Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

Damn, never seen a web browser get milkshake duck’d so fast. I thought the 2026 timeline was enough of a red flag, but yeah no thanks.
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Friends, let’s have a conversation about internet comments trolls, and how screwed up they really are. You know the type. Fake name, maybe no photo. Goes after women and queer people.

We probably meet them all the time. They’re probably too cowardly to be anything but acceptably polite in real life. They say hi at the store. They think the internet isn’t as real, and like all bullies they hurt people who they see as good victims or that they’re jealous of to feel better about themselves.

But it’s actually scarier. Let’s break that down. They hurt people to feel better. It’s an emotional rise. It feels good,

You know where else we see that? When they catch a mass shooter or serial killer and look back for signs, and then find they liked to torture small animals, or abused their wife, or hurt their siblings. They enjoyed causing hurt. It made them feel better. Then it escalated.

You say this is a logical leap or too extreme. Trolling is harmless. I’m crazy. It’s not you. You’re just having fun. But I gotta tell you, I don’t enjoy causing victims pain. I retired from the military. I hunt, shoot, fight, play video games. That’s still not in me. You might want to talk to someone if that’s you.

thanks to @LouisIngenthron I just came across the fantastic 👀#Mosstodon hashtag, how incredible!

Louis puts it perfectly - 'It's so wholesome and positive that it restores my faith in humanity.'

There is a presumption of immunity if the President orders the assassination of his political rivals.

There is absolute immunity if the President does this using his core commander-in-chief powers.

If I were a political opponent, I would not travel overseas where the President's powers are at their zenith.

Welcome to authoritarianism.

#uspol #politics #uspolitics #law #lawfedi #legal #SCOTUS #Supremecourt

Supreme Court: The president has immunity for official acts.

Biden: Wet socks.

Supreme Court: What?

Biden: Official order, new uniforms. Wet socks, tight bowling shoes, thick wool robes. Get em on.

From the future wikpedia article: "Weak, old, and confused, Biden and his hidebound neoliberal advisors seemingly could do nothing to stem the rising tide of fascism, claiming the 'checks and balances' of government prevented him from taking any substantial action. The Biden administration looked on, seemingly helplessly, as the evil rose and metastatized." #supremecourt #biden #Trump #history

Kevin Kruse: "The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court led by Chief Justice Roger Taney, whose pro-slavery perversions of the Constitution brought us such indefensible decisions as the infamous Dred Scott ruling. The current court might not have issued a single ruling that rivals Dred Scott for sheer awfulness, but its broader record of capriciously overturning a much wider range of precedents and offering increasingly thin pretenses for its path of destruction puts the Roberts Court below the Taney Court in terms of its overall horrors." #scotus #uspoli
The Radical Roberts Court

Shorter SCOTUS immunity decision

TIRED: July 4, Independence Day
WIRED: July 1, Coronation Day

The US Supreme Court has declared the POTUS is immune to prosecution for "official acts".

The Magna Carta was in 1215. The US is now politically reactionary by the standards of medieval England.

Pretty good decision from the Supreme Court in Netchoice today. (The case where Texas and Florida wanted to ban content moderation) ...

Would usually celebrate that as a nice victory. But between the other recent Supreme Court rulings and the Democratic party's absolutely dogged determination to lose the next election, Netchoice feels like winning $10 on a lottery scratch ticket while watching your house burn down.

The Netchoice opinion will dominate the news tomorrow from 10 am through about 10:10 am, at which point it will be promptly forgotten.