I mean, Mao told us where political power flows from. Someone could easily make the whole Supreme Court step down if their aim was good enough. Communo-Liberalism.
:chavez-guns: got a couple of ballots on me right now.
Thanks to civ 4 for drilling that quote into my brain since I was 10
purely a coincidence that they keep siding with the capital-owning class over the will of the people, there's no dictatorship of the bourgeoisie here
The constitution only exists as a pretext for the reactionary Supreme Court to strike down any victories achieved by the people who are foolish enough to play the bourgeoisie’s game by the bourgeoisie’s rules. You will notice that, in practice, constitutionality is never an impediment to state oppression, and throughout the vast majority of the constitutional republic’s history the Supreme Court has had no issue shit-canning the limited victories of the people by using the most contrived interpretations of its rather simple language imaginable.
Liberals venerate the Supreme Court because for a very short time in its history it rendered decisions like Brown v. Board and Roe v. Wade, but if you zoom the camera out a little bit, this short period is a clear aberration to the status quo of busting unions, returning slaves to their masters, and permitting the practice of eugenics and internment.
credit to PorkrollPosadist
In a democratic republic, Engels continues, “wealth exercises its power indirectly, but all the more surely”, first, by means of the “direct corruption of officials” (America); secondly, by means of an “alliance of the government and the Stock Exchange” (France and America).
The ability of the Supreme Court to strike down legislation was not created by the Constitution. It was created by precedent from Marbury vs. Madison, where certain elites took a power they didn't have to deny other elites a power they shouldn't have had. And everyone promptly just went along with it.
It's all a matter of seizing and exercising power, and whether or not there's a successful response against you.
They aren't lockstep here, though -- it's a 6-3 vote with exactly who you'd expect on each side.
Its easy to dissent when you know it makes no difference.
See: Congress, the Senate, your state democratic party etc.
They Live glasses but it's :citations-needed:: Unelected council of elders orders millions to be thrown onto the streets
Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson have been providing me the vocabulary and receipts to criticize our hellword for years, they’re genuinely great
I haven't even listened to that much of them but I hear that shit everywhere now. I feel like I glimpsed the yellow:the-podcast:sign
Definitely listen to more, it's like a peek behind the curtain. I can't even glimpse at MSM anymore without immediately recognizing the tropes and propaganda techniques
I've always wondered how the media industry, and individual journalists in particular, coalesce behind particular messaging and framing that promotes bourgeois interests. Is this what Manufacturing Consent is about?
When we pretend we have the greatest constitution in history even though it consistently produces horrible outcomes, that's what we call idealism, right?
The associated economic crashes also take out a good chunk of the bourgeoisie, but they still increase the class divide via the remainder getting even more powerful so yes.
Elite Overproduction is the current 'at least it's not materialism' theory of change du jour, so the survivors will see that as a positive and not simply regrettable outcome.
"If following your rule led you to this point, of what use was that rule?" -Lenin :lenin-shining:
Insane that capitalists would prefer to own empty houses that are rising in value, rather than own houses full of people paying rent, but not making them as much profit.
To paraphrase, "Only when millions of homeless people are marching through the streets will investors realize that chasing profit at all costs is a mutually self-destructive pursuit." God help the people who are affected by this, I hope the police aren't too violent this fall.
Capitalism is the best and most efficient system known to man. It maximizes happiness by maximally allocating scarce resources to generate optimal outcomes. As a system it achieves this by consuming unnecessarily massive quantities of non renewable resources and killing off those individuals who's outcomes don't comport with the first two sentences and declaring the outcome of the capitalist process a success. There is no contradiction in this paragraph.
My father in law called for hours on end every day for a year only to find out that they’d opened up two cases for him at once am they were conflicting with each other because it looked like he double filed and each case had the other listed as paying out
You know who's behind this? Literally the Alabama Association of Realtors. https://t.co/LNrCxd7f9X?amp=1
tbf considering how many nazis were counted in the first one I think that describes the original
sigh I'll tell the Victims of Communism memorial fund to increase the numbers again.
How's that even help? Wouldn't the couple extra houses from landlords selling because they're leveraged to the hilt give them more places to sell?
I think there's a lot more people behind on mortgages than overleveraged landlords tbh
wow they can't even let the stupid bastard stabilize the country. not even going stagger it out so you don't just dump a bunch of angry people on the street.
Before the moratorium, there were so many people sleeping in their cars in my city
Fuck the supreme court
Fuck the supreme court so much. We are living in 1795 I swear to god
Better to write down the names and addresses of federalists society members while you’re allowed to have internet
just shouted "Oh fuck" at my screen like a madman, the dog I'm sitting for bolted to the next room startled.
Thanks OP for sharing this.
I'm sure the Democrats are just so bummed that thing they were trying to kill only a few weeks ago, hoping everyone would forget about and let it quietly expire, ended up dead via someone else's hands.
"Sorry guys, we See and Hear you losing everything and your lives being destroyed, buuuttt the Supreme Court said so, so there's literally nothing we can do to help you. 🤷"
"Still :vote: for us tho or you're Hitler."
