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If Biden wins, it’ll be fun hounding them with this quote for a long time.
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If Biden wins, it’ll be fun hounding them with this quote for a long time.
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The media would immediately spin it as Harris being prepared to take over/run the admin from behind the scenes
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I keep saying this, who the military backs in a hypothetical authoritarian takeover is far from certain. They tend to be much less predictable than that. Cops though… cops almost always back the authoritarian.
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Also demonstrates less than a Wikipedia level understanding of the French Revolution.
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Their blatant, manipulative, cancel screens had me seeing red. I’ll never pay for them again.
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Yeah, I don’t think the NYT will let up on Harris either. That’s the issue. You get extra chaos and you don’t stop the NYT from putting their thumbs on the scale.
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Which is probably why they’re speed running the end of democracy. If nobody else can replicate Trump’s campaigns, then they get one or two more shots at the White House with him before he dies. After that they gotta find another appealing candidate, and they’re struggling with that.
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I do wonder if she and her peers realize they’re on the verge of being consumed by the same extremism they helped push along.
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Exactly one paycheck after the quarter starts, natch.
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Moving to Canada as a backup plan has always struck me as a bad one. Any situation that’s bad enough to make leaving America necessary will probably leave Canada far worse off, and there’ll be so many Americans trying as to cause issues and resentment.
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France’s recent election just shattered my backup plans.
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I’ve developed a hair trigger for blocking anyone who just seems annoying. Makes this platform enjoyable.
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I’ve reached a point where I won’t have any sympathy if the fascist regime they’re rooting for hurts them.
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An alarming number of them seem to think this is a game. That it might literally kill some of their colleagues doesn’t seem to click with them.
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Counterpoint; the robots don’t actually work. There’s a reason why they’re always flashy demos and never at actual protests.
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I don’t think the tit for tat would be worse, tbh. At a certain size the court would become less functional than congress due to just sheer coordination issues. I don’t think people should confuse a band aid for a permanent fix though.
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The only real way I can see is a constitutional amendment that curtails the power of the court and individual justices. But that’s a political non starter, alas.
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I’ll say that while militaries are kinda wild cards in these scenarios, cops usually are not.
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Here it is:
harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-13...
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@jbouie.bsky.social reposted it a while ago, but there was a really good Harvard law piece on the “Imperial Supreme Court”. Their consistent position is that the court should get more power, and everyone else gets less.
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I’ve definitely moved from “expand and reform” to “judicial review isn’t constitutional, fuck all the way off”.
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Expand the court, preferably by dropping a large object on it from a great distance.
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Ben Carson is my go to example of how highly educated people can be dumb. Genuine top level neurosurgeon, almost once in a generation talent. Also thought the pyramids were built to store grain.
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Historically, the record covers more than just America.
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For the ones that don’t actually want Trump to win, a second Biden admin is almost as bad to them. Of course they can’t say that, since they’d have to own up to the deeply petty and unbecoming reasons why they don’t like Biden.
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He also waffles wildly between reasonable and total crank, at least in his written work. I feel like this situation has put him into some kinda quantum state.
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Ignoring the specific people; no candidate is capable of building name recognition, a coalition, and a campaign in time. Like, replacing the candidate this close to the election is a disaster even on the practical merits.
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History is also full of officers trying to do one thing and the rank and file going another way.
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This feels very similar to the dynamic that got Biden the nomination for 2020. Lots of excitement for not Trump, but diffuse and unfocused.
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History is full of militaries breaking for one faction or another (or themselves alone!) all the time, often to the fatal surprise of one faction or another. Anyone who is certain how it would go is a fool.
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It’s always baffling to see tradcath types aligning with the evangelical hard right. I’m not sure whose prayers win in this scenario, but I can tell you whose would lose.
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Generally in these situations the military wins. Whose side the military is on is the real question they should ask.
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Barely, at that. Fascists are really, really bad at actually managing economies and prospecting wars. They’re all for demonstrations of strength, but lack the imagination and flexibility to do it correctly.
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I’m turning off the house’s internet if that happens.
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Most of us have blocked or been blocked by him anyways, assuming he hasn’t been chased off yet.
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Yes, but you have self awareness.
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It does seem to be making her miserable though.
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Goddamn, that’s a good burn right there.
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Reading his feed, he’s also reposting Brianna Wu’s turn to right wing grifting. One would hope that a journalist would see through such obvious cynical turns. And yet….
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I keep saying this. They don’t realize that he’s gonna literally kill some journalists.
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You gotta stop calling lies “falsehoods”.
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What a fun stress test for your toilet!
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“Hypocrisy is the price vice pays to virtue”. It’s better to live in a world where unethical people feel compelled to pretend to the contrary. Feels like we’re heading towards a low trust society.
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I’ve decided that deep down all the “Biden is sundowning” people are not only stupid, they’re annoying. Instant block. Fuck off.
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lol, k
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Sorry I ruined what you thought was a sick burn.
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*sigh*. Can’t tell if you’re a troll or just stupid.
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That makes two of us.
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Like, just fucking say you don’t like him. This deflection is pathetic.
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The source is recent, and discussing his performance in his office in DC. And yes, it is intended to be literal since as best we can tell sundowning is quite literally triggered by fading light and long shadows. The source *you provided* says this.
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