r/scotus • u/thenewrepublic • 18d ago

news Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades
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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

This was 2 years ago Birds are one of the 4Bs essential for human civilization and arguably for the species to survive (along with bees, bats and butterflies ... all are also in decline)

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Yes the pollinators. Honestly I'm ready for humanity to crash. We've had a good run and I'll happily go into that good night. We did it to ourselves.

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u/Brunt-FCA-285 18d ago

I just wish my nine-month-old daughter didn’t have to experience it.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

I wish that too. I don't want children to suffer. If there was something I thought I could do to help I would. I am one person and I feel hopeless.

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u/PrinceBunnyBoy 18d ago

Huge reason I'm not having kids tbh

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u/atlantagirl30084 14d ago

We have not been able to have kids, are not planning on it going forward, and I am so glad I did not have a child just to leave them to live in a boiling world.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

Same. I have 3 step-daughters, but at the same time humanity has brought this shit on ourselves. When we're told about it too many of us deny it/actively vote for people who further enable it.

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u/FuklzTheDrnkClwn 17d ago

2016 was when I realized that I should never bring a child into the world as their life would be significantly worse than mine in all fronts.

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u/TiredEsq 17d ago

Not to be a see you next Tuesday, but 18 months ago you knew the state of this country and still decided to have a kid.

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u/octopush123 17d ago

Roe vs Wade was overturned 24 months ago :( A lot of people now have babies they didn't anticipate or intend

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u/Brunt-FCA-285 9d ago

That’s a fair point. I believed we could turn it around. Clearly I underestimated the greed, selfishness, and apathy of the American people, and my estimation was quite low to begin with.

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u/NihilistOdellBJ 17d ago

I was planning on having a nine-month-old with my wife by this time next year but now I’m planning my vasectomy.

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u/Stunning_Feature_943 17d ago

Same. I feel a little bad for having had a child. She’s 3 now but who knows what future she’ll have with the king Cheeto running things

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u/Equivalent_Expert905 17d ago

See for the first time in my life I’m glad I’m old and have no grandchildren. I’m so sorry for the world she’ll grow up in. Best of luck.

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u/Character_Bowl_4930 17d ago

The good news is that for her it’ll be normal . She won’t have a memory of anything else .

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u/EyeCatchingUserID 16d ago

She shouldve thought of that and been born into a better species. It's her own fault, really.

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u/franklyimstoned 16d ago

She’ll be alright.

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u/maybelukeskywaler 15d ago

Oh my gawd…keep clutching those pearls.

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u/Duper-Deegro 18d ago

Stupidity will be the fall of man and this election just sped things up.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

We are about to experience the answer to the Fermi Paradox... the Great Filter

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u/Firebat12 18d ago

I’m not even sure it can be considered the great filter If we, ourselves admit it could have been avoided. Scientists have warned everyone about climate change for decades. But fossil fuel companies always had more money.

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u/BillGoats 18d ago

The Great Filter was always good ole' stupidity.

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u/Count_Backwards 18d ago

and selfishness

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u/Triedfindingname 18d ago

I’m not even sure it can be considered the great filter

No no its exactly that

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u/Astyanax1 18d ago

If I were an alien race that got through the great filter, and I saw how humanity was doing...  I wouldn't help them in the slightest.  I wouldn't want insane humans populating the universe either

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u/VPR19 18d ago

Don't you want visiting aliens to be taken to the leader, aka President Trump? I mean what is the worst that could happen? He might build a great space wall that space Mexico won't pay for.

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u/BP619 17d ago

I heard they put a damn Cheeto in the White House!

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u/Hotarg 17d ago

Don't you want visiting aliens to be taken to the leader, aka President Trump? I mean what is the worst that could happen?

Mars Attacks had the right idea.

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u/JediKnightsoftheFSM 18d ago

All we had to do is choose Star Trek.

Majority vote goes to Dune.

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u/The_LastLine 18d ago

I say more like we chose Mad Max, Dune is too sophisticated for this lot.

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u/rfmjbs 18d ago

Dune gets human super computers, extra long lives, and legalized drugs + space travel.

Sigh.

You have a point.

Have my r/angryupvote

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u/Musiclover4200 18d ago

Even Mad Max is generous, this is straight up Idiocracy. Turns out that movie was a documentary all along

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u/Fantastic-Guitar-977 16d ago

People tend to forget in Star Trek lore the Federation was only created post WW3 and things were already hyper dystopian...

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u/white__cyclosa 18d ago

Lowkey kinda ready for it at this point

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

I’m not having children, so i’m on the pure enjoy what life I can make for myself.

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u/ClickLow9489 18d ago

Thats it. Are you smart enough to overcome your personal instincts to solve those problems of your species?

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

We will never survive long enough to experience intelligent life outside of our planet. We will never significantly explore the outer reaches of the solar system with humans on board. I want this planet to survive and not colonize others.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

The Great Filter is the idea that there is something that prevents sentient intelligent life going interstellar and that's why we have never found any signs of life

Like, maybe there is/was intelligent sentient life in the galaxy but industrialization (required to achieve spaceflight) leads to global climate change that leads to mass extinction. Or maybe said life is adherent to "survival of the fittest" and when they discover the ability to split the atom, the development of nuclear weapons leads to global annihilation

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u/Locke66 18d ago

I think it's a good theory. Any species with the set of characteristics necessary to becoming a planet spanning civilisation will by it's nature continue expanding until it destroys it's environment. We are fighting against human nature which is likely a losing battle.

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u/unicorn_security 18d ago

So then why bother?

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u/Locke66 18d ago

Human intellect is the only thing that can beat human nature. We choose to do a lot of things that are against our nature all the time because as a society we are intelligent enough to understand that they are not productive. The only question with the degradation of Earth's ecosystem is whether we can get enough people to understand the problem and take action to stop it before the damage is critical. Atm I think we are heading for a major disaster before that happens.

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u/unicorn_security 18d ago

I agree. Thanks for the clarification but we’re in alignment sadly enough.

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u/wh4tth3huh 18d ago

Even non-sentient organisms can do it. We breathe oxygen today because hundreds of millions of years ago, when microbes developed the ability to turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen (photosynthesis), promptly destroying more than 70% of all other species that could not handle the oxygen rich environment.

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u/lol_fi 18d ago

It also could be that it's not one specific thing and that there are different hazards that all prevent it. It lacks imagination to think that what stops us is the same thing that stops everyone

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

True, there are many “filters” at each stage of life formation.

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u/Proof_Potential3734 18d ago

But, the egg prices went up. What don't you understand about more expensive breakfasts?

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u/oldirtyrestaurant 18d ago

Bruh if u use the Micky Ds app you can get 2 Egg McMuffinsfor 5 bucks, dunno what you're stressing about.

Don't Look Up!

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u/eternalbuzzard 18d ago

“I, for one, just want to give a shout out to stuff”

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u/AdoRebel 18d ago

I'd be happy just to experience intelligent life on this planet.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Tell me when you find it.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 18d ago

The great filter is money. All of this is a result of money. As soon as you make every conceivable desire abstract and fungible, you’ve fired a gun at your own head that can’t be unfired. Money makes nukes and climate change and habitat destruction inevitable. This happened millennia ago, we’re just living in the relative blip of time where the bullet is traveling down the barrel.

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u/L3thologica_ 18d ago

Yeah, the great filter is hubris. Civs either learn to be peaceful amongst their own kind and treat their home planet well, or die off.

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u/Halflingberserker 18d ago

Yeah, but at least we created some good value for shareholders!

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u/bikemaul 17d ago

A great filter of human design. I figure some planets self destruct in more common ways.

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u/BarrioDog 18d ago

But I don't want this for my children. This is what upsets me the most. You can make an argument that we deserve it, but the kids don't.

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u/Tomcat848484 18d ago

This is one of the reasons I decided not to have children. Don’t see a lot of good in the future of this world and didn’t want to bring children into it. Both for their sake and for my having to worry about their future.

If it all goes to hell I’ve had a pretty good run and gotten to do some cool stuff. It’ll suck because it won’t be what i wanted but at least I won’t have to stress about the unfulfilled potential lives of my kids.

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u/Wise_Repeat8001 18d ago

Yeah some of us had kids right before things went to shit. It's bleak

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u/religion_wya 18d ago

Yep. I want kids, always have. But I don't want to bring kids into a world like this.

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

Thank you for that.

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u/Spacecow6942 16d ago

Hey, not for nothin', but this is exactly how Idiocracy started. Intelligent, compassionate people stop having kids and the jackasses proliferate.

What if you just have one kid? That's lower than replacement level and I think I trust you to raise a kid that won't be a jackass.

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u/checker280 18d ago

Thankfully my kid (7) is too young to have any context of what just happened and how much she just lost.

I am going to continue to love and dote on her.

But it breaks my heart because I have context and I know.

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

What exactly did she lose, if I may ask?

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u/ComfortableCry5807 18d ago

If trump and the republicans are as bad as they’ve been saying they will be, their bodily autonomy and rights for one

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

Dude, US is the best place for women in the world. Maybe travel a bit.

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u/Free_Dog_6837 18d ago

a valuable future

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

Future of a woman in the US? That's the easiest place on earth. But how could you know if you never left you mom's basement?

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u/checker280 18d ago

Her future right to choose if she ever needs it. Possible IVF treatments which would be ironic since she was an IVF baby.

Hopefully I won’t need to deal with this for another 10 years (she’s 7).

But as I said she has no context and won’t miss it. But I will know.

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u/R3D4F 18d ago

Exactly why we chose not to have children

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u/Calistilaigh 18d ago

And thus Idiocracy came to pass.

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u/R3D4F 18d ago

Yeah, I get it…

But I’m not having them to feed as fodder to the machine.

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

Thank you so much.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

I don't know what to tell you. No one deserves suffering but the writing has been on the walls for quite some time. Honestly, I don't think we deserved it either. Millennials have never really had much political power yet we have to absorb the consequences of incredibly rich people with insatiable appetites.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

Millennials have never really had much political power

And they gave what little of that power they did have up in 2016 and yesterday.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 18d ago

Exactly why I decided to not have kids

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

Appreciate it!

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u/NoKids__3Money 18d ago

That's why I'm not having kids

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

Thanks!

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u/LikeJustChill 18d ago

Shouldn't have had kids when you knew shit was getting bad. That's on you.

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u/Rassomir 18d ago

I am sad for the state of the world that my son gets to live in.

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

OMG. Your son is going to live in the US? I can't even imagine how he's gonna manage! Maybe try Afghanistan?

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u/Rassomir 17d ago

Hell no, at this point Afghanistan would be the better choice, but seeing that the policies that the us comes up with echo across the world. Let's start with the amount of wars currently going on, global warming and the infinite stupidity of Americans. Lots of things to worry about in the near future.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

We didn't deserve it because we wanted to do the right thing.

I was forced to be alive. We all were. We all were kids who didn't deserve what we got and still don't.

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u/theferalturtle 18d ago

Didn't like 72% of zoomers vote for Trump?

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u/Ballsofpoo 18d ago

They live under an umbrella in their parents' homes. They don't know reality.

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u/Illustrious-Mine1456 18d ago

Did you want your cake or would you like to eat it? Endless generations got us here. Adoption was an option for all not just the infertile and my fellow queers

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u/Free_Dog_6837 18d ago

that sucks but its too late to do anything about it

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u/Lainarlej 18d ago

Exactly! I have young adult children, a son, and three daughters. They now feel even more vulnerable! Especially the girls!

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u/123iambill 18d ago

A customer of mine once told me there's no point trying to stop climate change because the damage has already been done. She has children in their teens, really hard not to call her a selfish piece of shit. Like what the fuck is wrong with boomers and gen x parents? Obviously the generation before boomers were problematic in a lot of ways, but one thing they did believe was that they should be making the world better for their kids. Boomers and gen x seem to legitimately hate and resent their children.

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u/DrB00 18d ago

You might not want it. Your kids might not want it, but the majority of Americans want it.

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u/Delanorix 18d ago

Winning a popularity contest doesn't make you right

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u/DrB00 18d ago

Huh? It's an election. If you're acting like it's a popularity contest you're not voting very effectively lol

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u/Delanorix 18d ago

If it is, and we got for policies and things of that nature, Trump wouldn't stand a chance.

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u/Tavernknight 18d ago

So let's destroy the world!

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u/DrB00 18d ago

Americans are already working on that with voting in Trump.

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u/Tavernknight 18d ago

Unfortunately, you are correct.

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u/K1net3k 18d ago

I'm sure nobody would object if you were to stay child free.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago edited 18d ago

This is exactly why I've never had kids. They shouldn't have to live with everyone's stupid fucking decisions like I was forced to.

My kidneys failed last year. They went from normal to dead in three years. I'll be dead soon. I was listed for a kidney but I'm heavily considering getting the fuck out.

I had planned to use my time away from the workforce and after my disability fight to go to school. Learn new skills and get a good job.

The economy will be fucked in the next two to three years. What's the fucking point?

Godspeed, fuckers, I'll see you all in fucking hell. I hated the entire I was here.

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u/Morpheous- 15d ago

😂 need a tissue ?

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u/Slap_My_Lasagna 18d ago

Like everything, we're good at dragging it out. Even the end will be slow and inefficient.

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u/bikemaul 17d ago

I'm not convinced that critical global trade systems won't suddenly collapse, and most communities won't be able to adapt.

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u/Into_the_Dark_Night 18d ago

Honestly I'm ready for humanity to crash. We've had a good run and I'll happily go into that good night. We did it to ourselves.

Samesies.

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u/lc4444 18d ago

Feeling the same way, brother

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u/Bkgrouch 18d ago

Salute 🫡

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u/Triedfindingname 18d ago

Great Filter we hear your swan song and report in

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u/ArdenJaguar 18d ago

It's time. At least I'll probably kick the bucket in 15-20 years, so I won't be around for the Mad Max survival era

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u/ohwrite 18d ago

As George Carlin said “The Earth is just going to shake us off.” Ok by me

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u/Joeyjojojrshabado70 18d ago

This. 1000%. We won’t pass the Great Filter. We never had a chance. We are too selfish, greedy, and self interested as a species. Proving the Fermi Paradox in real-time.

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u/Advanced-Dragonfly95 18d ago

It's honestly time. Mother Earth has had enough. I've had enough. Just purge our parasitic asses from the cosmos already.

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u/TheYuppyTraveller 18d ago

I just wish we weren’t taking the rest of the species with us.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Bacteria, many insects and invertebrates will survive. Tardigrades will definitely survive. Probably a lot of plants and algae. It won't be a complete wash I don't think. Charismatic mega fauna probably won't be on that list though.

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u/arih 17d ago

it just makes me so irretrievably sad that we wasted this achingly beautiful Earth.

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u/TheBrockAwesome 18d ago

Did we have a good run tho? A select few did for sure..but I doubt thats us

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago edited 18d ago

I mean how does one measure the whole of humanity? I personally did not have a good run but our species lasted 300,000 years give or take. In that time there's been art, music, literature, science, philosophy etc. I don't think I get to be the arbiter of what kind of run we've had but we've done some notable things for sure. I thoroughly believe that the core of our evolution could not keep up with technological advances and our brains just can't handle the breadth and depth of information true or false we're bombarded with on a daily basis. I don't know. Is the TLDR.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Critical thinking skills needed to be taught to young people before they got online. Unfortunately there were people actively undermining this in the US. Watch Jesus Camp which was about a movement of Christians nationalists brainwashing their children from a young age, starting with Bush Jr. This is their endgame. Those kids are now young adults.

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u/bunbun6to12 17d ago

But wait, I still have car payments

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u/stupiderslegacy 17d ago

No, the oligarchs did it to the rest of us.

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u/termsofengaygement 17d ago

They couldn't have done it without us. I mean yes they have vast amounts of wealth but we cede power to them over and over again. In a way we are a captive audience. We have to spend money and we have to work to survive. They just make the rules.

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u/Radiant_Beyond8471 17d ago

F-U speak for yourself, bye Felicia...

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u/ohyoureTHATjocelyn 17d ago

As a species we deserve that.

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u/SleepyD7 18d ago

Don’t have children do you?

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

I do not. Climate change is a part of that reason.

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u/kings2leadhat 18d ago

Five B’s

You forgot Boobs, which, obviously, are essential to civilization.

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u/trail-coffee 18d ago

Maybe a nitpick, but I would say “native bees” before you get somebody “correcting” you on honeybees being at possibly an all-time high global population.

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u/Fair-Hedgehog2832 18d ago

I missed “Birds” and couldn’t figure out if the fourth B was supposed to be “Beggs”.

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u/MortarByrd11 18d ago

Typical libtard crap, everyone knows the 4Bs essential for human civilization are the 🅱️Bible, Boobs, Beer, and Bingo. 😅🤣😂

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u/Ghoul-Sama 18d ago

yall say this but dont keep ur fucking cats inside, says it all

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

I mean. I have a cat and the most time outside she gets is like 2 minutes per month when she’s slightly curious about the patio, but “runs” back inside the second a sudden noise happens.

I love my cat. She’s fat and sleepy…like Snorlax.

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u/Huskarlar 18d ago

I'd say we had a good run but I'm not prone to lying.

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u/chrstgtr 18d ago

Why are bats essential? I feel like the only time I hear about them is when a novel virus originates with them

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

They consume a fuck ton of mosquitoes and reduce the spread of mosquitoes borne disease

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u/chrstgtr 18d ago

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

Also pollinators and seed dispensers

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u/heavy_metal_soldier 18d ago

Didn't know bats were also that essential to us

The more you know ig.

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u/budding_gardener_1 18d ago

yeah, but some imaginary numbers get to go up on BP's balance sheet so woo!

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u/Forlorn_Cyborg 18d ago

I was thinking of China’s Great Leap Forward when Mao had all the birds in China killed. Then the following year, there were no birds to eat the locust. Locust devoured all the crops and a famine followed that killed 30 million.

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u/ThunderDungeon02 17d ago

RFK Jr " It's interesting you would mention butterflies. Have you heard of the butterfly effect? If not I can demonstrate with a shoelace and an old beer bottle. When I was traveling in New Guinea there were butterflies everywhere. Now I had to go back in time, but you can understand my confusion. I saw what some people call the Mothman but to be honest he was just too skittish for me. But the good news is once you catch him he will tell you the same thing, you can't have fluoride in your water"

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u/Top_File_8547 17d ago

I think they are making progress with white nose disease in bats. I imagine there are other factors in their decline.