The supreme court is particularly difficult to actually control. Each has their own beliefs and they’re appointed for life. Thomas for example is fully on board with maga and will take bribes. But kavenaugh is pretty far right but generally seems to believe in the constitution in some form and wants the courts to keep power. Barrett is extremely right wing but is catholic before maga and it seems they’re learning that the hard way recently.

This should have been 9-0. We’re seeing a lot of 7-2 against Trump right now because he’s blatantly violating the constitution. And the court to a certain degree trusts that when they say no, they have enough understanding with the military that when everything is said and done the military will want to have done what the court says as it’s the legitimate governing body acting in accordance with the rules.

In that case you may prefer a website that’s less text heavy.

Next the WASPs are going to demand a St George’s day parade to celebrate English-American culture

They killed my mom. I won’t forgive them for that

A former senator and secretary of state counts as extremely qualified by most standards

I get how this happens. Everyone is all on board when it’s all talk or they’re Monday morning quarterbacking, but when they’re involved and they’re acting then it’s real to them. What had been hyperbolic spiraling and chaos from a distance with plausiblity of intents is now watching a man actively break the law as they assist.

That’s not to excuse it. They did and do harm. But this is the second time he’s been president and this keeps happening and he churns through people like this.

Maybe he just misses Nixon

The problem of evil is that many of the worst things in history were done by people who believed they were acting morally. The witch hunts, the crusades, the inquisition, and large portions of the genocide of the Americas were done in part with a belief that it was moral. Part of a good understanding of morality is self reflection to understand that one can twist themselves into evil. It’s why I think your calls for compassion here are valuable.

I’m angry at Fetterman, and I’d be fucking pissed if he was my senator. I don’t know if I think he’s outright evil. But I do know that to label a human as good or evil is valuable but risky. It helps us form accountability and to rally each other, but it also leads us to assign people as wholly good or wholly bad when all people have immense complexity to our motivations, beliefs, and actions.

It could also be someone who believed it was bad until seeing it from the inside

In that context it just means deployed to ths conflict. Sometimes it means contributed to the effort while in the military. So someone who cooked on base in Vietnam would be a Vietnam vet, but someone who enlisted during the Korean war but was sent to Japan wouldn’t be a korea vet.

Hell, by the time you’re a bishop the catholic church will put you in any allied country they feel like and if there’s nowhere else to go the Vatican can house you for life. The pope is basically a citizen of catholicism.

It was Peter theil who got Vance his seat, not Ohio catholics. Ohio isn’t a swing state anymore

And it should be noted that behind the confessional seal a respected figure, speaking with the authority of religion tells these people to stop. Catholics don’t throw forgiveness around willy nilly, it’s called penance for a reason, they demand change. Does it happen? Usually not. But there is social value in confession of faults and sins and being told that one can and is expected to do better

They don’t, but the neofascist movement loves the aesthetic of catholicism. Its why Vance converted. In fact I’d say that pointing to Vance and Biden as the two sides of modern American catholicism is a reasonable framing (we’re gonna ignore the catholic workers because though their deeds are great, their numbers are few).

I’m not catholic anymore but I’m getting real sick of people who converted because they like the vibes the religion had in the fucking 1500s.

That’s not new, that’s how most communes work. Check out examples like Twin oaks

I’ve seen 5’4" middle aged women and I’m not surprised one was the most vicious soldier you’ve met. 40 years of demanding to be taken seriously make one tough

Leave it to the NYPD to find the guy who did it regardless of who actually did it

No you’re downvoted for accusing us of worshipping him