Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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  • Mood: frustrated

Replacing Scalia

 Inevitably the Republicans are trying to prevent Obama from doing his job again.  They don't care that he's the President, they only care that he's black.  >_<  Dudes.  When the music stops, the President gets to pick the next player.  That's how this game works.  STFU.
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  • 7 comments
siliconshaman

siliconshaman

February 15 2016, 03:02:19 UTC 5 years ago

So... when did Bush appoint his supreme court judges again?

But I guess that doesn't count since he's 'their sort of people' and not 'one of those people'...
ysabetwordsmith

Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

February 15 2016, 03:19:18 UTC 5 years ago

Exactly. The rules change in regard to whatever benefits them. It is the core trait of the chaotic neutral character.
msminlr

Re: Yes...

msminlr

February 15 2016, 03:37:33 UTC 5 years ago

Hm. "Chaotic Neutral" is a bit of a different take on the Republicans in congress. Most folks i know don't exactly regard them as neutral.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Yes...

ysabetwordsmith

February 15 2016, 03:50:06 UTC 5 years ago

In this case it means lacking strong principles. Think about it. They claim to dislike abortion, but fight things that actually lower abortion. They claim to want morality, and then get caught blowing someone in the john. They claim to love America but corrupt and logjam the government. That's not principled. It's just selfish. They're doing whatever will benefit them personally in that moment.

This is the alignment described as chaotic neutral in D&D. There was a lovely Dragon article on the topic explaining how different alignments would handle the same moral dilemma. You can recognize the CN guy because he's the one whose arguments change based on his own advantage. You can rely on the paladin to be lawful good, you can rely on the necromancer to be bugfuck chaotic evil, but you cannot rely on the chaotic neutral guy to do anything. He won't even stay bought.
msminlr

Re: Yes...

msminlr

February 15 2016, 15:03:14 UTC 5 years ago

Got it. I'm not into D&D myself so I was not aware of the nuances of the term "neutral" in that context.

Yes, that describes them most excellently.
polydad

polydad

February 15 2016, 04:37:32 UTC 5 years ago

They don't care that he's black, either. He's Not On Their Team, and therefore by their thought anti-human. They'll shit on him because he's black too, but only because they were going to do so anyway and that's a convenient handle.

Pure opportunists are scarier than bigots (which they also are) and racists (again), because they don't *care* what collateral damage they cause.
johnpalmer

johnpalmer

February 22 2016, 16:20:58 UTC 5 years ago

Don't count on that - oh, they're not deliberately thinking to themselves "gonna teach that (you-know-what) his place!"

But no one's motivations are pure. And I wouldn't bet that there isn't some conscious racism in some of them. "He only won because he's *black*!" would be a common expression of it: "more whites voted for a black man than blacks voted for a white man, which shows how racist blacks are!"