I literally have “libertarian” acquaintances who believe like this. Like, insisting that lead paint should be allowed and people should have to pay for all their own testing.
Libertarians are another cult of dimwits. You can give them a thousand examples of why their fantasy won't work and they just don't care at all. They're like the SCOTUS justices that way.
People are supposed to be smarter and more self-aware than house cats; especially ivy-league people of very high status like SCOTUS justices. But that is obviously not so. They just have to look the part and articulate their spiel in the right way, using all the big words. They're completely insulated from any consequence for the rest of their careers, so if they're morons, they get to run wild with their Dunning-Kruger, which is what is happening right now.
it’s not a lack of intelligence. it’s worse and less forgivable than stupidity when it comes to the justices. they are being intellectually dishonest in order to achieve political ends. once upon a time i would have said to achieve ideological ends, but it’s clear through their muddy, inconsistent, and poorly-reasoned recent opinions that they’re just serving their deeply-pocketed patrons to achieve the goals of trump and leonard leo.
there is a LOT of stupidity and incompetence happening, but the conservative justices know exactly what they are doing. they are knowing traitors who can cloak themselves in impartiality.
It's very hard to tell if they're sincere and nutty versus devious and partisan. Don't underestimate peoples' ability to delude themselves and genuinely believe the most ridiculous, harmful bullshit, ignore evidence, etc. That's what this sub is all about.
By the time they're on the court they have no real patrons anymore. It's a lifetime appointment, so they can burn them with no consequence at all if they want. So I hesitate to frame it that way. I think they're true believers at that level.
But but I was told by TikTok that both sides were the same!
I literally have “libertarian” acquaintances who believe like this. Like, insisting that lead paint should be allowed and people should have to pay for all their own testing.
Libertarians are another cult of dimwits. You can give them a thousand examples of why their fantasy won't work and they just don't care at all. They're like the SCOTUS justices that way.
The best comparison I've seen is comparing Libertarians to house cats: fiercely independent and totally ignorant of the systems that care for them.
People are supposed to be smarter and more self-aware than house cats; especially ivy-league people of very high status like SCOTUS justices. But that is obviously not so. They just have to look the part and articulate their spiel in the right way, using all the big words. They're completely insulated from any consequence for the rest of their careers, so if they're morons, they get to run wild with their Dunning-Kruger, which is what is happening right now.
it’s not a lack of intelligence. it’s worse and less forgivable than stupidity when it comes to the justices. they are being intellectually dishonest in order to achieve political ends. once upon a time i would have said to achieve ideological ends, but it’s clear through their muddy, inconsistent, and poorly-reasoned recent opinions that they’re just serving their deeply-pocketed patrons to achieve the goals of trump and leonard leo.
there is a LOT of stupidity and incompetence happening, but the conservative justices know exactly what they are doing. they are knowing traitors who can cloak themselves in impartiality.
It's very hard to tell if they're sincere and nutty versus devious and partisan. Don't underestimate peoples' ability to delude themselves and genuinely believe the most ridiculous, harmful bullshit, ignore evidence, etc. That's what this sub is all about.
By the time they're on the court they have no real patrons anymore. It's a lifetime appointment, so they can burn them with no consequence at all if they want. So I hesitate to frame it that way. I think they're true believers at that level.
When people say stuff like that, it almost feels like a mild form of mental illness.
Just like the old saying, what doesn't make you stronger, kills you!
Nurgle approves of the Listeria League
With so many awful, selfish, racist, cruel deplorable people in the Republican party from top to bottom, I often ask myself...
The fact that they keep on winning elections, over and over... what does that say about us as a society?