Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

Visible-Education-98 t1_j8i59ww wrote

You, my friend, are the MOST dangerous judgemental type there is with a statement like yours “You don’t really need to know anything about a person other than that they believe this kind of shit to know they have …”. Just imagine if we all went around applying your logic for assessing a person’s intellect. WOW! Scary.

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Hen-stepper t1_j8i3crk wrote

Excuse me, but the contradiction is entirely yours. I have had an entire discussion with you and I am addressing each point. You are extrapolating everything from a screenshot of a Facebook post.

You said that one does not even need to know about the person’s qualifications as a judge, that this post in particular is sufficient. There is a contradiction because one does need to know about the person to determine whether they will make or remain a good judge. You are not being assessed for any job and your entire line of reasoning here only proves that you fail to pay attention.

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Hen-stepper t1_j8i2j38 wrote

I do not believe you know what makes a qualified or unqualified judge. By your logic, you are saying that if a judge in their personal life is vegan, speaks about it, and a judge’s job is to be impartial, then your conclusion is that the judge should be fired? Judges have to be saints with no bias towards anything? Or what you are saying is they can be biased but cannot express this?

ACAB and BLM are absolutely different because a judge works with cops and black people. A judge’s very mild personal opinion about Joe Biden and China has absolutely nothing to do with their job. A judge’s job is to interpret the law.

You are witch hunting this judge because at face value you believe that you disagree with his politics. Based on a screen shot from Facebook.

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BlaineTog t1_j8i016g wrote

Hey, what about, "one does need to know about the person"? You don't know anything about me, my dude, yet you're diagnosing my real motivations off a brief post on reddit? Make up your mind! You can't even avoid contradicting yourself for one sentence, which is honestly impressive.

Also, are you going to address that the SJC agrees with us, or nah?

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BlaineTog t1_j8hzqpy wrote

A judge's job is to be impartial. This chucklehead was making it abundantly clear that he was anything but. Even putting aside that we don't need to refute claims that have absolutely no evidence to recommend them, judges cannot fulfill the terms of their employment if they post a bunch of stuff that makes them look hopelessly biased and unhinged.

Would you want a judge known for making pro-BLM posts and replying, "ACAB," to every story about police misconduct to judge police brutality cases? Of course not, they would appear biased. Same thing here. Nobody would take this motormouth seriously and he would provide grounds for mistrials any time he sat a case with the barest whiff of politics attached to it.

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ThreeDogs2022 t1_j8hzck4 wrote

Not just related to this but it's really disturbing to me how little can be done about openly biased or nutball judges.

This guy clearly isn't fit to run a basement, let alone a housing court, but other than reprimanding him what's to be done? He deleted his facebook account, now he's just a vile bigoted wanker who is....still a judge.

Another recent example: Judge Bruce Schroeder.

Also thinking about Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan. Sure they were eventually caught and even prosecuted but how many lives did they ruin, how much needless suffering did they cause, while they were untouchable?

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BlaineTog t1_j8hys64 wrote

I mean, you really don't need to know anything about someone other than that they believe this kind of shit to know that they have cottage cheese where their brain should be.

Also, this is a weird hill for you to die on when it's not just random redditors saying this guy is unfit to be a judge but the state's highest court after looking at his resume, speaking to his references, and interviewing him.

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Hen-stepper t1_j8hy2ph wrote

What are you essentially saying is that you either do not wish to or are incapable of refuting this judge’s assertion, which you call a conspiracy theory, and so due to your lack of effort or ability you have decided that it is better to get the person fired. In my mind that is an authoritarian mindset and an anti-debate mindset. I disagree with your methodology and the world that anti-intellectual social media brutes have created.

It doesn’t even dawn on you that the person’s view can be changed through persuasion. It’s just that they are “bad” which is ridiculous and false.

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