Yes, and I’m not being hyperbolic. If you read early American caselaw explaining the rationale of sovereign immunity, the logic is that in monarchies it drives from the divine right of the sovereign. When we became independent we kept that legal concept, but the judges said that it derived from the will of the electorate rather than the divine right of the sovereign. Of course, the functional outcome was the same…

“Immunity” being the immunity of the sovereign. I do not understand how we can embrace this concept as a country 250 years after breaking free of monarchy.

Yeah my annoyance at having to pay more is totally from the business’s perspective you dumb piece of shit

Ahhhh gotcha, didn’t realize that, my mistake!

You can just say you’re from NJ lol, it’s not like any other state has an employment scam where you’re legally required to hire people to perform the simple, relatively safe act of pumping gas. At least not since WA finally trusted people to pump their own gas a few years back.

Edit: Sorry, OR not WA

If someone tells me to use a certain pronoun I will, but my default has been “they” for a long time now. Gendered pronouns in general are a terrible idea, linguistically at the very least.

“The proletariat are in control” gets jailed for forming a union

My brother/sister, it’s 2025. We’re 45 years into American conservatives shrieking “bias” every time something less conservative than Goebbles says something. If you think anyone with any level of exposure to American conservative media (i.e., most of Lemmy) is going to react any way other than extremely negatively to you obstinately tossing around “biased” every third word and “just asking questions,” you’re gonna have a bad time.

Yeah I mean within romance languages you can’t be more wrong, but like, at least it’s the same family I guess lol

It’s Romanian lol, honestly you weren’t thaaaaaat far off I guess

What are little green men again?

“Guys the system isn’t broken, just one more big tweak and it’ll be fine again, pinky promise.”

Exactly, the conservatives have spent the last 40 years gradually doing exactly this and the Democrats have spent the last 40 years denying that reality and laughing off the right wing, talk show type populists while they slowly took control of the GOP and the court system.

Well no, the MAGA crowd wants to disarm everyone that smokes weed, is a “pedo” (i.e., just a normal trans person), or is otherwise different from them in any way, so basically the opposite of MAGA.

Lol shitty style guides are redditor brain, okay. Do you also wear beanies in the summer and wax your mustache?

“SLAM”

fuck out of here with that, come on

Parasites. They’re not just deplorable, they’re fucking parasites killing their host. Many of my loved ones are in that camp but they’re a part of an existential problem.

God uses base 12, he doesn’t arbitrarily settle on base 10 just because he has that many fingers.

It is, but that’s also a defining feature of the presidential system as opposed to the parliamentary system.

Not that you’re not into something here, but make no mistake. Liberal cops are worthless parasites too.