Mr. Am I Being Detained: Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces

Easily our most Comic Book Guy-coded justice ever

In another universe this kid bought detective comics 27 from a queens woolworths and was never the same

When you read him in law school it’s so appalling to see his complete intellectual dishonesty laid out in flowery prose.

100%. I thought (and probably said, knowing me) "This guy is supposed to be a right-wing 'intellectual'"?

He’s a good technical writer which is a big “who cares” when you’re a judge not a writer.

I can see him being like a decent writer in terms of the grammar making sense, paragraphs flowing from one to the next. But he makes so many dumb and unwarranted assumptions to get to the answer he clearly wants.

In whatever fairness The bar for "intellectual" is wayyyy lower on the right

can't disagree with that

Scalia was a complete piece of shit who wrote like a complete piece of shit.

not enough is made of how much conservative “intellectuals” all sound like they’re planning a school shooting

David Foster Wallace found his way with words delightful lmao

God does this track

A Confederacy of Dunces kind of reads like it was written by a (particularly insightful) school shooter ngl

glad to see I'm not the only one who felt a certain revulsion after reading that novel

Thank you!

At first I thought "oh after reading posts by basement dwellers on 4chan ofc this wouldn't make a big impact" and then I realized it's extremely repetitive and just... uncomfortable. I was not an insightful teenager and even to me that book was so mediocre and uncomfortable I had to drop it.

And I read it back in the 80s, long before 4Chan was a gleam in the demon's eye!

I can’t even quantify how much shit I used to get in law school for not being sufficiently “impressed” with Scalia’s writing. “It’s just snark masking really bad ideas” always met with a “how dare you!”

He was our first Shitposter Justice

My god. I remember that—total gaslighting before I knew the term.

You're seeing this with the people saying "well Adrian Vermuele has some weirdo views but his writing and scholarship is so good" as if his goal isn't a Francoesque theocracy

I'm telling you I had that bro in law school and he was about as exciting and charismatic as an Oscar Meyer lunchable.

The l33t justice pwning libs with epic quips!

Hahahahaha damn

Give me RBG any day, “I dissent.”

RBG and Scalia were big friends, you know. They loved going to the opera together.

She should have retired when Obama asked her to. He saw the writing on the damn wall. We wouldn't be here today. I love RBG but her hubris in that moment has now come to fruition and we're a paying that price.

And who says the Senate would have confirmed Obama's pick? I seem to remember McConnell gleefully not doing anything Obama wanted.

He didn't have a hostile Senate his whole term, he had almost 60 votes at times.

RBG did not hire a single black clerk in her entire tenure on the federal bench, which spanned decades.

Which isn't making it better in my view

After it was brought up in her confirmation hearings, she had one.

Yeah, you're right, I always forget this. But as you say, not that that makes it better, lmao.

YES

I oft have heard comparative law scholars compare him to Lord Denning, calling him the "American Denning" and its like. Denning actually wrote judgements that came off like poetry, and had interesting insights. His personal politics were yikes, but his judgements. It is an insulting comparison

Sigh.. I literally had those friends.

Part of that was he was an asshole in his writing and my generation was addicted to irony at one point. But yeah it was pretty clear that "originalism" was total horseshit.

I hope liberal judges start trolling SCOTUS by using Scalia-esque rhetoric to denounce conservative rulings as "jiggery-pokery" and "applesauce."

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