I get the idea that the final ethics code will be ‘Republican Aligned Justices can do what ever they want, Democratic Aligned Justices can be impeached for disagreeing with anything.’
Well that’s the way republicans in congress already act, of Thomas would have been impeached and removed already. The ethics rules are just for internal discipline rules at SCOTUS.
I can only assume that they didn’t look for very long as yoga doesn’t typically involve lying motionless on the floor for belong periods of time. All lined up, on yoga mats, wearing sports wear.
Tbh, given all the stupid and crazy shit happening on the right side of our political system, I figured it was only a matter of time before eugenics made a very unwelcome yet unironic comeback.
In one of the Discworld novels by Sir Terry there is mention of a retrophrenologist. Someone who uses a hammer to adjust the person’s skull so they gain the desired traits.
And I’m trying to decide if I should advertise such a service to these goofballs, because someone would probably fall for it.
Eugenics never went anywhere, it's ableism, racism, classism, massively impactful systems we all live under (but only those of us impacted seem to notice).
It's in every cut to health, welfare, social, and communal services.
It's in every legislation that then criminalises desperate marginalised people for looking for ways to survive anyway.
It's in every headline and tv show vilifying poor people, using disabled people or immigrants as scapegoats, perpetuating white supremacy.
It is an inseparable and essential part of the octopus of capitalism and all of its oppressive arms. Both are based on the fucked up pseudoscientific idea of social "Darwinism" (an idea Darwin himself rejected) and a twisting of so called "human nature" to serve their purpose - concentrate power in the hands of the few who deem themselves superior.
Oh, phrenology’s been back for a while. Or at the very least, these idiots have been taking tape measures to bones because of bigoted nonsense. Phrenology in the historical sense might actually be too complex for them.
Incel communities have long been touting the existence of a dating appeal hierarchy based on “canthal tilt” and “hunter eyes.” They believe that you’re born more or less likely to pick up “Stacies” based on the subtle shape of your eyebrows and chin. Meanwhile, “transvestigators” take the “we can always tell” insistence of transphobes to such insane depths that they think they can tell from photographs and video that every person they see on TV is transgender and secretly part of a literal satanic cult because of minute observations that they think they’re making about celebrity bone structure. Oh, yeah, and it’s a huge staple of transphobia just in general. “Transvestigators” have just raised it to what they think is an art form, but is really just raw, concentrated delusion.
Never underestimate the depths of pseudoscience to which people will stoop in order to create out-groups. You will always be disappointed.
Fuck around and find out, asshole. By definition, I’m targeted. Let that cheese asshole come to my house and try to lock me up for my beliefs and my use of the 1st amendment.
Like Trump himself is gonna walk up to your house and try to arrest you, tough guy. He wouldn’t even know your name. You’d just be another poor schmuck on a list getting their ass dragged off to jail by the cops or the feds. The truly scary part is that if it comes to that, no one would be able to help you. By that point, everyone will be too afraid of what is happening and/or completely powerless to do anything but quietly hope they’re not next.
Tell that to the thousands who helped smuggle people out of insanely shitty situations. I think they even made a movie about one…someone’s list, mmm it’s slipping my tongue.
And yet there ARE stories that also end in “they got married and had a giant family and died of old age.” To deny these are to deny the survivors and the people who helped.
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