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"gifts to judges from people not involved in cases is not bribery"

Uhhh, yeah that's a big <citation needed> there bud.

If a prominent party member gifts you lavish vacations and you subsequently decide cases along party lines, what else would you call that?


Citation needed? Refer to a dictionary ;). I think the big question mark is on "you subsequently decide cases along party lines." Citation needed? This I think is the major stumbling block in the public perception of the court. It's ideological divides aren't always the one's in the vernacular.

I looked at one of the more vehement and thorough articles alleging the thing you are, and it was pretty unconvincing: https://truthout.org/articles/report-harlan-crow-has-a-stake...


Why is a typical public servant not allowed to accept even a $20 gift to avoid the appearance of impropriety, but the Venerable Judge Thomas can accept... <checks> ...5 MILLION DOLLARS worth of gifts, nearly half of all known gifts to the Supreme Court and many of them undeclared? What in the actual fuck?

Describe this situation to anyone not deep in a political bubble and see what they call it.


The appearance of corruption has always been a valid concern too.

If the perpetrators are not dragged in chains in front of a nationally televised tribunal at some point in the future, we will have failed as a country.

Just as a reminder, Silicon Valley darling Curtis Yarvin recently said this:

"We have only one problem. The problem is: our billionaires are n—ers. They may be rich. But they're n—er rich. The nature and function of their wealth is profoundly negrous. You can probably name exceptions. I can too. But in every way, the exceptions prove the rule"

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/po...

And yet he still happily pops up at social gatherings with these elites.


Oh, then Bezos must be living a humble, middle-class life with very limited liquidation of his assets.

Surely, he’s not using loans, write-offs, and legal tricks to fund a Great Gatsby lifestyle while pretending to have no actual income?

Right?


Your headline-expert confusion on how it works isn't the flex you think it is.

Thanks for the completely content-free comment! You're a credit to the community.

Good, let them slowly sink into the ocean.

Pedal to the metal please. Saw it off and tow it out to sea and actively sink it.

Meanwhile, America's tech CEOs are gifting the president with gold statues and accompanying him on diplomatic trips.

I don't live in the US so this doesn't quite enrage me, especially since I'm aware that every US president gets tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars in donations to their election campaigns, so a gold statue does not look like a big deal when compared to that.

Gotta say, it’s kinda funny how many people here get triggered by this line of thinking.

"Yes, of course I'd make tools to kill people for money! How dare you unfriend someone for that?"

Telling on themselves.


They probably took it very personally because it's what they do.

Correct. He has unfathomable amounts of blood on his hands. And I don't have the links handy, but I read at least two articles that directly traced his criminally negligent dismantling of USAID to individual deaths.

Every article concerning Musk or his companies needs to forever be prefaced with this fact.


Well, Musk illegally wrecked half the federal government and killed tens of thousands of Africans in the process. Now he spends his days boosting and funding white nationalists and far-right politicians around the world. Why does everything have to be "good" or "bad"? Because some things are just pure evil and need to be called out as such, as well as thoroughly boycotted if the wheels of justice are too slow to turn.

This is not a nuanced case of "he did a few icky things, but also lots of good things." No. He is a fucked up, deeply racist megalomaniac who is doing his best to reshape the Western world in his fetid image. If he stopped with Tesla and SpaceX, maybe he would be penned differently in the history books, but alas.


More on the fascist beat: "FBI raids office of Dem state lawmaker in Virginia who led redistricting efforts"

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/louise-lucas-fbi-vi...


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