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Objective justice. :rofl: And no, we're not talking about public sentiment, we're talking about the dictates of public conscience or, if you prefer, o...

No, there's no whim to it, it's to understand the various nuances different interpretations offer and then select the one that is most in accordance w...

I don't hate Biden. I dislike people who think Biden has anything good to bring to the world or the USA specifically. The US system is so incredibly b...

I was referring to the difference between textualism, which isn't concerned with what the drafter intended, and originalism, which does. That wasn't t...

Did you test while having symptoms? The PCR test requires a minimal viral load that might not necessarily have been reached if you're still asymptomat...

marriages are still important right? Why on earth the couple invited 120 people is the question, I think, not the person going when invited, who may e...

Let's stay negative! Errrrr...

What? That's not a logical contradiction at all. I intended to score with basketball but I failed. I take back calling you reasonable because of this ...

Oh no, don't get the wrong idea. That something is insulting doesn't necessarily mean I'm insulted. I'm just saying that if you think treating people ...

It reads like you dismiss what you don't understand, do so flippantly, which indirectly is insulting towards me but still think 4 is important. Intere...

Certainly enlightening. I'm surprised it's not more specific. What worries me is that we don't worry about the same things. I'll give you mine: 1. How...

I'm trying to figure out what your point was in our earlier discussion. If, based on the available evidence, the prosecutor made the correct call that...

I'm getting the impression, @"StreetlightX", that you're arguing with voters who actually like Biden or are blind to the failings of the US system. No...

Excited to get rid of Trump maybe?

Out of curiosity, what do you believe to be the biggest challenges in the short (1-2 years), middle (3 to 10) and long term (10+) for the US? What pol...

Once again: there was no pressure on Ukraine from either the US or the EU to investigate Burisma.

This is actually false. It was Shokin who blocked the Burisma investigation among other investigations.

You're familiar with the guilt by association fallacy?

Hunter Biden isn't running for president is he?

It has everything to do with Hunter being a Biden. Just as paying 15,000 USD for a speech from Obama has everything to do with the fact it being Obama...

Also, you do realise that in all this, the one party of whom it was proved to have received under the table payments was Paul Manafort. Any corruption...

How much attention should it receive if both the intelligence community and two senate commissions, led by republicans, looked into it but haven't fou...

EU pressured firing of Shokin, not the Burisma organisation. Burisma was/is under investigations of things that happened before Hunter Biden was part ...

@"Hanover" If you really care about "transparancy" what about Trump's recorded instances of obstruction of justice in the Müller report? Shouldn't pro...

Also, let's not forget Lord Darroch's assessment who, despite being ambassador of the US' closest sky, was rather clear on the subject : incompetent.

Lmao. The only reason Trump could win is because the US has a retarded two party system. He'd never survive in a multiparty system which puts the lie ...

I just skimmed it. If she can't set out her opinion in less than 5 minutes, she's wasting my time. It's not as if she's teaching a subject.

Republicans have pretty much claimed the Conservative label where Democrats are Liberal or Progressive. It leads to typically weird juxtapositions in ...

Rebuilding, one death at a time.

Since we're posting conspiracy stories now. Murdoch owner of NY Post, was in Epstein's black book and seen with Ghislain Maxwell. Trump has been accus...

I have my fingers crossed.

I honestly don't know. My dad mentioned it today when I was talking to him. I do know it's based on Dutch figures with respect to the first wave. It's...

This we can talk about. Typically Dutch is no wish to punish. As an example, some hairsalons only take 1.5 m distance, others insist on ventilation, m...

The strain on the hospital was caused by symptoms too serious to leave untreated, with a 30% mortality rate for those admitted to the hospital and ver...

But the fatality rate wasn't the reason for measures. It was the impact on the healthcare system that required and continues to require measures. The ...

I suspect an unhealthy amount of confirmation bias coming up, but I'll bite: What do you think this proves?

Possibly the first thing I read about Biden that makes me proud of him.

Finally.

Scalia also thought he was an expert historian which led to several mistakes, not the least of which was Heller. Textualism has no "intent" involved, ...

Originalism is not a subset of textualism.

The SC has employed several interpretation methods since its creation. What motivates people to ignore other possible interpretations isn't very inter...

That's a poor translation of what Originalism actually stands for. It's one of various methods you can employ to interpret a text. Limiting yourself i...

It just occurred to me that the Founders didn't exist in a legal vacuum either. They were part of a tradition that goes back to Roman law. There are n...

I find the Originalist's approach to interpretation of legal texts strangely restrictive. Why commit to an interpretation beforehand when there are va...

This was the news. Trump can't even do witch hunts right and turns up nothing in what, his third enquiry? At least the Müller "witch hunt" gave us obs...

Is it fair to say this reduces the question to an economic problem?

Also, it might be a good time to sell Alaska to Russia. After all,

Enter in 3, 2, 1...nosfart with something totally unrelated disparaging Trump's opponents.

Florida is looking good: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/florida/