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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

Sydney, New South Wales
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    1. Patrick Stokes‏ @patstokes 10 May 2020

      Patrick Stokes Retweeted cam smith

      If you're reading this thread and you've not seen SovCit/FotL before, all the stuff about crowns and oaths and homophones seems random. What holds it all together (apart from self-interest) is an anxiety about the ground of political authority and the ontology of law.https://twitter.com/sexenheimer/status/1259308704253394944 …

      Patrick Stokes added,

      cam smith @sexenheimer
      The SovCit guy is back on the mic explaining that they got ahead of themselves with the Republic referendum and changed the rules so that crowns on uniforms didn't mean anything because they thought they would win, but they didn't.
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      4 replies 18 retweets 24 likes
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    2. Patrick Stokes‏ @patstokes 10 May 2020

      It is, again, self-serving above all else. But what they play on is the worry that law might be merely conventional. So there's always this appeal to a 'real' law or a 'real' state, the apparent/operative one being a fake or simulacrum.

      3 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
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    3. Patrick Stokes‏ @patstokes 10 May 2020

      Which is why it doesn't really matter how often the courts reject this stuff: if you think there's a 'real' law independent of how courts interpret statute and precedent, you can go on believing the courts have gotten it wrong 100% of the time.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
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    4. Patrick Stokes‏ @patstokes 10 May 2020

      Even the weird maritime punning stuff comes back to this: 'here's what words *really* mean!' Hence the obsession with Black's Law Dictionary: the idea that words have fixed, metaphysical essences that have been lost in common usage.

      3 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
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    5. Kyle Sheldrick‏ @K_Sheldrick 10 May 2020
      Replying to @patstokes

      Apropos of nothing, this particular tweet made me think of @gidmk

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 10 May 2020
      Replying to @K_Sheldrick @patstokes

      There is definitely nothing quite so funny as people who start spouting maritime law in arguments that clearly have nothing to do with it

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. Patrick Stokes‏ @patstokes 10 May 2020
      Replying to @GidMK @K_Sheldrick

      There has to come a moment, when you’re yelling “Man overboard!” every time someone leaves the courtroom in which you’re being tried, that you think “ok maybe this stuff isn’t quite the cunning legal strategy I was led to believe.”

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 10 May 2020
      Replying to @patstokes @K_Sheldrick

      I know several people who've represented such great legal minds at various points in their downwards spiral and from what I understand it is not surprising that they are the ones who keep trying even when it is very clear that it is not working

      1:34 AM - 10 May 2020
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