Enlightened Despotist in Name Only: I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to respond to that. “Human mortality” is the short answer.

The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

WE CAN FIX COURT IF WE WIN THE ELECTION. LET’S DO THAT.

We won the last election and it's all still unfixed. I'm promise I'm not just trying to be contrarian here, but I don't get why, if it's not being done today, why would it be in January?

Because 2 of the most rightwing SCOTUS justices are really fucking old, to start with.

Nothing about this is comforting. What's to stop then from living decades longer? Is this all we have left? Praying for aneurisms?

I’m not really sure how I’m supposed to respond to that. “Human mortality” is the short answer.

Ok, so we're screwed.

If you don’t make the (false) assumption that bad people never die, you won’t draw the conclusion that we’re hopelessly screwed.

I'm assuming they won't die in the next few months and after that it won't matter

Dude the claim was we need to win election. Then they have to die within 4 YEARS. Which they probably would.

Also the idea that multiple conservative justices are unlikely to live 4 years is weapons grade copium.

Basically every indicator has us losing the election, how do you propose we win now that our candidate has lost the powers of coherent speech

This claim is false and it is absolutely still possible to win and dooming is not productive, so I’m not going to continue this exchange.

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