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The Supreme Court has judged that the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" should be interpreted in accordance with what the framers meant when they ...

Thanks, there was indeed a mixup there. The translation to Dutch would suggest it's about the scope of powers vested in an office and not narrowly def...

It's a level of intent that's preferable to arguing that strict liability or negligence should apply in this case. So it makes sense to try to prove i...

It's not about what you find acceptable or not it's how people are motivated or not. They are motivated to clickbait in their timeline and that's a re...

What argument? The argument that the Ukrainians didn't feel pressured or that Trump didn't intend to pressure them ? If that is indeed central to thei...

I'm mostly busy working my day job, spending time with my wife and kids, doing chores, drinks with friends and some time spend on my hobbies. In other...

We've had a wealth tax in the Netherlands for over a decade now. It used to tax a fictive return on the balance of your assets and liabilities, set at...

For what it's worth, the legal discussion should be about the extent of executive privilege. If it extends far enough he was in his rights to do what ...

I'm not presuming guilt either. I'm only telling you the arguments you raise about the mindset of the Ukrainians and Trump's comments about the same a...

I'm not assuming anything. I'm only telling you your arguments don't work. Also, that's the wrong question as I just explained.

Now you're just repeating yourself. Cute but not an argument. Trump's comments on the matter are even less relevant and he certainly cannot testify as...

You don't know law or understand fallacies. If I threaten to punch you in the face if you don't do x. And you call my bluff by doing x and I don't pun...

Irrelevant. A defrauder isn't excused merely because his attempt at fraud fails.

He doesn't yet realise that sometimes people know or should know. Even his favoured cop out on the absence of mens rea for Trump has this problem. It'...

I'm enjoying your posts and great to see you have the energy to keep pointing out the bullshit NOS4A2 keeps peddling. I got tired of it a zillion post...

Fine. Let's play the game "pretending Hanover made sense". Not arbitrary but Israel's own definition. Irrelevant as to how people get their citizenshi...

Correct. It's also not an example of institutionalised racism.

Again. If you think I'm talking about who gets to be an Israeli citizens or not, you're still missing the point.

Plenty of people have been disagreeing with it by downplaying it. But it's this and the fact that such racism is a necessary consequence of pursuing a...

Totally missing the point. Discriminating between different types of Scottish citizens was the issue I raised. That has nothing to do with immigration...

That really depends on the country in question whether human rights are enforceable. Most countries have UDHR human rights either as part of their con...

He was commenting on you both.

It's not that the things you're bringing up aren't interesting in themselves but they have little to do with the subject at hand. Yes, in some cases f...

That claim is of course a religious one. People can believe what they want but they shouldn't expect it to be an argument for people who don't share t...

Yes, I'm well aware which is why I said probably. And do you expect the Scots to then discriminate between the English and Scottish Scots living in Sc...

What? Like the Sami? Not having an own state isn't the cause of repression: living in a state with institutionalised racism causes it or if it cannot ...

That doesn't make a lot of sense considering zionism existed well before the Nazis.

Fair enough. But I think that merely explains why Israel is the way it is, it doesn't excuse institutionalised racism. The State of Israel doesn't nee...

I was referring to the treatment of Jews in neighbouring countries. It's in any case all a red herring/tu quoque. It's not about what others do and ha...

Again. Appealing to what autocratic regimes do to make Israel look good is not the argument you want to be making here. I'm not talking about immigrat...

I'm well aware that the religious and philosophical treatise of the concept of a chosen people is rather different and less negative (apart from the o...

It's not "problems". You are downplaying the institutionalised racism and discrimination perpetrated by the Jewish state which relegates non-Jewish ci...

I didn't pull that card on you, asshole. Which is a racist enterprise. It wouldn't be if it would be a state of Israel that would be safe for Jews wit...

Fuck you for pulling the anti-semitic card when it's quite clear I take issue with the discrimination in Israel of non-Jewish Israeli citizens as a re...

Neither is Zionist Israel, like its main ruling party Likud, shy about annexing the West Bank but nobody seems to worry about the existential threat t...

Could you describe the paradox you were experiencing? I'd rather not jump to conclusions. My own experience of paradox was that QM suggests the possib...

I already did! Weight is irrelevant when I'm not holding it. So it doesn't need to render that quality at that time. Just like a computer that doesn't...

This assumes hardcore causality though. We already know that prediction is epistemically not always possible, which means that for certain processes w...

Influence over and acces to oil and gas. See for instance: the geopolitics of oil and gas pipelines

I'm not sure I follow your reasoning entirely. Would a simulation require to calculate everything that was and is? Would the fact that it only needs t...

Capitalism with a human face doesn't require democracy. There's no meaningful difference voting for a centrist or republican where it concerns the slo...

What's the point of voting for a centrist knowing nothing will change then? Might as well vote Republican then... Same difference.

@"Hanover" The link about executive privilige mentions the US vs. Nixon case and that holds: So Nixon was also prosecuted under criminal law? How does...

Suggestive quote. Here it is with the rather relevant last sentence:

no. Context. If you have a problem with dark money, then that sword cuts both parties.

from that article : “These kinds of totals aren’t unheard of,” Maguire added. “I do think they’re unheard of on the liberal side. I think that’s what’...

I haven't insulted you. I've called you out on nonsense statements and if you feel insulted... well, permit me to shed some crocodile tears for you. I...

Scientism. I didn't know it was physically possible to both suck and blow at the same time but well done.

I was saying I'd rather not be the canary for the rest of the world, if you don't mind.

Sanctimonious nonsense. There still is no political will to solve this problem. Greta is doing a lot more in getting political interests aligned to ac...