
Under Saucier v. Katz, the court considering qualified immunity at least had to decide FIRST whether something was a constitutional violation, and only then decide whether there was clearly established law prohibiting it. But after Pearson, courts can skip right to step two, which is much easier and doesn’t require that pesky constitutional analysis.
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If you think so. Here are three more you might recognize:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Remember, Big Brother is WATCHING YOU.
/sarcasm
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Yeah, I know that is the insanity of it. And if my take away from the explainer is correct, It isn’t whether an action a reasonable person would consider permissible or not. They literally look to see if the exact situation has happened before, and if not, then it’s "Well, we don’t have a ruling on it being not allowed, so we will allow it this time.
Case given in the example was blowing up a house trying to get an armed shoplifter out of a random house he ran into.
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Some judges are better about this than others, but because this is a judge-made doctrine that the Supreme Court has repeatedly blessed, courts have a lot of leeway in deciding what level of generality they’re going to consider.
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This is the kind of subtlety that turns out to be critically important.
Oyez links
Saucier v Katz
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Nope. The point of Galt’s Gulch is they fuck up the world and then run away from its effects.
Surviving on automation for labor and magical thinking for resources.
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Deferred Maintenance is exactly what happened starting in the 1980s during Saint Reagan’s reign, all over the US and in Canada. Despite having a maintenance and replacement schedule, almost every aspect of national infrastructure had the parts that seemed to be functioning properly left as is. The maintenance/replacement was deferred to sometime in the indeterminate future and the immediate budget year cash savings siphoned off for other pet projects.
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I mean, that’s the inevitable outcome but it is hardly the point, hardly what Rand intended. And yes, I am absolutely going to interpret her intentions. The author is not dead in this literary analysis because that’s what objectivism is all about and anyway, it’s hardly literature anyway.
I enjoyed reading those articles, thanks.
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“The Cobra Commander Dialogues” are one of the funniest takes on Atlas Shrugged I have read.
Full list
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What do you mean? The poors can fly too.
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basically the story of a whole bunch of american utopian societies in the 17 and 1800s. intellectuals convinced they could run perfect societies, yet who could never quite figure out how farming worked.
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I look at it this way. These fascist non-mask wearing Donny Drumpf Supporters are courting death. That will stop them from passing facism and racism to their heirs. Stopping them passing their hatred down like it’s a family heirloom!
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They will kill other people, too.
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