There were so many bad SCOTUS decisions between the 40s and the 80s, I keep forgetting all of them. Remember: it's "Cruel AND unusual" for a reason. ( has to meet both criteria, we're basyean poasting again )

@sickburnbro@poa.st The Anti-Federalists warned the Revolutionary-era Americans about a supreme court and federal circuit system, knowing it would not be a force for objective interpretation of law and the constitution. As you always say, there are no rights, just privileges. https://archive.csac.history.wisc.edu/30_Brutus_XV.pdf

the key is "rights" are "privileges that we agreed to stop fighting about", and the problem with trying to tack on new things as "rights" is that it opens up the entire set of things we labeled as "rights" to reevaluation.

but for dumb wordcels that have become drunk on abusing language, it's a guarantee

@sickburnbro@poa.st Like with the 14th Amendment?

Remember what the goals of just punishment are. Making you personally feel good isn't it. Your bloodlust will be sated after you kill a few of them, but then you'll be set upon a course that you may come to dislike.

Gad. I used to volunteer and helped disabled people living on government assistance of one sort or another. The number of times I heard, "My rights ...," thrown around as some kind of magical phrase that will get them something they feel entitled to through other people ... Some people are very hard not to dislike.