Thanks for not retiring in 2013 you stupid selfish fucking bitch.
There was nothing Obama could’ve done to push through Garland, it was totally up to McConnell. The real reason they are controlled opposition is because you can bet your ass that no democratic senate majority leader would EVER think of doing that under a Republican president.
Thanks for not retiring in 2013 you stupid selfish fucking bitch. The entire Clintonite democrat establishment, which she was absolutely a part of, are maybe the most selfishly hubristic fucking pricks in American history, with catastrophic consequences. Fucking amazing shit.
*Pulls up r/politics out of morbid curiosity… *
First comment:
Have her tested for polonium poisoning. Not joking. It may be the case that her cancer was “accelerated”. Straight out of the Putin playbook.
L M F A O
VOTE because mcconnell is going to replace her before election day no matter what you do.
Also, the supreme court is already majority conservative. Also the court is conservative by design. It is supposed to stop democratic institutions from passing laws to change things. It has basically always sided with the powerful against the powerless.
If SCOTUS turns majority conservative
Uh, it literally already is? How is this supposed to convince anyone to fucking vote lmao
say what you want about RBG but its not good she died. So just when I’m thinking I might be able to share some common alarm with the illustrious libs of r/politics, we get nuclear takes like this and peak russia brain lmao
Reading r/politics is self-harm. There are a lot of subreddits full of liberals that are right on the cusp of radicalizing and could use a nudge in the right direction. That I’ve seen, r/WitchesVsPatriarchy and TrollX are both full of libs who are so close to getting it and who need a direction for all of the despair they feel recognizing fully for the first time that the system has failed them, and that it may never have worked in the first place.
we’re fucked lmao
women, you’ve had a nice run, and it was nice knowing you.
personally, i will love getting to see my rights stripped away from me by mega justice cotton.
Oh please, women haven’t been able to get an abortion in most states in the US to begin with.
The repeal of roe v wade has implications far beyond abortion. It would enable the government to politicize every single medical treatment out there. Transgender related healthcare would become totally illegal.
Roe v. Wade simply covered the right to an abortion in all 50 states. If it were repealed, it would become an idiot states’ rights issue again. It doesn’t mean that trans-related healthcare would become illegal. It would again be a state by state quagmire.
of course. fem-aligned health concerns have always been a disaster because the patriarchy hates us but now, my main fear (in addition to the climate collapsing and the slaughtering immigrants) is biden gets elected, lasts 4 years, and then someone tucker carlson-esque gets elected and we all get returned to the kitchen. repubs have been chomping away at the voting rights act for so long and democrats have just sorta fucking let them
I mean I think it’s a liberal fantasy to live in the Handmaid’s Tale, and I doubt that kind of shit is going to happen.
Good. Now Trump can appoint someone. The libs won’t have any supreme court seats to shame people over to vote Biden over, Biden will hopefully tank and increasing the liberals will realize the institutional processes have failed them and they can either accept what comes as a result and lie down and take it or accept the system needs changes.
The sooner you realize America is fucked and has been fucked for a while court or no court the sooner you accept these things as necessary to awake the sleepy liberals from their lazy stupor. Only once they’ve accepted the institutions are lost, that there is nothing sacred left to defend. Then we can see real change. Maybe not revolutionary but certainly we’ll be seeing new comrades and maybe you lesser evilism folks might even get an angry enough coalition to get that vaunted harm reduction you’re always on about.
This is more wishful thinking than thinking that they’ll wait to appoint a new justice after the election.
How is it wishful thinking? Meaningless accusation given how many people sitting on this very website were liberals until Trump broke their brains when he was elected. It works. Liberal trust in institutions has been weakened by Trump’s term. Turning the supreme court completely against them due to what they see as an illegitimately elected president while further shatter their belief in the institutions and America itself. Yes it won’t work for all of them obviously but it may get enough thinking. They won’t be able to run from the horrors now, they won’t be able to put the Trump administration away and pretend all is back to normal and they’re safe with their Obama body pillow.
America must be weakened internally. Furthering the splits, furthering the antagonisms, the contradictions will accomplish this.
Biden won’t tank because of this shit, he’d increase his election chances. This is the WORST THING that could fucking happen to Trump’s chances right now. They appoint a justice, there’s no incentive to drive his dipshits to the polls, but the Dems have every reason to try to change the way the Supreme Court works and sweep the Senate and the Presidency.
I get you really want this to happen but you have blinders on.
What if the outcome is more along the lines of 1930-1940 Germany, where the Right obliterates the country forcing the left to flee or die? And only decades from now, does the US recover as a progressive nation.
Yea but if we continue collapsing for the next 10 years, things can get a LOT worse. And only be able to rebuild after losing a major war. Maybe China bombs us…
“Progressive” is a meaningless liberal term.
The US will not have real proletarian solidarity and real socialist/revolutionary potential until substantial changes. As the heart of the empire, many would argue you’re doomed to fascism due to material abundance and comfort created by imperialist exploitation of the global south. The truth is fascist social potential has been building in the US for some time. Trump took it out of the box further than anyone and it is not going to be put back in. As I see it Biden being elected puts things off, nothing more. The Republicans are going to elect an open fascist with a functioning brain and less skittishness about imperialism than Trump the next election or the one after. If the left has not made substantial gains, if liberals are convinced the system is not in free fall, that it can be repaired everyone not a reactionary is going to be in some real trouble.
You are frankly ill informed if you think the make-up of the Supreme Court will make or break the fascist moment in the US. Fascism is a result of capitalism defending itself when contradictions have risen too high. It partners with reactionary social thought which the US is already rife on. The US is quite ready to be fascist, the capitalists just need to flick the switch once too many emergency lights start blinking. Presidents have defied them before and they often go out of their way to avoid answering constitutional violations in moments of crisis (think 9/11) even if they do happen to strongly believe it is wrong because they have no standing army or enforcers, the second the president says no their illusion of power crumbles and the respect for the institution with it.
The best scenario for the US as far as advancing communism world-wide is for it to balkanize and break apart. This will be messy but the people in the US are too comfortable and too brainwashed for socialist revolution to occur there anytime but after every other country has already fallen.
