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Internet Wizard posted:What? Crenshaw was a But you repeat yourself
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Ah, gently caress https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1284164358705238021 This, plus the rumors that Alito wants to retire to make room for a younger Federalist Society hack have me a bit depressed today
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Jul 17, 2020 18:36
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egyptian rat race posted:Ah, gently caress Might end up with a true believer textualist like Gorsuch that will look at wording arguments and say "well I guess the law does say that lgbt are protected under the civil rights act"
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Jul 17, 2020 18:45
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hobbesmaster posted:Might end up with a true believer textualist like Gorsuch that will look at wording arguments and say "well I guess the law does say that lgbt are protected under the civil rights act" Or get 2 more of Clarence Thomas
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Jul 17, 2020 18:56
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Eh, I'm not too bothered by Fuckface McTurtle getting another SCOTUS seat. The damage is already done with the current Republican majority court. Yes, yes it can get worse, I hear that being screamed already and I agree. That's not my point. The solution either way is the same just with different numbers. Supreme Court reform happens (lol) or it doesn't (Democratic game plan). If we can grip the dems by the balls and squeeze hard enough at some point in the future to force them in to making the necessary reforms it can be fixed no matter what the turtle does. If they hold to their succdem decorum play book and accomplish nothing the damage is already done and nothing will change for the better. We're at the point where "slowing the damage" has no functional difference from everything reaching end-game terminal status. It gets fixed entirely or we're all hosed, so don't pay attention to the RBG circus. Set your sights higher and find ways to put pressure on the system for those solutions.
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Jul 17, 2020 18:57
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Just got an e-mail from the army, looks like they're clamping down on the display of flags. Basically if it isn't the US flag, a state/territory flag, friendly country flag, or anything to do with the military, it can't be displayed in common areas or the barracks. Take that fuckin traitor rag to the dumpster, chuds
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Jul 17, 2020 18:57
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She's incredibly selfish to not have retired under Obama imo.
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Jul 17, 2020 18:58
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Slim Pickens posted:Just got an e-mail from the army, looks like they're clamping down on the display of flags. Basically if it isn't the US flag, a state/territory flag, friendly country flag, or anything to do with the military, it can't be displayed in common areas or the barracks. Take that fuckin traitor rag to the dumpster, chuds That also gets rid of those thin blue line defaced US flags right?
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Jul 17, 2020 18:59
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Best Friends posted:She's incredibly selfish to not have retired under Obama imo. Yup. I completely agree.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:00
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As an American who has set up permanent residence in the EU your best chance of getting here is marrying in. It is possible to stay on a work visa alone, but that’s a shaky foundation to build on. Or just join the Legion...
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Jul 17, 2020 19:02
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Bored As gently caress posted:Yup. I completely agree.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:04
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Slim Pickens posted:Just got an e-mail from the army, looks like they're clamping down on the display of flags. Basically if it isn't the US flag, a state/territory flag, friendly country flag, or anything to do with the military, it can't be displayed in common areas or the barracks. Take that fuckin traitor rag to the dumpster, chuds War trophy flags have got to be okay, I hope this removes the scout sniper and Confederate battle flags though despite their “military origins”
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Jul 17, 2020 19:04
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In case you forgot to remind yourself this morning… Your butt is perfect. Your smile lights up the room. Your mind is cool. You are way more than enough. You are doing a great job. https://twitter.com/pamelacolloff/status/1283934311503323136?s=19
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Jul 17, 2020 19:05
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bird food bathtub posted:Eh, I'm not too bothered by Fuckface McTurtle getting another SCOTUS seat. The damage is already done with the current Republican majority court. I don't think there is going to be a lot of popular support for packing the court, ever. Not only are the circumstances for achieving this goal highly unlikely but the Dems also don't have the balls to do it AND half the country would self immolate. Best Friends posted:She's incredibly selfish to not have retired under Obama imo. There was an extremely small window where a successor would have been a guaranteed appointment, and she's done a pretty great job in the interim. Blaming RBG for the democratic party's failures is uh, unjustified. They lost to a loving gameshow host. Nothing quite like calling a champion of progressive legal scholarship "selfish" because she didn't see the biggest upset in the history of modern politics coming down the pipeline. Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 19:13
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Grip it and rip it posted:Nothing quite like calling a champion of progressive legal scholarship "selfish" because she didn't see the biggest upset in the history of modern politics coming down the pipeline. Not only that but there was no guarantee she’d be replaced by Obama. What happens when she retired right after Scalia died? Trump gets 3 slots because McTurtle stonewalled and dems didn’t sack up for their two slots.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:31
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Grip it and rip it posted:Nothing quite like calling a champion of progressive legal scholarship "selfish" because she didn't see the biggest upset in the history of modern politics coming down the pipeline. You'll never see more sociopathic entitlement than when the time comes to take the car keys away from a grandparent and they just refuse to accept the unambigous evidence of just how dangerously unfit they are to be behind the wheel.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:32
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:Not only that but there was no guarantee she’d be replaced by Obama. What happens when she retired right after Scalia died? Trump gets 3 slots because McTurtle stonewalled and dems didn’t sack up for their two slots. Yeah
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Jul 17, 2020 19:35
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Grip it and rip it posted:I don't think there is going to be a lot of popular support for packing the court, ever. Not only are the circumstances for achieving this goal highly unlikely but the Dems also don't have the balls to do it AND half the country would self immolate. Yeah this is where I'm at with it. Hindsight is 20/20 and I think it's easy to pretend everyone saw Trump being elected when the reality was most people presumed Clinton was a lock and I'm sure RBG had every intention of stepping down if she had won. It sucks and it's a big poo poo sandwich but so have been the last I don't think popular support for court packing will suddenly appear on it's own but if let's say Biden does win and then she dies before he takes office and McConnell gets someone in? You had better believe that opinion will change in the right places.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:36
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Handsome Ralph posted:Yeah this is where I'm at with it. Hindsight is 20/20 and I think it's easy to pretend everyone saw Trump being elected when the reality was most people presumed Clinton was a lock and I'm sure RBG had every intention of stepping down if she had won. It sucks and it's a big poo poo sandwich but so have been the last
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Jul 17, 2020 19:40
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The standard argument for why dems should vote for candidates they don't love is "the supreme court." it stands to reason that supreme court justices should have some obligations themselves back downward. Right now we're in a weird space culturally where obligation only goes upward in hierarchies. Even medieval lords were supposed to have some obligations to the peasants. She should have retried at a reasonable age like normal people.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:50
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ganglysumbia posted:As an American who has set up permanent residence in the EU your best chance of getting here is marrying in. It is possible to stay on a work visa alone, but that’s a shaky foundation to build on. Or just join the Legion... I just found out by pure random chatting with my dad that I'm eligible for Irish citizenship. I've just got to put in the forms, pay the 300 euros or whatever it is, wait 12 to 18 months and apparently that's good enough. However they aren't processing poo poo right now according to their website thanks to the 'rona.
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Jul 17, 2020 19:52
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egyptian rat race posted:The biggest thing keeping me from trying to emigrate in the early 2010s was debt (now gone) and the thought of irreparably pissing off my side of the family. Reactions to COVID has damaged that bridge enough to where I'm considering it again. Our borders are shut. I have no idea if you can apply and get in once approved, but start here: https://www.immigration.govt.nz/new-zealand-visas/apply-for-a-visa/tools-and-information/tools/points-indicator-smc-28aug
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Jul 17, 2020 20:05
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Grip it and rip it posted:I don't think there is going to be a lot of popular support for packing the court, ever. Not only are the circumstances for achieving this goal highly unlikely but the Dems also don't have the balls to do it AND half the country would self immolate. Only half?!?! How can my death fetish be satisfied with these half measures?
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Jul 17, 2020 20:11
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Best Friends posted:The standard argument for why dems should vote for candidates they don't love is "the supreme court." it stands to reason that supreme court justices should have some obligations themselves back downward. Right now we're in a weird space culturally where obligation only goes upward in hierarchies. Even medieval lords were supposed to have some obligations to the peasants. So you are just going to ignore how the Senate rules affected the process her replacement would have gone through? What about your obligation to acknowledge the political reality that was the Senate's rules for nomination? Which year of Obama's presidency should she have stepped down during? His first?
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Jul 17, 2020 20:14
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Grip it and rip it posted:I don't think there is going to be a lot of popular support for packing the court, ever. Not only are the circumstances for achieving this goal highly unlikely but the Dems also don't have the balls to do it AND half the country would self immolate. You're not at all wrong. I just pull for ignoring the RBG circus and not stressing over her seat. That cake was baked years ago. The chance to outright prevent all the SCOTUS damage that is going to come without having the much larger SCOTUS-reform fight has already been missed. What happens with her specifically won't change the ultimate outcome. Even if she toughs it out and Biden gets her replacement, nothing changes for the better. We're in "go big or go home" territory, so the fight needs to move on from the distraction that is her seat.
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Jul 17, 2020 20:17
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bird food bathtub posted:You're not at all wrong. I just pull for ignoring the RBG circus and not stressing over her seat. That cake was baked years ago. The chance to outright prevent all the SCOTUS damage that is going to come without having the much larger SCOTUS-reform fight has already been missed. What happens with her specifically won't change the ultimate outcome. Even if she toughs it out and Biden gets her replacement, nothing changes for the better. I'm sure all the DREAMers are comforted that you have a plan of action for after they are purged from our country. Along with anyone else that had a 5-4 split operate in their favor over the past 4 years (that RBG was a part of) I'm sorry if this comes off as brusque or accusingly but hearing people suggest that there is some grand plan in the works to sweep the board with radical legal reform sounds detached. Even moreso when coupled with a suggestion that it doesn't matter who you vote for in the Presidential race. Grip it and rip it fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Jul 17, 2020 |
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Jul 17, 2020 20:20
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Grip it and rip it posted:I'm sure all the DREAMers are comforted that you have a plan of action for after they are purged from our country. Don't put words in my mouth to try to straw man an argument. I didn't say it's a bad thing that those decisions have been made and I'm not gleefully twirling my mustache hoping things happen the way you're trying to say while I cackle over the suffering of others. Going forward the focus needs to be put in to reform of the entire institution. Every one getting stress head aches every time RBG goes back to the hospital again isn't productive, so don't pay attention to that circus.
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Jul 17, 2020 20:28
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If incrementalism, strategic voting or any of the poo poo centrist eggheads beat off about worked we wouldn't be here today
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Jul 17, 2020 20:29
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Grip it and rip it posted:Which year of Obama's presidency should she have stepped down during? His first?
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Jul 17, 2020 20:30
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The Army just figured out a way to ban the Confederate Flag. They published a list of flags allowed to be flown and the Confederate Flag isn't on it 
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Jul 17, 2020 20:32
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stealie72 posted:I would assume that this is going to be the standard for a while. And/or every time a justice is over 70 and their party matches the senate and president. Yeah short of getting term limits imposed (hah) I think going forward, Dems will push their appointees to commit to retiring once they hit a certain age window and they have the votes in the Senate to get their replacement through.
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Jul 17, 2020 20:35
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facialimpediment posted:The Army just figured out a way to ban the Confederate Flag. Technically, this could leave a “heritage not hate” commander to ignore it, but that would be ill advised. Also not listed are football team flags or university flags, but presumably only a really obnoxious commander would deem those “divisive” symbols. I was thinking an rear end could use the MS flag instead, but it was retired 17 days ago, and MS presently has no flag.
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Jul 17, 2020 20:42
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mlmp08 posted:Technically, this could leave a “heritage not hate” commander to ignore it, but that would be ill advised. Uh, I don't know how many college football fans you know, but those flags can be very divisive.
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Jul 17, 2020 20:59
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html This is a really amazing read about polling in the US, the personal views of large and small donors, the things Democratic politicians are willing to do as long as they don't cost them reelection, demographic changes, etc. I can only highly encourage you to read this.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:05
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Torrannor posted:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html Yeah I read most of this earlier today, it's a proclick.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:10
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not caring here posted:I just found out by pure random chatting with my dad that I'm eligible for Irish citizenship. I've just got to put in the forms, pay the 300 euros or whatever it is, wait 12 to 18 months and apparently that's good enough. Just remember living in a place and visiting that place are not the same. Also, building wealth here is a multi generational effort. There’s a reason kids living with their parents until marriage (and beyond) is common here, wages are low and everything’s expensive. A quick google search seems to suggest Ireland is up there on the difficultly scale. That being said if you know a skilled trade or have a useful degree, and can speak the language, life can be comfortable if you work for it. But who the hell knows how central and Western Europe will look in a few years let alone 20, are we not in the longest sustained peace (not counting the Balkans) in the history of the continent? Feeling like this is all a big crapshoot.
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Jul 17, 2020 21:14
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A Bad Poster posted:Uh, I don't know how many college football fans you know, but those flags can be very divisive. Destroy College football and topple their thrones
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Jul 17, 2020 21:18
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stealie72 posted:I would assume that this is going to be the standard for a while. And/or every time a justice is over 70 and their party matches the senate and president. Good luck enforcing a policy like this against lifetime appointees
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Jul 17, 2020 21:22
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Before you view this video, please disregard the usual stuff - that Chris Wallace is a bullshit prop used by Fox News to shield their channel by being the one actual journalist there, that this is all dumb and doesn't matter ... and look at the wonderful Trump reactions in the first 15 seconds when he gets called on his poo poo https://twitter.com/brooklynmutt/status/1284205912283140096?s=19 Apparently they both looked through this magical compact (the Bernie-Biden platform stuff) and couldn't find anything later in the interview.
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Canadian police losing the plot a little: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/nati...crime-by-police
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