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"omg i can't believe muskrat did the salute check in on your jewish friends" really now because you sure didn't check in on us when people were doing it en masse at the fucking olympics

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Holy shit, y'all.

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could Congress in theory pass something similar to the Enabling Act of Nazi Germany or are the constitutional limits on delegation of powers too strict?

I think they could, yeah. It won't look the same, right? Like you can't get rid of the Bill of Rights that way. But there is a lot you can do in between the spaces there. The US Constitution doesn't create a lot of rules around election management, for example, beyond requiring they happen in some form. Congress could vest expansive authority in the executive to police elections against "foreign threats" and you could do a lot that way. You can use the powers of policing/antiterrorism/what-have-you to allow the executive to use the threats of property confiscation (civil asset forfeiture babyyy, no trial required!) or imprisonment to force compliance from the population. We used the Insurrection Act to deploy the military to break up labor strikes in the past, you can get there again and do a lot more!

The biggest limit is probably going to be state-federal; you can get a lot of power invested in the executive branch via creative framing (the product of an 18th century constitution being stretched to meet the needs of a modern nation state - what can't the commerce clause do??), but there are fundamental rights that states have that the executive cannot break. You can corrupt elections, but states have strong powers to determine their structure that the federal government can't override and definitely could not be outsourced to the President. And you will legitimately not be able to establish a state religion or some other key things.

In the soft version of the Enabling Act, of course. But you can just not be a fucking coward about it - Congress passes a law tripling the size of the Supreme Court which they can totally do, you appoint your cronies, and then file an Executive Order declaring martial law to revoke the entire constitutional order which they rubberstamp

Which really isn't an indictment of the US Constitution? If your ruling political party universally agrees to say Il Duce Vivre is the fashion of the times, you are fucked no matter what a piece of paper says. I don't think the Weimar Constitution was that badly designed! It is a bit of a myth. The Nazis had co-opted the conservatives, ran the state, and used the threat of violence to coerce compliance from dissenters. The wording of Article 48's "Emergency Powers Clause" wasn't gonna change that. This is the hard limit of legalism, it can never bind the hands of men who choose not to be bound by it. If the US truly faces a "fascist coup" moment it probably won't be because the Constitution has a loophole for the moment of the coup. It will be because of the one million failures of design that led to that being possible and desired by so many of the political elite and voting public.

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dont talk to me if you don’t know that this, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3 percent of light speed! It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb! That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means: Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton’s First Law?

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You know who *are* renowned experts of paneling? Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball) and Odan(One Piece). If people reading this post are interested learning about paneling in art - and especially in how to draw so as to effortlessly direct the reader's eyes along the flow of action, through both space and time - reading either of these works would be a good place to start. Especially since both works "grow" with their authors, getting more complex as the reader learns to parse that complexity.

I also highly recommend Junii Ito's work to anyone interested in learning how to control *pacing* in comics. Horror is all about pacing, and Ito manages to control that pace even you the reader are the one turning the pages.

I was asked by a friend yesterday if I could offer basic tips about comic paneling. As it turns out, I have a lot to say on the matter! I tried breaking down the art of paneling using the principles of art and design, and I hope it helps you out!

EDIT: uh uh there are a lot of people reblogging this, so i figure i may as well append this now while i can lol

This whole thing was very much cranked out in a few hours so I had a visual to talk about with a friend! If this gives you a base understanding of paneling, that's awesome! Continue to pull in studies from the comics you see and what other artists do well and don't do well! You can tell paneling is doing well when the action is flowing around in its intended reading format.

Here's the link to the globalcomix article from which I pulled the images about panel staggering! Someone sent in a reblog that it wasn't totally clear that the 7th slide mostly covers what NOT to do in regards to staggering, and that is my mistake!

I saw in a tag that someone was surprised I used MamaYuyu too, and I don't blame them lol. If I had given myself more than a couple hours maybe I would have added something else on, I just really admire MamaYuyu's paneling personally.

uh uh, final append: I am by no means a renowned master of paneling, so if you find anything off base here, by all means, counter it with your own knowledge and ways you can build upon from here! Art is always a sum knowledge of everything we find. 💪

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I was asked by a friend yesterday if I could offer basic tips about comic paneling. As it turns out, I have a lot to say on the matter! I tried breaking down the art of paneling using the principles of art and design, and I hope it helps you out!

EDIT: uh uh there are a lot of people reblogging this, so i figure i may as well append this now while i can lol

This whole thing was very much cranked out in a few hours so I had a visual to talk about with a friend! If this gives you a base understanding of paneling, that's awesome! Continue to pull in studies from the comics you see and what other artists do well and don't do well! You can tell paneling is doing well when the action is flowing around in its intended reading format.

Here's the link to the globalcomix article from which I pulled the images about panel staggering! Someone sent in a reblog that it wasn't totally clear that the 7th slide mostly covers what NOT to do in regards to staggering, and that is my mistake!

I saw in a tag that someone was surprised I used MamaYuyu too, and I don't blame them lol. If I had given myself more than a couple hours maybe I would have added something else on, I just really admire MamaYuyu's paneling personally.

uh uh, final append: I am by no means a renowned master of paneling, so if you find anything off base here, by all means, counter it with your own knowledge and ways you can build upon from here! Art is always a sum knowledge of everything we find. 💪

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I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

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I think it's important to remember that every single religion can be twisted for violence and oppression and abuse and control. Yes, including the one that you think can't be. But quickly, before anti-theists start saying that religion is an inherently evil violence accelerant, remember that this is true for any ideology, including anti-theism. Violence and oppression and abuse and control happens wherever there are people who think that those things will help them get what they want.

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Oh fuck you. If you live in a suburb or anything not a big city no one really cares if you go in and take a piss but in major cities its mission impossible to find somewhere 2 piss for free.

And then you wonder why people just piss and shit in the street.

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tiktok stunt haha funny. please talk about the ice raids

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feeling like maybe the americans need to hear this for once (and let me know if i'm saying it nicely) america isn't the whole world.

thailand legalised same sex marriage. most of the world is doing an excellent job of acting on climate change, and we're projected to warm no more than 2.5 degrees now. the EU has been working hard to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, and is doing a great job. bhutan continues to absorb more carbon dioxide than it emits, and so does tasmania. here in brisbane, queer people of faith have been coming together in queer worship nights, meeting similar people, and accepting themselves, ready to reconcile it with their faith and question the crumbs of christian nationalism that permeate from the US. they're planning to build high speed rail between sydney and newcastle too, and a new inland link between brisbane and melbourne. kakapo have been saved from extinction over in aotearoa (new zealand). solar and wind energy generation are at an all time high. vegan meat alternatives taste the best they ever have. autism speaks shut down in canada, and awareness is rising very quickly about adhd in women, the pda profile, and neurodiversity and disability in general. they've invented a blood test for endometriosis. it's not all bad news

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here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴‍☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too

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in absolute tears about the pride module at my work