Prolly. Why are republicans so obsessed with what’s in peoples pants? It’s weird.

That guy is just so weird. There are xtians that literally think that people like Thiel should be put to death, by the government. And Thiel has aligned himself with weirdo xtian mythology.

People like Thiel used to have to stand out on a corner with a sign and some pamphlets and most people would steer clear. Maybe cross the street, point and snicker a bit.

Now crazies like him have billions and can buy politicians outright and have access to platforms to lie and distort in a narrowcasting way...

It's not just him, lots of minorities think they won't be subject to the consequences because "they're one of the good ones".

Hell, Biden isn't a minority but he's a Dem, and he was constantly surprised from 2008 to today that republicans stopped treating him different than other Dems the second they no longer needed him.

Republicans will drop Thomas just as fast as they dropped Biden when he's not needed.

Like, none of this is new, it's the same as the guy who wrote "first they came for" when the Nazis were in power.

Niemöller was initially an anti-Communist, anti-semite and supported Adolf Hitler. But when Hitler rose to power and insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler.

In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a cleric and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

Ok...

Did you read that link and your take away was that Biden just voted for Clarence?

It's ok if you did t already know how involved Biden was, I mean, I guess it is, it's come up a lot since his last election...

But the link's right there bro.

If you read it, and that was seriously you're take away tho...

I don't know how I can explain it in a way that would be any different. Like, I can't simplify it anymore than that article does, that's why I linked it.

I think you just didn't even click it, let alone read it, and that's the most charitable interpretation of your comment.

But essentially:

but merely not blocking new Justices from appointment because they hold ideologies of the party nominating them has long been the standard.

Thomas was a serial sexual abuser, and Biden swept it under the rug.

Normalizing that behavior (and worse) for futer SC picks. Thomas was the begining of the end for the SC, and Biden is why he ever made it there.

There is no system of governance that can withstand a critical mass of the people operating it choosing not to do what they're supposed to. It's why ohio ignored its supreme court and constitution on gerrymandering and why Trump gets away with shit.

The judiciary was slowly captured alongside the media because they were supposed to be the counterbalances to congress (who's become afraid of their own shadows) and the presidency (a revolving door of business as usual centrists and caligula level lunatics)

Not as long as we tolerate the presense of those willing to take those rights away

Good point

Why would they care about how it looks? It's not like they can ve voted out

This bears repeating:

These issues are not mutually exclusive, and it is legitimately okay for one marginalized group to be concerned more for things that directly affect them. That does not in any way negate the urgency or importance of any other issues.

We need to stop treating everything going on as a binary (black and white) problem. That’s what they want us to do, and why we’re being bombarded with so many bad things all at once. They are purposely dividing us, and so far it’s working.