• franiis@lemmy.world
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    It happened in Poland with different numbers (in 2019 I think). It was started a mess for many years…

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    In the context of the US system, the first one to nominate a hundred thousand judges, assuming his opponent won’t be able to find that many, wins the game.

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      Soon enough. The only thing that’s important right now is getting people to snap out of this DNC v GOP narrative and understand moving forward the DNC only exists by the allowance of the GOP.

      I know I can’t will the masses into figuring this shit out, but I’ll keep spreading the word.

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        I remember watching the DNC earlier this year. There were shirts and signs that read " DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT", and I don’t quite know why, but it stuck with me, and I had to think about it. It sure does get treated like a sport. The GOP breaks the rules, commits fouls, and Democrats act like there’s a referee in Congress who’s going to throw a flag every time the GOP breaks a rule or makes an irregular play. And what I have come to realize is that we the public are supposed to be the referees. And regardless of team, we have to be the ones blowing whistles, throwing flags, and reviewing plays.

        Since the election, I’ve decided to become a regular thorn in the sides of my elected officials, on both sides of the aisle. Through research I’ve settled on sending letters. Good old-fashioned letters on real paper, delivered via the postal service. Typed, usually. Handwritten, if I want it to be more personal. And I’ll send multiple copies of the same letter to their offices in my State and to their offices at the Capitol, addressed to them directly. This last bit is important because since it’s a federal offense to open correspondence and packages not addressed to you, and no staffer or intern wants to risk their job by opening letters addressed to their bosses, it’s guaranteed that the officials themselves will read them. Sure, the staffers might be the ones sending the responses, but that doesn’t mean my Senator or Representative never saw it. And since the same letter is at all their offices, this increases the chance of it being read. They’re gonna think “Holy shit, this guy really wants me to listen to what he’s got to say!”

        You see, despite their efforts to get us to believe otherwise, our politicians are not beyond our reach. They do respond to public pressure, occasionally. I’m convinced that if more people did as I’m going to do, they’d listen more to us and less to their corporate friends and lobbyists.

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          I’ve had this idea for a service that sends people everything they need to send a letter, and a list of things on Congress’s agenda to write in about. Like one of those loot box subscriptions. All they need to do is hand-write a quick note with their opinion and drop them in the mail.

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            Absolutely. We don’t have to stoop to MAGA’s level, with threats and intimidation, but we can and should be the most annoying things we each can think of. That song that’s been stuck in your head for a month, that subtle and insidious hiss you can’t seem to find the source of, that stain on your favorite shirt that you’ve washed like 5x today and it still won’t come out.

            But we can also get our friends and neighbors involved and build mutual aid networks and support each other.

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              But we can also get our friends and neighbors involved and build mutual aid networks and support each other.

              I want this but for online. We need to unify our online voices and it can’t be the under the current tent for left leaning people. If we had single way that we handled discourse between each other we could present as a united front. Right now, though, it’s easy for everything to devolve into pissing contests and everyone walks away mad. I dunno, I just wish we could make allies and treat allies like allies. Maybe if the online community had a say in who we were going to side with and how we are going to treat each other we wouldn’t be so quick to metaphorically try and curb stomp everyone who says something you don’t like, even if they’re ultimately on your side.

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          It will never happen, the DNC are the guys meant to take a fall. You can make a villain (GOP) into a nastier villain (GOP under Trump), but you can’t make a fall guy into an action hero.

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                None of that shit matters when we no longer have free and fair elections. How we chose to organize moving forward is going to be attacked at all levels. It’s time to start right now but people like you would rather stomp out the opposition then join up so, I’m not even going to waste my time.

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                  Join up what? You actually recruiting for some kind of Justice League or something?

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    Knowing the Democrats, they would probably get the expansion then fail to confirm any judges, allowing Trump to fill every seat.

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      Or get them confirmed, then trump comes in and add 100 justices.

      And if elections still exist, the next democrat adds 200 justices.

      Eventually, supreme court becomes larger than congress.

      👀🍿

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        this would be the proper way to break norms. Do things where congress would have to spend every day appointing new justices unless they agree to reform a stupid constitutional provision

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          But that would take power from the wealthy few and distribute it to the people, and that’s evil leftist communist Marxist fascist socialist atheist woke double plus ungood poopy mind virus trans CRT, uhh, Venezuelan conspiracy and the Clintons and Obama will enforce gay agenda to kidnap your kids, uhh, agenda. Thinking is hard, so strong daddy trump will do my thinking for me.

          /s in case it wasn’t obvious enough.

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          Right? And more justices means more frequent turnover which means less wild swings when the ancients die. More people that need to be bribed to compromise too

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            It’s always appalling to me what people will sell the American people out for. Like look at Clarence Thomas. This guy could quit the court, work in the private sector and make bank on his name alone. Instead he sells out millions of people for an RV and some fancy vacations. Da fuck is wrong with people?

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      They way apathy is being sowed for democrats there is no chance we will have anyone but GOP in power.

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        The seeds of apathy were sowed a decade ago when they stopped fighting for what their voters actually wanted and instead ran solely on being the better alternative to an authoritarian dick bag for simply being establishment politicians. Those seeds have taken root and sprouted now that voters have seen the Dems’ are incapable of getting over their own hubris.

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          Voters actually wanted a fascist. That’s what we got now and maybe forever because so many like you are willing to cut off your nose to spite your face. To let perfection prevent progress.

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            You realize Biden went around congress to ship weapons to Israel despite the majority of his own voters being against it?

            We’ve been voting for fascists for a while now.

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            The problem is voters on both sides want a fascist. They might not be able to agree on which person they want to give ultimate power to, but they know that everyone else should fall in line and agree with them unquestioningly.

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        Apathy doesn’t get sown, enthusiasm does. Apathy is the default and it’s the job of a politician to inspire.

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            It’s hard to spread FUD about establishment Democrats when they are all clones. America knows exactly what to expect from a Democrat, and it’s not much.

            We have a DNC election coming up very soon, and the midterms after that. This is the time to challenge what it means to be a Democrat. If Rahm Emanuel gets the DNC chair, then the next ten years look to be very much like the last ten.

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              There is no chance democrats will win any elections as long as people like yourself keep shitting on them. More democratic voters will stay home or vote republican or 3rd party and the GOP will get more power and our lives will get worse.

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                There is no chance democrats will win any elections as long as people like yourself keep shitting on them.

                For decades, they’ve had chance after chance to prove themselves to the working class. Now, you dare suggest that the corporatist Christo-fascists will win if we don’t keep voting in the same corporatist neo-liberal celebrity-fellators?

                If the DNC establishment doesn’t get tossed out on their ass during the next committee same primary election cycle, the average citizen is fucked.

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                  We are already fucked. Fascism already won. We had to chose between democrats and fascism and people like yourself shit on democrats enough to convince enough voters to either stay home or vote Trump or 3rd party. Letting perfection be the enemy of progress. There’s no going back now.

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                So, it’s not what Democrats do in office that matters. It’s not how they dodge and weave every question in every interview until nobody even remembers what was asked. Democrats lose because people are mean to them? Is nobody ever mean to Republicans then?

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                  What democrats do does matter. That’s why we shouldn’t do the GOPs job for them by sowing apathy for democrats. Because that leads to the GOP gaining power. That’s why FUD exists.

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        Dems should really do something about that. This is hindsight but seems to me like they should have tried a bit harder to win the only election that will matter moving forward.

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        They hope for a revolution. It’s incredibly childish. And even if there WERE a revolution to happen, those tend to put the worst people in power. It’s always the worst possible people to rise to power in a revolution. Look what it got China and Russia and where they are now. I prefer the democrats to fucking Stalin, but that’s just me.

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      Nah the dems would fill every seat. They’d still give republicans a majority to reach over the aisle

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        Yes, but they cut a deal with the Republicans, who were stalling them with procedural maneuvers that were forcing them to stay late at night, and of course, it’s a bad deal. They got seven district court judges approved in exchange for abandoning the appointment of 4 appeals court judges. Appeals court judges are much more powerful, so this wasn’t a great move, but now they don’t have to stay up past their bedtimes, and they might even get to go on Christmas vacation early.

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    He doesn’t care about us. None of them do. The only time he’s done anything to actually stand up against the rising tide of shit we’re all experiencing has been to defend his own son.

    The supreme Court has given him incredible power, and he’s a lame duck president. He should be doing everything possible to make improvements for us and ruin Trump’s agenda, but instead he’s going to throw up his hands and ride off into the sunset with his failson.

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    If you do that now, there will not be enough time to confirm the additions before the repugs come in and trash them.

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    Funny, but pardons are explicitly written in the constutution, there is zero ambiguety.

    Supreme court expantion needs congress.

    Besides, whats the point, trump and republican congress is just gonna expand it to 100 justices.

    Just do a national divorce already, maybe the piece of shit known as MTG was right after all. The infection has gone too far, need to amputate like half of the country.

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      What? West coast seceding? California GDP would make it possible in theory but I don’t think that means they keep the military bases. I don’t think it’s at all as simple as that.

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      Splitting the country in half would only lead to more problems. Countries with strong disagreements being situated side-by-side leads to increased conflict. It’s why colonialists love drawing up terrible borders for places they leave “independent”.

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        People in here need to stop seeing conspiracies when “the generals just cut a line in the middle of a map” is the obvious explanation.

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          Why would it be more believable that borders are drawn randomly instead of intentionally?

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      The following statements are brought to you by insomnia and an emotional numbness that can only be the result of utterly losing hope.
      Argumentative tone, inane statement, and general stupidity are well, probably just me, but let’s pretend they’re presented for effect.


      So?!
      Biden can just declare it and say he’s acting in the official capacity of his role as president. What are they gonna do, say it’s unconstitutional? Well, who cares? He can just pardon himself for issuing the edict and everyone that helps enforce it. What are they gonna do? Heck, he can even whack the offending judges for getting in the way and just make Hunter and Obama Supreme Court justices.