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Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States

posted by takyon on Saturday October 06 2018, @08:10PM   
from the let-'er-rip dept.

Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The vote was 50-48 in favor of Kavanaugh.

Senators Collins, Flake, and Manchin had already announced their intentions to confirm Kavanaugh before the vote was held. Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was previously ready to vote "no", agreed to vote "present" instead so that Senator Steve Daines could attend his daughter's wedding instead of being present in the Senate to support Kavanaugh.

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• Re:I'm done... Re:I'm done... (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday October 08 2018, @03:00AM (1 child)

  by khallow (3766) on Monday October 08 2018, @03:00AM (#745781) Journal

  Economics are only part of the problem but it is insurmountable on its own. One side wants full on Venezuelan, Cuban, etc. Communism and the other wants a freer market than the "mixed" economy we suffer from now.

  The former is mostly strengthened due to the economic stress the developed world is under at present. Take that away and most of its followers will lose interest just as happened before in the US after the Great Depression ended.

  Hint: Corporatism is not a free market, it is closer to Fascism. Look at all the Fasces that went up around the time we adopted Corporatism and realize it isn't a coincidence and it isn't, as often deflected with, some throwback to Roman times.

  The deflection is accurate here. Roman Republic/Empire symbology was adopted first by the US and has been present since the beginning of the US. For example, the neo-classical style of buildings in Washington DC long predates the adoption of Roman symbols by Fascism. For example, construction on the Capitol Dome started around 1855. We also have a variety of cities named after cities or persons of Roman antiquity such as Cincinnati, Ohio (named 1790), Rome, Georgia (named 1834), and Naples, Florida (named some point in 1870s or 1880s).
  
  Meanwhile I see use of the fasces in 1915 for the design of the Mercury dime which predates establish of fascism. The designer was a neo-classical artist with heavy use of such imagery.
  
  Culturally, Roman symbology goes all the way to the beginning of the US, such as the Society of the Cincinnati [wikipedia.org]. So US instances of fasces aren't an indication of Fascism, but rather a hearkening back to the Roman Republic, just as those symbols were for the Fascists.

  One side wants to extend the sexual revolution beyond gays, beyond trannies to fucking children.

  Ok. Pedophiles aren't magically powerful in their ability to influence others, and they're present in the conservative side as well. Nor do we have an indication that pedophilia is on the rise. I think this "Do it for the kids" argument is beneath you.

  If Democrats keep doubling down, forcing the choice to eventually be one of standing by while they "normalize" fucking children or putting every Democrat in the country into an oven, I gotta go with the ovens. Did not expect to end up there, but reality doesn't care.

  This is a classic demonization argument. Sure, there's a lot of nutty people out there, but sorry, they're not normalizing pedophilia. But one needs an argument like that, if you're working yourself up to stuff someone in an oven rather than trying to "understand the issues involved".

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• Re:I'm done... (Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday October 08 2018, @06:56PM

  by jmorris (4844) on Monday October 08 2018, @06:56PM (#746069)

  Meanwhile I see use of the fasces in 1915 for the design of the Mercury dime which predates establish of fascism. The designer was a neo-classical artist with heavy use of such imagery.

  Wrong. Do you even know how to use your side's info networks? Google and Wikipedia say Italian Fascism started in, wait for it, 1915. Two years after Woodrow Wilson, the father of American Fascism, was elected here. When was the Lincoln Memorial, filled with fascist imagery built? When did the fasces get added to the United States House of Representatives? Care to revise and extend your remarks?

  This is a classic demonization argument. Sure, there's a lot of nutty people out there, but sorry, they're not normalizing pedophilia.

  Yes they are. You might not want to see it yet but yes, as World War Trans winds down and they are mopping up by shooting the wounded, adding the second P to the letter salad has already begun. The next battle ends when Roman Polanski comes home to a hero's welcome. He fled the country after being convicted of fucking a thirteen year old girl in the ass. (Don't worry, Whoppi has decreed it wasn't "rape rape" and since the check cleared the now adult woman is fine with clearing his name and letting him come home.) They want to normalize that, open your eyes and look at what your side's leading edge "thinkers" are writing. You are already either expending a great deal of effort in NOT seeing it or lying. Personally I tend toward the lying hypothesis.

  You are correct that pedos are everywhere. But one side thinks they are evil and need to be put in prison (or just shot) and the other side thinks they are the next frontier in intersectionality.

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