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[–] [email protected] 126 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The cowardice of it being an unsigned letter is almost the most galling part. Sniveling authoritarian cowards

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When no one signs, they all signed

[–] [email protected] 97 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Except those who dissented publicly, right? Pretty sure Sotomayor was pretty publicly pissed off at the rest of the court.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 days ago

So many people here are always pushing this "they're all the same" bullshit and it's starting to get very fucking tired.

It is so goddamn disingenuous.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The voices of reason are becoming outweighed here.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah so let's just ignore that they exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You misunderstood me, possibly because you were telling me to go fuck myself on another post. "Assaultpotato" is a voice of reason on this post. People read a news story about the Supreme Court staying an order and now want to impeach the whole Court?

I'm afraid the politics and news communities hosted on Lemmy servers are falling off the deep end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (5 children)

It was one commenter and the following comments rebuking them are much more highly upvoted. It's maybe a bit early to stick a fork in it.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well. Yeah?

They're powerless, they might as well not exist. The only purpose they serve is keeping even more fascists off the Court.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You say that, but majorities across the board are razor thin. Assuming there's still midterms a lot of this can be flipped.

The courts of course will be harder to fix

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (6 children)

... but we were talking about the Courts?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

What a braindead take.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

There is no more rule of law. Plan accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Cool. So if I join ICE, am I allowed to sneak up on random people and toss em in my van?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 5 days ago

You don't even have to join. ICE wears plainclothes, drives unmarked vehicles, wears masks, and never shows their badge. Anyone can be ICE.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

Their recruiters admire your ambition and will be in touch.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Well, brown people, yeah. I thought that was obvious.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Can we just scrap the Untied States and start over? This franchise needs a reboot

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

We have a constitution so old as to be a relic, antique. No well run democracy still uses a constitution that old, because they've made huge improvements in the past couple centuries. We should absolutely start from scratch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Back to Britain

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Clearly the peaceful protests are working!

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago (3 children)

At the last protest, I embraced a crying queer young adult for over an hour, because they were completely beside themselves.

They had a mental breakdown because they didn't even realize they were living with so much stress and fear these past few months.

And when they finally summoned the courage to show up to their very first protest in their young life, they SO relieved that so many people CARED about that happened to them that it completely overwhelmed them.

So please and kindly, shut the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

A lot of folks forget that peaceful protests are a great way to get people together and doing something, even if that something is initially just catharsis. Even if things escalate to... let's say spray painting JD Vance oompa loompa graffiti everywhere... forming up at protests is how you can make that happen.

Thanks for being there. We need more people like you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for helping that person

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

And I'll do it again, and again if I have to.

They looked about ready to hang themselves, I'm just so glad they managed to hang on for so long.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And if we were able to actually EFFECTUATE CHANGE they’d never have to feel that way again. So YOU can kindly shut the fuck up and see about making things happen rather feeling better about the shit going down. Because when they come for you, or your friend, or whoever, you know that hat they’ll say? Fuck your feelings. And by then it’ll either be WAAAAAAAYYYY harder to fix, or completely impossible. I’m more of “stitch in time saves nine” person, not a “oh shit everything has gone to hell just like we’d been warned for a long, long time so now let’s see if they’ll listen to us as we address them reasonably (even though that approach has been ridiculed, mocked, and shown 100% ineffective against these clowns and the Nazis that came before them)” person.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (10 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

I bet you’re not living up to your screen name at all you simp for assholes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

BTW, I could not connect this headline to the stay announced yesterday which everyone had already commented on. That's how bad this headline is. Deportations became "abductions" and "disappearances." Now they're "human trafficking."

I hope this rhetoric plays better with the general public than "weird."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

What do you call it when people in plain clothes, wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves as law enforcement literally abduct people (and their fucking terminally ill children), and put them on a flight to a prison in a country that they have never been to and have zero connection to? What is that called?

This is literally human trafficking. Go fuck yourself for acting like this is in any way normal.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

This isn’t hyperbole.

F to doubt

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