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Remittancegirl

@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social

Writer, reader, worrier, lefty, PhD. Lacanian. Cat addict and cook. Complicator. Vehemently anti-reductionist. Militantly unverifiable. Lives in Spain; misses Vietnam

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I'm so fucking deeply pissed off. I've tried to find a way to frame this with a wider lens, but that will take a while.

The SCOTUS has decided that the conceit of putting their finger on the scales is more important than affording the American people the opportunity to make an informed choice in the upcoming election.

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Okay - wider frame:

Following @Illuminatus's succinct post, the larger problem highlighted by this petty decision is the paradox of the court's 'supremacy' and the fact that they are life-appointments.

The reason for life-appointments was to free justices of pressure to serve any master other than the law and the good of the country.

Clearly that intention has been unmoored. A court that knowingly delays justice with an election hanging in the balance is an illegitimate court.

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One of the most important advances in social organization was the establishment of a set of laws and mechanisms for imposing them that applied to all.

The rate of murder in Britain dropped dramatically after the establishment of the Crown Courts. As imperfect as they were, they gave people a sense that they could seek justice through a neutral arbiter, rather than rough justice.

This belief in the possibility of justice is being dramatically eroded.

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The phrase "Justice delayed is justice denied" is fundamental to jurisprudence.

SCOTUS's granting of certiorari on the DC appellate court's decision cannot be decontextualized. They may be venal, but they're not stupid. They KNOW that granting cert is justice denied and that the consequences are as grave as any consequence can be.

Shame on them.

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Why yes, I’m totally watching the

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I girded my loins and watched

It felt like breaking open a barely joined wound.

It reminded me that one of the massive problems with institutional loyalty is that it causes people to circumvent their own critical thinking skills.

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I remember getting into a huge Twitter brawl with someone who insisted that regular folks were too stupid to know how to don a surgical mask.

When institutional authorities lie - telling people that masks are detrimental when the truth was the simply did have enough - not only is trust lost, for a long time, but also we aren’t motivated innovate and improvise.

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How governments managed to convince so many people to overlook the basic laws of physics - any barrier is better than no barrier when the aim is to keep something out - still fucks my mind up.

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I don’t need to agree on everything with someone to consider them courageous or heroic.

They don’t even have to share my political orientation.

I consider Liz Cheney pretty courageous and heroic and I’m quite sure I disagree with 90% of her positions.

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Jacques has been hanging out on the bench for days. There’s a pigeon who sits on the wall, teasing her.

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RIP Alexey Navaly

No one can be surprised by this, but he gave his life, knowingly, heroically for the country he loved beyond his own life.

He could have kept himself safe, but he chose a level of mad courage beyond most people’s imagination.

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@zrb Maybe, but perhaps not. Quite honestly, who knows how much Putin generated propaganda is spread all over the internet. However, this an what poisoned twice, went back to Russia knowing it would probably be the death of him, and did it anyway.

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@zrb I don’t speak Russian and I’m not taking someone on Twitter’s word for that. I simply don’t know.

However, Boris Johnson was most definitely an ethno-nationalist and I can’t imagine that, if he was imprisoned unfairly and then murdered, people would be moderating their outrage about his murder. But you go ahead.

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@zrb I don’t find praising any person who put their life on the line to oppose Putin problematic.

Few others have had the courage to do it, and those that have died.

Moreover I don’t agree with your premise because I have seen no proof I consider definitive.

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@zrb if I agree is irrelevant to you, then why are you still engaging with me?

What fascinates me is why you persist. What does your engagement do for you, knowing we disagree?

In my opinion, you make the perfect the enemy of the good, and this is something I see a lot. You require purity in your heroes. I require something different. We will not agree. I'm good with that.

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The horrible truth is that the image we have of any given decade's design aesthetic is actually false—the truth is actually the aesthetic of the previous decade, with grime and tobacco stains on top.

Remittancegirl,
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@cstross @davetansley One of the reasons why I became a goth in the 80s was precisely because it was the only colour that could be relied upon to cover that very beige.

Remittancegirl,
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@cstross @davetansley At its worst, black can look dusty... at which point any goth worth their hair gel will tell you that's just called 'matte'

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    Remittancegirl,
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    @DrALJONES I think this is something that doesn't get said often enough... The actions of Israel are fundamentally dangerous to Jews around the world.

    Remittancegirl, to random
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    So, I've been working on hatching a theoretical structure to address the quandary of MAGA for a long time. I think it is almost impossible to combat it unless one can identify grasp the causal factors of the eruption of a mass psychosis. This is going to be a really long thread and I'm developing it slowly. Please feel free to mute me if this irritates you - I'm thinking aloud here. And most of my ideas aren't original, I'm just sometimes gathering them together in novel ways.

    Remittancegirl,
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    @wordshaper the primal father

    Remittancegirl,
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    @wordshaper I acknowledge that using that term was probably confusing. I was making reference to a Freudian idea of a mythical father of the primal horde. It's a rabbit hole that is not necessary to go down. Hehe. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2_525

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    @_L1vY_ @cstross I think it is both simple and complex. Because what that doesn't answer is why - what fundamental need is being served? That is what intrigues me.

    And it may be that for you, with your experience, this feels simple. But I am ignorant and so for me, it doesn't seem simple at all.

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    @gimulnautti @EverMama8_ I also find this explanation incomplete.

    Not disputing that, on a conscious level, there seems to be a pleasure derived from 'making libs cry', but underneath, what does this feed?

    It seems to me that this must address some yawning hole in their own sense of who they are.

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    @gimulnautti @EverMama8_ I’m not so interested in what they think or ‘libs’ or members of whatever race they’ve decided not to like. That’s always imaginary. But what does this address in them.

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    @gimulnautti @EverMama8_ I guess what I’m trying to say is that this hostility towards an imaginary enemy is a symptom, but what’s the cause of the disease?

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    @gimulnautti @EverMama8_ I would definitely not rule out a psysiological difference at all.

    I might quibble with the labels on the axis, and it's good to see you go further.

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