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"Immense human suffering," Thomas mopes, as gunshots report in the background.
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RBC posted:I can hear the sincerity when I read: Channeling John McCain:
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 20:07 |
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Gazpacho posted:"Immense human suffering," Thomas mopes, as gunshots report in the background. From Thomas's jurisprudence, we can logically conclude that fetuses are human, while school children are not human. Other entities which fall into the human category include corporations and Supreme Court justices. Other entities which fall into the not human category include, well, this list is much longer.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 20:26 |
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Quorum posted:From Thomas's jurisprudence, we can logically conclude that fetuses are human, while school children are not human. Other entities which fall into the human category include corporations and Supreme Court justices. Other entities which fall into the not human category include, well, this list is much longer. You are assuming he is opposed to killing humans.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 20:31 |
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another horrific step on our road to a functional breakup of the union
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 20:59 |
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Main Paineframe posted:McConnell didn't hold the seat open by successfully persuading anyone based on the strength of his excuse, he did it using his power as Majority Leader to set the Senate calendar. As such, he can only hold a seat open while he's Majority Leader. If Hillary wins, then in order to steal the seat, the GOP has to hold control of the Senate in not only 2016 but also 2018, and then defeat Hillary in 2020. If Hillary wins again in 2020, then they have to hold onto the Senate in both 2020 and 2022 as well. And so on. That was obamas failure. With six months to go, it was his responsibility to show the consequence of McConnell’s actions to the voters. He could have nominated Jackson and given the progressive and black voters a real reason to get out and vote, but instead he tried to judo McConnell by choosing a nominee McConnell had already said would be acceptable thus showing how the GOP were hypocrites. Turns out making the positive argument vote for trump and you’ll get the people you want to overturn roe was more compelling.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 21:01 |
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HashtagGirlboss posted:The conservative legal movement understands power and recognizes that power is to be wielded to remake the world in your vision. The liberals have no answer for this because they view power as a thing simply to hold and marvel at. Of the people who didn’t want and could have stopped this by making better choices, I blame, in descending order, RBG, Hillary, and Obama. Joe Biden is up there too Not just that, but power only actually exists when it's used & applied - I remember a lot of arguments about Obama's "political capital" like it was a finite thing and how he couldn't do this or that because he'd have to spend all of his precious political capital, and they drove me nuts. I don't think pointing at Hillary as "the moment Democrats failed" is particularly useful (even as unlikable as she is) because it's been a long slide with multiple failures, as you point out. One side made it their entire purpose to force their political power on their opponents and to do it no matter the cost, and the other side did little to stop it. One idea I've been thinking more and more about lately is the idea that voting more Democrats into office will result in better things happening. Sure, it might. Milquetoast centrists might also wreck it all, too. But that idea is overwhelmingly used to stop internal dissent and make excuses for failure. The way I see it is that what the Democrats have now is the best case political scenario they're gonna get going forward - control of the house and slim to bare control of the senate. That's just raw political reality right now. So you either use every broken trick in the book to force your political will through or you get nothing done, and Dems have a strong track record of the latter.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 21:31 |
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idiotsavant posted:
Laredo, Texas' district once again sent their incumbent anti-abortion Dem representative back to Congress for the time being to see if he can defeat his GOP opponent in November. Guy loving sucks rear end, and his whole family run Webb county. He's entrenched like a tick. gently caress Henry Cuellar.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 21:40 |
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Epic High Five posted:Blue America can't even control the cops in their own cities, they aren't forming any regional governing coalitions There already are regional governing coalitions, The Great Lakes Compact off the top of my head.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 21:42 |
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ilkhan posted:Just out of curiosity, are you suggesting that Thomas, for example, would vote against interracial marriage protections? yes, he has specifically stated that Loving (?) was wrongly decided even though it's the decision that let him, personally, get married
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 22:19 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:yes, he has specifically stated that Loving (?) was wrongly decided even though it's the decision that let him, personally, get married I guess that's one way to want to divorce your own bugfuck crazy wife without the stigma of divorce.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 22:21 |
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Burn the entirety of the judiciary to the ground and round up every last FedSoc member and supporter.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 22:25 |
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won't be hard, they're all at the bar partying
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 23:04 |
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tag yourself, which terrible liberal defense for why biden did bug loving all to stop this are you? mine is "welp, it was doomed as soon as trump elected 3 people to the court" and "don't worry, we'll just HOLD THE LINE until the next generation magically fixes this." Yes, that was an unironic argument i got from someone (who literally loving has a job at a university, too!), apparently, instead of fixing our own problems, lets make the new generation have to deal with the problems WE* started instead, just like we did with Literally Every Single War In History. That won't go wrong at all! (*We meaning the person who told me this, who is a generation X-er I believe, not me, the person writing this post. I'm a Millennial, so, you can guess how the rest of this post will go.) (TW Sexual Assault here on out) Literally count the loving winkles on the faces of the people who invaded the capitol, loving nearly zero I bet you. The next generation is going to grow up poor, sick, weak, afraid, and probably dead or raped, thanks to the decisions of the loving judges and other old assholes who should be loving Logan Runned already. We're going to see "millennials" and whatever they call their children (who will VERY likely be birthed by rape more often than consensual sex. I can not think of a single friend I know who actually has children) become very, VERY radicalized. The streets are going to be filled with them killing each other, not becoming senators who'll get voted out for being left of hitler. I do not look forward to knowing that one of the children playing outside of our apartment right now will grow up to legalize racial segregation. The only way we can avoid that future from passing? Riot. Stop seeing manchin and his friends as humans. See them as "zombie soldier" and "cacodemon" from Doom. They're no better than literal video game npcs at this point. Only by treating the Enemy as THE ENEMY can we free the next generation from hell. Fact.
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# ? Jun 24, 2022 23:53 |
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I hope everyone that stayed home on Election Day in 2016 is happy with themselves right now. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:34 |
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Wizard Master posted:I hope everyone that stayed home on Election Day in 2016 is happy with themselves right now. More people voted in California than anywhere. Hobologist posted:Yes, and abortion remains legal in California. Funny how that works. For now.
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Nonsense posted:More people voted in California than anywhere. Yes, and abortion remains legal in California. Funny how that works.
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Wizard Master posted:I hope everyone that stayed home on Election Day in 2016 is happy with themselves right now. I didnt stay home, and yet i feel like poo poo. Wierd
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:42 |
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do we have an app yet tracking justices in public? Somebody should get on that. it would be great to know where they are at all times. Just spitballing here. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:43 |
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I would feel way better if i hadnt wasted my loving time voting for hillary tbh
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:43 |
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Wizard Master posted:I hope everyone that stayed home on Election Day in 2016 is happy with themselves right now. Thank you, Wizard Master. I hope you are happy with yourself, also.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:43 |
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I hope the Democrats whose feckless incompetence caused this are happy with themselves. Who am I kidding, they're ecstatic. They're going to raise so much loving funds from this and they aren't going to do jack poo poo.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:54 |
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Wizard Master posted:I hope everyone that stayed home on Election Day in 2016 is happy with themselves right now. There's hundreds of millions of Americans and one of her. Politicians need to appeal to the voters that exist, not the ones they want.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:57 |
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Xombie posted:RGB is terrible but this would have happened no matter what she did, just as a 5-4 decision instead. Kennedy retired knowing he'd make way for someone like Kavanaugh. Kav was his own loving clerk. The decision to overturn was 5-4. 6-3 was the specific state law. RBGs legacy is destroyed through her own idiocy.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 00:58 |
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Wizard Master posted:I hope everyone that stayed home on Election Day in 2016 is happy with themselves right now. i hope the clinton campaign is happy with their decision to boost donald trump's campaign since they were certain he'd be the easiest candidate to beat
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 01:02 |
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Chamale posted:I hope the Democrats whose feckless incompetence caused this are happy with themselves.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 01:03 |
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cat botherer posted:Maybe Abuela should have actually campaigned in Wisconsin and/or not listened exclusively to the galaxy-brained consultants. Or maybe voters can think for themselves, and realize what is at risk.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 01:24 |
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TyrantWD posted:Or maybe voters can think for themselves, and realize what is at risk. Yelling at people to vote hasn't worked so far, and it won't start working now.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 01:30 |
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cat botherer posted:It's unreasonable to expect millions upon millions of people to independently overcome their upbringing and education in our lovely late capitalist society and become less lovely/act smarter. In that case the country is already lost, and we might as well sit back and enjoy the time we have left.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 01:42 |
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Everyone posted:Now it has teeth. And just sank those teeth into every woman's vagina. It's been shoving ultrasound wands up there for awhile, too
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TyrantWD posted:Or maybe voters can think for themselves, and realize what is at risk. Any strategy that relies on blaming voters for not magically just being better is doomed to failure, yes.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 01:52 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Any strategy that relies on blaming voters for not magically just being better is doomed to failure, yes. As George Carlin said- "If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to have selfish, ignorant leaders." Voters need to be held accountable. It is not like someone came in and fooled them into voting for something they didn't want. Women's rights just wasn't a priority to the people in 2016, and it still not a priority in 2022 according to polls.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 02:30 |
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TyrantWD posted:In that case the country is already lost, and we might as well sit back and enjoy the time we have left. TyrantWD posted:As George Carlin said- "If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to have selfish, ignorant leaders." cat botherer fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Jun 25, 2022 |
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Does shaming voters work, or is it just a way to ignore the problems of an implicitly anti democratic system in favor of a moral parable? Id be down with it if it was actually demonstrably effective at all.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 02:53 |
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cat botherer posted:That's not really useful then. Do you have any realistic ideas that could help? quote:What does "holding voters accountable" even mean? Letting women suffer to teach a collective lesson, or an increased level of tut-tutting at people who didn't vote the right way? Putting the blame where it belongs. Terrible things don't happen because these inter-dimensional beings pop into our existence and make it so. Terrible things like this happen because that is what people wanted, or didn't care enough to stop.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 02:57 |
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TyrantWD posted:Other than telling people to move to a blue state, nothing is really going to help anyone put at risk by this decision.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 02:58 |
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Is this real, as in has anyone else seen a second source for this https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1540339880626102273?t=dJl1_ufpOEtbbRjXli3_UA&s=19
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 02:59 |
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Tiler Kiwi posted:Does shaming voters work, or is it just a way to ignore the problems of an implicitly anti democratic system in favor of a moral parable? Id be down with it if it was actually demonstrably effective at all. I know the shaming rings pretty hollow to me, who as a socialist who isn't ever going to budge on things like M4A or human rights such as abortion access was told by the candidate to not vote for him lol.
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# ? Jun 25, 2022 02:59 |
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Potato Salad posted:Is this real, as in has anyone else seen a second source for this Very real, the opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf#page=117&zoom=auto,-271,747 If that doesn't automatically go to the right page, it's page 117. You should read it all but it's basically: Clarence Thomas posted:For that reason, in future cases, we should reconsider all Vietnom nom nom fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jun 25, 2022 |
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Potato Salad posted:Is this real, as in has anyone else seen a second source for this It's real, but it's not breaking news. This is in one of the concurrences released with the opinion this morning. No information on how the other justices feel about this, Thomas writes crazy poo poo all the time
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