Honestly the longer I think about it the harder it is not to be pissed at RBG for not retiring in 2013 Like the nicest thing you can say about her decision is she was wildly overoptimistic
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Replying to @arthur_affect
She is not responsible for the decision of McConnell to not put Garland up for a vote. Stop it.
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Replying to @oshay0826
Oh come on, seriously None of us are responsible for the evil actions of other people but we're responsible for what we do to respond to them That's what the term "responsibility" means
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Replying to @arthur_affect @oshay0826
You know you want Roe v. Wade to stay law You know the Republicans want it overturned You bet on the Republicans not *really* wanting it overturned *that* bad and being willing to stay within "democratic norms" even if it means letting the babies get murdered another 10 years
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Replying to @arthur_affect @oshay0826
Welp Turns out you were wrong, and they really were willing to do whatever it took to get their way They won and you lost It's not a question of who's a good person and who's an evil one, they succeeded at their goals and you failed at yours
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Who are you even replying to? I wasn't wrong or right. RBG made a choice to continue in a job she was able to do and we get to judge it with the perspective of hindsight. I don't judge her for not being able to predict the future.
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Replying to @oshay0826 @arthur_affect
You don't judge her for knowing her health and how freedoms can hinge on a single supreme court justice and deciding to keep on anyway? You're really not painting her in the most flattering light.
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Replying to @NotSomeFanboy @arthur_affect
She served for 7 years after the point where she retired. How am I not painting her in a flattering light? She's literally being blamed for not being able to time her retirement perfectly by people who have the privilege of hindsight...
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Replying to @oshay0826 @NotSomeFanboy
People told her to retire in 2013 because they had the gift of foresight and turned it to be correct Which didn't require any special powers of prediction, just a healthy dose of pessimism
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What actually happened was not some wildly unlikely series of lightning strikes It was, in hindsight, a perfectly normal extrapolation of Republicans being the shitheels they've always been and Americans liking to vote for Republicans like they always have
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