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Facebook Employees Outraged Over Exec's Appearance at Kavanaugh Hearing (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of Facebook employees have reportedly expressed anger that an executive attended Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh's public hearing last week to support him, The Wall Street Journal reports. Joel Kaplan, Facebook's head of global policy, was at Kavanaugh's hearing because he is reportedly close friends with the Supreme Court Justice nominee. Outraged employees reportedly brought his appearance up during an internal question-and-answer session with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and have been expressing their concerns in internal discussion threads. On Friday, Zuckerberg said that "he wouldn't have made the same decision but the appearance didn't violate Facebook policies," the Journal reports.
Several hundred out of the 25,000 +/- FB employees is "a few", "a small minority", "a small fraction". These are FB's snowflakes....
What a generation of spoiled rotten brats.
They can be outraged and demand action as soon as employees with other political leanings can complain about any other employee that is shown on television participating in a cause that outrages them (take your pick). Just because you work somewhere does not mean that everything you do represents the official policy of the company. We need to get back to having a separation between our work lives and our private lives.
Either you support people’s right to do what they want in their personal time or you don't.
Does any employer OWN your personal time?
Should an employer be allowed to reprimand you or fire you for going to a rally and wearing an vagina hat while you are off work?
It's really quite amazing to watch. No actual evidence other than testimony and hearsay, and she so far refuses to release the purported evidence she does have. It's astounding.
...that an exec could just say "You don't like it? Fuck off and do your jobs, or quit."
Or, is turnabout ok? Can execs start firing staff that express politics they don't personally agree with? Would everyone be ok with that?
-Styopa
It can't be good with all the drama going on to stir the pot intentionally or not at Facebook. Kavanaugh is a high drama figure and associating yourself with him is going to cause grief one way or another for your business. Especially when Kavanaugh has an air of sexual accusations against him mixed with his behavior during the interview process where he lost his cool pretty dramatically making things look even worse for him then if he would have maintained a cool head.
Still too many. Trying to get someone fired for badwrongthink on their own time is unacceptable.
that at this point in time, anything could enrage a bookface employee.
Not the hours spent looking for offensive content, not the rigging of elections, not the abuse of clients preferences/personal information, not the use of their employer to live stream murders, suicides and stupidity.
As far as I'm aware it's not proven yet.
How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
(I'm not saying he's innocent by any means but I'm certainly not writing him off as a rapist because I dislike him)
How would you feel if you gave a lifetime appointment to someone that later turns out to be a rapist.
Sorry for the sake of democracy its better to put someone else in that position, even if it costs one person a "job of a lifetime."
Guilty until proven Innocent is not the saying.
I don't care about the guy, personally, but really, Innocent until proven Guilty is the saying. What if I were to say that msmash stalked me on another platform, but I can't remember which one, or the date range it happened, and that Anonymous Coward was the witness. Except that AC can't recall ever knowing me during that time frame? Would I be at all credible? No? K, then.
This isn't a matter of line politics, it's a matter of working outside the justice system to build opinion on a supposed crime that was never reported and that no prosecutor would touch with someone else's reputation. The whole purpose is to set the stage for trying to disassemble his credentials in public opinion so they can say "I tried, vote for me!"
Will you feel the same way when it's a D nominee being accused at the 11th hour. Because it will happen, assuming they ever nominate a decent presidential candidate.
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Doesn't know what diversity means. Diversity only applies if it fits their viewpoint.
No it's really not.
If we work on that basis anyone who has upset an overly vindictive person could be ruined.
Society should be ruled by morals and law not "just in case".
I would. To be a lifetime appointed judge, you should be squeaky clean. Like your grandma would be proud to eat off your floor clean. There are plenty of other judges of the same political persuasion that could be placed instead. We we are doubling down on this one I have no clue. Sorry, would have responded earlier but its making me wait cause I am AC.
I feel the same thing about politicians, and its why I did not vote for Either of the dofuses that the political parties nominated. Both corrupt.
Shouldn't these employees just leave the company in rebellion then?
What a fucking toxic environment. These people seriously need to get over themselves.
Morons.
I tend to rant.
That's how you get a court full of fucking Baptists and Mormons.
The only thing remotely proven about Kavanagh is he went to keggers in HS and college.
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Not the OP, but yes, I think I will feel the same way when it's a D nominee.
If we've reached the point where any random person can say words to the effect of "he/she/it did something really bad 30 or 40 years ago, and so shouldn't get this job!!! Evidence? No, insisting on evidence is just so wrong! Because he/she/it did something really BAD!!!", then we've reached the point where the Republic is doomed anyways....
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How would you feel if a close friend of yours was falsely accused? It's disgusting that you believe he's guilty without any evidence to back up the accusation.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
That's not the way Judging works.
You're right, In the Supreme Court, judging works by listening to all the arguments presented and then ruling for whatever side fits with your preconceived ideological convictions. That's why both parties fight so hard to control who they put on the Supreme Court. With lifetime appointments, if the scale tilts in your ideological favor it can stay that way for a very long time.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Having a senior FB officer support Kavanaugh reflects badly on the company,
Bullshit. It shows that he has the integrity to support his friend despite the hazard of being splattered in the smear campaign. If anything, this raises my opinion of FB.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
And those several hundred need to grow up and realize that people have different opinions than them, and aren't going to throw friends under the bus because of the groupthink echo chamber.
He wasn't there conveying Facebook's official support for the nominee. He was there showing personal support. There's a distinct difference, and these idiots need to hurry up and realize that diverse opinion and robust debate are what make this country great.
That being said, this entire nominating process has been a partisan hack shit show, with both sides contributing to the turd-slinging. It's disgraceful, and not befitting the United States Senate. Or, at least I'd like to say so, but lately that's what the Senate has become.
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What happened to innocent before proven guilty?
If we are now at the point to where mere accusations of actions over 35+ years ago with no proof are what stands, we are in serious trouble for trying to get anyone on any court of other office that requires senate hearings.
One really scary things is, that #Metoo is now weaponized, and you can now ruin a man's life with the mere accusation, with little to no proof, and little to no penalty for the woman falsely accusing the man.
What's to stop this from getting even worse?
Sure, you need to listen to any story a woman puts forth...but you need to ALSO equally believe a man that proclaims his innocence, and until trial and evidence, etc....you have to assume innocence.
Sadly, that is not the case these days.
And, its not like this hasn't happened in the past, even for major public cases, wasn't it the lacrosse team that was falsely accused? I'm guessing many if not most of those innocent guys' lives are still ruined or at least have great hardship due to that.
What do I believe?
I believe it is possible that main lady could be telling the truth.
I believe the judge could be telling the truth.
I believe there is enough Trump hate and people so fearful of a conservative judge getting on the court and supposedly overturning everything in the last century around to where women lose almost all rights....that people would come up with false stories even under penalty of perjury, to keep him off the bench....thinking they are sacrificing themselves for "the good fight, the resistance".
I believe all of those are equally possible.
However, it is not up to the accused to prove their innocence, it is up to the accuser/state to prove their guilt.
That's the way it is supposed to work....
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How would you feel if you gave a lifetime appointment to someone that later turns out to be a rapist.
Sorry for the sake of democracy its better to put someone else in that position, even if it costs one person a "job of a lifetime."
First Off:
There is zero evidence that it happened. There is zero evidence that Kavanaugh and Ford even ever met before. It's completely "he said/she said" but actually worse than that because even the people she named have said that they don't remember any such event. There is no time, no day, no month, no year, no location. There are 300 million people in the USA. It's not inconceivable that at least one of them would be crazy enough to make up a story like this. I'm actually amazed that it doesn't happen more often. It doesn't help her case that Ford is a expert in psychology nor that all the accusers are die-hard democrats.
Secondly:
If evidence does turn up or if he otherwise becomes unfit for the job, you can still impeach him.
Lastly:
Even if it did happen and was a single event at age 17 and he would have been caught and punished, it likely wouldn't even be on his record because he was underage but even if it was, is something that happened between 2 kids at a party 40 years ago really relevant today? Even if he spent a couple years in prison for it 40 years ago, does this disqualify him now? We should be looking at his record for the last 10-15 years max not stuff he did in HS or even college.
Now there are plenty of things that we should be looking at like his sealed records, his temperament on the stands, etc... but these rape allegations should have been quietly investigated and only been made public if they had actually found evidence. By making them public they not only hurt Ford and Kavanaugh's reputations but they intentionally polarized the country even more. So think about that for a little bit, the only thing that was really accomplished was to further polarize the country. The only reason I can think of for wanting to intentionally polarize the country is to give the commoners something to fight about so the elites in washington on both sides of the aisle can continue to sell off the country to the highest bidder.
How would you feel if you gave a lifetime appointment to someone that later turns out to be a rapist.
Sorry for the sake of democracy its better to put someone else in that position, even if it costs one person a "job of a lifetime."
The constitution allows for impeachment of justices for lacking good behavior. IF, in the unlikely event Kavanaugh is proven to be a rapist, then arrest him and impeach him. All you have to do is come up with the evidence to convict him, which if the various accusations are true, shouldn't be a problem. (except that it IS a problem finding evidence if somebody is making stuff up..)
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I would. To be a lifetime appointed judge, you should be squeaky clean. Like your grandma would be proud to eat off your floor clean. There are plenty of other judges of the same political persuasion that could be placed instead. We we are doubling down on this one I have no clue. Sorry, would have responded earlier but its making me wait cause I am AC.
I feel the same thing about politicians, and its why I did not vote for Either of the dofuses that the political parties nominated. Both corrupt.
Great, Lets open up the existing liberal justices to new background invenstigations, and if we find any accusers of bad behavior, lets ask them to resign.
Open hatred of women and democrats is not acceptable in a judge.Â
I agree. But is that what he did? Or was he simply lashing out at those who he believes have wrongfully accused him of something he has started as not true? I don't know if he is guilty of what has been claimed or not, but if he's not then he has been a lot more level headed than most people would be. I don't think it would matter if he was being accused by Buddhists, republicans, or anyone else. Being accused of what is has been, he would have acted the same.
Even so, I fail how to see his behavior as a reason to disqualify him to be a judge. He's too emotionaly involved in these accusations. Who in their right mind wouldn't be. How would you feel in the same position if you were being accused of being a pedophile? Would it make any difference which political party was accusing you? He is certainly never going to be appointed as the judge in a case against himself. So I fail to see how his behavior in this matters in any way.
How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
If he loses the job (which seems unlikely at this point), the reason will be less about the accusation and more about his testimony before the Senate. It was blatantly partisan, often belligerent, regularly evasive and misleading, and a few times outright false (e.g. his repeated claim that others Dr. Ford said were present said that no such event ever happened, when what they actually said was that they didn't recall it. A judge should understand the very important difference between absence of evidence and evidence of absence).
I get that if he's innocent he has every right to be angry about his treatment. But his response demonstrated a lack of self-control and ability to objectively and clearly weigh facts that we expect of judges, especially those in the highest court of the land. Well, either that or it demonstrated a sharp political mind who recognized that outrage would play well to the Republican base, and acted on that political insight to rouse the rabble in his support -- something we really don't want in the highest court.
Above all, I think any person who really cares about the integrity of the Supreme Court at this point has to realize that Kavanaugh is a poison pill. Perhaps through no doing of his own; maybe it's totally a Democrat smear campaign. But regardless of the origin, it's been so effective that a thoughtful and careful judge, interested above all in the integrity of the institution, would at this point realize that the best thing he could do for his country is to recuse himself from the entire process.
But after Kavanaugh's display on Friday, we all know very well that he is not such a judge -- which to me is the final proof that he is not a worthy nominee.
Had Kavanaugh said from the first that he was a heavy drinker and hellraiser in his youth, that he often drank to excess and had incomplete memories of some events of that time, that as a young man -- like many young men, especially 40 years ago -- he didn't adequately respect women and that although he had no recollection, he could not completely deny that in his drunken state he might have crossed a line with the young Dr. Ford, and if so he felt very sorry for it, I'd have respected him and felt differently about his nomination. If others felt the same, and I think many would, then the Senate could have gone back to discussing his judicial record and confirmed or denied him on that basis.
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As far as I'm aware it's not proven yet.
Irrelevant. If his response to the situation has shown one thing it's that he's not fit to hold the highest position of the supreme court. Hell his actions in the court: Refusing to answer questions, verbally attacking senators, purposely misconstruing the wording of testimonies generally makes him unfit to be a judge, period.
That he come across as a guilty party madly failing to hide his guilt be it founded or not is merely a bonus.
Republicans are corrupt. Democrats are incompetent. There is a difference.
Bull. Fucking. Shit. Full stop.
I usually don't spout, but it's this kind of bullshit that sends me over the edge.
How about they are ALL corrupt AND incompetent. Don't try to say that the misguided sense of entitlement and "feels" from the left make them merely incompetent. And that nationalism and pride in their country and trying to protect their constitutional rights makes the right competent, yet corrupt (If they were merely corrupt, as an error of omission they must at least be competent).
Let's all agree that politics as a whole, is a pile of manure. Hyper partisanship has led to everything that you see today. (over generalization, but you know what I mean). There's no communication skills anymore, nobody wants to have a conversation, they just want to ratchet up the rhetoric and violence until things get even worse.
Anyway, long story short, who gives a flying fuck about whether or not some employees at FB got butthurt over the fact that someone high up in FB doesn't share their EXACT SAME BELIEFS and supports their long time friend who happens to be in the middle of a scandal that everyone seems to have polar opposite views on.
It's completely "he said/she said" but actually worse than that because even the people she named have said that they don't remember any such event.
The great thing about he said/she said events is watching out how the result plays out in the actions of the people.
I was on Kavanaugh's side right up until last week. But his actions at the senate inquiry are completely unbecoming of a judge, any judge, not even a supreme court judge, and that's all before you consider that given his responses he looks shady and guilty as heck.
Even if it did happen and was a single event at age 17 and he would have been caught and punished
There are many reasons why that isn't the case and also a whole hearted fuck you for excusing the behaviour.
Let's assume he's 100% innocent. Why should I have more pity for this person than the millions who lost health insurance under Trump? Or Farmers who are losing their livelihoods because of a misguided trade war? [snip]
You should have great concern over the loss of due process. Let's assume he is innocent, and fails to get his appointment to SCOTUS because of an accusation. This is not a "win" for anyone. We need rule of law or everything you are concerned about goes up in smoke, if not now then later, if not figuratively then literally. Loss of the rule of law means we have no bedrock on which to build a society.
We need a society and a government that makes it's decisions based on facts and not "feels". You "feel" he will continue to live a good life even if he fails to get to SCOTUS? He won't. He will forever be an accused rapist. He will never get a day in court to clear his name because no one has actually filed a criminal report. He will never work again. Every decision he's made as a judge would then up for review, because if he has such poor judgement in private life then his judgement as a judge is suspect.
You "feel" the way the government is operating now is not just? Well, by not appointing him we loosen our grasp on justice. If he's guilty then a criminal accusation needs to be filed in jurisdiction in which the crime occurred, which is not with the FBI. Senators keep demanding an investigation from the FBI as if they have some kind of superpower for finding the truth. What's true is that the Senate itself has greater authority to investigate on its own. What's also true is the local police have greater authority to investigate any criminal behavior than the FBI. If these senators don't already know the investigative authority they have, and that of the FBI, then I want their ability to continue in government up for review as well. I'm guessing that for many this will happen very soon.
Kavanaugh needs to be in SCOTUS or in jail. If he's innocent then the process demands his appointment be approved. If he's guilty then he needs to go to jail. Any kind of halfway resolution is an insult to the right of due process that all accused people are guaranteed under the Constitution.
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How would you feel about losing the job of your lifetime to an accusation?
There are some jobs out there, where a believable accusation of impropriety is sufficient to prevent you from getting that job - Jobs in intelligence and national security. Some jobs in law enforcement. And yes, Supreme Court judges. You need to be above reproach.
Everybody gets smarter as they get older.
The boomers were the god damn hippies once.
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And the questioning by D senators was behavior unbecoming a senator. Where's the calls for them to be removed from the senate?
Integrity IS supporting a friend on trial for rape at LEAST until it is PROVEN he did the crime, you vindictive keyboard warrior.
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Will you feel the same way when it's a D nominee being accused
Absolutely. When it comes to the Supreme Court there has to be no question of past misbehavior.
at the 11th hour.
It's hardly the "11th" hour. The Republicans insisted on rushing things through without proper due diligence of their candidate - As a result this came up now, instead of during the vetting process.
Doesn't mean it's some kind of conspiracy.
Ford reached out to the Washington Post and her Congresswoman in July - As soon as Trump nominated Kavanaugh. She also reached out to Senator Dianne Feinstein at that time.
That's some nice concern trolling. He wasn't a judge in that situation, he was an accused person. The only people I've seen make those statements about his "temperament" in defending himself have been those who already didn't believe him or didn't want him confirmed period.
This is a bullying tactic you're employing and it's not right. You're discrediting the person because they are fighting back against an unfair process or accusation and using their resistance as evidence against them.
corroborating it. Have you not been paying attention? Tons of people who knew him back then have come forward. His buddy wrote a book with a thinly veiled reference to Kavanaugh where they discussed spiking punch. His calendar his references to beer enemas and 3 ways. He has 3 public accusers and 1 that's hanging back out of fear of reprisals.
A SCOTUS nominee has more power than a US President. They decide what laws are constitutional. They make our gov't what it is. They must be completely beyond reproach. This guy wouldn't pass a background check for a 7-11 at this point. And that's before we talk about the numerous instances of perjury. There's no way in hell he should be seated.
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Why only the liberal justices? There's quite a lot of people who would be delighted to re-open Clarence Thomas up to new background investigations.
Rebuttal in one word: Garland
Garland didn't get seated due to legal procedural BS. While I don't agree with that either, it's a hell of a lot different than not seating a judge based off of unsubstantiated accusations. If don't see the difference I'm sorry I've wasted your time.
No, this is how you get recess appointments, SCOTUS impeachment hearings, and failed judiciary.
And the Democrats are more than willing to go this way, because they both crave power and believe they are unassailable in their pursuit of that power.
This goes very badly, no mater what. Either Democrats continue down this path, with the destruction of our form of government at the end of it, or the proper and correct pursuit of justice leads to their unrestrained resistance, and outright revolt.
Yes. Revolt. There is no middle ground with the Left, it's their way or death. History demonstrates this, every time.
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It appears to me, that the FBI did exactly the level of background investigation that they do for any candidate for the SC, and other such positions.
The judge has been investigated like what, 6 times before....if something was bad as claimed, I think it would have shown up before.
This, compounded with the fact that Feinstein held this back to last minute....pegs this as a last ditch effort to hold off on appointment till after Nov elections, nothing more. If they had brought this up weeks ago, I would feel differently.
So far, I've not seen any corroborating reports come in against him, much less have seen them verified. Where and what are the lies? Again, if this were provable, it would have been all over the news and we'd likely not see him go any further.
From what I"ve seen, this guy gives proper deference to precedent, and has stated that Roe is pretty much settled law. I believe him on that. And ONE person isn't going to change something major like that. And too, they don't legislate from the bench at the SC, they only take cases that are presented to them through the states. They can't just arbitrarily jump up on their own and change or strike down laws.
I hope, and think he will be....more of a constitutionalist....I wish we had a whole court of Scalia's.....folks that try to interpret what the constitution says, what it meant when it was written, and not try to twist it to today's sentiments and try to make 'new laws' by new interpretations. I think the Constitution is as written, and if we don't like something, we don't re-interpret it, we amend it as it was meant to be done.
So far, I've not seen anything solid being thrown at the guy stick. I think he is most qualified for the seat.
I"m kind of ashamed at the Dems blocking due to nothing more than partisan politics....you look at Republicans, they voted for Sotomayor and Kagan.....but this time around the Dems are just blocking because this guy isn't a liberal make up new interpretations guy, IMHO.
This isn't going to be the end of the world if he gets in....relax.
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So, if you're applying for a job and somebody doesn't like you and/or what you believe in, they can accuse you of something, and then you will no longer be above reproach, right? And that's okay, right? Just checking.
so I'm gonna say this:
Kavanaugh is not a nice person. He's a pretty jock who was born on 3rd base and acts like he hit a triple. I'm a nerd. I was bullied. A lot. Kavanaugh is the kind of guy who did the bullying. There's something deeply ironic about a site full of real nerds coming to the defense of a jock.
If this was just about false accusations that'd be one thing. But then there's his voting record, which is entirely pro-corporate and anti-worker. There's the numerous examples of perjury during his confirmation testimony (much of it unrelated to the accusations). There's his quiet frankly belligerent testimony that made him look unhinged.
What we have here is a bunch of folks rushing to his defense not because they think he should be seated, but because their emotions tell them men are getting cheated. Calm down for a moment and ask yourself, how is this man's decisions going to affect my life? If you make under $300k/yr the answers don't bode well for you.
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1. A cursory search on google says the accusation was for 1982, I can't be bothered to look more closely for a specific date. There has been no evidence, however there rarely is in such allegations. And your point about false accusations being made purely for political reasons is definitely something that always bears thought and consideration.
2. While impeachment would be technically possible I think we'd need something significantly more offensive than a 40 year old rape. You don't have to look any further back than Clinton for proof of that.
3. I can agree to some degree that what we did in our youth shouldn't throw an eternal shadow over the rest of our lives. However for positions of such power and authority I don't see why we can't be more picky and require candidates that have always shown good enough judgement so as to not have committed felonies such as rape. Not that I'm convinced the candidate currently in question did commit a rape, but I think that such a crime should definitely be a dis qualifier. My biggest concern so far has been that his actions don't look like an innocent persons actions. For example when he was asked about drinking and being drunk, he failed to actually admit to or deny any drinking but instead immediately went off on a tangent about the lower drinking age, despite his age at the time still being under that lower age, and how much he likes the taste of beer. He's a judge and should be intimately familiar with the habits of evasive testimony. An admission of underage drinking, possibly even excessively, would have come off looking far more professional.
I think there are several obvious reasons the Democrats have played this up every way possible. First there is the slim hope that they could keep the slot open through the mid term elections and possibly win a majority in the senate, and then hold the slot open until a possible presidential race. Polarization plays well for both parties, the hope of course is always that your side will draw more than the other. In this case the Democrats are likely to pick up more female voters than the Republicans, even if it's not converting voters it is likely to encourage more women to participate that are sympathetic to their cause. If nothing else the squabbling was intended to try and delay the appointment until after the next session of court, because there is at least one case regarding abortion that is or could be on the docket.
and his right wing politics and Wallstreet Deregulation caused the 2008 market crash (he's the one that started letting Mainstreet & Wallstreet banks mix, Bush continued it and that's what got us Credit Default Swaps).
So yeah, as a card carrying Democrat I wouldn't mind in the slightest if Clinton had been taken down. But as a right wing establishment Dem he was propped up by the Mega corps to do their bidding. Just like this Kavanaugh guy.
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You could have said the exact same thing in the 1960s. Only morons hang onto their childish idiocy. Lots of things change, but everybody does/pays their taxes, every year. Only a few a blind enough to think they are getting value from it.
Ok grandpa. Oh well, I'll just continue on here through my 40s with my "childish idiocy", likely paying much more than you in taxes due to the business I own, and having to face the coming future with more than tired platitudes about how I want the world to be rather than what it is. Meanwhile, you can sit there sniffing your farts, loving the rich flavor, thinking about baby boomers... aka the Me Generation... and the 1960s as if any of that has any relevance to 2018 50 years later. Everyone is stupid but you, and even though you need only look out the window to see which way the wind blows, I'm sure you're right.
A fair, balanced and factual description of what happened. And apparently 20% flamebait according to the mods. Also 30% overrated.
There are people trying really, really hard to control the narrative and bury anything that contradicts their preferred version of events. For all the whining about SJWs and Leftists, look at who is abusing the moderation system and somewhat successfully making sure that their message is heard to the exclusion of all others.
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it's about character. Character matters for a lifetime appointment. We can't get rid of him once he's seated. And he will have mind numbing amounts of power. He's basically got Veto power on any law that comes before him. He doesn't have to justify himself either. Clarence Thomas, for example, has written one opinion in his entire time on the bench.
It's about risk. Everything I know about the man tells me I don't want him in charge of my fate. There's plenty more like him that are much, much less risky. They're not going to side with the mega corps 100% of the time against me. They might even have some basic understanding of what my life is like. And they're not as likely to be actively hostile. Again, I have to go on the evidence I have when making a decision. We all do. The evidence tells me that this guy is no friend of mine, and that he's going to use his power to enrich himself and his friends at my expense. Just like those jocks who bullied me did.
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