The Supreme Court will consider staying an order that limits ICE agents from stopping people based on "apparent ethnicity."
    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Wait. There are still people who doubt this timeline’s consistently proven penchant for exponential fuckery? Are they one of those no-contact tribes? (Although, I’ve always wondered if those tribes were as much isolationist as “nah, fuck all of your world -we’re good.”)

        • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Reality really is stranger than fiction sometimes.

          Society tends to repeat on approximately 80-100 year cycles. Just long enough for the generations affected by bullshit to lose their voices and die.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Society tends to repeat on approximately 80-100 year cycles.

            American society. And it’s been closely shown to hold since when America attacked Canada, of all places.

            Other countries have their own cycles. Consider the 11-year Canada goose purge cycle that affects your friends to the north. It’s not spoken of but, like seal clubbing, a periodic culling is required to prevent them invading and burning the Library of Parliament and goosey sanchez-ing the last copy of the Declaration upon Dependence. It’s a little backward up there.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Spy magazine ran a great cartoon back in the early '90s which I can’t find anywhere online. It was captioned “Clarence Thomas greets the day” and it showed him bending down on his front porch to pick up the newspaper with a negro stable boy lawn statue next to him.

  • Clam_Cathedral@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    We just have to convince the conservatives that this would be a DEI program and it’ll be a slam dunk case. /s

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We’ve been here before. Looking Jewish, sounding Jewish, being where Jews might live or be, doing jobs that Jews might do.

    • Waldelfe@feddit.org
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      1 year ago

      Translation: From the face speaks the race’s soul

      (Left boy) Seven year old german boy

      (Right boy) Seven year old jew-boy

      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        For real, casting this off a a lil oopsie is doing way more harm than realizing these people want you dead for nothing more than knowing that they’re full of shit.

        Resist.

  • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Wasn’t this already decided when they ruled that stop-and-frisk laws were unconstitutional due to racial profiling?

      • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Blindly following precedent without reason, maybe…but applying the law without any form of consistency isn’t helpful either. Rulings need to be fair, across the board. They can’t wildly swing from one precedent to another, depending on the individual whims of whichever judge is currently deciding a case.

        That’s exactly what’s happening now, with the current Supreme Court…and look at how that’s going.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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          1 year ago

          They can’t wildly swing from one precedent to another, depending on the individual whims of whichever judge is currently deciding a case.

          They can and they are.

          • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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            1 year ago

            That’s why I responded the way I did to the guy that said, “Stare Decisis is for suckers”.

            The current Supreme Court is not adhering to precedent. Without that adherence, no decision is final. Every established law can simply be reinterpreted again and again, without any consistency.

        • JaymesRS@piefed.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I wasn’t suggesting it, that phrase is an older conservative trope from legal blog from 20 years ago that is clearly motivating the current Supreme Court. (The current strict scrutiny podcast references it too in a clearly sarcastic tone as well)

      • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online
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        1 year ago

        It’s called a “gratuity” now instead of a bribe. I guess the SCOTUS was feeling left out watching the other two branches make money hand over fist and decided to legalize it.

        Edit: apparently the difference is getting paid after or before whatever “service” is provided.

  • GreenBottles@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is already illegal.

    Racial profiling is considered illegal in the United States as it violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause, which guarantees all individuals protection from discrimination based on race or ethnicity.

    Also, if there is no suspicion of a crime, it is illegal to detain someone. Otherwise that’s kidnapping.

    These issues have been litigated many times.

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me???

    What the fuck America? Honestly. What the actual fuck has happened to your nation.

    • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      We never had a true democracy and that fact is coming around to bite us and everyone else in the ass again. We don’t have Christian denominations anymore, we have sports teams. We don’t have politics, we wage culture war. God damn bless america… I fucking hate it here

      • ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Personally I support “The Great Repossession”. Time to take back what they stole from the working class. Just take back their assets.

    • flandish@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      we’vr had sleeper cells of nazis and bootlickers on “both” sides of the aisles for a century or so because they’re all actually aged capitalists. When capitalists feel like their quality of life and profit is threatened, by labor or technology, they will work toward two things:

      Moving the overton window in small steps as they test the waters and then implementing actual fascism in the waters where their tests succeeded.

      Notice the areas with martial law are not really big on public ownership of guns or understanding of castle doctrine? That’s on purpose.