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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Mood in Canada right now is one of rightful indignation.

Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Sadly, barely paying lip service to reality without doing anything to fix the problem is actually an improvement from the blatant denial and factionalized finger-pointing that has characterized much of the current climate discourse on the Republican side in the US Federal politics.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I appreciate the sentiment, but I don’t see it happening outside of an election loss for her. As for Alberta doing things “their own way”, they have a history of this kind of behaviour. It usually results in extracting some sort of concessions from the Federal government.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Yeah don’t give them any ideas. Or, at the very least, make them pay for your ideas

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Thinking about this somehow makes it even less clear. Which god? How do we know it was chosen? What the fuck does it do? Is it enchanted or something? Why does science need to perfect god? Is god imperfect? Did he/she/it make the wrong choice so science had to step in? So many questions…

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Somehow I have even more questions now.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Nothing that PR and marketing can’t sort out.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I’m pretty sure I still have stains on my counter from it from a year ago.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It’s called current affairs and it’s depressing.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Pretty amazing, all things considered.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Being a lawyer, this is kinda hard to watch without getting a little flustered.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Is this invite only? Or is there an excel spreadsheet somewhere I can put my name on?

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Thank you for your reply. I’m looking into Seestar products as I type this. Appreciate the help.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

So wait, is the finding of guilt of the person on trial the experimental condition?

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Biden is getting the Jimmy Carter treatment.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I came here to post this. Thank you.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Sadly, advertisers will advertise so long as it makes them money. So long as there is no real impact on their bottom line, they will not budge.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I’m pretty sure they’ll be rolling in their grave before they do that. Maybe with one exception.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Life is sadness and decay. Let’s dance!

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

You must consult the ancient scrolls

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Wait. You’re telling me that we humans are not all descendants of one single family who lived some 5000 years ago? And that earth’s geological record does not show a global flood? And that there places and things older than the flood on earth? No way!

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

But… we got everything you want?

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I almost stepped on one of these little guys when I hiked the Grand Canyon some 20 years ago. I never knew I could move so fast in 40 degree heat.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Let me adjust my monocle… Ok, you may now proceed.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Please somebody explain to him that this is not how it works. I don’t want him greedily looking over to us next time there’s a drought.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

There is a certain degree of irony in this. The US Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned media organizations in other countries for not being independent enough when they are owned by local oligarchs. I wonder how they would react to the same treatment from other countries?

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In my experience, appellate courts will seldom comment on merit if the case can be dismissed on jurisdiction.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I wish I could provide you with any meaningful advice here, but my experience in law (and federalism in particular) is all Canadian based. What knowledge of US law I have is all related to transnational crime. Your best bet is a Utah-based constitutional lawyer.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Are…are they Greenlanders?

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is the sad part. Canadian flag has always stood for tolerance and respect. Now you can be mistaken for an asshole if you fly one.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It’s also the National Post. The paper had really gone downhill in the last twenty or so years.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I remember hiking at that same spot 20 some odd years ago in 40 degree heat. Beautiful countryside. Congratulations.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Intellectual property law takes a special kind of nerd to practice. And this is coming from a criminal-law-practicing nerd.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Americans are going to be accessing TikTok the same way Russians access Twitter: VPN.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

And I’m not even talking about the merits of Utah managing Utah land here. Just simply the fact that they signed off on it in a treaty and, barring some sort of a constitutional amendment or a re-negotiation, the case was doomed from the outset.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What peaked my interest about this is the sheer audacity of bringing a “bound to fail” case to the Supreme Court at the public’s expense, while promoting it to the public at the same time. Sounds like someone really wanted to show themselves as the victim of American federalism here.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Speaking on behalf of most Canadians here - can you guys (the USA) just keep him? Let him live in Florida or something. He will fit right in. Most of us are tired of his bullshit up here.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Do you take Hawk Tuah coin?

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Unpopular opinion: American TikTok ban is extortion of a foreign company to sell a valuable asset to an American-controlled entity. It will set a worldwide precedent for this type of coercive expropriation of a foreign-controlled assets justified on national security grounds.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Unpopular Opinion: American TikTok ban is extortion of a foreign company to sell a valuable asset to an American-controlled entity. It will set a worldwide precedent for this type of coercive expropriation of a foreign-controlled assets justified on national security grounds.

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Michael @lawsofwar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Shhh. Don’t give Disney any ideas for a spin off.

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