Hmm being on life support would mean a 4-3-1 (Roberts) makeup which is still better than 5-3-1.
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Justice Clarence Thomas admitted to hospital w/ "flu like symptoms" [Up: released]
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Hmm being on life support would mean a 4-3-1 (Roberts) makeup which is still better than 5-3-1.
This more than anything makes me feel something *is* going on beyond what's being said
Don't pull that crap on me, black and gay here, and I still stand by what I say, even he's part of the group that couldn't be happier to see me wiped from existance. I just personally find death-wishing distasteful even against people as awful as them, though I wholly understand I can't police how anyone else feels about it, nor do I see myself 'morally superior' to people who do it (Especially so for people whose rights are at even more risk than mine, like trans individuals, as I truly understand why they would feel that way)
I'd simply like to think we wouldn't dabble in same behavior that we all KNOW Republicans would gleefully engage in if the situation was reversed, that is all.
Evil people being happy when good people die isn't the same as good people being glad when an evil person dies.
It's that simple. They aren't the same thing. It's literelly telling victims that being glad their abuser is dead makes them like their abuser. Noooope. It doesn't.
It's that simple. They aren't the same thing. It's literelly telling victims that being glad their abuser is dead makes them like their abuser. Noooope. It doesn't.
I just had to have major surgery so that I could get some sense of relief while large swaths of this country try desperately to take away my bodily autonomy. Forgive me if I don't give a single fucking shit about your sense of moral superiority. You can enjoy that all by yourself.
This "they go low, you go high" bullshit is part of the reason why we're in this current mess, but go on.
Fictional story and all, but sometimes I wonder if some people were shaking their head in indignation at the Special Edition shots of the various celebrations at the news of Palpatine's death.
It was at that moment that I realized the galaxy was full of Palpatines.
Hope he dies and I hope it's painful and I have way less to lose than you do from a rights stand point 🤷♂️
Compassion is something meant for people, not the agents of destruction that have a hand in making the world worse. Not only should we bite the hand that feeds, we should sever it and feed each other.
I would really love to know where this slavish and fatalistic devotion to "decorum" and "respectability politics" comes from. I can understand it in some sense, say, 15-20 years ago. Basically the years prior to the Tea Party rise within the GOP. But now? When you got people openly saying interracial marriage needs to "head back to the states?" When you got people burning and banning books? When you got people trying to rig elections to keep themselves in power in perpetuity? It's not smart or wise or high-minded. It's foolish. It's actively ignoring your violent opponent saying they will kill you as you stand there doing nothing as they load the bullets in their gun.
Deebus Scorpa of Coruscant, when interviewed by the Galactic Herald, said, "It troubles me to see so many celebrating the death of Emperor Palpatine. Say what you will about the horrible things he was responsible for, but he still had loved ones..."
Brainwashing. It's the same brainwashing that fooled people to think that ONLY peaceful protest achieved Civil Rights. Hell, there are people here on ERA that believe that crap. Conditioned through years of being taught bullshit, half-truths, and fabrications. As a child in elementary school in the 80s, I remember being taught by white teachers who said, straight-faced, that racism ended in the 60s. Of course, all those classmates that weren't white knew that to be crap, but the little white ones no doubt believed that because that's what was being drilled into our little heads at the time. Y'know, the sanitized, white-washed version of MLK free of the "questionable content" and more "radical" things he said and believed? The scary thing is to know that so many people first learned about the Oklahoma Massacre and Black Wall Street from the Watchmen show and had no idea it actually happened. Hell, to the point they were talking about it on news programs and morning shows like it was a big revelation! It WAS because the forces that control the narrative have actively swept that under the rug and out of sight for a LOT of Americans. THAT is scary!
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And this is how conservatives, racists, xenophobes, bigots have been winning in America since the Civil War. They depend on good citizens like you to take the high road 👍
I respect your view on this. I used to feel similar, and for most people, I still do. Death is not the same thing as justice. But the last 5+ years have shown me that I have a limit. Justice takes time and effort, and for so many of our enemies, it seems to be perpetually out of reach. Death is not. Thomas will never resign, nor will he ever face consequences. So I hope he fucking dies. But it is sad that it's come to that for me.
I remember numerous conservative personalities demanding proof of RBG's living status, I say we demand the same of Mr. Thomas.
Same as with Obama with his birth certificate. Conservatives won't be satisfied either when the 1950s or the 1980s era politics make a comeback.
Spoiler alert: it won't
I've been slowly coming around to this way of thinking.
It's entirely possible that they know their "way or life" or "culture" or whatever is dying, they're still throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks, and ultimately whatever does stick is going to cost vulnerable, real, present human lives. They don't want to live and let live. They want to attack the most vulnerable people and literally steal their property. It's happened before. They want it to happen again.
Fuck 'em and do whatever you want to their graves (as long as it isn't "criminal"). These people would do the same to you. If they want to legislate you into a corner where it's legal to kill you, absolutely take a piss in their cheerios.
Maybe it is different for you, but all the people I know that are 70+ are not regularly staying at the hospital for treatment unless they have something severe.
Considering all of the horrific laws the GOP are passing or trying to pass, how much they fought/are fighting precautions meant to save lives during a pandemic, the shit they are pulling with the supreme court hearings right now, and how many were involved in trying to overthrow the government (and honestly still trying), etc. It's certainly something to try to tell people to take the high road - especially when you stop and think that Thomas would have no issues voting in favor of the GOP to do these things and I believe his own wife had a role in the Jan. 6 events. Not to mention RBG was barely dead and the Republicans were in a rush to get Barrett appointed so they had another vote for their shitty laws.
Anyway if his seat becomes available and even if Biden is prevented from filling it, that's still one less very reliable Conservative vote on the Supreme Court.
Anyway if his seat becomes available and even if Biden is prevented from filling it, that's still one less very reliable Conservative vote on the Supreme Court.
There's an argument to be made that the same behavior is why they are so successful though.
Not as if in America's history civil rights weren't built on literal dead bodies and radical confrontation
If things keep on the way they are I just see what usually happens in history; people who took the high road and appealed to the basic humanity of their oppressors subjugated or worse.
If Justice Thomas had his way, tens of thousands of Americans with disabilities and pre-existing conditions would have died after being thrown off Obamacare.
I'm generally not in favor of exulting in the death of one's political enemies, but this is the easiest trolley problem in the history of the world. Let the fucker burn.
I'm generally not in favor of exulting in the death of one's political enemies, but this is the easiest trolley problem in the history of the world. Let the fucker burn.
It's 99% about being against the normalization of the concept leading to more than just speech. If it becomes normal to wish for the death of political opponents than some will take that as an invitation of sorts to engage in political violence. It shifts the window of acceptable action further towards violence which is obviously not desirable for someone who may see themselves as a potential target. It's not about decorum or respectability, it's about self defense.
Yep, I've never listen to that crap. This is not about going high. Them MF go low, you go lower. Clarence Thomas coon ass can eat beer battered dick.
I really did used to think that going high was the right thing to do, until I realized that achieving the moral feel good of doing "the right thing" wasn't as effective in, IDK, actually putting the lives and dignity and rights of fellow actual humans that just want to live before our own feel goods at night.
I honestly sleep better now that I don't engage in civil debate with shitheads. Punch Nazis, poke holes in tires, spit in their food.
It's really just bringing a knife to a gun fight and acting like it is some sort of principled moral stance.
And at the risk of torturing this metaphor, we are in a gun fight, especially about stuff like the supreme court.
The conservative movement is trying to criminalize abortion, they are trying to lock up queer people, they are trying to bring anti miscegenation law back, and I can go on, their list of goals is long and frightening.
I've had this thought for a number of years that if conservatives got their way, and they ran the country, what you listed here, among others, this would be a scary reality. This is why they cow-tow to white nationalist and alt right groups.
This really needs its own thread. Thomas could have committed an actual crime here.
He should leave the hospital, but inside a coffin. Because he will never resign.