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Stilicho

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  1. Very sophisticated. A lot of people don't know how sophisticated. A lot of people would be shocked at how sophisticated. Very, very, tippy top sophisticated.
  2. We are going to spend the next 50 years trying to fix the shit these people break.
  3. Didn’t Torture-kink Jesus vouch for this guy? Who can we trust, now?!
  4. There will, however, be several bible verses plastered all over her social media.
  5. This law / concept has been around for x number of years without being directly overruled or contradicted. That weighs in favor of not overturning said law unless major shifts in public opinion or unforeseen negative consequences have arisen that are attributable to said law. In the perfect world of legal theory, it helps build consistency (and thus legitimacy) regarding how laws are made, enforced, and interpreted. No “gotcha” judgments. It’s efficacy can be argued, for or against, by folks here who are much smarter than me, but it has been used as a shield against changing controversial laws. Conservatives clung to it pretty hard throughout the “rights revolution” of the last 80 years, but really had a hard on for it during the civil rights movement. Now that the major decisions which created the rights revolution have existed long enough to warrant such consideration under stare decisis, conservatives have easily dispensed with it. Because hypocrisy.
  6. Dobbs killed any notion that a conservative dominated Court gives a shit about stare decisis when it comes to liberty under the 14th Amendment due process clause. Thomas's concurrence was pretty plain in that. They'll pay lip service to equal protection under the 14th, but they'll come for that too when the opportunity presents itself. If we ever get out of this place, conservatives can take stare decisis and shove it up their ass.
  7. I hope you will note my personal prestidigitation and/or protest, sir.
  8. Is that real? Because if so, holy fuck. I legit lol'd at protestation and/or protest.
  9. This. That fairy tale of Dabo jumping from Clemson to Bama doesn't have quite the same shine in 2023 as it did in 2017.
  10. The more rational sooner fans up here are pretty worried that NIL + SEC + Crypt Keeper will send them on a Nebraska-esque slide.
  11. I know when patently weird people approach me with the line “We’re not weird”, I immediately take them at their word. These folks took PR lessons from the FLDS.
  12. Yeah. It's been 0 days since Oklahoma was a shitshow. The larger districts, as mentioned above, have told Ginger Shitheel to more or less fuck off. But I imagine what's left of the rural schools will slowly start letting that shit leech in, if they don't make a big spectacle of adopting it outright. I don't put it past them to try and force the issue down the road. Like everything else, they're not satisfied with just breaking everything in the public sector.
  13. I've always looked at this as the goal. The words were written by folks that obviously didn't fully embrace them, but that's what we're supposed to be doing: working to try and match those words with reality. The words, not Thomas Jefferson's itinerary, are supposed to be the destination.
  14. Imagine claiming that Dan Bongitmo has "credibility" and "journalistic instinct" on social media.
  15. Yeah. In Flanders Fields has been celebrated as some of the most poignant wartime literature in history for the better part of 100 years. Not that I'd expect an ex-football coach who crawled out of the bathroom window of a Lubbock Chili's to know that.
  16. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." A good portion of my second run through undergrad dealt with European politics throughout the interwar years, specifically how movements like fascism, Nazism, ultra-nationalism, and totalitarianism managed not only to gain traction, but come to be embraced by majority populations and how that in turn allowed those folks to carry out some of the most horrific crimes humanity has ever recorded. This stuff reads a lot like that stuff. It's not a 1:1 (it more resembles the lead up to the Spanish Civil War than 1930s Germany, imo) but it's closer than I think most ever imagined. And yeah, the danger goes beyond Trump. This roadmap is simply waiting for the next GOP winner. And at some point, there will be another GOP winner. Short of continuing massive voter turnout and... I don't know... hyper-vigilance(?) I'm not sure how else you combat this. In Spain, the pendulum between right and left governments in short succession finally broke out in civil war when Franco and the military chose a side. In Germany, beyond all the economic factors from Versailles, the left wing went after each other (socialists v. communists) while trying to fend of the Nazis electorally. Everyone is well aware of how that plan worked out.
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