Hym "I have never had a problem with meritocratic victory or defeat. My position is actually perfectly analogous to Joe's position on judges. The judges are getting paid to decide to wins and who loses. They are the ones who choose the winner. Joe is not. What justification does Joe have to protest the judges decision? Joe must be full of shit because the people who decide who wins and who loses say that he's wrong. Is he wrong to call for them to be replaced with those who will make a fair judgement?"
Where do judges get their money? Congress. Where does congress get IT'S money? The US treasury. Where does the US treasury get IT'S money?
Hym "MY TAX DOLLARS! HURRAY! I get to spend a third of my money I make to pay a guy to tell me that IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT HE DIDN'T THINK OF IT FIRST, I don't own my own mind and, therefore, have to run a legal obstacle course to prove to the guy that I'm paying that is thing happening out in the open in the middle of the town square is happening. That's a RIGHT that I have. It's a RIGHT for me to pay judges to do that to me."
A snuff porn plot in the old testament. fast forward: the plot goes there was a Levite & his concubine are being house in someone else's house, some Benjamites knock on the door saying bring the foreigner outside we know him. This was a euphemism in its time we would like to sex with him. The home owner goes outside and says don't do such a wicked thing, here take my daughter instead. anyways the bejamites ran train and raped the girl to death, she got left dead on the doorstep the next day.
I couldn't tell if I was reading an adult fiction novel or the bible when I was reading Judges 19
Free speech applies to everyone not just conservatives.
Freedom of religion applies to everyone not just Christians.
The "Equal Protection" clause of the 14th amendment applies to everyone not just white male heterosexual Christians. When courts make rulings acknowledging these simple truths Republicans call them activist judges.