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Biden worries ‘extreme’ supreme court can’t be relied on to uphold rule of law
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No, we don't. Along with Citizens United, EVERY American with a brain and open eyes is aware these are the absolute most important problems, and they lead to endgame checkmate authoritarianism.
And yet I never see any mention of this anywhere. Even here, it seems that Biden is more concerned about whether the court can administer justice because it is so much out of balance. No mention, though, that the "balance" shouldn't even be a factor.
SCOTUS justices are appointed for life because it's supposed to put them above political considerations. No politician can influence them by threatening removal. Yet, there you are, SCOTUS is just as political as the other two branches.
Yeah.. shocking.. victim blaming coming from tough guys
Oh shit.. love the ratm and/or the boss reference! Very different music, very similar representation :)
You fuck w Tortilla Flat? My favorite by far.
You from upstate NY? Around 40 yrs old? Did you give me this book in college? Bc you sound like a certain guy I know... Lol
What do you think RATM would think about these "don't criticize me for doing nothing" posts?
The irony of you calling someone cowardly. You didn't name your account "Tom Joad", you named it in reference to the song, which is explicitly a social protest song from people willing to actually do something rather than complain about being shamed. This isn't quite Paul Ryan loving Rage while being the actual machine, but what a monumental lack of introspection.
"Where there's a fight 'gainst the blood and hatred in the air, look for me, mom, I'll be there."
Clearly Tom and Zach would echo this sentiment. Authoritarianism or someone looking down their nose at your inaction, who's to say which is worse?
LOL. Coming back and replying a second time as the person who already read and responded to a grandchild comment tangentially about them really screams "I'm not bothered".
It's a new day baby
Americans largely haven't had much of a choice. In states where the laws are decent and political corruption isn't heavily entrenched, things are alright and the system isn't totally broken. But in places where it has? There's less and less ability to vote in more reasonable laws.
The problems are systemic. The same states have shitty education systems, mass voter disenfranchisement of prisoners and anyone else they can justify taking the vote from, extensive gerrymandering, and every other form of corruption and political inefficiency. The major population centers take a very different approach, but they have to compete with these backward and broken states through an electoral system that skews the results in their favor.
Trying to take direct action outside of the official political framework is also problematic. In Europe you've got the benefit of an extremely high population density and a relatively small area regardless of which country you're in. In the US everything is extremely spread out. The result is that protest is often not terribly effective. You might be able to shut down a couple of streets, but there's no way you're disturbing commerce for more than a single metropolitan area (of which there are many) at a time. It's the same reason mass public transit runs into issues: we're way too spread out for strategies that require high and comparatively uniform population density.
That doesn't mean there's no answer, but it does mean we're going to have to get a little more creative.
People take for granted what made Occupy special. We all rally around the fact that folks that normally wouldn't recognize they're all the 99% came together. But the real win was that it was everywhere all at once all the time.
Right, but compare the effort to the results. People were bussing in from all over the country, but like what actually changed?
Same thing with the BLM protests. The largest protest movement in American history and... nothing changed. COVID kills a million plus Americans and all that changed is OSHA was banned from enforcing worker safety measures. No extra disease tracking, no countrywide efforts to improve air quality. We're stuck in a quagmire where leaders just wait out problems rather than needing to address them.
No we definitely don't enjoy this, it's the same reason we all love to say "eat the rich" and "it's guillotine time" and then do absofuckinglutley nothing about it. No one wants to be the one to start something absolutely crazy, we all deep down believe that we can somehow fix this within the system as opposed to throwing Molotovs. :/
It sounds like that belief is worth having a look at again.
Sounds like you don't have any real-life experience with the American political system.
Yeah, we shouldn't have been walking outside wearing that..
Largest protests in history (at least at the time) were against invading Iraq in the lead-up to the war. Democrats protest, but Republicans VOTE. That's why they run everything from a minority position.
No, they gerrymander. They lose on popular vote all the time.
So we're going to protest our way around gerrymandering now?
It's gerrymandered because people voted in 6he reps who gerrymandered everything. Things didn't get gerrymandered by the GOP protesting for more gerrymandering.