genuine question as an interested foreigner;

are there no rules or laws against this sort of imbalance? It seems to me to be a huge flaw if so many of the SC justices can be aligned with one single party.

Am I misunderstanding something?

My friend, you contradict your own point by making it inconsistently conditional on living memory.

Americans don’t remember hardship, so don’t understand it.

Europeans had the Dark Ages so we DO understand hardship?

I promise you not one of us remembers the Dark Ages! 🤣

See?

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You’re not making sense my friend.

Struggle outside living memory of the last century doesn’t affect Americans because they’re materialistic?

But the Dark Ages have all of us non-materialistic Europeans bewitched by events from 500+ years ago?

Umm… the Great Depression comes to mind.

The 1918 influenza pandemic.
World Wars I and II. Vietnam.
Energy Crisis & Stagflation.
9/11 & War on terror.
The 2007-2009 Great Recession.
COVID-19.
Affordability crisis.

None of these presented “true” struggle for Americans? Really?

Wow.

I worry that what you’re really saying is that Americans will always find reasons NOT to rise up against tyrant Kings. The idealism of the founders is now just that — an idea. Nouns that should be verbs.

The bigotry and cruelty of that man never fails to astonish me… but then I remember 77+ MILLION Americans voted for that bigotry, they voted for that performative cruelty.

I feel for you, I truly do. Sending you love ❤️

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God that’s depressing — that living by your nation’s founding ideals can get you shot. I’m sorry.

I think about your No Kings marches though. The cops won’t fire on a crowd of a 100,000 or more, surely?

Still. I take your point. I do.