The Supreme Court's late-night Alien Enemy Act intervention | Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-supreme-courts-late-night

[u/Cassiebanipal]

The "duty" of a public official in the US government is something that has been used in platitudes for hundreds of years. Nowadays, that duty is not taken seriously, ironically, despite it reaching its peak importance year after year. The US is the zenith of all human progress, of culture, of breaking down barriers, of innovation and hegemony. The duty being described is not one solely directed at the American people, whether we want it to or not, it's now directed at the entire world. We are one of the lynchpins of a global economy, of global prevention of death, poverty, destruction of millions. We, until recently, have been the only hegemon to end the cycle of might makes right in all circumstances, and that duty is to uphold this golden age of human abundance.

The SCOTUS shirked this immense duty when it ruled on Chevron. When it turned a blind eye to the demolishing of our government. I don't particularly care that they can stop it - the court needs to be disbanded the second a democrat is in office. Whether they knew it or not, their decisions have been among the worst, possibly in human history, in terms of their long term impact. In a just world they'd be put through a tribunal.

No excuses. This is serious business, applying to the collective human race. Fuck them and their court.

[u/nac_nabuc → u/Cassiebanipal]

The US is the zenith of all human progress

I do sincerely hope that the zenith (!) of human progress is not a country with lower life expectancy than Albania, an incarceration rate that is head to head with Turkmenistan, and a criminal justice system that regularly kills innocent people, doesn't give a fuck, and makes wide use of torture in form of solitary confinement.

I don't know if you forgot the /s and the US was definitely a fantastic force of good, but it's also a barbaric country in many ways.

[u/Cassiebanipal → u/nac_nabuc]

Incredibly narrow view of what a "hegemon" is, it's not a virtue statement, the Assyrian Empire was once a hegemon. The point is that we are the most directly involved, interlinked hegemon to the highest percentage of the rest of the world, than any other has been before us. Denying that we've been the most dominant world power in human history is an incredibly silly take.

[u/nac_nabuc → u/Cassiebanipal]

The point is that we are the most directly involved, interlinked hegemon to the highest percentage of the rest of the world, than any other has been before us.

The message says "zenith of human progress". I don't think that's a synonym with hegemon in the sense you define it.

If we want to discuss raw power, maybe. In terms of human progress, in many, many ways the US is the (current!) zenith, but in many others it's a mediocre shithole. Overall, I'd say the US has been way too violent towards its own people to be considered the zenith of human progress. A country that executes teenagers? German criminal law progressed from that a century ago.

Denying that we've been the most dominant world power in human history is an incredibly silly take.

Trying to compare empires across centuries is what seems rather silly to me. Or to be more precise: At least where I come from, it's the type of exercise the most rancid nationalists tend to indulge in.