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US Supreme Court sets April 25 Trump criminal immunity argument
(www.reuters.com)
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Whoa, bud- careful with those counter-hivemind opinions. You'll get slapped for wrongthink around here.
edit: Case-in-point: my ratio right now.
People should stop with this hivemind stuff. It's okay to feel something and be corrected. It's fine to learn.
wow yeah I totally didn't get slapped for wrongthink by the hivemind, you guys sure showed me with this "correction"
what am I supposed to have learned from this?
Yeah imagine thinking the 9th and 14th amendments matter... Silly liberals
is that an echo i hear? echo...echo...echo...
I don't suppose you could explain how the 14th amendment works in the relevant case to give the contrary opinion to the unanimous court? I'm with the guy above, they suck and are awful, but not wrong on this one in particular. That you think the 9th amendment is somehow relevant is... telling.
edit: crickets. Crickets and downvotes. Nope, no hivemind punishing wrongthink here. Nosiree.
for your edification
So, explaining how the 14th amendment works or how the 9th is relevant to his case is... beneath you. I'm painfully illogical for asking for an explanation. "the hivemind will downvote you for having a contrary opinion" is a lazy argument(?), despite direct incontrovertible evidence to support my claim.
I made no arguments, I asked a question and asserted a claim.
Thank you for deigning to reply, but I reject this as being of very poor quality, and mostly projection.
I read your comment and it reminded me of something, but I just couldn't put my finger on it. It took me a few minutes, then it dawned on me: it was my drunk Trumper uncle at Thanksgiving dinner. He was telling us how the "Mexicans and Blacks" are sabotaging "White Christianity™" by crossing the border and interbreeding with white women and that our telling him to shut up and go home was the real intolerance
Tl;dr: dumb people often blame everyone else for any consequences of their failure to recognize they're dumb.
It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and yes it's remarkable how often humans fall into this trap, isn't it? In my experience, the appropriate response is to educate people when they are mistaken. Perhaps you could take the time to correct my mistake instead of ridiculing me?
The hive-mind children in here are worse than reddit ever was, and was there for 12-years. Notice not a soul stated anything counter to what I posted?
Afraid_of_zombies provided a counterexample to one of your theses, which you failed to debunk.
Shalafil posted a rebuttal 8 hours before this comment accusing them of not defending themselves, and this person posted a far more thorough debunking.
That you think "non-sequitur therefore your argument is invalid" is a compelling argument is depressing.
The overturning of Roe vs Wade, which was an almost 50 year old precedent, is an example of the supreme court acting in a partisan manner. Since the premise is that the current supreme court has never acted in a partisan manner, the counterexample refutes the premise. And if the premise of an argument is not true, then the argument doesn't support the thesis. So, the guy you cited is also wrong.
Edit: Turns out the rebuttal you linked is a reply to a different, albeit identically worded post. And in this context, Shalafil didn't use the term 'never' in their premise, meaning that in that context, a single counterexample actually isn't enough to disprove the premise. So you're right on this one. Sorta annoying that these two clash several times in this discussion.
What a remarkably reasonable take, both before and after edit.
Thank you.
Thank you for actually taking the time.
That was the very first thing I noticed. I had two accounts over there for about 12 years too.