dillondoyle

Feel this.

Spent $500 for a pointless MRI.

I have some specific domain knowledge on my injury (very sport specific) but obviously have not spent 10+ years in school studying hand surgery.

But I did read and send AND tell/ask in my appoint real specifically relevant med publications saying the only way to see what I wanted was an ultra sound under stress.

My PT also said this. But not a 'real md.'

So I had to pay and sit through an uncomfortable MRI for nothing. And never got the ultrasound. Should have just said no thanks.

Yeah. It's hard to know what % though. Is it a vocal minority? A small one?

The future causes me intense anxiety especially 2024 ;(

though i do work in politics so perhaps I think about it too much.

I have no idea how we can continue when such a large % of the country believes increasingly insane things

I did not say there is some specific written clause in the constitution tying speech and sedition. I am not an extreme textualist SCOTUS member lol.

To the below comment, I do believe courts have interpreted and created law which applies to Trump's words and actions, specifically on reasonable restrictions to speech which incites, creates, has immediate danger.

Trump's actions and words fit that and he is culpable for the actions resulting from his words.

On the actual law surrounding the consequences of his speech and attempts to subvert our Government and Democracy

Fourteenth Amendment Section 3 No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Law specific says incites https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/par...

Trump's actions speak way more clear than whatever clouded, deluded, idiotic trains of thoughts move through his mind.

His actions are clear, direct, immediate threat and dangerous. Speech his says to support that should not be accepted.

How the hell did you get that from what i wrote

Here are just a few.

Beyond his words, there are huge amounts of convicts who told the police they acted bc Trump's words or even used Trump's words as an argument in court to attempt to show they weren't directly responsible/as culpable. Trump might not punch protestors in the face himself, but his words cause acts of violence.

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Also given the topic twitter lays out specific examples on their platform.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...

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The clearing of lafayette square Trump said 'bust some heads' and reports of some blatant attempts to order the military to intervene inappropriately the entire summer.

Trump saying "Seriously. Just knock the hell out of them. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. There won’t be so much of them because the courts agree with us,"

“when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

“I’d like to punch him in the face.” to a protester.

A funny gem: Wanted spikes on his wall that would 'pierce flesh' 'shoot migrants' build an 'alligator moat'.

Like, you can't make that up in a movie it would be too outlandish. Dr evil type contraption that can be easily overcome lol

BLM "“That will never happen with me. I don’t know if I’ll do the fighting myself or if other people will. But that was a disgrace. … I felt badly for him, but it showed that he’s weak.”"

Thugs pissing on and beating homeless people: “I think that would be a shame. I will say, the people that are following me are very passionate. They love this country. They want this country to be great again. But they are very passionate. I will say that,”

infamous "very fine people" (charlottesville)

Lots of reports of his wanting to use the military during the summer with clear tone and political intent. some reports of nebulous rants about doing the same after he lost to try and hold onto power.

"we’d like to get them out a lot faster, and when you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, I said, please don’t be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody. Don’t hit their head. I said, you can take the hand away, okay?"

Gianforte body slam: “Any guy who can do a body-slam ... he’s my guy.” (wish we would have won that race Kathleen is great candidate...)

Lots of campaign rally examples.

“See, the first group, I was nice. ‘Oh, take your time.’ The second group, I was pretty nice. The third group, I’ll be a little more violent. And the fourth group, I’ll say get the hell out of here!”

“You see, in the good old days, law enforcement acted a lot quicker than this. A lot quicker. In the good old days, they’d rip him out of that seat so fast — but today, everybody’s politically correct,”

Another video of Trump saying “Get him the hell out of here! Get him out of here! Throw him out!” to a BLM protestor while a member of the crowd physically beats protester

How can someone on this forum, evidently smart (or not), write this.

seriously? Where is this documented evidence that more FBI employees were violent leading up to Jan 6. More than hundreds and hundreds storming the Capitol?

You haven't seen the huge amount of footage of battering police, pepper spraying police, throwing spears at police, brutally beating a cop on the ground who now has long term head trauma, the death of police, ransacking, throwing over, messing with proprty.

crazy. flag.

It would be gamed 100%.

I am not - and I hope no one seriously is - talking about stopping or curtailing speech for everyone.

Trump & members of Congress's actions are not "opinion: disputable, open to discussion." Clear facts that actually happened.

The election was free and fair. Fact.

There was minuscule fraud which did not affect outcomes, even on the smallest level. Plus a decent chunk of the worst offenders were Republicans including the COS who actively engaged in this sedition. Fact.

Congress was violently attacked. Fact.

Trump & sworn Government Representatives tried to overturn the election, subvert democracy, and overthrow the Government. Fact.

That can not be supported and is a clear exception to free speech that is grossly & intentionally harmful.

You can not lump all lies together. There are different degrees. And most important a difference in who is telling the lie.

Intent can not be separated either.

What do you mean you support the right to attack a republic? You want to attack our government?

We have a means to make change in our country/government. It's called Democracy, activism, and yes through protected (non violence causing) speech.

Directly trying to literally overthrow a free and fair election & government by the chief executive and Members who are sworn to uphold the law and constitution is explicitly sedition and their 'speech' that caused and incited this should not be and is not protected. Trump's lies directly caused this and his actions were (and still are) a threat to the very foundation of law that protects our speech.

He WAS involved in violence and is 100% responsible for instigating it on multiple occasions. He directed his supporters to act multiple times during first election on through most important Jan 6 obviously.

Congress was attacked. People with guns and weapons broke into the Capital. I do NOT support the rick to literally attack our Republic/country it's crazy that people support this. There was permanent injury and death to multiple people. It was violence. Many explicitly intended to kill members of Congress.

Yes and yes he was impeached. the law of the constitution was followed.

I don't believe anyone can make a good faith argument that his rhetoric did not incite violence. During the campaign, during BLM protests, and most important Jan 6

Does local = national? what about conflicts legally - or ethically as a US corp. China access using CCP rules. Russia too.

it's the definition of speech and arguments of what is protected vs dangerous.

specifically Trump's access to the platform is de facto supporting or implicitly allowing Trump's right to lie, attack our Republic, spread violence. (if don't agree crosses into violent words, at least should agree definition something like: suggestively, dog whistle, saying it without saying)

what about your friends retweeting.

it's also about public good and legitimate intention to stop attacks on the foundations of our republic and stop the spread of dangerous (imho should. be libelous under law to combat) lies.

complicated and can become paternalistic, deciding what is best for someone. but we do that (or used to, vaccines and mask pushback) all the time on other dangers.

I wonder what the support % of allowing Trump back on is.

At least it would make his social media scam/grift less valuable. but big societal damage imho

propaganda, spam, shilling, bots. If they have a see only verified (maybe ideally as a default) it would help a huge amount with the big societal problems that have been created by government sponsored lies.

fixed!

You're right sorry i'll change

;) always a scandal. When Dems do it.. Politicians of both parties routinely use apps like wickr and signal. often illegally not following records keeping laws.

I know obama had a special blackberry made so he could use email on mobile.

I'd be surprised if the federal government hasn't created a mobile version of SIPRNet yet?

I work in politics (low level compared to these elected s). most of the committees use signal + email 2fa or similar now. But that does nothing against sate sponsored hackers with 0 days. Maybe rotating burner phones and chat platforms would work better, but probably not worth it for the vast majority unless doing something sketchy.

I can't find it.. but i read an article last week that went through how these oppressive governments are using sports (and their money) to build up their image. Russia did it before their first invasion. China did it twice with the olympics.

the use of sports and FIFA is an example of this.

*qatar not uae, is the absolute worst place to hold a giant soccer tournament. They have to use special AC units inside giant stadiums (built on deaths of lots of migrant workers) because it's a hot desert. But they claim they are still 'green'

Saudi using art is an example too. They paid a ton of money to use the name Louvre even though their museum has nothing to do with the institution. ironically he refused to loan his $450 million 'da vinci' to the real museum. Evidently sitting on a yacht hidden because good chance it's not by da vinci's hand.

As a queer person who loves to travel (or did before covid) there are some countries i just refuse to visit, despite the awesome cultural heritage. I know that citizens don't always necessarily agree, but many do. And I just can't support the expansion of authoritarianism - and potentially risk my life.

That take loses a ton of nuance. This is probably talking about anti-racism.

When the status quo is actively discriminating and harmful, doing nothing is enabling oppression.

can you not just 'wash' it like those btc 'gambling' sites that work out to 99% or whatever money back into an address you specify?

Not care is a part of it. But "they're both the same," "it doesn't matter," "I think ___ crazy thing from the internet" are more common imho.

I work in politics and it drives me nuts the self reinforcing idea that your vote doesn't matter.

Combined with false equivalences and inflexibility to see a larger viewpoint (that no one will get 100% 1:1 policy representation) just lets older people who consistently vote run away with it.

There is also entrenched structural problems as a result of R control, especially state & county level. That is also a part of low turnout.

It's more than that, tacks on even more for state. and every time you 'finish' a step it tries to upsell some stupid audit protection and also another one to get human involved. I somehow doubt 'audit protection' would even give you a certified cpa or attorney when the irs comes knocking for a real audit, it's probably some dumb small print

I personally use it because my taxes are too complicated to do it myself on paper.

I hope they are correct, I honestly do a good faith job but it's too complicated.... the pdf download for 2020 was 426 pages... that includes state. and it will be even more next this year about to file my 21.

way too complicated I only own a small s-corp (technically 2) and do some really small level investing with active trading.

I think the CA law might have more teeth to allow for individual action? e.g. if they don't respond to data deletion requests.

dejoy and usps did delay changes until after the election - and usps service has greatly reduced (see other comment sources below)

The big changes that would have exasperated this were no overtime, shutting down and moving the bulk sorting machines, changing/closing processing facilities. there was reporting/evidence and photos of some of those large machines being taken out and thrown away.

Even if there were no - or small but inconsequential - material delays in delivery, it's a very common tactic of intimidation and fear/doubt to get what tend to be more democrats to not vote by mail.

spread rumors there will be delays in mail, that it might not get there. or that it is pure fraud.

Builds on old tactics (which still happen) that started with race profiling. police or bugalo whatever at polling stations for 'security,' intimidation that if you make a mistake you will go to jail (even if told by the sos staff you are eligible). so much more.

I, and many others, disagree with that premise which is part of the reason he is not popular.

That USPS needs to be profitable (it's a us govt service for the people). And that there were (bill just fixed it) onerous requirements that made 'profit' basically impossible.

For me it's also political. It's hard for me to separate his political agenda from things that materially impact elections.

That was my reaction too. Especially if joy rides means a licensed kid taking the car without permission.

Very cool to see the knowledge of guy/microbiome growing.

I wonder if that means it would actually be possible, more likely I would guess to modify the corn or whatever gross food we feed most cows.

how? when re watching it does not feel liberal to me. In fact they celebrate this fake moderation and cooperation that doesn't exist (scotus episode). and not very liberal socially. the way they treat lgbtq issues is an example that stands out to me from how far we have evolved in 15 years or whatever