Because there’s a precedent set by Mitch McConnell that a vacancy this close to the election doesn’t get filled until after the election and there’s no way he’d do something so hypocritical as to fill it early.
VOTE because mcconnell is going to replace her before election day no matter what you do.
Also, the supreme court is already majority conservative. Also the court is conservative by design. It is supposed to stop democratic institutions from passing laws to change things. It has basically always sided with the powerful against the powerless.
It's convenient for them to keep around, because they don't need to obey the spirit of the ruling (abortion access) instead it actually frees them up to implement all the anti-abortion laws they want, so long as it isn't outlawed by name.
Someone said it in another thread, and I'm an unoriginal parrot. But yeah, I agree with the sentiment -- it has been entrenched for long enough that they will gut it in every single other way possible, but never actually overturn.
This actually puts us in a pretty good position to setup soviets at the state level, no? With the polarization of more democratic local vs more fascistic federal? If it becomes clear the only progress is local/communal, and liberals see that liberal capitalism failed, I feel like the still present obsession with hyperfocusing on 1 area will benefit us, less for them to look at; instead of local and the fed, it can be all local with a focus on community instead of business. Eitherway, if the libs want to stand up in this country, they'll need to court us, which means joining us. Going forward I don't see liberalism making a comeback.
Why wouldn't they? If they can come close in a critical GOP held state, perhaps Florida, they can push the same strategy. Do recounts until they get their result, and fall back on the supreme court emergency session to support it.
My response when someone on the left tells me to vote for Biden, that it'll make a difference. If the fall of liberalism bring us nothing else, it better bring the end of that bullshit cheerleading.
say what you want about RBG but its not good she died. So just when I'm thinking I might be able to share some common alarm with the illustrious libs of r/politics, we get nuclear takes like this and peak russia brain lmao
Republicans won the presidential popular vote in 1988 and once since. Even libs know it's bullshit that the GOP has rigged the game so hard that a generation of losing at the polls ends with a rock-solid conservative majority on the Court. They're rules nerds so they deeply care about this shit -- now's the perfect time to interrupt their pity party with "so this means you're in favor of court packing, right?"
Reading r/politics is self-harm. There are a lot of subreddits full of liberals that are right on the cusp of radicalizing and could use a nudge in the right direction. That I've seen, r/WitchesVsPatriarchy and TrollX are both full of libs who are so close to getting it and who need a direction for all of the despair they feel recognizing fully for the first time that the system has failed them, and that it may never have worked in the first place.
I've been passively following WayOfTheBern since march, they've gotten pretty radical for a subreddit ostensibly about a succdem doing electoral entryism. If nothing else, people saying vote for Biden mostly get laughed out of threads at least
/r/UrbanHell is also a decent place to radicalize people, surprisingly. Just wait until one of The Bad Countries pops up, then talk about how horribly the U.S. fucked them over.
Nah, reading r/politics is self care. Gleeful to see libs thinking they’re watching the American empire crumble before their eyes. (It’s not quite there, yet. But it’s fun to watch them think it is.)
To be among the masses and fail to conduct propaganda and agitation or speak at meetings or conduct investigations and inquiries among them, and instead to be indifferent to them and show no concern for their well-being, forgetting that one is a Communist and behaving as if one were an ordinary non-Communist. This is a seventh type of liberalism.
Libs are not a monolith and some of them actually have flipped over since 2017. Some of my in-laws were mild succdems at this point last year and are now full tankies.
Yeah I mean there's always gonna be a bunch of people on the cusp of "getting it". Some of them do, and join the cause, and some don't. The ones that move on get backfilled.
*Pulls up r/politics out of morbid curiosity... *
First comment:
L M F A O
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why are they so mad at us when this is their fucking fault?
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The best way to win votes is to be a condescending dipshit
Now that the supreme court majority is as good as dead why would anyone who was anti-biden before this turn around and do a 180?
Because there’s a precedent set by Mitch McConnell that a vacancy this close to the election doesn’t get filled until after the election and there’s no way he’d do something so hypocritical as to fill it early.
literally saw this take in the wild on reddit, it's amazing
thirty minutes after they posted it McConnell announced he'd bring it to vote
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Also, the supreme court is already majority conservative. Also the court is conservative by design. It is supposed to stop democratic institutions from passing laws to change things. It has basically always sided with the powerful against the powerless.
Also we've never had free and fair elections. Also the general rule of law has been a joke for the past century.
They might not overturn Roe v. Wade right away, just because it's such a lightning rod boogeyman for riling up evangelicals and TradCaths.
Same-sex marriage is probably gone before the end of the first year of Trump's second term, though. But hey, RUSSIA.
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It's convenient for them to keep around, because they don't need to obey the spirit of the ruling (abortion access) instead it actually frees them up to implement all the anti-abortion laws they want, so long as it isn't outlawed by name.
Someone said it in another thread, and I'm an unoriginal parrot. But yeah, I agree with the sentiment -- it has been entrenched for long enough that they will gut it in every single other way possible, but never actually overturn.
This actually puts us in a pretty good position to setup soviets at the state level, no? With the polarization of more democratic local vs more fascistic federal? If it becomes clear the only progress is local/communal, and liberals see that liberal capitalism failed, I feel like the still present obsession with hyperfocusing on 1 area will benefit us, less for them to look at; instead of local and the fed, it can be all local with a focus on community instead of business. Eitherway, if the libs want to stand up in this country, they'll need to court us, which means joining us. Going forward I don't see liberalism making a comeback.
Uh, it literally already is? How is this supposed to convince anyone to fucking vote lmao
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We'll see if they care when they do it again lmao
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Why wouldn't they? If they can come close in a critical GOP held state, perhaps Florida, they can push the same strategy. Do recounts until they get their result, and fall back on the supreme court emergency session to support it.
because they are DINOS. Their idea of conservative is pinochet
Sorry sweaty, but the only republican this democrat opposes is a literal Cheeto, anything else would be too divisive.
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My response when someone on the left tells me to vote for Biden, that it'll make a difference. If the fall of liberalism bring us nothing else, it better bring the end of that bullshit cheerleading.
But like....what if I hate it
oh, this is a democracy?
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say what you want about RBG but its not good she died. So just when I'm thinking I might be able to share some common alarm with the illustrious libs of r/politics, we get nuclear takes like this and peak russia brain lmao
It's not a good thing, but it is hilarious.
I'm holding out for a Mike Lindell nomination
He rules that My Pillow legally gives the best night of sleep in the whole wide world
Here's where you find common ground with libs: court packing.
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because libs don't actually want to win
Yup, that's exactly what I mean.
Republicans won the presidential popular vote in 1988 and once since. Even libs know it's bullshit that the GOP has rigged the game so hard that a generation of losing at the polls ends with a rock-solid conservative majority on the Court. They're rules nerds so they deeply care about this shit -- now's the perfect time to interrupt their pity party with "so this means you're in favor of court packing, right?"
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that's when you find out you're a lib actually.
abolish or bust.
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Reading r/politics is self-harm. There are a lot of subreddits full of liberals that are right on the cusp of radicalizing and could use a nudge in the right direction. That I've seen, r/WitchesVsPatriarchy and TrollX are both full of libs who are so close to getting it and who need a direction for all of the despair they feel recognizing fully for the first time that the system has failed them, and that it may never have worked in the first place.
I've been quoting Lenin on WayOfTheBern
Reversal: If you had my brainworms from a while back you would have quoted Lenin to show that he would support DSA dems lol
But actually regardless I do think they're good, I think we can have a little entryism on the side as a treat.
I've been passively following WayOfTheBern since march, they've gotten pretty radical for a subreddit ostensibly about a succdem doing electoral entryism. If nothing else, people saying vote for Biden mostly get laughed out of threads at least
/r/UrbanHell is also a decent place to radicalize people, surprisingly. Just wait until one of The Bad Countries pops up, then talk about how horribly the U.S. fucked them over.
Nah, reading r/politics is self care. Gleeful to see libs thinking they’re watching the American empire crumble before their eyes. (It’s not quite there, yet. But it’s fun to watch them think it is.)
Lol
if you don't radicalize them, someone else will.
r/cth has been reporting libs who are so close to getting it since 2017. I'm not gonna hold my breath.
Libs are not a monolith and some of them actually have flipped over since 2017. Some of my in-laws were mild succdems at this point last year and are now full tankies.
Yeah I mean there's always gonna be a bunch of people on the cusp of "getting it". Some of them do, and join the cause, and some don't. The ones that move on get backfilled.
Remember you CANT DIE unless PUTIN says so
If Obama was president during this pandemic, the libs would claim that COVID is actually a chinese virus with russian characteristics.
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So glad we got this fucking place. I swear to god.
this was like her FIFTH BOUT WITH CANCER YOU FUCKING MANIACS
Giving her cancer a bunch of times and finally pulling the trigger now. Straight out of the Putin playbook.
Invading Vladivostok while yelling "for notorious R.B.G!"
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