from the subjects-of-conversation dept
It’s been a while but we’ve got a double-winner this week from Thad, with a comment that took both first place for insightful and second place for funny, in response to the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling about Abrego Garcia:
Wow, I never realized that Thomas, Alito, and all three of Trump’s appointees were Marxists.
In second place on the insightful side, we’ve got Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the ramifications of this case:
If only citizens get due process, nobody gets due process. The government can say you’re not a citizen and disappear you without due process, and you won’t be able to do anything about it.
And this is the exact kind of administration to do exactly that. These ghouls don’t believe in universal human rights. They believe human rights are for people deemed “worthy” of having those rights—and that basically means the only people worthy of those rights are American-born cishet White conservative Christian men. I mean, there are Trump supporters who think the 19th Amendment was a bad idea; I’m sure that if you look hard enough, you’ll find some who believe the Fifteenth and even the Thirteenth were mistakes, too. And if you look real close, you might find people who think the first two words of the Fifth Amendment should be “no citizen” instead of “no person”—a distinction this administration is already trying to make.
Denouncing all of this is the easiest moral decision one can make about this administration. Those who refuse to denounce what’s been done here don’t deserve the benefit of a doubt—they would be the same kind of people who, at a bare minimum, turned their backs on the Jews in Nazi Germany.
And if they don’t like that comparison? Well, there’s a solution for that: Don’t make the comparison possible.
For editor’s choice on the insightful side, we’ve got two more comments from that post about Abrego Garcia. First it’s Nimrod hammering home the point:
The underlying message is that this could happen to any of us, so it would be prudent to keep your head down for the next few years.
They may not GIVE you that “one phone call”.
Now get back to WORK.
Next, it’s Pseudonymous Coward with a very important additional point:
Would it have been any better if it WAS legal?
Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The Underground Railroad and the resistance movements to help Jewish people and other targets of the Third Reich escape were not.
The problem isn’t that the administration is breaking the law, it’s that it is selling human beings for profit to a labor camp in El Salvador. It isn’t any better when it’s legal because they sold the “right” target.
Over on the funny side, our first place winner is MrWilson with a truly excellent comment about the impact of Trump’s tariffs on Nintendo Switch 2 preorders:
Actually, it’s about ethics in game tariffs.
We’ve already had the second place winner for funny above, so on to the editor’s choice. First, it’s Pixelation with a comment about Elon Musk’s X/xAI merger:
Well, to be fair, a lot of people have been telling him to go merge with himself…
Finally, it’s Heart of Dawn with a thought on “Trump Derangement Syndrome”:
Fun fact: syndromes are named after the first confirmed case.
That’s all for this week, folks!
