Freeman Butland

Lawyer. #UCLA Grad. #Progressive. #HegelFan. Phenomenology of Spirit is best philosophy book ever written. #BLM. Reparations are just. #TheYoungAssociate.

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@Kittiesnliberty @fred_guttenberg Generally, when given two choices it is better to select the one that yields a better outcome, even if you don't like either of the choices. The exception would be if the more beneficial outcome required reprehensible conduct on your part (see e.g. the trolley problem.)

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@fred_guttenberg Well, the bump stocks ban--put in after Vegas--was struck down in 2024 by Sup. Ct. Bump stocks allow semis to shoot like a machine gun.This is another device (“forced reset triggers”) — that allows semiautomatic weapons to fire rapid bursts of bullets.

https://t.co/tc2KNdBQhv

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

If you end a relationship, you need it to hurt so you can move on.

Here is European leaders ending a call with Trump.

The United States has been lost. You can see it in their face.

The US administration are a shame to everything America used to stand for.

Disgusting.

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@stevenmazie I would not put it that way. There are 7 justices insisting on Venezuelans getting due process and they are determined that the gvt give it to them. Note that the Supreme Court has not even addressed the issue of whether the gvt can deport the Venueuelans under the AEA...

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@freadyisready If a black person had a t-shirt that explicitly threatened violence against white people then I think that would be equivalent and Trader Joe's would be right as in this case in asking them to leave. Power matters when you're talking about racism.

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@freadyisready She had a Nazi tattoo & a white power tattoo. A black person having a black power tattoo wouldn't be the same thing because: (1) it wouldn't call to mind the many millions of people (including 6 million jews) killed by the Nazis, & (2) black people don't control the gvt.

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

Our mistake in 2024 was not realizing that, yes, only Biden could win in 2024 and we should have done everything we could to ensure he won instead of engaging in magical thinking.

Which Dems like Beto O'Rourke continue to do...

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

What Dem pols/leadership have to face up to is that presidential elections are decided by 7 states. I know they know that ...but they don't really consider the implications or feel it in their bones. This is the absurd system we got and we have to deal with it.

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

“Just to be clear, Biden should not have run again. And to be even more clear, he failed this country in the most important job that he had.” —@BetoORourke

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

We Dems are progressive; we would have liked having a black female president. We voted for her!

However,she couldnt win because she was not going to do well in those 7 states. We can't have wishful thinking about this.

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@freadyisready @StopAntisemites Well, a store cannot discriminate on the basis of race. Are you trying to claim they booted her from the store because they are prejudiced against white people? That's a stretch to say the least.

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

This is how irretrievably lost @politico and its hiveminders like @hollyotterbein and @adamwren are:

This isn't a groundswell of concern they're addressing. It's a PR campaign to sell a book by scumbags @jaketapper and @AlexThomp

Lead quote is from a 1-term Dem congressman I had literally never heard of until this crap

I'll never support Trump over anybody but I also won't waste my time defending unprofessional pretend journalists like these clowns

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@MrsButters Or just TD: Trump Deranged.

[Freeman Butland @ButlandFreeman]

@DominoesFallin1 @JulindaLace @keithedwards Yeah...but then there goes
civilization. There's that. Then it's just the rule of the strong and everything will go to hell...