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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I have a lot more sympathy for Twitter than I do Facebook because the reason it allows hate speech and can't just use an algorythm to remove it is because the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and many politicians would be caught up in it. That's on the American people and taking on the President isn't something you do lightly when he has shown a willingness to destroy lives for no reason.
Which is to say, "It's courageous when someone refuses with a gun to their head. I don't blame people who buckle, though."
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Twitter is a big part of why those people got elected, I have no sympathy.
Nobody put a gun to Twitter’s head and made them run a platform build on misunderstanding, ignorance, stalking, misinformation and hatred, they did that themselves and the entire world has paid the price.
Edited by Silasw on Dec 8th 2020 at 1:50:41 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAnd no one made Facebook take money from propagandists and agitators out to undermine liberal democracy.
Its just hard to regulate them without harming other sectors, or just leading to mass censorship. And imploding the social media sector is not really an option.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.SCOTUS Justices don't do political signaling. There's nothing to signal. They do not have a voterbase that they need to appease. They do not have campaigns that they need support for. They do not have re-elections to be concerned with.
Once you hit the Supreme Court, nobody's opinion of anything you do will ever matter again. Party leadership doesn't matter anymore. Will of the people doesn't matter anymore. You have no boss or superior, not even the voters, and nothing you say or do will adversely affect your career or prevent you from being here next year. Ever.
The Supreme Court is the one place in the entire government where the people sitting in those chairs get to do their jobs as their absolute truest self. For better and worse. When Justice Alito goes on crazy, he's not trying to impress voters and get re-elected. He is demonstrating his absolute truest self.
There is no 4-D chess in the Supreme Court. Do not mistake anyone in the Supreme Court of trying to satisfy a hidden motive or a secret agenda. They wear their agendas plain on their face. In the Supreme Court, there is nothing you need to hide.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 8th 2020 at 5:56:38 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I wouldn't count on that happening in general. Haven't we learned enough about the impotence of impeachment as a method of removing unfit magistrates?
Edited by CrimsonZephyr on Dec 8th 2020 at 10:20:52 AM
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Matt Shea, a literal domestic terrorist, was allowed to remain in the Washington State House, though he was kicked out of the Republican caucus. Quoth the GOP House Minority Leader:
I'm pretty convinced nothing will cause Republican Senators to impeach a Justice.
Edited by nova92 on Dec 8th 2020 at 10:33:22 AM
That's a perk from the far-right's perspective. Violent extralegal behavior gives cops an excuse to unleash the excessive force without being called on it by the middle.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/scotus-pennsylvania-supreme-court-donald-trump/index.html
A good article on the Supreme Court vs. Trump.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I see we are back to "Dems should just impeach conservative judges!" again.
Lets not pretend that Democrats would even consider impeaching a conservative judge just for being conservative, even if they had the majority for it. That would be blatantly authoritarian. It shouldn't happen, it will not happen, and we should be glad it doesn't happen, because when even Democrats start doing authoritarian things, the US will truly be in deep trouble.
To reiterate: unless a judge does something illegal or corrupt, you cannot just impeach them. And just being conservative is neither illegal nor corrupt.
Edited by Redmess on Dec 9th 2020 at 1:35:56 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesShort of a Justice committing an unambiguously violent and unjustified felony, on camera and in front of multiple witnesses, I don't see impeachment coming up.
And even then, I'm not sure that the GOP would impeach a conservative justice in that scenario. At the very least they'd wait until conviction, and do their utmost to prevent a replacement.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Republicans are okay with domestic terrorists. (Not ones in Congress, but still elected Republicans.) I'll be surprised if anything could convince them to impeach.
AP News: Georgia Senate GOP push for end to no-excuse absentee voting
The state Senate Republican Caucus said in a statement Tuesday that they would push for the changes the next time the legislature convenes, while also shooting down the idea of a special legislative session - which Trump has repeatedly called for in the hopes of subverting the election results. The 2021 legislative session is set to begin Jan. 11.
Senate Republicans are also calling for a photo ID requirement for absentee voters who have a specific reason to vote by mail.
This won't affect the Senate runoffs, but Republicans' answer to Democrats winning elections is to make it harder to vote.
Edited by nova92 on Dec 9th 2020 at 4:39:43 AM

Personaly I think the goverment should not be touching them, it just serves as a way to enforce a political will and complain because there not saying what you want them to say.
The right thinks they are too liberal, the left thinks there too conservative, and at the end of the day there is no reason to trust any one to handle them well.