Xhieron @ xhieron @lemmy.world

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I love Biden. He's easily the best president of my lifetime.

QED.

It's a safe bet, by a lot, and the calculus doesn't really change no matter how much nuance you apply, because with every statement you're always trading some nebulous number of single-issue pro-Palestine/anti-Zionist voters for a much larger group of pro-Israel/Zionist voters.

Then you have folks like the OP who are essentially working as a thinly-veiled propaganda arm of Hamas/Russia/etc., and it really muddies the signal-to-noise analysis on the issue.

It's a problem for Biden, but there's no winning. Trump doesn't have the problem only because he's not the incumbent right now, so he can hem and haw and try to deflect from the reality that he's much worse on the issue--like every other issue--for people who align even a little bit with any policies left of center.

So Biden just has to basically take the hit, because the Democrats care about functional government and stable diplomacy and foreign policy relationships, whereas the GOP, as the party of dysfunction, white grievance, and ethno-religious fascism, isn't saddled with the same considerations. Biden actually tried--and partially succeeded--in slowing down arms shipments to Israel, and the GOP threw a shitfit in Congress because they want those arms shipments: Their donors want them, and they can hang it on Biden's neck no matter what, because people like OP will continue to go to bat for them.

Would you respect a judge that quotes Harry Potter in official documents on a regular basis?

YES! If the judge used the Harry Potter quotes to advance sound legal reasoning, I'd consider it a potentially clever and humorous way to inject some levity into something that's otherwise likely mundane and dry. Also I guarantee you a judge has quoted those books in opinions, along with every other popular piece of literature.

I'm sorry to remind everybody incensed here, but the professionals in the profession get to decide what is and is not professional, and the legal profession has a long history of quoting material that's non-germane. You can be upset about it if you want, but we're fortunate that judges explain their reasoning at all.

Quoting a book you don't like doesn't make a decision bad. A decision is bad if it's wrong on the law, and as I think everybody in this thread knows, the Bible isn't the law of the land! Quoting non-law in order to bolster a line of reasoning isn't good, bad, harmful, or harmless by itself, because the reasoning is the important thing. The Bible has been used to stand for many bad positions--but if it hadn't been, those positions would still have been bad!

While you lot are pulling out your pitchforks because a judge quoted the Bible for the billionth time in the last 200 years, did any of you even bother to find out what the decisions actually were?

Not what any of this is about, but okay.

Eh... this is kind of nothing. Jurists quote religious texts all the time. Judge Ho--the topic of the article--doesn't quote the Bible in a particularly eloquent fashion, but he's far from the first US judge to use a biblical quote to make a point.

And yes, they quote the Quran too--just not as much since not as many of them are familiar with it. Law is a reasoning profession, and people who practice it like finding analogies and drawing distinctions. If they see that a set of facts is like or unlike something from ancient history, they're likely to bring it up. They'll bring up song lyrics, mythology, popular proverbs, ancient legal texts, moral fables--anything with any reasoning or legal thinking in it.

Trump appointees are deserving of criticism for horrible jurisprudence, terrible judgment and insight, and piss-poor qualifications. There are plenty of things to hate about lots of them, but "they quote the Bible sometimes" isn't one.

Have fun. If you have your way, it might be for the last time.

How much are you getting paid? I only wish I was as passionate about my job as you are about yours.

Yup. Appeal it, drag it out, mire it up. If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

That's nice.

Just to be on the safe side, better vote blue anyway.

Democrats all the way down the ticket, national, state, and local. The Democrats are the party of human rights. That means reproductive rights, the right to privacy, the right to free expression and bodily integrity, the right to be free from government interference in one's person and home, the right to vote, the right to criticize the government, the right to be paid a day's wage for a day's work and the right to bargain collectively for it, and the right to believe and practice or not practice the faith of your choosing, even if it offends the fascists in your local church.

Vote blue and save the Republic, polls be damned.

AI = Absent Indians

I hope you never find yourself standing in judgment for the worst thing you ever did.

Jail them, and jail their "volunteer campaign manager" for conspiracy.

The nepo babies wouldn't serve--same as always. And the political unpopularity of conscription has never changed. The last war draft is still in living memory, and US current military activity hasn't been an improvement in terms of public appetite.

The US introduces conscription again, and there'll be riots--and I don't mean "some kids camped at college and the jackboots locked them up" protests; it'll be government-building burning, widespread-looting riots.

If you want to do conscription, the kids have to trust the government not to kill them for oil.

I'm happy with Biden. Like, very happy. Biden's awesome.

So you're not running then? Amidst the rampant, unchecked political corruption you claim to observe in every direction, the solution you in your wisdom have found most powerful is to complain about it on the internet.

Easy to complain. Which district are you running in?

I don't have any medical debt at the moment, and I think there are probably some better long-term things we could spend our extremely valuable and limited political capital on, so naturally I strongly support this because I'm not a fucking inhuman monster.

Bingo.

Or until an angry teenager just takes the gun away from his teacher and uses it instead of having to bring one from home.

Obviously wasn't God's word, was it?