@Antmuse @TheRealJChubby they make policy decisions that then become law. the fact that they are unelected does not make them apolitical.
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croissant
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@TheRealJChubby If you think "the Supreme Court is political" at this point you're unbelievably stupid.
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If you think "the Supreme Court isn't political" at this point you are unbelievably stupid.
Marc E. Elias@marceelias
🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court Monday fast-tracked its decision in Louisiana v. Callais — a move that clears the way for Louisiana to move forward with redrawing its congressional map even as an election is already underway. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/su…
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@theblockprof i mean law is literally just politics filtered through a veneer of pseudoacademia, and that's true all the way up to SCOTUS
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@kewgardens1 @NetsRebuild @showmeopie this is a coequal branch of government, with the power to overrule either of the other two, its bad that their source of legitimacy is that much weaker than the other two even though it supposedly comes from the same source
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@kewgardens1 @NetsRebuild @showmeopie I mean that's a far, far weaker source of legitimacy than an actual election, and it gets even weaker in instances where a Senate majority or executive win elections counter to what most people vote for.
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It’s why the court needs to get reformed. Even it’s the only thing a Democratic majority does, they should do it. The country can’t keep being subject to the whims of 6 people we can’t remove from office.
John Bisognano@johnbisognano
SCOTUS decided, to inject itself into an ongoing election & at this point no one can say otherwise. It has historically used the Purcell doctrine to ensure that courts aren't meddling in elections, and yet this court felt comfort in doing so. Everyone needs to understand this.
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@kewgardens1 @NetsRebuild @showmeopie The law is not an academic discipline, and the justices do not have expertise in areas they may claim expertise in (namely, history, linguistics, the sciences, economics, data science, etc.). They're just people selected on partisanship without democratic input, and that's bad.
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@kewgardens1 @NetsRebuild @showmeopie The court just does not have legitimacy derived from any of the same places as elected representatives. They aren't elected, are removed by dying or essentially choosing the politician who will replace them, and are appointed these days on strict party-line votes.
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@BenjaminBadejo The reality is that no one pays equal attention to every government on Earth and you can always define an atrocity as not unique. It is possible to define away every single criticism of any country as a double standard under this test, and that is why Russia et al use it.
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@BenjaminBadejo The fact that other countries also do bad things does not in any way support the argument that criticizing Israel for doing those things is bad. I am against Israel's denial of rights to people in territories it governs, for example. The U.S. also does this in its territories.
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“It isn’t antisemitic to disagree with Israeli government policies.” But Israel’s critics cannot actually name an Israeli government policy they disagree with that meets all of the following criteria: (a) the policy actually exists, and either (b) (i) other nations do not have the same policy, or, (ii) other nations indeed do have the same policy and the Israel critic also criticizes the other nations as often, as loudly, and in the same manner as he or she criticizes Israel.
If you cannot meet those criteria, then you are treating the Jewish state — the only country with a predominantly Jewish population, and the country in which half of the world’s Jews live — in a different manner.
And THAT is antisemitic.
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@hecubian_devil @TacticalFE You're going to intentionally lie to working class people *after* admitting in public you're cynically doing it to get them on your side re: policy? I'm sure that'll build an effective coalition
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@TacticalFE Even if those people are working class and share similar goals in regulating AI? Seriously?
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It’s funny that “AI is/might be conscious” shakes out as a pro-AI position, whereas the anti-AI left is 100% unified “AI is not and probably never can be conscious,”
Because when you think thru the implications, AI being conscious would be so damning for AI companies
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@DecolonialMarx @nashoryno @weaponxtra @Adarlanota this guy blocked me so they wouldn't have to answer this lol
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@DecolonialMarx @nashoryno @weaponxtra @Adarlanota Please, explain the enlightened chain of logic that got you from:
1. "farmers stop breeding cows"
to
2. Cow Holocaust
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activist vegans pretend that their lifestyle diet will save the world if everyone were to adopt it. failure to respond to their missionary zeal in accomplishing this absurd task leads to them projecting onto you their own insecurity of this folly, their own cult of inaction
nahara@naharamaayan
i think a lot of leftists are so weirdly defensive about veganism because it’s the one thing they can’t be performative about as it requires actual habitual changes instead of just retweeting useless petitions on twitter dot com
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@DecolonialMarx of course im talking past you, you wrote fan fiction about me to your followers because you cannot fathom anyone you disagree with isn't literal Hitler. There is nothing to be gained from discussion with you outside of refuting the obvious lie you started the conversation with.
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@cardavtay Lmao you’re actually not talking to me you’re talkin past me to make some moral stand using a pre written talking point so you fail to convince anyone your typical settler colonial mindset is t manifesting through veganism
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Vegans turn into littler hitlers if they don’t respect Indigenous ways of life. It’s actually wild
croissant@cardavtay
@weaponxtra @Adarlanota Basically, you could set a time in the future after which slaughtering the animals would be banned, and the farms would see that and stop breeding the animals in anticipation.
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@DecolonialMarx @_paperdove @weaponxtra @Adarlanota I mean obviously bigger than yours. You suggest nothing and you make snide hitler comparisons. Six-year olds can do that
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@DecolonialMarx @_paperdove @weaponxtra @Adarlanota Ban the ways humans directly cause overpopulation for profit, as I said earlier.
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@cardavtay @_paperdove @weaponxtra @Adarlanota What’s your solution to overpopulation and continued destruction of the environment?
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@DecolonialMarx @_paperdove @weaponxtra @Adarlanota Yes, *exactly*, therefore humans not breeding them by force is obviously not genocide dipshit
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@cardavtay @_paperdove @weaponxtra @Adarlanota Yeah they’re not gonna stop fucking just because a farmer isn’t forcing them to
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@underdejahvu @bsk1601 Yes, and consuming that reduces harm compared to eating meat, like I said. It takes more land to feed animals AND raise/slaughter those animals than it does to just feed people directly.
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@DerekPederson3 Andrew Cuomo, being a Democrat, is significantly closer to the median New York voter than Donald Trump is. That is why the gap is larger in Harris's election
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Zohran Mamdani won by 10 points in New York City, which Kamala Harris won by 39 points, on the same cycle where Abigail Spanberger won by 15 points in Virginia and Mikie Sherrill won by 14 points in New Jersey, both of which Harris won by 6 points, and leftists saw it as a win!
Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦@JessicaBRiedl
My 2c on the "should Democrats move leftward after 2024" debate is that: - When Democrats win, progressives say it proves that voters want far-left policies. - When Democrats lose, progressives say it proves that voters want far-left policies (that the candidate failed to offer). Can they provide any plausible election outcome that would show that voters reject far-leftism? If not, a hypothesis that is unfalsifiable is flawed and should be ignored.
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@underdejahvu @bsk1601 I want to have a legitimate conversation with you, but please dont just throw the first links you find out, its a waste of both of our time
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@underdejahvu @bsk1601 Did you not read this one either? Direct quote from it:
"However, the vast majority of soya is used for animal feed – making meat and dairy the hidden drivers of soya-related harms."
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@shinylight887 @RealityBent i mean if this conversation is any indicator you are under some serious misunderstandings about how it affects your health
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@RealityBent But I don't want to eat plants. I like how meat tastes and I like how it affects my health. There is no reason for me to experiment with plants trying to come up with something to replace meat. Meat is great.
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If you want to try eating less animal products and are completely intimidated by it, try starting with #MeatlessMondays!
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