It's already a 6-3 Court, it functionally doesn't matter if Sotomayor dies at this point. Roberts being the most moderate right-wing voice on the Court functionally doesn't matter either, because they can still do 5-4 extreme rulings without him.
The Court is fucked for decades unless it is expanded.
I think the format promotes conflict. Lemmy ultimately is made to be Reddit-like, so we shouldn't be surprised when it produces Reddit user culture. Ultimately we need an entirely new format that promotes cooperation over conflict.
As for moderators, I also think the volunteer model is bad. They do important work and should be compensated for their labor.
And I will never be able to convince you otherwise! I could say that I think there are other factors which made you change your mind, give examples from my own evolution from anarchism to Marxism, we can trade replies back and forth for hours or days, ect etc
It would all accomplish nothing.
They can just do that anyway.
I think it's more fundamental - they hate the poor and want them to starve. Any higher strategic value is secondary to the suffering. They just want hunger and death.
One thing I firmly believe is that arguing on the internet is 100% pointless and never accomplishes anything. We are too alienated and isolated and atomized on the internet to ever truly reach someone else across the gap of ideology and prejudice, everything bounces off because we're all just strings of text on a screen. Every debate is another random encounter in the posting RPG. Rather than a public square, it's a mob farm for exp.
I think online spaces can still be useful, but conflict is entirely useless. It's just for fun.
Uhm ackchually you're wrong 😏
And then what?
Unless he taps into that anger and uses it to overthrow the political interests aligned against him, he won't be able to do anything. They'll just be mad and march around, but no real change will occur.
The Black Panthers existed.
But I notice you skipped over all the other things he could be doing, but isn't, because he's just doing electoralism and has no politics outside of it.
Not really, if you read the article it only defines political violence as violence that isn't done by the state:
That figure underscores just how much the spate of attacks — from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this year to the attempts on President Donald Trump’s life in 2024 — have rattled the nation.
In addition to Kirk’s killing and the attempts on Trump’s life, there was the gruesome attack targeting former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a fractured skull in 2022; the assassination plot against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that same year; the plan to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020; and the firebombing at Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence earlier this year.
In June, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home by a man impersonating a police officer in an attack that Gov. Tim Walz (D) called “politically motivated.” The man accused of killing Hortman and her husband was indicted on federal murder charges. His case is still pending.
Etc etc.
Political violence has been with us long before politicians started getting shot, but political motivations didn't count before because it was the government doing it.
There's already political violence, it's just that we don't count political violence when it's done by cops, national guard, or border enforcement.
If Democrats are ever able to win again they need to expand and pack the Court. However, that was already true before 2024 and they refused and if they had won in 2024 they would continue to refuse. Democrats do not take this threat seriously.
Kind of a chicken-and-egg problem. The only way Democrats would ever consider packing the Court is if the Court was hopelessly rigged against them (even more than it already was, I mean) but by the very fact that the Court is rigged they might not ever be allowed to win another election because a 6-3 Court would probably let Trump cancel elections.
Basically the whole system is fucked. Tear it down.