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wildcat09

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  1. The Court has always been political. It used to be common to nominate politicians and political operatives who had little-to-no judicial experience to the Court. But they operated in different contexts than we have today, contexts in which they understood the necessity of couching what were partially political decisions in something that at least resembled Law. As awful as it was, as wrong as it was, even Dred Scott was based on a thread of an intelligible legal theory. Lochner and the Slaughterhouse cases were based on intelligible legal theories. They were theories I very much disagree with and which I think are contrary to our Constitution, but they were coherent as legal arguments. Similarly, the changes brought about by the Warren Court were based on intelligible legal theories that had been around for a long time. The Warren Court was political, but it wasn't just nakedly siding with its preferred party with no or little reasoning and conflicting justifications from case to case. The Court has been awful more often than not during the history of our country. Never before has it made dozens of District court judges look at their decisions and go "what the fuck are we supposed to do with this?"
  2. It might not even be by conscious decision, but it's pretty clear that the leadership of the Democratic party, and their connected web of consultants, pundits, donors, etc., selects for the most risk-averse people on the fucking planet. If even the idea of telling a donor no crosses your mind, you're not going to be a favored candidate to them.
  3. Odds that Ana is in the ER right now seeking ivermectin treatment for the erection he’s had for over four hours?
  4. I mean, the logical explanation is that humanity has always had guys like this, we've for whatever reason always had a real weakness for falling for and rewarding their bullshit, and early Christians wanted believers to steer clear either (1) for everyone's benefit, and/or (2) because they didn't want competition.
  5. FYI, Mina Kimes pretty much single-handedly led an exodus of all the best nfl writers to Blue Sky. A lot of them still post links to their stuff on Twitter (which is probably contractually required) but do most of their actual posting on Blue Sky. It’s not all sports, but it’s a start.
  6. Oh fuck me, Bozo has bought into Shadi Hamid thinking. He's in worse shape than I thought.
  7. Damn, you mean their little libertarian paradise experiment didn't even make it 24 months?
  8. You're not a special snowflake. You're a very obvious type of guy that every one of us knows literally thousands of.
  9. Yes, I'm aware the Biden administration flagged covid misinformation for Facebook. That's not responsive to my questions.
  10. It's obviously performative, but that's a substantial part of the job. This is good stuff and they should do more of it.
  11. Who was President when Roseanne was fired? Where did anyone in Biden's administration pressure Disney to fire Carano not sign her to a new contract?
  12. 100% of libertarians are frauds, take two.
  13. Roma, we’d all appreciate it if you’d masturbate in private.
  14. While we’re at it, government shouldn’t regulate air or sea travel.
  15. Kash just comes across as that damned trustworthy.
  16. What's the alternative theory here? That a second shooter shot him from behind and the guy arrested is a patsy?
  17. Kash basically openly stated he wanted to fabricate a manifesto. I just don’t think that’s what these texts are.
  18. If the texts are forged after the fact, there's no way that doesn't get caught pretty quickly. These people are lazy and stupid and have no idea how to go about doing something like that without leaving glaring traces.
  19. Well, lots of republicans also want to fuck children.
  20. Why are you arguing with a guy whose idea of a fun new troll persona is dumber Ana?
  21. After the Klippenstein reporting and seeing the texts from the charging document, I don’t think he was a groyper or alt-right or blackpilled. One of those seemed like the most likely explanation because the engravings of memes on the bullets was consistent with previous public shooters radicalized by that part of the internet. Seems to me like he grew up a pretty typical conservative kid then met a trans girl and probably began softening on trans issues as a result. I think this has it right:
  22. I don't think I've encountered the concept of transmaxing before, but this certainly tracks with what I do know about groypers and the alt-right in general. That cocktail of self-hatred, repressed same-sex attractions, misogyny, etc. can certainly lead to some extremely weird shit.
  23. Y'all notice enchubben dodged that whole thing where Kirk called for Biden's execution. That's because he's too stupid to come up for some rationalization for that. Why waste your time on someone that dumb?
  24. Sure you can. Just, you know, not for anything good.
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