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Larry of the Lawn reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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They've demonstrated repeatedly a favoritism towards corporations, the rich, and individual property owners over government reach. Oh no, this court making a purely partisan ruling that overrules a prior sound ruling, that would NEVER happen with this SCOTUS
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I'm not talking about that specifically; I'm talking about the state seizing large amounts of property. Plus this SCOTUS has shown zero fucks given about prior decisions. Also, also, per above, the candidate being a POTUS or potential one puts in some real interesting side decisions that are possible.
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Yeah, you're wrong. When it comes to having to actually forfeit assets it becomes a lot harder than it is seizing cash.
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You'd be wrong, I think; SCOTUS could jump in quickly if necessary, especially if the government was being very aggressive in seizing properties.
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Ish? When you get that level of involvement I suspect SCOTUS will get involved, and shockingly they may have a much different viewpoint on private property rights for individuals vs the government. This is again both true and false; they have a lot of levers at their disposal but they also have significant barriers - the least of which is not having a ton of resources to devote to a long legal battle. The government settles all the time - look at what happened with the Sacklers as a good example.
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Not really. It might make it harder to settle, but it still is the problem of the collector when they're owed that much money. It also has issues similar to TikTok - if the buyers know that the assets need to be sold then seizing them and selling them won't get as much money as they were valued at previously. You see this with all sorts of settlements in the real world, and I expect we'll see that here too - a reduction in the amount in favor of getting it. Alternately you could have Trump just decide to fight everything forever, because that's a good way to fund everything else.
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Not really. It's because they got more money when he was POTUS. Again, you fundamentally misunderstand his appeal - it is either emotional (for his base) or transactional (for those who aren't decided). The idea that he's this amazing businessman and that's what he's running on now was barely true in 2016; it's definitely not true now. That's fair, and that's already happening to some extent, but I doubt it'll affect Trump's success personally.
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You misunderstand on a lot of levels. Trump's power is derived from people liking him. He has successfully framed all of this as attacks by corrupt enemies and can easily explain it away. The perception for a civil trial is not going to cause him any real issues. Mostly, however, I'm talking about the actual problems this is going to cause him. The idea that his properties and assets are going to be seized is a beautiful fantasy that I'm sure people can happily get off on, but it isn't going to actually happen. Why? Because when you owe someone $454 million it isn't your problem, it becomes theirs. They don't want to have to put liens on property and seize assets because that is going to be even more litigation and problems and hassle, and they'll likely not see that money, like, ever. They'll either settle for pennies on the dollar or they'll balk and give him more time. Possibly both.
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Oh no! I'm sure that this will be the end of Donny Trumparino
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Durckad reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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Almost no one will care. It won't be important until years down the road anyway.
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Yeah, the famous battle of mosul having no troops on the ground to deal with isis. Don't let pesky things like facts get in the way of your fantasies
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Kalbear reacted to a post in a topic: US Politics: Losing Appeals
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Kalbear reacted to a post in a topic: Ukraine War: incompetence vs fecklessness
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Kalbear reacted to a post in a topic: US politics - Yes country for old men
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Kalbear reacted to a post in a topic: US politics - Yes country for old men
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SeanF reacted to a post in a topic: Ukraine War: incompetence vs fecklessness
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Prince of the North reacted to a post in a topic: COVID 49 - Are We Done Yet?
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Not at the rates that they had covid, and are still acquiring covid. The number of hospitalizations for covid is still somewhere between 5-10x what the rate of flu is. So yeah, lots of people have flu, and we certainly haven't been taking long viral conditions seriously enough, but that doesn't mean (like you implied) that we should stop taking it actually seriously.
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Kalbear reacted to a post in a topic: NFL Playoffs 2024: How The Hell Are The Lions In The Final Four??? Inconceivable!
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That is a remarkable paraphrase; what they're saying is that long covid is not particularly different than other long-term massive debilitating effects from other viruses. It's not unique to COVID specifically, but it absolutely is real and given the amount of people who are getting covid it should still be taken seriously.
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Nope, they're just Christians. If you always dismiss the Christians who do bad as no true Christians you'll never fix the problems y'all face.