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lordtableshark asked: If you could upload your consciousness to the internet so that you'd be immortal and get to zip around all day having fun internet adventures, would you?
No. You couldn’t exist in the internet and stay sane.
The internet is a multifaceted dischordia without objective truth. Inhabiting it would be falling through a flapping flock of a billion magazines all jumbled and screaming around you like a ransom note. An entirely new dimension is born with every Retweet. Every Like. You’re someone’s mortal enemy in one reality while in another you’ve made a stranger halfway across the world smirk, bettering her life for a fifteen second duration that she won’t remember the next day. Nothing is real. Everything is a panic. Freak out! Here’s a cookie recipe. Holy shit, our species is doomed! But look, a hedgehog in a teacup.
Look a while longer though, and you see the segregation. This is a proper insane asylum, with cells. The inmates don’t mingle. Everyone knows what ward they prefer to stay on. Their screams are heard but not heeded, and no one changes their tune. What noise! This isn’t a symphony; it’s not even a crowd in an arena shouting at the same stage. This is a shrieking, swollen swarm of rats all boiling alive together in the same bubbling cauldron of spunk and tears.
I’ll take my finite flesh years and be grateful :)
Efffff that. Let THEM leave. This is my fucking home and I love it more than they do. People who go around saying they’re going to leave the country? I don’t like it. If you let people chase you out - short of them literally firing weapons at you - you never loved your homeland anyway, and probably don’t deserve it.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
Leaving the country is not a solution, it’s a retreat.
Anonymous asked: can you please talk about those protections to curtail executive power I'm really, really scared and could use the reassurance thank you
This includes Obergefell v. Hodges, which made same-sex marriage a constitutional right; Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, which reaffirmed a woman’s right to choose first articulated in Roe v. Wade, another Supreme Court case. Grutter v. Bollinger, which instituted affirmative action, the entire body of Civil Rights case law, plus anything related to due process, including the right of minors to due process, your right to an attorney, Miranda rights, inadmissible evidence, etc.
(Even if Trump appoints the worst possible SC nominee, they still can’t reverse any of these decisions without a really significant case coming before the Court with new facts, and then they have to write an opinion stating how this case is different than that other case…it’s unlikely to happen.)
Write law or repeal any existing law
While traditionally, presidents have exerted influence on the legislative agenda (see, Obama’s role in advancing and promoting the Affordable Care Act) they cannot actually write or pass legislation. Bills, joint resolutions, concurrent resolutions, and simple resolutions must be introduced in the House by a Representative.
Presidents cannot strike down law. Only Congress can repeal laws, and only the Supreme Court can strike them down as unconstitutional.
Presidential influence is just that—influence.
(And if—for example—you are hated by 95% of the party you joined last week, and burned all your goddamn bridges by insulting them at various points in your campaign…..they’re unlikely to partner with you in crafting legislation.)
Make any law or declaration that infringes in any way on the rights of the states
So in the US, most of the rights are reserved to the states. You name it, it’s a state-run power. Criminal procedure and law? States. Medicare and Medicaid? States. The definition of marriage? States. Insurance, health departments, housing, unemployment benefits, public education, all these are state programs. And the president cannot infringe on those powers given to the states.
(This is why down-ticket voting is so important, because Mike Pence as governor of Indiana had 800x the power he’s going to have as VP.)
Declare war.
This one is the most complicated, because with the advent of our “conflicts” in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. there has been a significant shift in the articulation of the war doctrine, and it is one of the least restricted of the president’s “restricted” powers. But, despite all that, a president still has no power to declare war.
Unilaterally appoint heads of administrative departments
Unilaterally make treaties with foreign nations
Essentially, while presidents have a lot of power, it’s mostly unofficial—they can’t make sweeping laws, they can’t overturn existing rights, the most they can do is refuse to enforce them (which is absolutely a threat! and a problem! but we aren’t electing de facto royalty.
