US supreme court justice took $900 tickets from leader known for ties to rightwingers such as Steve Bannon
  • EleventhHour
    21•3 months ago

    I support the name and shame, but don’t expect this to go anywhere. These fuckers have been getting away with this garbage for far too long.

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPresEnglish
    19•3 months ago

    Whom amongst us hasn’t accepted concert tickets from a conservative German aristocrat?

    Also, a technicality but once a country abolishes nobility, the noun becomes “pretender” not “aristocrat.” I know keeping track of titles is complicated but it’s only polite to use the correct terms.

  • celeste
    16•3 months ago

    After he[r] reinvention as a conservative Catholic activist, she drew criticism in 2001 after saying on a television talkshow that the high rate of Aids in Africa was due, not to a lack of safe sex, but because “the Blacks like to copulate a lot”. She later tried to amend her remarks, saying Africans had a lot of sex due to the continent’s hot climate.

    Wow!

    • @IchNichtenLichtenEnglish
      5•3 months ago

      They want to conserve attitudes towards minority groups that were prevalent in the 1950s. They want to conserve the power of the wealthy ruling class. They want to conserve corporation’s ability to ruin the planet for short term gain.

  • Blackout
    4•3 months ago

    He did check first to make sure this was ethically appalling before accepting those tickets

  • @[email protected]
    3•3 months ago

    There are no German aristocrats. There are people with inheritable, but meaningless titles, though.