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It’s almost like institutions that rely on good faith actors are susceptible to bad faith actors! Who could have foreseen this coming?

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That’s kind of a lib take. The failures of Liberal “democracy” stem from strucutral contradictions inherent to the capitalist mode of production. Any functioning society needs trust to exist, which opens a gap for exploitation. This is not what is happening here.

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Oh I know, I was poking fun at the general liberal excuses why their system keeps fucking up and failing. I totally agree with you.

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My pocket constitution fell through the hole in my pocket!!

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But remember, our judges are non-partisan who just follow judicial theories of law to their logical conclusion.

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we should take this to it’s logical conclusion. once made a judge you are permanently entombed in a sensory deprivation tank and only awakened from your induced coma after being injected with emotional suppressants to study and rule on a decision. eventually the body itself will be obsolete and they’ll just be brains-in-jars.

this will be the price they will pay for having such power. :sicko-laser:

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Master Chief Justice John-117

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"Wake me… when you need me to decide who owns fruit that fell from a tree that was knocked over during a storm in to a property that was in receivership and killed a goat that had strayed on to the property belonging to a Baptist minister over the age of 46.

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A 40k dreadnaught that is woken up to solve messy contract disputes

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Apparently it’s been a lot of fun being in Law School in the last two years, watching Law professors discover in real time that everything they believe in is made up bullshit and judges just do whatever they want with no consequences. There’s nothing that satisfies in quite the same way as watching a man watch his entire world burn before his eyes.

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? Legal realism (esp with respect to constitutional law) has been pretty dominant in law schools for the last few decades (at least according to the professors at my law school). Maybe it’s taken a more radical turn recently, but I definitely left law school having been taught that constitutional law was total bs.

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I was in an undergraduate con law class (like half the rigor of an actual law class. Not even close to being difficult but still quite a lot of work to do) and a lot of the students recognized that case law just happens to be whatever a justice fucking makes up and then works backwards to justify. Our TA once did something funny which was to set up a clearly bullshit proposition that made the students bristle at how bad it was and then he proclaimed “Even Oliver Wendell Holmes said this! Would you dare disagree with Oliver Wendell Holmes!?!”

Sadly I don’t remember what was being discussed in that moment but it was funny at the time.

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the pictures are fucking weird

Like yeah just a bunch of guys being dudes with their families but also they’re responsible for vast amounts of misery and champions of fascism

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Human beings just like us, with thoughts, feelings, families, and dreams.

And they still deserve the pit.

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the one of him in the Nebraska cornhuskers shirt really got me

“just a normal guy doing normal things”

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Is this “normalizing” the fascism

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Good thing we have a GOP majority court who will sleepwalk through this and give Thomas a friendly pat on the head.

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Thomas has been flagrantly corrupt since he took office and no one has done anything about it.

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Just normal American “Justice”

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