• WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    This is all just a steaming pile of bullshit.

    The current US Supreme Court hands Trump victories without explaining them because the explanation is quite simply that the conservative majority is wholly and completely corrupt and compromised. There is no legitimate justification for their decisions - neither existing law, precedent nor the Constitution could possibly be successfully invoked to justify any of them, and trying would just call unwanted attention to that fact, so they don’t even bother trying.

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      3 days ago

      The justification is “What the fuck are you going to do about it?”

      The normal process is born out of an awareness that people can bite back sometimes, and so “they” will take seriously trying to justify their actions. After a while, things get quiescent, and some of “they” start fooling themselves that it is impossible that the people not on top would ever bite back, and they stop bothering themselves with worrying about it.

      For some reason (as with pretty much any other “what the fuck are you doing to do about it” situation), when people do do something about it, it’s all of a sudden an outrageous betrayal, an offense against decency that no one could have seen coming.