One notes you consistently claim to know what people are thinking, feeling, doing. and how and why, and tell them. When you grow up, you will realize that is always a mistake, except and until you get it right. Which does not happen very often, nor are you a judge of it. — tim wood
to conclude that your primary factor of selection is race, as well as gender, is the kind of cognitive processing that escapes any rational description. — Garrett Travers
And of course you may be guilty of exactly what you seem to object to. If Biden cares to choose a Black woman for the USSC, and you object on the basis of her color/gender/whatever, then you're the one discriminating. He merely thinks such a person, if qualified, deserves a fair chance — tim wood
And he's willing to give her/them that chance. And given the history, that and more like it seem a mighty good and fine thing to do. — tim wood
I will guess you like the rest of us are a great consumer of all that the state provides, however. And likely would be among the ones who would scream loudest if ever that flow of beneficence were shut off or even reduced. You have the luxury of "hating" because the state has afforded it to you.I already hate the state.... — Garrett Travers
I will guess you like the rest of us are a great consumer of all that the state provides, however. And likely would be among the ones who would scream loudest if ever that flow of beneficence were shut off or even reduced. You have the luxury of "hating" because the state has afforded it to you. — tim wood
As to the rest of your comment, I take it that you have zero problem with any competent candidate, for so long as he or she is appropriately competent, yes? — tim wood
It provides less than what it takes. The state steals at least 25% of my labor-earnings (labor), while providing very few benefits to me, of which I do not want — Garrett Travers
Coherence? I don't think concepts kill too many people. As to substance, try some Hobbes. If you had said that some states seem to be bad, no argument. But who or what has your back when a bad state comes knocking?The single greatest source of unjustified, flagitious mass murder, destruction, regression, and misery is beyond any plausible domain of deniability is the state as an institutionalized concept. — Garrett Travers
Perhaps this is so, but extremely unlikely. My guess is that you are simply blind to all that the state provides. Take a moment and reflect. Is there anything at all that you do that is not conditioned or affected by the state, usually for the better or intended to be? — tim wood
I don't think concepts kill too many people. As to substance, try some Hobbes. If you had said that some states seem to be bad, no argument. But who or what has your back when a bad state comes knocking? — tim wood
And just how do you suppose the market exists?Think about all of the things you use for survival on a daily basis that is provided to you by the market, — Garrett Travers
And just how do you suppose the market exists? — tim wood
How's that? At what point did you determine there was racism within the Supreme Court solely on the basis that the men on the Court, who aren't Clarence Thomas I'll assume, are white..? What informs this notion? — Garrett Travers
I make no such claim. I made some jokes to Banno. — Tom Storm
I simply believe that this nomination is justified on the basis of potentially making this institution more diverse. — Tom Storm
Diversity as a standard for filling a Court seat with the responsibility of interpreting the law, and perhaps changing it? Skin color is a standard the supercedes competance? Supercedes honesty? Or, perhaps is on par with those standards? — Garrett Travers
Diversity as a standard for filling a Court seat with the responsibility of interpreting the law, and perhaps changing it? Skin color is a standard the supercedes competance? Supercedes honesty? Or, perhaps is on par with those standards? — Garrett Travers
The best person should get the job regardless of race, sex, etc. — Pinprick
Don't bore me with mere reality! — unenlightened
Gotta love how non-Americans bash America for lack of diversity when they only need to look at their own country's High Court (of Australia) to see that the lack of diversity is much worse.Yeah, you really need more old white men. Been working for hundreds of years, why change. — Banno
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