It has been quite the day on twitter and I feel bad for anyone who enjoys stupid people behaving badly online that has been unable to partake. Truly delightful.

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And good news Mark, you may soon be paying more tax as a consequence:

He is one of the few orators that causes me to cringe in pain. His cadence and condescending tone are torture.

Kamala Harris is another one but she just sounds like a kindergarten teacher.

You think the leak was from the "liberal" side? I very much think the opposite. I'd say Thomas is the favorite, followed closely by Alito.

Yeah, I've got it at least 70/30 being a clerk for one of the liberal justices. The "response" last night was too well orchestrated imo.

I've read the theory that someone on the right may have done it to keep the conservative justices in line, the problem with that is I don't see any realistic chance that Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh, Coney Barrett and Gorsuch would waver if it was kept in house. Roberts is a wild card but they don't need him for a 5-4 decision.

Haven't seen any other plausible theories as to why someone on the conservative side would leak it, but I'd certainly be interested to hear them.

Thread that says it better than I would:

Thanks. Interesting read but I didn’t find it particularly persuasive.

I'm going to go with the answer to 99 out of 100 questions, money.

economy - everyone is flush with cash

covid policies - what covid? we all got shots and omicron and now nobody cares

ukraine - lol russia; get wrekt by a C power


democrats?

[ ] student loan forgiveness - apparently he's so far committed only to capping forgiveness, after hiding the fact that he was able to do forgiveness at all for what like a year and a half?


kinda also gotta lol at "protecting abortion" being the rallying cry for democrats. "pro life" is the only glue holding the right wing together.

look, I'm all for a woman's right to choose

but the entire "Substantive Due Process" thing is specious af

like, I'm happy to limit government overreach, but let's please write our laws down, you know?

besides quote-unquote socialism, but I think most of them know that that isn't really real

greed is what is holding the right wing together

and throw in some racism

Geez, Filthy.

That's terrible garbage.

Here:

Happy to explain further if that doesn’t make sense

Can’t even tell what level of irony you are operating on anymore

Like this couldn’t possibly have been a serious post, right?

The Supreme Court, as a concept, is so ****ing stupid

we tolerate posts like this

so we can grow from posts like this

We need more tribunals

Senate, congress, Robert's clerk
And ****ing scotus, how does it work?
I don't want to talk to a crypto fascist
Yall mother ****ers be lyin and gettin me pissed

It's a crappy term for gatekeeper

nope

Capitalism calls on human societies to embark on a ceaseless and futile quest for money and goods. This quest perpetuates a culture dominated by guilt, a sense of inadequacy and self-loathing. It enslaves nearly all its adherents through wages, subservience to the commodity culture and debt peonage

paraphrased quote of walter benjamin

am i wrong to think that like 80% of humans agree with this?

I’m going with yes you are wrong, though that is rather speculative given my lack of personal experience with the thoughts of humans in 80% of the world’s countries.

The idea of a culture dominated by guilt, a sense of inadequacy and self-loathing is the dubious part, seems like projecting the culture of a subset of Americans onto the rest of the capitalist world.

are you saying that basically all of america is a sub set that feels this way, or that there is a sub set within america that feels this way?

maybe it's just my bubble, but it seems like most people feel this way, not that they dwell on it all the time. but if they stop and think about it, then they feel this way.

most people work a job they don't enjoy, and for far less pay than they see others getting... cuz we see celebs etc...

also basically all workers are exploited, and sense it on some level. i mean the bosses are paying workers less than the workers produce so the bosses can keep a % for themselves.

the whole industry of advertising is to make us feel inadequate, and we are bombarded with more ads every day than we can even count

also feels bad to be contributing to the destruction of the planet, which we all are.

Quest makes it sound quite romantic. Life is a ceaseless and futile quest in some regards.

i think it's translated from german, so "quest" might not express what he was saying