They sound like they have a profound lack of theory and have spent no time trying to understand settler-colonialism or imperialism or racial capitalism. Their “theory” is actually dogmatism.

That explanation seems incomplete. The election we just had showed that voters are not blaming Democrats for the shutdown, if air travel and food stamps are suspended they’d only benefit while Republicans eat all the blame.

I think the donors are just telling them to wrap it up. They got a win, time to go back to business as usual.

The ones that aren’t retiring could be disciplined by the Party.

They won’t be.

We wouldn’t really be using our electoral system if everyone was a Supreme Court Justice, it’d be a much more direct voting system without an electoral college and if no result got >50% the Court would be hung and there would be no decision.

Honestly better than our shitty elections.

The election we just had demonstrated that voters are on Democrats’ side in this, so we can only conclude that Democrats do not care about winning elections.

Trump has never gotten more than 50% of the vote.

That’s basically true, but I think capitalism would overthrow direct democracy.

People would vote for higher wages and then there’d be a coup.

I don’t buy these anti-democracy talking points, the problem in the US has always been that we have too little democracy.

The People are often ahead of the Supreme Court historically - look at same sex marriage. Same sex marriage approval crossed the 50% threshold in 2011 but the Court didn’t reach that conclusion until 2015. Go back farther and look at segregation - the majority of the US approved of desegregating schools and busses at the time of the ruling. If this was a democracy we’d have had those rights possibly earlier because the Court is either in-line with or behind public opinion.

And I know for a fact that a democratic Supreme Court wouldn’t have ruled in Citizens United that bribery is legal.

My specific view is the one where I get to live. Lots of people have different beliefs and want me to die.

True, but I see two solutions.

1. Pack the Court and then use the packed Court to dismantle the Republican Party so they can never win again.

2. Make every US adult a Supreme Court member and let them all vote on cases. Just turn it into a direct democracy.

The last election just showed that the shutdown isn’t hurting Democrats even slightly.

They’re not “caving” they’re collaborators that want to help the Republican Party.

Your brain shoves your feelings down?

Mine plops them on my pillow like a cat.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

If Democrats are ever able to win again they need to expand and pack the Court. However, that was already true before 2024 and they refused and if they had won in 2024 they would continue to refuse. Democrats do not take this threat seriously.

Kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. The only way Democrats would ever consider packing the Court is if the Court was hopelessly rigged against them (even more than it already was, I mean) but by the very fact that the Court is rigged they might not ever be allowed to win another election because a 6-3 Court would probably let Trump cancel elections.

Basically the whole system is fucked. Tear it down.

We’ll just call them patties and continue to not buy meat.

It’s already a 6-3 Court, it functionally doesn’t matter if Sotomayor dies at this point. Roberts being the most moderate right-wing voice on the Court functionally doesn’t matter either, because they can still do 5-4 extreme rulings without him.

The Court is fucked for decades unless it is expanded.

The 2024 election basically has no impact on the Supreme Court.

I think the format promotes conflict. Lemmy ultimately is made to be Reddit-like, so we shouldn’t be surprised when it produces Reddit user culture. Ultimately we need an entirely new format that promotes cooperation over conflict.

As for moderators, I also think the volunteer model is bad. They do important work and should be compensated for their labor.

And I will never be able to convince you otherwise! I could say that I think there are other factors which made you change your mind, give examples from my own evolution from anarchism to Marxism, we can trade replies back and forth for hours or days, ect etc

It would all accomplish nothing.

They can just do that anyway.

I think it’s more fundamental - they hate the poor and want them to starve. Any higher strategic value is secondary to the suffering. They just want hunger and death.