Thus might highlight the... flaws... of our current system of legislating, executing and adjudicating.
Congress passes legislation saying here's what we intend to do without any specifics, executive branch figures out the specifics of how to execute on it, Judiciary might step in if the law itself is no bueno or if the president is operating outside the intended bounds of legislation or outside the constitution.
And what does an independent DoJ look like to you?
Yes there is a difference between "trump said I have to call you bruce" which is what the original post is, but the people in the comments posting photos of the Bruce Jenner decathlon board game, or referring to her as "Mr Bruce that is" or making a fake book title "they still call me Bruce II: electric boogaloo" are where the transphobia is setting in.
Yes she's a dumbass, yes she is cheering on the leopards eating her face, yes those leopards are going after trans people, but that doesn't mean we get to act the same way transphobes do to insult and dehumanize trans people no matter how much we disagree with the trans person. Attack their ideas and their dumbassery, not their identity.
Our constitution does have the method to be fixed, 27 times we've fixed it. They're called amendments. Honestly I would hazard to say that no political document anywhere is going to stand up to bad faith actors trying to subvert it. At the end of the day the the constitution is just a piece of parchment with some ink on it and only has the power we give it.
Germany as a nation began in 1871 when it went from being the Holy Roman Empire a loose collection of Germany states, to the nation of Germany and ~50 years later would collapse into Nazi Germany. Fascists don't care about the law, they use the perception of law to gain power.
Supposed to be separation of powers, Judiciary is supposed to just look at evidence and make judgement calls, the executive is supposed to do the legwork to actually bring that evidence to the courts. If the Judiciary is the ones collecting evidence and making the judgement calls as to what will and won't support a particular position, that's a bad thing.
Unfortunately that separation of power breaks down when fascists controll most/all the levers of power.
Well... the were when they were in the concentration camps in 1930s Germany after the institute that performed the first successful gender reassignment surgery was burned to the ground.
Sure it wasn't the many generations of the horrors of slavery but this is literally just Dido-ing at this point comparing the scale of atrocities. An atrocity is still an atrocity. Slavery was bad and we still see major hardships to this day because of the effects of slavery and Jim Crow. Nazi Germany was bad and look around, we're speed running the collapse of a democracy into a fascist dictatorship following the exact same steps as Germany did in the 30s.
Finding the irony of a trans person cheering on a transphobic fascist isn't transphobic, continuing to deadname (something transphobes do for the sake of cruelty) after the irony has been pointed out is transphobic.
Yes she's a dumbass who supports a man who is legally requiring her to be deadnamed. If you follow continue to follow the laws of a fascist to hurt minorities, congratulations you're still following the laws of a fascist to hurt minorities.
Call her a dumbass, point out that the law as written requires people to call her by her deadname, point out that she won't be immune to fascist consequences when Republicans do come for trans people, don't continue to deadname just because someone else already pointed out irony.
It's the lemmy people dogpiling and continuing the deadnaming after the point in the tweet has already been made. Yes Caitlyn Jenner is a moron who aligned herself with transphobic fascists who have legally mandated she be called by her deadname. Continuing to deadname her after the point is made is just additional cruelty on top without any additional benefit
Speaking more meta though, I fully understand the anger coming from people more to the left of Republicans, cruelty has won the Judiciary, congress and the presidency, cruelty has been an effective political strategy for republicans and a lot of people are angry and scared.
Personal injury lawyers might not be as big as they are, but lawsuits in the US are kind of important for more than just monetary compensation, it's to have case law and in essence introduce new regulations. McDonalds didn't just have to pay medical bills for the Hot Coffee lawsuit, but McDonalds also had to change how they serve their coffee. Its part compensation and part making sure it doesn't happen again or if it does, there is a clear path for what needs to happen. As awful as it is to have something bad happen, it's worse if we don't learn and change from it and our system of incorporating case law is pretty decent at that, if imperfect. No legal system can cover every scenario, but if it can adapt as new scenarios arise then it is all the more resilient (although that does kinda assume our Judiciary is truly impartial and there are no cronies trained by think tanks to give the illusion of impartiality)
Heretic who exploits faith for profit
Do conservative Evangelicals have any sense of irony?
Reason I said "certain anti-microbial properties". Both honey and garlic are able to slow the growth of some not so great bacteria like botulism for fermentation while also promoting the growth of good bacteria like lactobacillus.
Tragic: You agree with the worst person you know.