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Liberal Democracy, a system of governance unique to Mars.
A screenshot from Surviving Mars where the colony sets up a government "unique to Mars". One of the options is "Liberal Democracy".
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”
Alicia from the Twighlight Zone episode "The Lonely".
July 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Today we really saw a concrete example of equity being strong when a court is aligned with state violence.
Just as the Walker doctrine places a court's orders beyond their intrinsic support in substantive legal interpretation, Rizzo v. Goode, 15 1 Younger v. Harris,152 and City of Los Angeles v. Lyons153 invoke a weak conception of equity and, in the name of principles of deference that emerge from ideas of federalism or separation of powers, place the violence of administration beyond the reach of "law" - even court law. The rules of Rizzo, Younger, and Lyons are the rules of judges as potential outsiders looking in at state violence. When the question is whether judicial interpretations that circumscribe the authority of the wielders of state violence will be given full effect, jurisdictional principles require that the judges' interpretations be given less than their intrinsic authority. Even if the judge is considered to have been correct in holding that a police practice violated the constitutional rights of its victims' 5 4 or that a prosecution poses a present threat to the exercise of constitutional rights, 155 some principle of deference - whether to states, administrators, or legislative majorities - requires that equity, the only effective remedy, stay its hand. Thus, equity is "strong" when the court is aligned with state violence and "weak" when the court is a counterweight to that vio- lence. The result in all cases is deference to the authoritarian appli- cation of violence, whether it originates in court orders or in systems of administration. Law, even constitutional law, succumbs to the hermeneutic of jurisdiction. The jurisgenerative impulse that led a judge to find the chokehold practices of the Los Angeles Police De- partment unconstitutional,' 5 6 the jurisgenerative impulse that compels the creation of law by forcing the court to grapple with substantive issues, is silenced. The apologetic and statist orientation of current jurisdictional understandings prevents courts from ever reaching the threatening questions.1
June 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Oh hey, Sotomayor explicitly recommends that the plaintiffs file for class certification in as fast as possible.
From Sotomayor's Dissent: "Nevertheless, the parents of children covered by the Citizenship Order would be well advised to file promptly class-action suits and to request temporary injunctive relief for the putative class pending class certification. See A. A. R. P., 605 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 7); Califano, 442 U. S., at 701–703; see also ante, at 1–2 (opinion of KAVANAUGH , J.) (recognizing that lower courts, in some circumstances, can “award preliminary classwide relief that may . . . be statewide, regionwide, or even nationwide”). For suits challenging policies as blatantly unlawful and harmful as the Citizenship Order, moreover, lower courts would be wise to act swiftly on such requests for relief and to adjudicate the cases as quickly as they can so as to enable this Court’s prompt review."
June 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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An image of One Million Chessboards with 12 boards surrounded by a 2 deep bloc of pieces.
April 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Pin of Trump's Head The headquarters of the Italian fascist party. Contains a face on a field of the word "si" repeating. Upside down Mussolini. Sic semper tyranis!
April 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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When you have to deal with a coup.
A blond man with a neutral expression. Jean Otus from the manga and then anime ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Department.
December 3, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Huh, it sure didn't feel like I was that early.
Bluesky celebrating 10 million users. Lists poster as #89,285.
September 17, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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Meme using the Clockwork Orange Eye Machine template with words that read "Watching the debate".
June 28, 2024 at 1:09 AM
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Somehow I don't think there were actually 22,000 animated gifs on that cd labelled "22,000 animated gifs" I got off of archive.org.
A gif of a 3 and 1/2 inch floppy that if working correctly is spinning.
June 3, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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"Say the line Bart Template" where the class asks for the new passcode and Bart says 0451.
April 26, 2024 at 1:59 AM
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A conversation in one of the servers I am in inspired me to make this:
A top and bottom text meme with the top text reading "The Rashbam" and the bottom text being the phrase "I know writers who use subtext and they are all cowards. The word use is crossed out and the word interpret is substituted.
January 24, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Todd Howard has lost his way.
From the Elderscrolls 3: Morrowind. "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."
December 11, 2023 at 6:04 AM
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Nothing but respect for *my* academician.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov, head of the University faction in Sid Mier's Alpha Centauri.
October 18, 2023 at 4:35 AM
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The New York Metropolitans' Home Run Apple.
August 28, 2023 at 2:40 AM
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Anyway, here is a picture of my cat.
Cat!
July 13, 2023 at 1:52 AM
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@ironspike.bsky.social Hell yeah! My Poorcraft books arrived today. Thank you for doing all of the work that goes into making sure this and things like this get made.
The three Poorcraft books.
June 28, 2023 at 3:17 AM
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Mods are figuring out their moderation policy, honor the 6th house and the tribe unmourned.
Dagoth Ur
June 19, 2023 at 11:21 PM
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"Who of us wouldn't like a plate of blins and a cat nearby?"
-Running with Pictures (Tr. from the original Russian)
A cat sitting on a chair next to a plate of blini.
June 19, 2023 at 10:29 PM
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Today I learned that the "I should buy a boat" cat from a Bjork music video where the cat is Bjork's SO.
The "I should buy a boat" cat meme. Bjork kissing her cat SO.
May 28, 2023 at 8:43 PM