Can’t help but feel that all attacks on him are racially motivated. Gives me the ick
because it can’t possibly be that this man has received millions of dollars worth of gifts from extremely wealthy individuals who would absolutely have an interest in owning a justice of SCOTUS.
from the article:
Perhaps even more significant, the pattern exposes consistent violations of judicial norms, experts, including seven current and former federal judges appointed by both parties, told ProPublica. “In my career I don’t remember ever seeing this degree of largesse given to anybody,” said Jeremy Fogel, a former federal judge who served for years on the judicial committee that reviews judges’ financial disclosures. “I think it’s unprecedented.”
“Unprecedented” is an understatement. and if you think Clarence Thomas isn’t for sale… ask yourself why it is that his “good friends” only came around after Thomas was appointed to SCOTUS?
yeah. Great friends… who want something. And Thomas is willing to sell Americans out to give it to them.
See, even this reply feels like you simply don’t like the fact that he is successful. I can’t help but feel that you are trying to put him down because of his skin colour. Just gives me the ick, ya know?
What strikes me is that you don’t even seem to care that there’s an ethical and moral dilemma of having a court justice being offered multi million gifts from billionaires. You only argue that people attack him based on his skin color.
So you think people (of color or not) that hold high power in the US judicial system should be able to enjoy the benefits of having rich friends and it should not be a concern to anyone? They should be held accountable for it?
Ill put it like this: do you see any of the white judges facing the same extent of backlash? I am not saying that personal relationships between him and his benefactors is a not problem, it’s just that the one black judge is being dog piled, which seems to be racially motivated
I would argue that he has a bit more visibility/scrutiny due to his wife’s connection to Jan 6th and MAGA. Not so say the other judges shouldn’t have as much scrutiny, they should, but that is at least my take on why.
it has nothing to do with his skin color. you’re accusation of racism absolutely has zero merit… and I suspect you’re making it because it’s quite literally the only defense you have for this guy.
My dislike of him has everything to do with how he’s ruling, and the asininely stupid arguments he uses to make them.
Oh. Did you know that Clarence Thomas has:
Aided in destroying Roe v. Wade… because the 14th doesn’t explicitly say that women have the right to an abortion? or that we have the right to use contraceptives.
attackedaffirmative action (this one’s complicated and I’m of the… “we gotta do something about inequality” camp. I don’t have answers… but I suspect neither does Thomas, and some of the bribes are making sure he doesn’t)
is a speaker for the Federalist Society, and organization which exists solely to impose far-right ideals (including evangelical christian religious law… i.e. anti-abortion) on americans.
voted to gut the ability of the EPA to protect americans from climate change (or any other form of new environmental threats.) or indeed, more broadly, for any federal government regulatory agency to create new regulations without the express permission of a non-functional congress.
and that’s all just in the last few years. Thomas, along with Roberts (an idiot who thinks that the problem with SCOTUS’ lack of integrity isn’t… you know… justices lacking integrity… it’s people talking about how they don’t have integrity) , Kavenaugh (a frat boi who really wants us to know he likes beer, and also a rapist), Barret (… where do I even start…) and Gorsuch (who also has problems with corruption.)
Oh and if the gifts were entirely legitimate and not at all scandalous… why not report them… like… you know… he’s technically obligated to…? receiving millions of dollars worth of gifts from billionaires who are all very likely to have matters come before the court… and to have indirect interests as well… IS FUCKING CORRUPT.
lets say that again louder: CLARENCE THOMAS IS ACCEPTING BRIBES AND YOUR ACCUSING PEOPLE POINTING THIS OUT OF RACISM, WITHOUT EVER DENYING THAT HE IS IN FACT ACCEPTING MILLIONS IN BRIBES.
Ya know? Of course not that doesn't make make sense nothing what he said was racially motivation. In fact the only racially motivated thing here is your defensiveness.
I just want to get the lemmh conversations rolling. I don’t really believe most things I say here. Just jankin some chains, don’t take it at face value. I’m not even close to being american or wester
William Howard Taft didn’t take bribes when he sat as Chief Justice. I’d say Taft was much more hard working and deserving of constant vacation, but he understood why it meant to be an impartial judge.
I used to want a Tesla… Now I don’t. That’s 60% Elon and 40% their poor build quality.
The second percentage should be higher. It’s not, though. Elon is a very hateable person due to his low IQ, and astronomically high level of arrogance.
I honestly couldn’t understand how people had any praise for him in years past. He always came across as (yet another) embarrassing forever teenager, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and little sympathy for or understanding of others.
This is in vast contrast to Bill Gates who (despite my loathing of Microsoft’s business practices, especially in the 90’s and early 00’s) continued to grow and earned some respect with his philanthropic endeavours and just generally acting like an educated adult.
Still, I’d rather have fewer rich jetsetters and more competent Governments and international institutions, effectively working to better mankind.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt, although there was certainly doubt, until the “pedo guy” thing. Then I realized he was just a manchild. And, of course, he used his high-priced lawyers to get out of that obvious slander in court.
Well, that’s not actually true for everyone. I’ve been talking about this guy being a douchebag for years. I have a relative that told me three years ago that I was just jealous of his success.
I really want to talk to that guy again now… Maybe the next reunion, haha.
Same for me. Was saving for a Tesla, but now I’ll go with a different brand. For me, it’s 75% Elon and 25% that I’m just starting to prefer what other EV makers are putting on the market.
Oh no, they’re very safe. You just might not be able to open your trunk or roll down windows for eight months until the dealership 200 miles away can attempt to look at the problem, fix the trunk, and somehow break the passenger door in the process.
I have seen the movie, and I am still wondering where it is supposed to promote homosexuality. Neither Barbie nor Ken give any such vibes. Only thing Ken seems to suffer is a permanent case of blue balls, even if he lacks the equipment…
You’re assuming that they’re honest about their reasons, which is not the case.
The main message of the film (besides being a 2h ad for Mattel) is gender equality and female empowerment.
This threatens these people more than homosexuality, but I imagine even for them saying “we don’t want our women to even imagine a world where they’re not subservient to men” would be a tough sell.
Far fewer people are willing to stand up to defend the LGBT community so they’re a convenient scapegoat (‘conservatives’ will always find a group small enough to target in order to push their unpopular policies, it just works).
Yeah, I didn’t notice the date until after I had posted it, since I hadn’t heard about it and the post on Mastodon I got it from was posting like it was new, so I didn’t check. By then, folks had started commenting so I left it up. Ahh, well.
So they approve of zucc, whoever tf runs google, jeff bezos and other pieces of shit, but elon is the breaking point for them? That’s a stupid reason if you ask me.
I reckon if the Google CEO came out and called someone rescuing children from a cave a pedophile, was sued for Sexual Misconduct, then bought a stupid platform and started bitching and moaning about everything a lot of people would consider changing their stuff away from google stuff.
While WordPress sites are 30-40% of the internet… How many WordPress sites are still blogs that rely on sharing content using the default WordPress sharing features?
I’ve been in charge of hundreds of WP sites in my life and most are just regular business sites or if they’re e-commerce, they’re using some social share plugin.
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