Summary

Justice Samuel Alito, a self-described Originalist, has been criticized for allegedly disregarding the Constitution’s text when it conflicts with his personal views.

Recently, it emerged that Alito accepted a knighthood from a European order, despite the Constitution’s ban on foreign titles for U.S. officials.

This title, from the House of Bourbon–Two Sicilies, raises questions about Alito’s commitment to American democratic ideals, which the Framers aimed to protect from foreign influence.

Critics argue that Alito’s actions reflect hypocrisy in his supposed adherence to Originalism and constitutional principles.

  • treefrog
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    6 hours ago

    Antisocial personality disorders are notoriously hard to treat, and medications aren’t the first line of treatment

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      2 hours ago

      You’re focusing on semantics, replace “medicated” with “treated by a professional” here if it helps you get the larger point?

      I didn’t say APDs directly, while that would be low hanging fruit here, I wouldn’t be surprised if Alito and some of these people turned out to be borderline paranoid schizophrenics - They are taking “oaths” from “magical royal orders” and flying upside down flags with trees on them to signal pending widespread violence to their imagined allies, where Christians will literally eviscerate their perceived enemies with swords. All the while they are stock piling wrappings and terrified of a looming foreign threat that they are convinced will eat their house pets. All along the way, they all furiously reference (while rarely reading) an old book, written in a dead language, about magical talking bushes and men who can control the sea water with their minds and come back from the dead after having walked on water and spontaneously generated fish and wine.

      • treefrog
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah it’s possible they have some sort of schizoaffective disorder. I think more likely they pay lip service to their religion and don’t buy half of the shit that they sell because it gives them power .

        In other words everything you mentioned I believe is justification for their behavior. Not the cause of it.

        • Snapz@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 hours ago

          IMO, respectfully it’s more comforting for you personally to do that work to justify that it’s all explainable and we’re not being actively governed by the mentally ill. Again, IMO, it’s enabling for you to connect those dots on their behalf. They are showing you reality here, of course its human nature to say, “wait… No? Right, this isn’t serious?”

          But it is, “they’re eating the dogs and the cats” “they control the weather” “secret pedophile pizza basements” “secret Muslims without birth certificates” - this is all happening now.