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Supporting Israel's victims is drastically more disruptive to establishment power than supporting trans children.

Consequently, It's more likely for an organization to prevent its members from supporting Gazans than it is for an organization to prevent its members from supporting trans rights

This is excellent. Is it from something?

They're actually correct in how this thread is using queer people as shields for Israel's genocide

There are queer Palestinians as well. Although there are far fewer today than there were 5 months ago

Your account is 4 days old and you're engaging in hasbara

Supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians is directly harming the US' foreign policy interests.

You were literally like a bull in a china shop with your response.

You were respectful and answered nicely

What?

I understand that it isn't what is done when cooking frogs. It's a metaphor, and i used it only for its value of analogy

Probably the same thing that happened with Dobbs - ultimately, not much of anything.

It's sad. But Americans need to stand up for ourselves.

When SCOTUS abolishes Chevron deference later this year and consequently destroys the federal bureaucracy we will be finished. Hopefully the FBI can lean on SCOTUS to prevent that, though it is doubtful they are astute enough to perceive Chevron's destruction for the national security disaster that it is

Maybe I see Roberts as a centrist because he puts the Court’s legitimacy ahead of his personal politics.

To dumb it down further It's really the difference between lawful evil and neutral evil or chaotic evil. Or the difference between longtermism and shortermism.

Roberts wants ultimate outcomes that are as radically right wing as those desired by Alito. The difference is that Alito wants those outcome to occur now. Roberts wants those outcomes to happen gradually over decades. This is because Roberts is afraid of blowback; Alito is aware of this argument, but he believes that the power of the Supreme Court and the Republican Party has been consolidated so absolutely that such fears of blowback are unreasonable and illusory.

The metaphor of boiling the frog gradually over a long period Vs dropping the frog into already boiling water is apt. You place a frog into a pot of room temperature water and then gradually turn up the heat until it is boiling. This prevents the frog from jumping out of the pot, something it physically could do at any time, because it doesn't perceive the graduality of the temperature changes. Alito et al understand the wisdom of slowly boiling the frog; they just believe that the cooking pot we are using is miles deep such that it would be impossible for any frog to jump out - and that we have also chained on a heavy lid to the pot that would also prevent frogs from escaping. We are that frog, and Alito believes that the GOP has fully constructed that enormous pot and lid. Under that worldview, there is no meaningful negative consequence for SCOTUS making drastic revisionist decisions whenever they want. The decisions may radically overturn precedent, but they are nonetheless unchallengeable.

It is our job as citizens to prove Alito wrong. If we don't then our standard of living will rapidly deteriorate even more radically than it already has since 1981. SCOTUS will remake the United States completely, and make it an absolute dictatorship of the billionaire. That must be opposed

She's Indian, not black

there is no opportunity for Republicans to do the right thing, wrong thing, or anything at all. Succession is automatic.

Not if SCOTUS disagrees

Precedent has no binding control over what they will do

Their point is that Republicans will claim she doesn't. And they control the Supreme Court. Which means they are the final arbiters of this, not you, and not me. And not the plain text of Constitution either

This isn't about textual interpretation and this isn't about what the Constitution says. This is about power. That's it.

The Republicans will control the judiciary for a generation. That means they have sole authority over what the Constitution means and does not mean. Their rulings can be as arbitrary as they want and it won't matter. There is no oversight of the Supreme Courts rulings and there is no appeal from their orders.

SCOTUS has been captured by a domestic terrorist organization masquerading as a political party. That is a problem that needs to be solved before we ever start seriously talking about how process and procedure can save us. Hopefully law enforcement can prosecute some of the GOP Justices for their obvious corruption, but even that is unlikely as federal law enforcement has also been infiltrated by Trumpists.

This is a very bad situation. But you can't put your trust in the rule of law. Because Republicans control the rule of law, and they will achieve their desired outcomes by any means necessary

So you admit that the primaries are a facade and that we are not a democracy?

In which case, we should openly admit that and teach our children as such. Otherwise, China will do so for us on TikTok and elsewhere

There are more conservative and moderate democratic voters in South Carolina than there are Bernie voters. They consolidated that wing by having everyone drop out which made Biden the sole remaining non-social democrat or democratic socialist option

They are calling him a neolib. They're just calling him a non Warren neolib.

Which is accurate. Because all neolibs except for Warren are non-Warren neolibs.

The poster was saying that Pete is a neolib of the non-Warren variety. You misread their intent. They were criticizing Pete (and Klob)

Treating someone differently on the basis of sex is sexism. Treating someone differently on the basis of race is racism. This isn't hard

It doesn’t account for socioeconomic disparities, which is a far greater indicator and predictor of crime than race.

It doesn’t acknowledge systemic bias and racism in policing practices, again well documented.

It doesn’t take into account disparities in reporting and data collection.

Ultimately the fbi statistics are in fact questionable for a multitude of reasons, the least of which being that they are direct statistics that don’t take into account underlying causes.

Right and all of these clearly disadvantage black Americans, and specifically black men, for obviously racist reasons.

Why do these not also disfavor men generally for equally bigoted reasons? Are there not fallacious biases regarding the innate criminality of men just as there are fallacious biases regarding the innate criminality of black people?

This is from 5 (five) years ago.

You know you're wrong.

Your arguments are the arguments of the white supremacist and the segregationist. It is hate speech. And it is dangerous and is unprotected by the First Amendment and by the Terms of Service