There's really no point. Hundreds to thousands of people are contracting covid every day in every city across America. Over the course of five days in December, there were one million new cases. People coming in on international flights is basically irrelevant. That could start to change if the vaccine causes community spread to plummet.
The petty legalism is just a technique for people to stop thinking about their flagrant hypocrisy. As if the people screaming "they're a private business, they can do what they want" have ever entertained that as a serious argument for any other issue.
They are probably vile in sum too. The human being is truly a wretched creature. A few, I imagine, might come out barely positive in a total accounting of deeds and intentions. But I am skeptical even of that.
I do not mean that some cannot be better than others. The professional managerial class is certainly more disgusting than most. But maybe only in perception because their knowledge and cunning allow them to do evil more widely. The average man is relatively restrained in his misdeeds not primarily by his superior character but by his inferior ability and the humbler sphere in which he can exercise his wickedness.
Human beings really are disgusting, despicable creatures. The only thing to do is get on our knees and beg God for forgiveness.
I’m not even kidding. As I get older, I am just more and more disgusted by our kind. Any redeeming aspect of a human being is inevitably outweighed by their cowardice, greed, gluttony, ignorance, cruelty.
Get on your knees and beg God for forgiveness. Every human being is wretched just like the class of phony business leaders. You, me, every last one of us.
Edit: to the concerned (thank you):
I’ll live. I have found this realization to be liberating actually. We can and should hope and aspire to better the world around us, but it is ultimately doomed by its inhabitants and the only investment that ultimately makes sense is to recognize our fallen nature and hope that God exists so that someone may forgive us.
And the flip side of this is that there is so much potential for joy and happiness in the world despite our fallen nature. Enjoy what you can find but remember that you will in the end be disappointed by both your fellow man and yourself.
What makes “killing the unborn is wrong” impermissible religious influence but “killing already-born people is wrong” not? Or why is it okay for people to vote to take one man’s property away to give to another, “because that is just”? Aren’t all of those statements equivalently “religious”?
On what basis are people to make decisions if not by some set of moral axioms?
If you want to do business in a country, then you have to follow the laws of that country. Polish courts would enter judgment against the company for violating Polish law, premising their jurisdiction on the activities of that company within their borders (e.g. accepting payment in polish currency, selling ads to polish businesses, charging for polish views/clicks). They can then seize the company's property in Poland to enforce that judgment. They can also introduce that judgment in foreign courts to do enforcement actions there. Those foreign courts would examine the validity of the Polish judgment (e.g. by reexamining jurisdiction) before issuing orders to enforce it.
There's nothing novel about this. This is how civil judgments are enforced across borders every day.
You can't really defend the US Supreme Court's actions on gay marriage from any legal viewpoint other than "because five justices said so" and "what are you gonna do about it." Popular opinion is not the talisman of judicial interpretation. If the public wants its way, they can vote for it. For what it's worth, the public did not support gay marriage until after the federal courts made it a fait accompli. E.g. In a referendum, California voted to ban gay marriage in 2008. What the federal courts in America did is overturn the standing will of the people as it existed in the laws of the majority of US states.
You're only really a liberal democracy if the ruling elite can coerce private actors to take the repressive actions instead of doing it officially. You must also allow your civil service to be an unaccountable branch of government controlled by the professional managerial class and unresponsive to the commands of elected leadership (unless they're from the correct side). Furthermore, you must allow lawyers to use the judiciary to rewrite laws to suit their political preferences (e.g. your Constitution must be found to guarantee the right to gay marriage, an idea laughable to people who wrote it and to everyone until 15 years ago). Finally, you must protect all classes of people from unjust termination and unwarranted denial of service except for everyone whose political views align with the wrong half of the country. Thank God we live in a real liberal democracy.
Everyone said this would happen but Cuomo was more interested in virtue signaling about vaccine priority lists. Meanwhile, Florida has required all vaccine doses to be distributed, out of priority order if need be, and hospitals that fail to distribute every dose will not get more.
I said exactly what I meant to say. Saying that the government ought to be overthrown is a long protected American right. The book stores are full of books arguing just that. People taking you up on it is not your problem.
Conspiracy theories that might drive someone to violence are protected speech in this country. Many “conspiracy” theories have proved true, e.g. the CIA’s insane antics in the 50s-80s.
We don’t have a Committee of Truth that determines what is true and therefore legally speakable.
If facts or alleged facts drive people to violence, that is the responsibility of those engaged directly in violence (or actually inciting it).
Incitement in America is basically: “let’s go burn down that building right now”. “As a moral matter, someone ought to burn down that building” is protected speech.