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Alex Jones is Bolloxed

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Brett Angell Delight said:
Is it not a given that there’s a large portion of the American population that are so rabidly bigoted and in love with guns that they will blindly leap to support/defend anyone with a platform, willing to spew forth any manner of disgusting bile, so long as it’s in their interests?

Forgive my ignorance but I’ve had to do a quick Google on that one - Wasn’t essay #10 to do with factions and Madison’s concern about - heaven forfend - citizens acting in their own self-interest? I am not sure exactly how that pertains to what I said? Of course, everyone can say what they wish but if what they say is hateful, bigoted, etc, then there should be consequences for that, no? That’s the kind of accountability that should make people think twice before spewing forth Alex Jones levels of bile in future.
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It is a given at present. It does not follow that there is nothing we can do about it, or should have done in the past.

#10 is best summarized as the notion that what we very much do not want is tyranny of the majority. There is a mountain of economic theory that (assuming self-interested actors) more or less ends up at Madison's result via math. The condensed version of that is the notion that stability -> economic prosperity.

The problem with this method of ex post enforcement is that it doesn't work. The punitive damages will almost certainly be reduced on appeal. In our society as constructed, it's individually rational (though incredibly immoral) to engage in a whole range of destructive nonsense like this.

Jefferson's notion that democracy requires a functional public education system applies to this problem as well. As I mentioned, I don't have the exact answer, but I'm comfortable saying that funding local schools with localized property values is a huge part of the problem. It creates a education system with gaping holes like a block of Swiss cheese, which is not what we want.
 
Martin Alvito said:
It is a given at present. It does not follow that there is nothing we can do about it, or should have done in the past.

#10 is best summarized as the notion that what we very much do not want is tyranny of the majority. There is a mountain of economic theory that (assuming self-interested actors) more or less ends up at Madison's result via math. The condensed version of that is the notion that stability -> economic prosperity.

The problem with this method of ex post enforcement is that it doesn't work. The punitive damages will almost certainly be reduced on appeal. In our society as constructed, it's individually rational (though incredibly immoral) to engage in a whole range of destructive nonsense like this.

Jefferson's notion that democracy requires a functional public education system applies to this problem as well. As I mentioned, I don't have the exact answer, but I'm comfortable saying that funding local schools with localized property values is a huge part of the problem. It creates a education system with gaping holes like a block of Swiss cheese, which is not what we want.
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Appreciate the clarification, mate. Thank you.
 
everton fan number one said:
In the UK you would have to hand them over if they were damaging to your own case. Bizarre that's not the so in the USA.
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Correct . You are under a duty to disclose all documents ( which doesn't just mean something on paper ) relevant to the case unless those documents are "priviledged" such as communications between a client and his lawyer, regardless of whether or not they are damaging to your case.

I may be wrong having never had the priviledge of practising in the USA but I thought that broadly similar rules applied - at least they do in John Grisham books! lol
 

RAFUH said:
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This might be the only time that Rebekah Vardy could teach someone something.

How to lose your phone before a Court Hearing........ " Well obviously the North Sea isn't available to you but being the swamp dweller that you are , why don't you say that an alligator came up out of the river and grabbed your phone and waddled off with it"

Poor old Becky would have said Bayou but didn't have a scooby what it was . Later when asked she denied being next to Mr Jones at the time.
 
So I get that sending all the text history was a mistake; but what was actually on there that contradicted his crazy theories? Why did he have to admit that Sandy Hook wasn't a hoax?
 


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