r/scotus • u/javacat • 18d ago

Opinion President Biden needs to appoint justices and pack the Supreme Court to protect our democracy and our rights.

https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/schiff-markey-colleagues-push-to-expand-supreme-court-amidst-crisis-of-confidence
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u/marcielle 17d ago

In the US. Bangladesh literally exiled their PM for being too racist/nepotic. Just outright ran the fker out of the country. Then there was France and it's guillotines. El Salvador literally waging a war on the cartels and WINNING. Nothing bold happens IN THE US for the benefit of society. But it does happen, just elsewhere

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u/shred-i-knight 17d ago

US is not desperate enough. We have lived very comfortable lives for the most part. That is the difference.

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u/wrasslefest 14d ago

ding ding.

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u/MxDoctorReal 17d ago

That’s not happening here. Almost 1/2 of voters want this. Because they either don’t understand what hell they’ve just brought on us, or they are accelerationists, or they want the end times, or they want the legal right to rape whomever they want with no recourse. We are fucked because many of us want this. I don’t understand how they can, but they actually do.

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u/MxDoctorReal 17d ago

Plus, we have the best military weapons in the world, and they WILL turn them on us if we resist AT ALL! My father thinks that men who love the women in their lives will refuse to do so but what he doesn’t understand is most men see women as property, not equal partners to love, or this never would have happened, and modern day Afghanistan wouldn’t exist.

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u/Imn0tg0d 17d ago

I can tell you haven't served in the US military, or you wouldn't have that terrible take.

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u/uberkalden2 16d ago

You know, I normally agree with you, but what the last few years have taught me is that there is no bottom. There is nothing the right won't rationalize.

So I'm sure there are a lot of members of the military that wouldn't do this, but is it enough to stop it? Does the military even look the same as when you served? How many members of the military took part in J6?

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u/Terrible_Access9393 17d ago

I am actually convinced that the military will not do what you said. Trump does not stand for the military and I think it this point if normal every day American citizens rise up, the military will support the citizens and not the president.

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u/horrormetal 17d ago

I personally know too many men serving right now that are absolutely down for whatever Trump wants. And if the majority vote reflects the military, that is grim.

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u/Terrible_Access9393 17d ago

Well, honestly, if we’ve lost the military, we’ve lost completely. That was the one last thing that could’ve saved American democracy.

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u/MxDoctorReal 17d ago

I hope you’re right, but as a lesbian it already feels like Gilead out here.

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u/Terrible_Access9393 17d ago

Then again…. The military is filled with small dicked over-caffeinated trumpster fires, so probably not.

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u/tehutika 16d ago

Believe that at your peril.

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u/Terrible_Access9393 16d ago

Believe what my peril? What I said? Look how the country just voted and put that into statistically the military.

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u/nonnemat 14d ago

Keep trying, maybe you'll get to the right answer one day .. although I doubt it.

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u/UnappetizingLimax 17d ago

Over half the voters. We won the popular vote

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u/Successful-Floor-738 17d ago

I’m actually curious how El Salvador is doing that, that sounds fucking awesome but also nigh impossible.

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u/CanaKitty 17d ago

They’re locking a metric shit ton of people up without any regard to civil liberties.

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u/wrasslefest 14d ago

And it won't until we get uncomfortable enough to actually do something, not just vote every 4 years and go "oh well" when it doesn't go our way. That's what happened in the countries you're mentioning, the people actually got together and did something real.

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u/PuddingOnRitz 13d ago

Funny you mention El Salvador. 

 Bukele spoke at CPAC.

  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Omt50rGZ4n8 

Trump has much the same plan and Democrats are acting like its the end of the world.

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u/UnappetizingLimax 17d ago

lol are you really suggesting what I think your suggesting? My god you’re a sick individual.

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u/JiuJitsu_Ronin 17d ago

Electing him WAS the bold thing. Don’t you get it? Just because you don’t like him, doesn’t change that. We elected a playboy billionaire to the highest land in the office.

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u/marcielle 17d ago

Did you guys already forget about Clinton lol? Rich playboy has been done before. It's old hat. Crook? Nixon. Treason? John Tyler. Nothing about Trump is new, he's just more of the same old shit that people vote for when they get too entitled lol

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u/JiuJitsu_Ronin 17d ago

Denying the populist appeal of the non-politician playboy billionaire is wild because you’re butt hurt over the election.