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I don't understand why the chain of custody matters if DKIM and DMARC are legitimate ways to verify the communications contained in the laptop. The focus on crack smoking hookers getting clapped by Biden isn't as interesting when it comes to political malfeasance.

It's parroted because it's make sense. Every 'imperfection' of an economists idea has led to further concentration of capital in the hands of incumbents. Many of these incumbents have already failed and only exist by way of heinous regulatory choices, only to be bailed out because economists said its better this way or things will be worse (take hostages much?).

My critique is that the short term is all that matters because accountability and culpability aren't available to institutions and individuals because they are too important. There is seemingly an infinite amount of labor arbitrage to make when you can make horrible medium/long term capital decisions that appear good because of short term market gains, all because the fix (govt bailout) is in.

Does you think capital has product value without the application of technology or labor? Why is the most important aspect of the equation the least valued?

Hmmm, Moody's where do I remember that name from? Oh ya here it is - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/14/moodys-864m...

Economics is the lies told by some middle class assholes with a degree and/or credential that get paid just enough by upper class assholes to trick low class rubes.

Why did we owe the Iraqis thousands of our soldiers lives and a couple trillion dollars? You morally justified all this by concluding we improved the situation of Iraqis? What currency is their oil sold in? What companies discover and drill for it? I bet most are subsidiaries of Western corps. I did a google, looks like it's Exxon and Schlumberger International getting 96 new wells as of June 2021 (https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/exxonmobil-basrah-oil-ink-de...)

"Condemn the Iraqi people to go back to that?" I condemn them to figure out their own future, do what's necessary and proper to attain it - whether it be suffer under Saddam or overthrow him is for the Iraqi people to decide. Not American politicians and intelligence services you seem to be a sycophant for.

"I'd like to see someone stand up and proclaim it would have been better..." False choice, get better at your moral justifications. Going to address the way the US public was lied into the Iraq Pillaging? You compare the Pillaging of Iraq with the Korean War - one had an aggressor (KPA crossed the line a thing that actually happened to instigate the war) and we had obligations to the First Republic of Korea. The US had and has no obligations to the Iraqi people, we just lied about Iraq and Saddam's relation to terrorists so the American ruling class could do it's thing.

I can't get passed this post boiling down to "we shouldn't have gone, but we did and Iraq is better for it" You completely fail to address the opportunity costs involved from the US side. Who are you trying to convince with this moral justification for invading Iraq, yourself?

I'll chop a hand off if Iraq becomes anything like South Korea before 2100.

I submit 'Drewcoo's Dictum' for use in these cases.

My homework extends to knowing you're a lawyer, and given you do contract law for start ups I'm willing to bet you help them steal via the protections of the corporate veil.

Again, the 14th Amendment says we're all equal before the law but I don't see a lot of boards / c-suite scumbags going to jail or having the previous decades of 'earnings' clawed back. And definitely not seeing any corporate death penalties. As far as I can tell, you're one of the dudes that helps them achieve a superior legal status to mere flash and blood humans like myself.

Not your down vote.

You(ABA/Federal Gov't) claim us as subjects to your federal state. Notice the COVID bailouts going to the highest cost of living states with the largest state income taxes and budget deficits/debts? I don't really give a fuck about equal protection for states when the administrators are wholly removed from accountability. Notice the gun laws in DC and NY - the political and financial centers? Weird how the powerful in those states aren't accountable for their failures, always a bailout at the expense of labor for their financial and political quandries. How many times in the last couple decades have the financiers revealed themselves as liars while paying no personal cost for their lies and deceits?

In an above comment -

" > My New York bar oath says: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York."

Note the order. "

The 14th Amendment is a fraud not because Southern states didn't ratify it while not apart of the Union. It's a fraud in the lack of enforcement against the power structures that initially enacted it.

I don't believe you'd see it my way, I'm thinking because it's a bit - to quote Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Instead, they control the methodologies that define the value of what they've printed as well as the flows.

Differences...Distinctions...are there?

Didn't Bush and Obama do the same thing with their allegiance to Saudi Arabia? Recruit a bunch of kids, send them to be maimed and kill civilians...

Does your sense of morality and ethics end at the border, shouldn't these types of values be a bit more universal?

The people collecting now paid in at 6-10%, I'm paying out to them at 15%. They also paid no health insurance premiums on the come up, I've paid them since I was 22 without needing to use them. Also made it illegal to not pay into the fraud for a bit.

Evil ol' bastards. They can fuck off and die already.

I thought that's why the childless were obligated to school taxes and inflated health insurance premiums?

The child rearing consume what the childless have earned under the "do what's best for everyone" motif of social programs. Who's getting the best? Do the childless get to participate in this best?

Why would they stop their violence and be held accountable when the authorities people like you put in power aren't able to be held accountable?

How do you feel about the board and executive team at Purdue Pharma? Weird how we invaded Afghanistan and then how much does it hurt and how much heroin do you need became part of every medical diagnosis.

What are you organizing around Mr. Chief Architect? Your company does data visualization for financial firms. Financial firms that don't have a loss condition. How many extrapolations from reality is your business? At least 2, maybe 3, more? As long as the markets your pretty pictures represent can't take a loss - you're only justifying your undeserved opulence. Every bail out absolves people like you from their failure, and denies people like me a better opportunity to out perform you.

Have the labor classes of the U.S. seen any advancement in the last few decades? Are the advances the labor classes of other (US/India) even worthwhile given the lack of political bargaining power?

You economically depress local workers, and sell them on their freedoms and in then in the next breath you're politically oppressing foreign labor classes while selling them on their economic advances. Both are true, but you take the larger margin from both.

And all the people that fucked us labor class underlings keep their advantages. They're preferential placements to the best schools, the best jobs, helping their friend's kid get a start. It's wonderful. Really fucking wonderful. I love being stuck, being denied the opportunity of advancement because those that are already there were hoodwinked by another black fucking swan.

The rage is barely below the surface. Good fucking luck.

It's more like they were familiar with the Theory of Moral Sentiments^. This work lays out the foundation of the Wealth of Nations and lays out an explanation of The Invisible Hand. From the Section 'Sixth Sense':

"Hutcheson had abandoned the psychological view of moral philosophy, claiming that motives were too fickle to be used as a basis for a philosophical system. Instead, he hypothesised a dedicated "sixth sense" to explain morality. This idea, to be taken up by David Hume (see Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature), claimed that man is pleased by utility. "

I think this is one of the first places to move away from a labor theory of value to a utility theory of value. I'm a dummy though so who knows.

Edit: Publication on or before 12 April 1759 should have had plenty of time to be read and discussed before the Contract Clause?*

^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments

Where you say "really shows the failures of a police state." It's a great success, the greatest actually. The people who fail to enforce anything against the police are the same people who need them to act as the tip of their spear. The purpose isn't everyone compliance - just the compliance of those with the potential to change things. Think FBI and MLK, or Aaron Swartz. It's like spear fishing vs mass spam, tracking the individual agents of change and their social network vs fire hoses and dogs at protests.

You're wrong, all drug offenders are political prisoners. The violent one were just more willing defend their human rights. How do you square treatment of Sackler vs Guzman?

Because the billionaire owns (at least a share) in said consulting firms, and isn't constrained by tax laws and borders in the same way that the underclasses are?

What happened to "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." As expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s.

Seems you're willing to punish an innocent man and a guilty man just to make sure a committed crime is followed up with a conviction.

Why have such a low bar in 2019?

The FISA Court isn't a legitimate court of law. Why would you want another one? There is no adversary there, it's one branch arguing to violate the Constitution while that same branch pretends to defend the target. It the Star Chamber of Technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber

How often are the people making the arguments from the same political party? This problem extends to pretty much every court, as we currently have 3 branches being gamed by 2 political parties.

This will be one of the fracture lines that break the country.

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