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Clarence Thomas Is Committing Tax Fraud
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I'd be careful with things like this.
If not anything else, it makes you not much better than the republicans calling for the death of "election riggers" and the lot.
Be better.
Hercules did not throw away the Nemean Lion, and we should not either. We need this anger. It is the energy source of a movement for something better. There will always be stray calls of violence and badly pointed half-jokes. But never call for someone to quell the spark that transforms the world around you. That spark always starts with something thats not right and a fiery will that seeks to change it. We are not like the Maggats chanting for death. Good is less subjective in this context than nuance would have you believe.
Look at pretty much any political Lemmy thread. That's exactly what you are. Hell, look at the grandparent to your own post.
The guy legitimately "proposed" killing a supreme court justice.
In no fucking world is something like that okay. Don't legitimize killing people.
You're no better than the very thing you hate.
The same Supreme Court Justices who have sentenced countless women and children to death and despair with the removal of Wade vs Roe? The same nefarious judges who accept bribes and are the most corrupt to ever take a seat on the highest court in the land? Those judges? Yes, threats are uncivilized. But theres a difference between this anger and the bigotry of the fascist right. We are angry our rights and protections are stripped. They are angry because trans people exist. We are not the same.
The same judges who did something they had a right to do.
I don't support what they did, but they had the right to do it.
Blame the lawmakers for not codifying basic human rights, blame the people who didn't vote, hell, blame the judges for making a retarded decision.
But if you care, don't threaten to kill any of them. Felons can't vote last time I checked.
Thats logical, but not how real life emotions work. People see that they shot it down, and now they are angry at them. Thats how it goes. Now we can use that anger, and point it in tbe direction of progress and reforms. We can use this anger and get together to sign petitions and take all the official routes, and we should. But don't throw it away, and don't let anyone tell you anger is useless. You have to get angry about the bad parts of our society to change them. Like I said, there will be stray calls of violence, it does not mean you should throw away your anger towards the fucked up shit in the world.
we tried "when they go low we go high". we got Trump.
"Look at these folks on the violent left, threatening a Supreme Court justice."
-Trump probably
Democracy and civility was fucked to death the day Nazis stormed Charlottesville and executed a counter protestor, and Trump called them "fine people" and still got elected. It was necrophilia when he told the Jan 6th terrorists to go home in peace and that he loved them.
Then we banded together and got Biden in.
Who is often more unpopular than Trump.
At any point, more than half of democrats don't approve of him and basically no Republicans do.
So where does this stop?
Today, we're proposing killing a supreme court justice.
Tomorrow, we'll be storming the Capitol.
You're fueled by hate and it's destroying the thing you stand for. You hate the republicans so much for the things they've done that you're ready to do the very same.
You are a part of the problem. And if not yet, one day you will be.
You never tried going high. Going high would mean fighting for justice while holding yourself to the standards that you wish to enforce. Obama's strategy of appeasement and capitulation was never "going high" despite what Michelle says.
He was maintaining dignity and respect in the office. He at least tried to work with them.
Republicans all have the same superpower where if they hold their breath long enough, the world becomes a better place. Is that what you mean by be better?
I have no idea how you came to this conclusion.
Try again.
Nah I think I got it right the first time.
I suggest you read my comment again. What you came up with is completely unrelated.
I'm telling the lad who thinks killing people is the best way to solve problems that he might want to reconsider being a shitty person, and if nothing else, at least not committing a felony (arguably).
Have a nice day, doesn't sound like you have those very often.
Impeachment is a thing.