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  1. 3 minutes ago, dcbc said:

    I don't think anyone here is bending over backward to justify improper acts by the Supreme Court by discussing how things ought or might go.  We may not like it, but we aren't going to go all insurrectionist on the high court either.

    We should not be discussing it as a serious institution. Whatever it was before, it is now for the foreseeable future thanks to cramming it full of young fascists, a rubber stamp for the far right culture war machine. 

    That message needs to be repeated ad nauseum, because it's what's happening before our very eyes. It is no longer a serious institution. It's votes on the very fabric of the law of our nation are for sale to the highest bidder. 

    We must confront these facts. Otherwise we will be stuck here. 

  2. 48 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It all comes back to that booger of a question that bedevils most of the policy choices confronting America (everywhere else too).  What the hell do you do with the morons?

    The lower half of the normal distribution of populations is not all morons, by any stretch.  But they have shown a tendency to refuse to engage higher-order thinking when it is comfortable not to do so.

    In my experience, most morons are actually smart people but they're too fucking lazy to turn on their brains or they were never taught critical thinking. It's a skill and a mental muscle to not be a moron, not a measure of intelligence 

  3. It's amazing how far people will bend over backwards to justify and explain an overtly lawless act by our supreme court, if they were to rule that trump is exempt from the 14A. Stop talking about and conceptualizing the court as a legitimate body. It is an institution that has been packed with christofascists that demonstrably don't give a fuck about facts. They have been more than happy to make up whatever facts they need to get whatever ruling they need. 

  4. 1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    It can work in the opposite direction as well. Colorado may find out that a meaningless gesture gives Trump PA, GA and AZ, and the white house. but hey, Biden will take CO with 95% of the vote for a moral victory.

    You're still glossing over the ultimate failure of allowing a man to run for president who has already attempted a coup once and has said out loud he plans to be a dictator.

    It's a fucking failure and indictment of our justice system that he's still a free man facing zero meaningful consequences nearly three years after a nationally televised literal attack on our democratic process

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  5. 10 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Trump wasn't going to win CO in terms of the general so this does nothing to reduce his electoral votes. And it will just create more fuel to the fire that Trump is being unfairly persecuted.

    In a literal sense, trump has been unfairly prosecuted - he has never once had to stand up to evidence of his malfeasance. The prosecution with respect to trump has ALWAYS had its hands tied behind it's back by the wise and mighty American political justice system. 

    We wouldn't be in this position of incredible norms breaking if the republicans had not obstructed justice for half a goddamn decade

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  6. Checking in to say that my steam deck has been one hell of a CRPG machine! I've played through all of BG3 and I'm now working through Rogue Trader, and it's an absolute delight! The latest firmware also gave a nice performance bump for using FSR to upscale games, I'm able to hit a ready 60fps in most games on medium to high settings 

  7. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Also, worth noting that many of their recent controversial decisions (example the Clean Water Act, but cf. Dobbs) could be easily undone by a functional congress.

    Mfw the flood of dark money that Roberts unleashed have made a functional Congress nearly impossible. He's very effectively kneecapped every mechanism citizens had to actually get the ear of their rep 

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  8. 1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

    That's so fucked up.  One of the central criticisms of Roe was that it was an issue for the states under their police power, but now that they got that, they want to federally legislate.  FUBAR.

    Gee, it's almost like the republicans are operating exclusively in bad faith with the okeydoke of the federal court system to help them push the Overton window even farther right. The courts may not be helping trump personally, but they have been THE mechanism by which they have fought their culture war against our civil rights. 

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  9. 6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Well, as noted above, the only appeal at this point is SCOTUS.  Given that the administration and conduct of federal elections is a matter of state law (including, apparently now, judicial law as well as legislative law) and Congress has not seen fit to elucidate on this part of the 14th Amendment, it might well be upheld.

    Lmfao this guy thinks the supreme court isn't just out to make policy change through rulings. They've had several fact-optional cases and rulings now to enforce republican dogma. It ain't gonna fucking stop 

  10. 1 hour ago, Thatguy said:

    The police are what they are because the system is what it is. Until there is a complete change of ideology, and what exactly their job is nothing will be different. They are here to do the bidding of the ruling class, and they fulfill their job responsibilities just as they are supposed to.

    Judging from the number of painfully ironic thin blue line punisher stickers I see, it's going to be a loooooong and bloody road. 

  11. 5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    We have to beat Trump the old fashioned way: with electoral college votes. 

    Ftfy.

    Popularity doesn't matter for dick in this country. It's all about favor with the oligarchs and how much you can pack and crack votes 

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  12. Just now, hayden_horn said:

    i mean it's clearly unconditional and he knows that but he doesn't care because he's gone full fascoanarchist

    Fascoanarchist is an oxymoron lol. Fascists want there to be a hierarchy and systems in place, just not ones based on laws or good jurisprudence. Anarchists want no system or hierarchy whatsoever 

  13. 19 hours ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

    Reminds me of that Chappelle’s Show skit where they flash bang the dude’s house and cap the dog.

    the attorneys representing the business owners found some streetcam footage of the cop "dodging a dog"

     

     

  14. 8 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    I know we hate Elon here and that none of his shit will ever work as ever advertised...

    except that yesterday my FSD beta Model 3 drove me 12.9 miles to Costco on neighborhood streets with 25 mph speed limit, rural roads with 45-50 mph speed limit with stop signs at intersections, turning onto a a state highway with 65 mph speed limit and cross-traffic, a city street with 45mph speed limits with multiple stoplights at major intersections and one stretch of road construction down to one lane...  all with zero intervention from me, the driver.

    There may be other ways to skin this cat, but to say that Tesla's approach is doomed to failure just isn't supported by reality.

     

    6 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    I absolutely do.  I want to see where the weaknesses in the system are.  I'm seeing fewer and fewer all of the time.

    Sure is convenient for tesla that they've been allowed to kill and injure so many people in the name of progress while ignoring known flaws like failure to properly handle emergency vehicles. 

  15. 15 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Ok but wouldn't this solve the housing crisis?  🤪

    no, those homes would get bought up by private equity and hedge funds and rented back for 1.5-2x the monthly mortgage. Lmfao at thinking that families would be the beneficiary of literally anything in our financial system

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  16. 37 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Counter-counter-point:  They only needed 5 of 9 unelected officials to Dobbs.

    They're gonna need 269 plus elected officials to do this.

    Inb4 the supreme court gives us another Calvinball ruling that finds that social security is actually unconstitutional 

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