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How can you run NYC if you don't know if you own a property? I mean, how hard is that to figure out if you own a house or not?

ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/polit

" “I have relatives in Florida, New Jersey and Maryland,” she says. “The wife of my maamu” — her maternal uncle — “is American and follows our Facebook page. After we introduced the cheesesteak course, she asked me: ‘Are you guys really making the cheesesteak in Lahore?’”"

phillymag.com/news/2023/04/08/

Jeff Brown is supposed to be an outsider, but he seems to be doing insider dirty campaign tricks.

"the board alleges that Brown helped raise millions of dollars on behalf of the super PACs, who in turn used that money to support Brown’s campaign."

phillytrib.com/news/local_news

"We Keep Promoting Performative Social Media, Not Valuable Social Media

Think about that. Twitter penalizes the discoverability of tweets that contain links. That SHOULD be a valuable service. And yet, Mister Musk doesn't see anything that way. He's not running the site to build it. He's just.. well, what do any of us know? "

linkedin.com/pulse/oh-twitter-

@madjo @EmpireofDirt@universeodon.com Exactly! You can just book it online! In fact, that's what the lady working AT THE HOTEL LOBBY told me to do. It's just the weirdest business model around!

@EmpireofDirt@universeodon.com Know what's weird about the hotel? The most expensive way to get a hotel room is to GO TO THE HOTEL LOBBY! It's cheaper to get a hotel room...any other way.

@freemo Sure they do. They are appointed for life and can make decision they want based off of any rationale they want. They shouldn't, but that's not how things work in reality.

Again, you'd have to look at the cases and their rationale (or lack therof). They are human beings, after all. So are the Founders.

findlaw.com/legalblogs/supreme

@freemo This is why I asked you not to go into this. Slaves are property. Why would ANYONE arm their property? Doesn't make sense. Women can't vote or own property. Can they arm themselves? These are issues that you have to realize some of them leave out or ignore.

@freemo I have no idea what you are talking about here. The SCOTUS chooses which cases to hear and votes. The SCOTUS may vote on the case, if they do that "in good faith" is a matter of opinion based on each individual case.

@freemo Huh? Let's just stop here. You're not even arguing about the 2nd Amendment now, you're arguing about the 13th Amendment, which is a whole other process entirely with it's own arguments.

@freemo One other issue is that the Supreme Court itself will interpret the Constitution differently, even though it's so old. So, it changes even though the WORDS themselves haven't changed.

@freemo @freemo Would 'the whole people' include women? Slaves? Disabled people? The old?

Could a older person load a musket? Someone with only one arm?

Can't just take these writings literally.

They were arguments with each other in the 1700s, before AR-15s.

Frame the Framers in the time and environment they were in. That takes reading.

@freemo @KeithC

Well then, why stop at guns? Why can't we have nuclear weapons? Mustard gas? Plastic explosives? Those are weapons.

The arguments break down. I would do some more reading on it. I put a couple of articles there. Just read them, I don't expect you to agree with them.

thehill.com/opinion/criminal-j

@freemo The press is not 'well-regulated'. Actually, ANYONE, including us, COULD be in the press.

The other big issue is that generally, the Constitution is a 'living' document. It should change as needed:

"Happily for us," he said, "that when we find our constitutions
defective and insufficient to secure the happiness of our people,
we can assemble with all the coolness of philosophers, and set them to rights, while every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to restore their constitution."'"

scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/vi

@freemo Let's get clear on this:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

What does ""well regulated militia" is a exemplary clause and not a qualifying clause" mean?

WAY past time for this! We've lived in a multilingual for a very long time now. We have to acknowledge that and act on it with policy.

whyy.org/articles/philadelphia

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