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Sanctus, to politics in For millionaire and four hunters, a wild Western lawsuit over public land: The ruling on an invisible corner in Elk Mountain, Wyo., could determine how much private property rights limit public access
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck private property. Imagine “owning” 22k acres of the Earth that you do nothing with and the get pissy when people crossed it. Owning land is starting to become this dated concept as the population grows and the available land on Earth doesn’t.

Dkarma,

These statements show how you have no clue how real estate actually works.

xmunk,

Real estate as property exists to make guaranteed sustained use of a parcel of land for productivity - farming and housing are classic examples of this… there is a serious investment of labor to construct a house (especially in modern times) and agriculture is essentially a year long investment into food production. Without a guarantee to reap the benefits of that investment, nobody would be willing to invest in activating or improving the land.

There are a variety of other productive uses we’ve discovered as well - and some have moved from common use to exclusive use like ranching, mining, milling, and cooking - some of the new ones are oil/gas extraction, tourism and habitat preservation.

Mobile resources have always been quite complicated in this regard - deer migrate and preserving the ability to hunt requires a coordination of land beyond a single parcel. However, in this case the hunters weren’t (or at least say they weren’t hunting there) - it’s reasonable for people to have a right of way and if the geography forces people onto private property to access public property that’s an allowance that should be made.

orrk,

I think what the person you were replying to was trying to say was, that land is an investment platform, and nobody better touch his stuff, or he will enact capital punishment as judge jury and executioner

neuroneiro, to politics in Bayer lobbies Congress to help fight lawsuits tying Roundup to cancer | Republicans have repeatedly pushed provision — drafted with Bayer’s help — that would undo some nationwide pesticide protections

The same Bayer of IG Farben that tested drugs on unwilling human subjects under the Nazis & elected “Fritz ter Meer, convicted of war crimes for his actions at Auschwitz,… to Bayer AG’s supervisory board in 1956, a position he retained until 1964.”

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/bayer

ColeSloth,

You mean the Bayer that gave Hepatitis C, HIV, and Aids, to thousands of hemophilia patients outside of the US back in the 1980"s because they didn’t want to take a profit loss on their HIV tainted meds that they had?

TimLovesTech, to politics in RFK Jr. won’t meet CNN debate requirement for ballot access
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social avatar

Wonder how much more pro-Trump PAC/dark money pours in to try and save him last minute. Trump’s supporters are literally paying for his campaign to run interference in November by drawing enough from Biden to eek out a win (or close enough to start another resurrection that goes all the way this time because Republicans will open the doors).

vividspecter,

That may backfire as RFK is an unhinged anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist, which the right are more attracted to these days.

DrSleepless, to politics in RFK Jr. won’t meet CNN debate requirement for ballot access

Gosh what a bummer.

gravitas_deficiency, to politics in RFK Jr. won’t meet CNN debate requirement for ballot access

Even his worm isn’t voting for him!

evidences,

Welp the worm died years ago so clearly it’ll be voting for a Democrat, ZING!!!

jordanlund, to politics in RFK Jr. won’t meet CNN debate requirement for ballot access
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a super simple requirement:

Be on the ballot in enough states to get 270 electoral college votes.

You must be this tall to ride this ride.

As of June 3rd, Kennedy is on the ballot in 8 states. CA (54), DE (3), HI (4), MI (15), OK (7), SC (9), TX (40), UT (6).

138 potential EC votes, 132 short of what he needs.

He’s waiting on signature certification in 13 more. AK, FL, ID, IA, MN, NE, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, TN, WA.

160 potential votes. So if NY or FL say his signatures aren’t valid, that would be enough to bounce him out of contention.

He can automatically be a write in candidate in 6. AL, OR, PA, RI, VT, WY.

He disqualified himself in NV by having enough signatures, but failing to list a VP candidate.

…wikipedia.org/…/Ballot_access_in_the_2024_United…

Soup,

That’s really the kind of organizational skillset that’ll get things done. /s

Even with their fear-mongering and everything I will never understand why the right keeps electing the kind of people who refuse to show any level of qualification. Like ok, you hate taxes and think that corporations should have the right to poison your waterways, but why are you electing the blatant liars and fraudsters who can’t even seem to put their pants on the right way ‘round? At least go for someone who seems to have some level of skill.

Oh, right, people with skill are less and less likely to actually ascribe to those broken ideologies. Maybe that should be a sign.

zerog_bandit,

It’s long been proven that uneducated people vote for demagogues.

jballs,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

He disqualified himself in NV by having enough signatures, but failing to list a VP candidate.

Any news on what Trump put down for his VP candidate? I didn’t know that was a requirement this early.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

I doubt that applies to primary winners. Trump didn’t have to submit signatures either.

A_Random_Idiot,

So what you’re saying is the evil goddamn liberal left wing psyop campaign of communism is trying to keep him off our freedom ballots? /s

Rapidcreek, to politics in RFK Jr. won’t meet CNN debate requirement for ballot access

Probably doing him a favor.

silence7,

But I want to hear the worm speak!

p5yk0t1km1r4ge, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

Fucking idiot…

CharlesDarwin, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain
@CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, what relevant degree does he have, and what relevant area of science does he work in, again? I forgot.

jjjalljs, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain

DeSantis is a dangerous idiot that should be removed from power.

PlantJam,

Lucky he is term limited as governor.

lennybird, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

Hard to imagine being this dumb. These people just aren’t firing on all cylinders…

silence7,

It’s not about dumb. it’s that the fossil fuels industry is the biggest patron of the Republican Party, and they know who butters their toast

lennybird,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah there are the grifters and the grifted and I’m mostly directing my frustration toward the common Joe who believes all this.

paf0, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain

It’s not rain, it’s just MAGA tears that built up since Trump lost in 2020.

Everythingispenguins,

Have you not been listening, Tump didn’t lose.

/s

Rapidcreek, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain

DeSantis’ political base doesn’t believe in climate change, which is sort of like saying you don’t believe in gravity

Nusm, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain
@Nusm@yall.theatl.social avatar
BigMacHole, to politics in Florida Governor DeSantis rejects climate change rationale for record-breaking rain

That’s because Florida is SO FREE that it would be ILLEGAL for Desantis to say that!

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