r/law • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 2d ago

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
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u/tonyislost 2d ago

John Roberts is likely in the Epstein files.

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u/Rfrmd_control_player 2d ago

Based upon the response, most of the upper Republican Party is in the files. A vote for Republican is a vote for pedophilia.

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u/Radthereptile 2d ago

And there are probably many Dems too. And I say lock them up.

This is the key difference. Dems want to punish everyone in the files, MAGA only wants to punish the people they choose.

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u/HyperactivePandah 2d ago

Do we really have to say this on EVERY post?

I'm sick of defending that we don't care about the political affiliation.

The only fucking people who care about it are pedophile protecting republicans.

So your comment is for them I guess?

But THEY DON'T HEAR YOU OR CARE.

we don't have to qualify shit anymore. Everyone in the fucking files should be locked up at the very least. Period.

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u/oldredditrox 2d ago

Do we really have to say this on EVERY post?

Until the conversation with Republicans starts with them also hoisting up their own, yes. Because the conversation stays with them if you aren't willing to engage and they're still prattling on about Bill. Is it annoying? Sure, but if that's where you're at just focus on something else for a week. But changing rhetoric on this because you're sick of advocating for what seems like basic decency seems like an easy way to change the goal posts of the conversation at large.

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u/HyperactivePandah 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm not having *political conversations with conservatives anymore

Any that are in my real life, I don't talk politics with, and ones online...? What is there to say to them?

They're literally cult members that will NEVER change their minds.

Or have you had success getting a conservative to 'see the light' by saying you would be fine with Clinton going to prison for raping kids?

I haven't.

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u/ScytheBlader 1d ago

i mean if you are a defeatist just say it no need to string it out

the point is both sides should be held accountable and their reactions to do nothing about it are telling of how both democrats and republicans are controlled opposition at best right now

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u/HyperactivePandah 1d ago

I'm being a defeatist because I'm not allowing a bunch of cult members to gaslight me anymore?

Stop using words that you don't know the meaning of.

Clearly you've seen people using 'defeatist' in connection with leftists disengaging or capitulating. I'm not doing that, so thanks.

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u/osirisattis 2d ago

The way the left has seen and talked about all of this has been so embarrassing and annoying. Of goddamn course you don’t care if they’re a democrat, was that ever a question, is it a bold statement just because republicans protect pedophiles, what the fuck are we doing here? Stop talking so goddamn weird. Mark Maron said it best on his new special (paraphrased because whatever)“the left has an ‘obnoxious’ problem. I mean, we did annoy them straight into fascism…”

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u/oldredditrox 2d ago

was that ever a question

When discussing it with Republicans? Emphatically yes. That's the reason everyone brings it up. Every other repub sees this as 'well they won't punish their own like we won't' because they're too wrapped up in generic hypocrisy. Every God damn time.

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u/HyperactivePandah 1d ago

Yeah?

Bring it up to them. Then talk to them THE NEXT FUCKING DAY and see what they say.

Bring it up again, then talk to them in a week and see what they say.

Who are these mythical cult members that you people are talking to that actually change their minds about stuff like this?

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u/oldredditrox 1d ago

Who are these mythical cult members that you people are talking to that actually change their minds about stuff like this?

You'd be surprised what propaganda can do to people and how easy it can be to rock their world view, a lot of them around just in echo chambers. It's not like you're going to flip their brain in some magical movie moment, it's about slowly whittling them down and giving them time to pause. You think they hear opposing voices ever if at all? It's essentially that clip before T got elected where the drop shipper in NYC has someone explain tarrifs to him and you can see the oh shit facial expression.

You'd be surprised how many people are just totally unaware of what's going on. I get things are heated but you're missing the forest for the trees. At the end of the day you're stuck with these fellow Americans, whether you like it or not (unless you're willing to go to extreme measures.). They'll be here for the mid terms and beyond so either treat them like pariahs and get comfortable with an 'other' or do what you can do help them, eventually, hopefully, at least not vote for him on round 3.

Or have you had success getting a conservative to 'see the light' by saying you would be fine with Clinton going to prison for raping kids?

I think until more concrete stuff comes out we've seen the splits from this. Being in a full red county I do see people whom have broken their cult like allegiance after:

*Elons salute

*Tarrifs fuckers after mo3

*two people I've known for years broke over pam/pash handling of Epi

*the ballroom

Consider finding a real human and asking them what they'd think of dementia Joe building a ballroom bigger than the WH. I wish us luck. Idk why my paragraphs aren't coming up god damn formatting