SCOTUS - Supreme Court of the United States

[Timsup2nothin]

Can you keep track of the one I asked about?

That grain of sand is on the beach somewhere, I'm sure.

 

[Berzerker]

The quote you used is both incomplete and taken out of context. I don't doubt that when you first posted it you weren't lying, just regurgitating from whatever right-wing cesspool serves as your source of news information, but I posted the whole context and the entirety of the quote for everyone to read, so continuing to play dumb about it just makes you look like a clown and really should be regarded as spam but who's counting.

Well, thanks for not calling me a liar for quoting him I guess. His argument was this woman can still be a racist because white colonizers took black babies to hide their racism. Why is that a fair comparison and why is it lying to quote him making it? Did he accuse these Hollywood celebs who adopt multi-racial families of hiding their racism like those evil white colonizers?

I think his 'rebuttal' detached humanity from her, turned a sacrifice few people make into evil for the sake of political partisanship. I dont know much about her but if I opposed her nomination I wouldn't point at adopted black babies. That message is people shouldn't adopt babies from other races and that wont make the world a better place.

 

[Farm Boy]

That's a straight agree across the entire post, Sommer.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Good... so vote for Biden then

 

[Lexicus]

His argument was this woman can still be a racist because white colonizers took black babies to hide their racism. Why is that a fair comparison and why is it lying to quote him making it?

Because, he's not comparing Barrett to the white colonizers, he's using that example as an exception to the "adopt nonwhite children, therefore cannot be racist" rule that Barrett's defenders are positing.

I think his 'rebuttal' detached humanity from her, turned a sacrifice few people make into evil for the sake of political partisanship. I dont know much about her but if I opposed her nomination I wouldn't point at adopted black babies. That message is people shouldn't adopt babies from other races and that wont make the world a better place.

*blows whistle* Stop trying to limit his freedom of speech by saying that his words were harmful!

 

[Farm Boy]

Good... so vote for Biden then

Nah. Gonna go cast the objection, regardless.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Thirty four long days to change your mind

 

[Berzerker]

Because, he's not comparing Barrett to the white colonizers, he's using that example as an exception to the "adopt nonwhite children, therefore cannot be racist" rule that Barrett's defenders are positing.

For his exception to be relevant the nominee must share the same motive, thats the comparison he made. This is politics 101, turn your opponent's strength into a weakness. Bush 43 avoided Vietnam, John Kerry was there. So he was Swiftboated.

*blows whistle* Stop trying to limit his freedom of speech by saying that his words were harmful!

I didn't say he should be fired, just the opposite. That would limit his free speech (and ours).

 

[Farm Boy]

Thirty four long days to change your mind

We got our ballots in the mail the other day. USPS ftw. Send 'em in in a few.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Vote early and often

 

[Farm Boy]

...and don't let just dying stop ya.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Nah, you definitely should not vote if you're dead... why give a **** at that point? you don't even get to wear the "I voted" sticker.

 

[Farm Boy]

Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Nah, you definitely should not vote if you're dead... why give a **** at that point? you don't even get to wear the "I voted" sticker.

I stuck them on the boxes my parents were in before I threw them off the side of the ship.

 

[Sommerswerd]

I stuck them on the boxes my parents were in before I threw them off the side of the ship.

When my father died, I was riding in the funeral limo with my oldest nephew, maybe 6 at the time... and when we got to the cemetery and he sized up the situation, he said to me, with a look of confused disbelief... "We're gonna put Papi down in a muddy hole?!?"

All I could say to him was "Yes... we are." When he asked why, all I could say was... "That's just what we do, bud."

I've thought about his question for many years since then... and I still don't have a better answer.

 

[Farm Boy]

You can be given back to earth, given back to sea, or given back to sky, but it's mostly all the same difference. I don't think there is a better answer. Is there? Because we revere? Maybe?

 

[AmazonQueen]

Try getting out of bed before shooting from the hip. The Republican position was that no state had ever left the union; ratification by some southern states was therefore necessary. The postwar wrangling was over admitting state delegations to congress (a question of sufficiency of rehabilitation), not readmission of the states.

That was Lincoln's position, the Republicans in Congress argued that the Southern States had lost their statehood by seceding, and that it was up to Congress to determine what was required for the former states to rejoin the union.

 

[Sommerswerd]

You can be given back to earth, given back to sea, or given back to sky, but it's mostly all the same difference. I don't think there is a better answer. Is there? Because we revere? Maybe?

I think that's what my nephew thought, and that's why he asked the question.

 

[Lexicus]

For his exception to be relevant the nominee must share the same motive

No. If you don't get this there is no point to further conversation.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

When my father died, I was riding in the funeral limo with my oldest nephew, maybe 6 at the time... and when we got to the cemetery and he sized up the situation, he said to me, with a look of confused disbelief... "We're gonna put Papi down in a muddy hole?!?"

All I could say to him was "Yes... we are." When he asked why, all I could say was... "That's just what we do, bud."

I've thought about his question for many years since then... and I still don't have a better answer.

Yeah, probably none better than that. Maybe reference the whole stones and grass thing to get around the "just a muddy hole" part. The youngster may not have realized the stones represented other people so it wasn't like a uniquely poor proposition...it really just is what we do...with everyone.