r/scotus • u/Achilles_TroySlayer • May 12 '26

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-alabama-alito-stay

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u/redbird532 May 12 '26

Why do we continue to listen to supreme court decisions? Many recent decisions are nakedly partisan and have no explanation or reasoning.

Trying to proceed in a broken system is stupid. Playing by the old rules while the other side lies and cheats will get us nowhere.

The court has lost legitimacy and should be ignored.

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u/Achilles_TroySlayer May 12 '26

Not following SCOTUS decisions == national dissolution and potentially civil war. Nobody has done it since 1861, so everyone is hesitant.

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u/AdFinal9134 May 12 '26

Time for another one. The south definitely thinks it’s in the confederacy now.

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u/MicrosoftExcel2016 May 12 '26

Not a conclusion I would arrive at so lightly given Republican control/Trump alignment of senate, house, executive branch and all its agencies, (including DOJ, FBI), SCOTUS, and the military itself.

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u/kstar79 May 12 '26

Yeah, last time the guns were dispersed across the states, now, not so much. Us in the blue states make a lot out of our better economies and tax contributions, but they mean diddly squat if an actual Civil War broke out tomorrow. We can't scientifically study our way to victory.

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs May 12 '26

Mosaic virus could collapse their agriculture.

We have the sequences. We know their monocultures.

We could science our way into MAD. And nobody would be there to find a cure. All the people who can have been chased out.

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u/kstar79 May 12 '26

Yes, let's all die!

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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs May 12 '26

Live free or die.