Summary
The North Carolina Supreme Court, in a 5-1 Republican-led decision, blocked certification of Democratic Justice Allison Riggs as the winner of a state Supreme Court race.
Riggs leads Republican Jefferson Griffin by 734 votes after recounts, but Griffin claims 60,000 ballots were illegally cast and seeks to have them invalidated.
The court will now hear Griffin’s challenge, with briefs due by January 24.
Democrats criticized the move as partisan, while the lone Democratic justice dissented, arguing there is no basis to delay certification or disrupt the election process.
After 80 years of switching back and forth between Republics and Monarchies. With mob violence, civil wars, and brutal crackdowns. Which mostly killed commoners, not nobles. It wasn’t until 1870 that they stabilized as a Republic, because they lost a war to the Germans.
We could do that or we could follow the example of the many countries who defended their rights or claimed them by filling the streets with people.
I’m not the one with a reading comprehension problem.
Filling the streets with people, on its own, doesn’t do jack shit. It’s an implied threat and you need to be willing to follow up on it with action or you’re not getting anywhere. Also what do you intend to do when/if the government shoots the people filling the streets? Of course peaceful change is the best option, but it doesn’t always, or even most of the time, work, and in that case you have no option except to capitulate or resort to violence.
If we actually reach that point then we reach it. But if we jump to it then we have utterly failed.
Worse, I believe you have a comprehension problem.
Multiple great wins for their citizens, with universal healthcare, a great aerospace lineage, reliable and low cost energy to help their industries grow, low to no cost higher education. A robust, healthy farm industry, high regard for planetary health among citizens, and a very reasonable work-life balance.
All they had to do was demand it. You’re too chickenshit to even dream about it. Pathetic.
You could say the same about quite a few countries, without the 80 years of fuckery.
So no I don’t want to fight your war. It’s a stupid idea that only those who’ve never seen war would come up with. How about instead of calling a combat veteran a coward you try something else first. This country has tried nothing in regards to political reform platforms and you want to jump straight to violence like it’s going to be a fucking Hollywood movie. The only thing you’re buying is shit and blood. Then you get to find out that war drives people to strongman leaders because they just want the fighting to be over. They don’t care about rights or anything like that after years of fighting. It’s honestly a fucking miracle France turned out that way.
And it’s a bit weird you keep focusing on them instead of other success stories like Scandinavia or South Korea. None of them required a long period of struggle to realize those things.
You never heard of the Korean war? How much quiet fighting Scandanavian countries went through with the USSR, never mind the 11 wars Sweden and Russia have been in? None of that influenced economic and cultural decisions over the course of history? Really?
I’m also not a warhawk, and would prefer to build society as the engineer I am, not to fight. But our common enemy is wealthy, and motivated to destroy the planet by a mental disease they won’t admit to. I’d rather not be violent, but it draws inexorably towards us, we cannot make decisions halfway through collapse.
Enjoy your stolen valor, served alongside a well-broiled cut of historical ignorance 🙄
We’re not talking about every war France has been in. We’re talking about their internal struggle. And South Korea’s liberalization happened in 1987 after massive protests filled the street.
If you want to call other people ignorant then you really should go read about the subjects here before you so happily resign yourself to a lifetime of war. I don’t know how old you are but every war hawk I’ve ever listened to used that same exact line. “I want peace but the violence is just unavoidable!” Every. Fucking. Time. From Kipling to Bush.
Yet here we stand in the mire, and nothing changes. The consequences of inaction will be real.
It’s been fun, I don’t give a shit about you or convincing you. We’ll make moves for team human in spite of folks like you who keep hoping things will improve.
Oh it’s war for team human now. I’d say that’s a new one but it isn’t. George Bush used that one in 2002.
Yep. Not war, more like excision.
ouch, you had at least a resemblance of an argument till the excision remark. War and battles aren’t operating tables, ask anyone who has actually participated in a war and ask if that’s possible. I doubt you would find a sane general in history who tells you combat is a precise procedure, it’s messy and everyone gets hurt.
Oh another one. You say you aren’t a war hawk but damned if that doesn’t sound exactly like some bangers from the past.
“It’s just regime change”
"“They’ll be home by Christmas!”
Cope