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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    There is no point in having power if...

    Coincidentally, tonight lib comments and posts about KBJ had really gotten to me. Even r/politics post titles are annoying me. Here's a 12k upvote example - Ketanji Brown Jackson schooled GOP senator who ranted about gay marriage | "Well, senator, that is the nature of a right." : politics

    Schooled, huh? Sigh.

    The dem senate can confirm KBJ themselves. A dem fuckup is possible because it's always possible but the dems have an easy layup. But their base really needs this dog-and-pony show so that they feel oh-so smug in their moral superiority and for a little while they can ignore they brutal reality that the GOP will still have total control over the court via their 6-3 majority.

    Power is the only thing that matters. And that will always be true no matter how smug the dems get.

    • Multihedra [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Kwame Ture, The Pitfalls of Liberalism, 1969:

      Fourth, I do not think that liberals understand the difference between influence and power, and the liberals get confused seeking influence rather than power. The conservatives on the right wing, or the fascists, understand power, though, and they move to consolidate power while the liberal pushes for influence.

      Kwame Ture was so incredibly on-point with his analysis, every other day I read something that reminds me of this particular essay.

      And he just kept getting “more knowledgeable, more experienced, and more determined to destroy American imperialism” in the infamous Colin Powell clip (can turn in subtitles if no speaker, very short clip)

      What a wise man

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        The Pitfalls of Liberalism

        It's been a long day for me so I don't have the focus or the energy right now but I'll definitely read that tomorrow.

        He just kept getting more knowledgeable, more experienced, and more determined.

        We should all be doing that.

    • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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      3 years ago

      the smugness as a motivator is fine I guess if it motivates them to vote / mobilize against bigots, but goddamn is it it annoying.

      • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I disagree.

        Last year was the last hope for the dems to fix the court. I know it's as unlikely as science fiction but Biden and the dems could have packed the court. In the course of her career KBJ could pen 100 or 100,000 fiery, powerful, impassioned, etc (ad naseum) dissents but none of them will matter because she and the other dems on the court will have no power for quite a long time. Surely a decade at least.

        She's 51 so it's also possible that she'll never be on a court with a dem majority. I expect dark days for the US and I think that's the powerless future she and the other dem justices will have.

        • read_freire [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          if she's anything like the rest of them except maybe Sotomayor she'll have plenty of power ruling in favor of capital over labor.