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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1465961
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1465961
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The Righteous Gemstones embrace the hypocrisy.
Thanks Rabbi Silver.
Nothing better than demonstration of what their laws really mean, even though most remain clueless, many complicit, and a few think yes we are right, we are better than you Jews or Hindus or, gasp, atheists, etc al.
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In thr labor movement they called this ‘work to rule’, whereby your industrial action was merely to follow the rules exactly as written. A lot of the profitability of businesses is based to some degree on shortcuts.
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“Follow the rules exactly as written”
AKA a “pilot strike”.
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As a proud member of the FFRF, I’ve been irritatingly civilly disobedient for many years – since the 1960s. I’m glad to know what I have mixed it up with by being irritatingly obedient uncivilly, too, over the same years. I just didn’t know it had a name…
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In the service I remember a version of this concept being called “malicious compliance”.
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OT: On the off chance folks haven’t seen this story (links to the story of the raid itself are in this article):
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I get up every day and thank my lucky stars I live on California. The GOP here wiped themselves out with prop 187, jungle primaries, and nonpartisan redistricting.
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Yes, it’s been done in the military and in public and private businesses for many years now – and think about Dilbert comics (yuck), and “The Office.”
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Were his financial statements needed for the search warrant? 
The Marion County Record on Saturday said Joan Meyer, the publisher’s mother and co-owner of the paper, had not been able to eat or sleep after officers arrived at her house.
“She tearfully watched during the raid as police not only carted away her computer and a router used by an Alexa smart speaker but also dug through her son Eric’s personal bank and investments statements to photograph them,” the newspaper reported.
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A checklist manifesto.
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The 98 year old mother died not long after the raid. Obviously she was 98, but the stress of a police raid in her home couldn’t have helped.
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I refer to it as working “in a deliberate and professional manner”; the tactic is reserved for program managers who are total dicks.
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Progressive advocates claim they are championing religious freedom and equality. Their opponents, however, argued that plaintiffs are just engaging in “political stunts,” not advocating for sincere religious beliefs.
Ooh, so how fast will a court case reach the SC so they can then determine what is a “sincerely religious belief”? And when will they court drop the “sincere” part? I mean if a certain former no good POTUS declares he “sincerely believed” that he hadn’t lost a re-election, but there are witnesses that heard him say “he lost”- can one be sincere one day bogus the next day on the same subject?
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Be carefull what you wish for
Lawsuit Over Stillborn Baby Has Texas Questioning Fetal Rights (thedailybeast.com)
Texas, a fiercely anti-abortion state that has fought for the rights of unborn children, is now conveniently arguing the opposite in a legal battle spurred by a lawsuit filed in 2021
According to the lawsuit, prison guard Salia Issa began feeling intense pain “similar to a contraction” during her shift, but her supervisor allegedly refused to let her leave and kept her in the post for another two hours. Once she was finally let go, the suit says Issa had to drive herself to the hospital to undergo emergency surgery because doctors were unable to detect a fetal heartbeat. Soon after, she delivered her baby stillborn. Issa is seeking monetary damages to cover her medical bills and funeral expenses for the unborn child,
Central to the state’s argument is that “just because several statutes define an individual to include an unborn child does not mean that the Fourteenth Amendment does the same,
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You gotta kind of love it that when people get fed up at the craziness and fight back it’s called ‘UNCIVIL obedience’…hmmmmmm.
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And who gets to decide what a “religion” is and what is meant by sincere religious beliefs.
Apparently, the courts. Astonishing hubris and self appointed omniscience.
“While the truth of a belief is not open to question, there remains the significant question whether it is truly held. This is the threshold ques- tion of sincerity* which must be resolved in every case.” United States v. Seeger, 380 U.S. 163, 185 (1965) (internal quotation marks omitted). That question is properly answered by the courts. As the Supreme Court ex- plained in Hobby Lobby, federal RFRA shows that
“Congress was confident of the ability of the federal courts to weed out insincere claims.”
Good God!
*Ultimately, “sincerity, itself, is bullshit” - Harry Frankfurt.
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Progressive advocates claim they are championing religious freedom and equality. Their opponents, however, argued that plaintiffs are just engaging in “political stunts,” not advocating for sincere religious beliefs.
Our cockamamie BS is more privileged than yours, because we actually believe it.
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