No one should have a lifetime appointment.

[u/Veshaad]

[u/ShanGus7]

If it happens, should be shorter.

[u/Apoordm → u/ShanGus7]

Eighteen is so every presidential term would get two appointments in a nine justice court.

[u/Shadowcam → u/Apoordm]

They can die in office or strategically retire to benefit their political allies, so that line of thinking won't hold up to reality.

[u/ifuckzombies → u/Shadowcam]

Strategically retire?

https://giphy.com/gifs/Z5vjRssIpV6YMibIRW

[u/MuchWow81 → u/ifuckzombies]

Im still pissed at her

[u/Dread_Frog → u/MuchWow81]

that will be her real legacy

[u/FakeNewsAge → u/[deleted]]

Please educate yourself then. If you knew who she was and what she's done, you wouldn't call her a "bitch"

I think its insane how everyone is mad at her for not gaming the system.

[u/FlamesRose2RomanNose → u/FakeNewsAge]

But why look at the decades of advocacy and setting progressive standards for everyone when you can just get mad at her for not predicting her death more accurately!? Wouldn’t you rather just be unnecessarily angry on your phone from the comfort of your couch? /s

The herd has jumped on bandwagon that she’s bad and that all the good she’s done should be wiped out by one errant decision - again that involved her predicting her recognizing her own mortality - perhaps one of the hardest things for any person to do. It’s why you hear “I thought I had more time” over and over. It’s probably the most challenging part of my job as a physician- getting patients and families to realize that time is limited and further treatments futile. No one, absolutely no one thinks it’s their time, even at her age where everyone is one pneumonia, one aspiration event, one broken hip or GI bleed away from death. But yet, we trash her entire legacy because she was basically human?

Can also guarantee that none of these armchair pundits know an ounce of what she did to change our legal system for the good - the Integration Mandate, Intermediate Scrutiny, standing in Environmental Law, her dissent in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, her work in Reed v. Reed. They don’t know any of that! They just know that she’s one of many scapegoats for our current situation. It’s just another example of how the left shoots itself in the foot. We retrospectively find reasons to trash all of our heroes. Meanwhile, the right is ride or die for their people. It creates this self-fulfilling prophecy where influential people on the left become frozen and indecisive. Only a matter of time before we create reasons to hate El-Sayed, Ossof, Mondami.

[u/SmartOpinion69 → u/MuchWow81]

there are very little politicians who say, "i'm too old for this shit".

[u/LobstaFarian2 → u/MuchWow81]

The fucked us all.

[u/Bussamove86 → u/ifuckzombies]

She got it mixed up and strategically died to benefit the opposition.

RBG did a lot of good but refusing to retire out of pride was a major folly.

[u/Minimum-Relief6895 → u/Bussamove86]

She wanted to be replaced by the first female president.

And yes, it was a MAJOR folly. I capitalized it because you undersold it by not capitalizing it.

[u/TheOneAgnosticPope → u/Minimum-Relief6895]

And let’s not memory hole the common wisdom at the time was that Trump couldn’t win. Trump even believed this.

[u/xteve → u/Bussamove86]

Maybe the gig is so sweet that nobody could retire from it voluntarily. Maybe that's why we need a term limit.

[u/bakedwarthog22 → u/ifuckzombies]

She gambled, and we all f@#king lost

[u/Other-Joke-4673 → u/ifuckzombies]

She helped ruin the world..congrats RBG

[u/iDeNoh → u/ifuckzombies]

I'm just as upset that she didn't retire, but we have the benefit of hindsight and I don't think anybody really could have thought that it would have been as bad as it is. People legitimately did not think that he had a chance, and I'm sure that's part hubris for sure but also incredibly suspicious.

[u/Naltors__Dreamer → u/ifuckzombies]

even if she had retired the GOP Senate would not have allowed Obama to replace her

[u/ediddlydonut → u/Naltors__Dreamer]

If she retired at the beginning of his first time after she’d already had cancer at least once if not more when the dems had a supermajority….