the most frustrating aspect of this campaign to me is that it has stripped me down to bare pragmatism
"does this give us a better chance to beat Trump" is the only thing that is important to me anymore
the danger is so overwhelming that nothing else matters and I hate it
I really cannot overstate how much it would be fucking amazeballs for the US to be fighting about positive visions for the future and on policy, and how much it fucking sucks that this year is our third cycle in a row where instead we're running a national referendum titled "sooooooo fascism?"
Probably should've checked on that during the confirmation hearings
"Mr Roberts, can you read aloud the entire text of the 14th amendment, just for no reason"
"the prohibition in the 14th removing the ability of traitors to hold office is old, arcane and unclear"
"The 14th amendment clearly grants personhood to a zygote, as the founders intended"
The thing that interests me about Thrasymachus is
Does he mean that in an "and that's good" way, or an "and that's bad" way? I kind of read it as the latter, and therefore saw him as like, the world's first recorded critical theorist 😅
Well, if we Bin Ladin them, which they have ruled the president has the right to do, and replace them with better judges, which again they said the president can legally do, might solve the problem