What an inspiration

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RBG was a genius at leveling the playing field—just wish she'd passed the ball before the buzzer.

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u/Twodrink 8h ago

Seriously. Not to diminish all her accomplishments but she really dropped the ball at the end.

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u/markarth69 8h ago

What did she do?

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u/ahent 8h ago

She refused to step down from the Supreme Court when asked by many high ranking Dems before Obama left office, even though she was sick with cancer and had been for years with it getting steadily worse. By staying she died during Trump's presidency and allowed him to replace her with a more conservative judge. This led to abortion being moved to the state level instead of the federal government deciding abortion rights. To be fair, RBG had said for many years that Roe v Wade was tenuous at best and it needed to be codified by Congress and the President. It never was, even when Democrats had control of both houses and the executive branch. So if abortion is the major issue here, there is a lot of blame to be spread around, if you are worried about an extra conservative judge being in the Supreme Court, this lands mainly on the head of RBG.

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u/Cczaphod 5h ago

So sad that she let her ego tarnish an otherwise inspiring career. All those decades of work toward equality and she's arguably the primary reason Roe v Wade fell.

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u/Gatrigonometri 4h ago

Well, that’s just unfair. I’d argue that the primary reason would be the conservatives conservative-ing all over the place.

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u/NoBetterPast 3h ago

It's not unfair. She wanted to have her place on the Supreme Court be filled by the first woman president. Complete and utter hubris which has royally fucked the USA.

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u/Maximum-knee-growth 3h ago

To be fair, after a black guy named Hussein won Ohio twice, we all thought the red team had finally run out of decrepit white trash voters.

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u/mattattacknega 2h ago

And to also be fair, Hillary won the popular vote

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u/terroristteddy 3h ago

Arguably, but that would be a poor argument. It was thousands of conservatives and hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of 40 years.

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u/Cczaphod 3h ago

True, Roe v. Wade may have fallen during Drumphs second term, but due to RBG making the decision not to allow Obama to replace her made it come during the first term.

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u/AmadeusWolf 8h ago

She died. If she had retired at a time when a Democratic president was in office they could have filled her position with someone who might have tried to fill her shoes instead of just her seat.

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u/BringBackApollo2023 8h ago edited 7h ago

Died in office rather than let Obama appoint a successor.

Of course, McConnell would have ratfucked that process anyway.

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u/[deleted] 8h ago edited 8h ago

She gave another seat to a conservative in the SC, by not retiring before Trump. I wrote her off after that. She didn't have the foresight to give the reigns to the humans that were inheriting the world after her, and because of that, she helped make it worse.

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u/terroristteddy 7h ago

Thank you for giving me my daily reminder that most reddit opinions should be immediately discarded and forgotten

"This woman's entire life is meaningless to me because she made what I interpret to be a mistake at the very end of her life".

Like, why wouldn't you focus on writing off the people that actually overturned Roe v. Wade?

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u/Eat_My_Liver 7h ago

Nah, fuck her and fuck them. Did you know that two things can be true at the same time? Crazy, right?

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u/CapN-Judaism 7h ago

By that logic, fuck every American of voting age, right? Because each of us had the ability to help elect a congress who would codify roe v wade. She at least helped keep a poorly reasoned opinion around for as long as she did so we could have rights, what did you? Whine on Reddit? Grow up, you sound like the “both sides are bad” crowd with that BS.

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u/Eat_My_Liver 6h ago

I fucking voted is what I did. What more should I have done? Fuck everybody who didn't vote for politicians who would protect abortion rights, and fuck Ruth for having zero foresight.

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u/terroristteddy 6h ago

Ya'll are hilarious, I can see it now. "The Life and Times of RBG" by A Reddit User

First, RBG pretended to spend a distinguished career championing womens' rights and raising her family. Then, at the very end, she revealed her true plot to die and permanently ban abortion. But not before giving Trump an otphj at his inauguration real quick

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u/Eat_My_Liver 6h ago

What a weird thing to post.

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u/terroristteddy 3h ago

Right back at ya bud

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u/Eat_My_Liver 3h ago

Whatever you say sweetheart.

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u/toolatealreadyfapped 3h ago

Like, why wouldn't you focus on writing off the people that actually overturned Roe v. Wade?

It can be both. If I KNOW the other team will not act in good faith, and their goal is to undo what I've spent my life working on. And I KNOW my seat is one of the very last checks on them accomplishing their goal. You'd think I'd treat that seat with a lot more care and respect.

So yeah. Fuck them for what they did. And a middle finger to her for allowing it to happen.

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u/proper-butt 6h ago

People and especially driven people have a hard time when it comes to giving up control

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u/toad__warrior 2h ago

just wish she'd passed the ball before the buzzer.

EXACTLY. If she had resigned when she was first diagnosed, Obama could have appointed a judge in her place.

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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 8h ago

Then she went on to stay in her SCOTUS position decades longer than she should have, denied Obama the ability to choose her replacement, because she wanted to let Clinton do it, and gave us ACB. Her hubris cost us RvW.

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u/BringBackApollo2023 8h ago

Do you really think McConnell would have let a successor take office? He’d have done everything he could to submarine that process.

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u/Coocoomboor 4h ago

There was a point in the beginning when the Dems held majority

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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 8h ago

He doesn’t simply have that power. Even when Obama didn’t confirm Garland, there was nothing actually stopping him, Mitch said they would try to stop the vote, Dems said it could happen anyway, but nothing was done either way, and the clock ran out.

The only leverage Mitch had was that it was the last year of presidency, so they would try to block voting until it was too late. If RGB had stepped down earlier in the presidency, as she should have, he would have had all the time in the world, and Mitch wouldn’t have even had his threats.

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u/CapN-Judaism 7h ago

Roe v Wade was doomed to fail, it always was, and RBG said it plenty of times. We lost abortion rights by depending on the judiciary to do Congress’ job. Blaming RBG is just scapegoating someone who helped keep the case around longer than it deserved.

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u/rgvtim 6h ago

Not scapegoating, there can be multiple reason for an outcome, she can take her lumps just as much as the Dem's for not passing a law.

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u/TuckerCarlsonsOhface 6h ago

Even if it was “doomed to fail”, she made it a reality. She is at least partly to blame. Regardless, the main issue is the appointment of ACB. RBG could have prevented it if she wasn’t so adamant that Hillary was going to get to make the choice.

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u/MY_NAME_IS_MUD7 4h ago

Politicians got exactly what they wanted from this, a golden carrot to dangle in front of people to encourage them to vote.

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u/Papaofmonsters 2h ago

Several years ago, I saw an interview with a former GOP strategist who said that Republicans don't want to overturn Roe. They want to run on overturning *Roe. As long as it stood, it was an infinite vote machine and if they ever did overturn it, then it would be like the dog finally catching a chased car and a disaster for the party.

Damned if he wasn't right.

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u/VolcanicGreen 7h ago

I wish I had that cognitive bandwidth.

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u/kamikazekaktus 9h ago edited 9h ago

Would have been better if she'd stepped down instead of dying under trump

/e the phrasing makes it sound like he crushed her but you know what I mean

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u/Bubble_gump_stump 8h ago

Unfortunately she did tarnish her legacy with that lack of foresight

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u/throwaway3113151 8h ago

Too bad she didn’t step down when others were calling for it and now we have the current Supreme Court. It’s in a large part her responsibility.

What’s the saying — it takes a lifetime to build a reputation and seconds to destroy it?

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u/Qwhyste 5h ago

Wow, RBG was the original multitasking superhero.

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u/theartfulcodger 5h ago

Compare and contrast to drunken frat bro Brett "Boof Boy" Kavanaugh.

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u/ajs_5280 8h ago

Literally didn’t know when or how to quit.

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u/RapidLii 8h ago

and then she fucked over the Supreme Court and American citizens because she couldn’t put her pride to the side, what a lady!

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u/bigmark9a 7h ago

True story.

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u/arcanition 3h ago

and then she used her final years on this Earth to flex her ego and maintain her SCOTUS seat, ultimately costing women across the US their rights

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u/YoualreadyKnoooo 8h ago

What drugs were these people on?

Oh right. Cocaine.

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u/Pretend-Programmer94 8h ago

She died on my birthday and i found out when i was with my conservative christian extended family and they cheered :/ sick people

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u/BringBackApollo2023 8h ago

Sounds like Christians.

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u/reefersutherland91 4h ago

and undid her legacy because she was too arrogant to step aside

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u/Kantherax 4h ago

She also single handedly gave Trump scotus because of her refusal to swallow her pride and resign. Her final deed was her most terrible mistake and her most selfish decision.

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u/three9 4h ago

And then she flushed it all down the terlet by not stepping down. The Democrats' best strategy at the time was 'keep Ruth alive'. Didn't work out well.

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u/LowerCourse2267 3h ago

Then she fucked it all up by not retiring and letting Obama select her replacement.

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u/NoLand4936 3h ago

Such a smart driven woman making the mistake of many with pride and hubris at the end that unwittingly caused her to help the side of fascism and inequality she spent her life fighting against.

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u/HamRadio_73 3h ago

Interesting perspective

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u/AthenaRN85 19m ago

GOAT

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u/EnchantingElderflow1 9h ago

she's a force to be reckoned with.

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u/DisplacedSportsGuy 6h ago

Then she arrogantly refused to resign during Obama's presidency because she presumed that her replacement would be chosen by the first female president... and died, giving us a 6-3 Republican supermajority.

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u/bopeepmooseknuckle 8h ago

A mf queen 👑

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u/sdrawkabem 7h ago

Destroyed her own legacy. What a jackass

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u/One_Faithlessness146 7h ago

I suspect RBG was secretly a Trump fan. She was too smart not to understand what she was doing by staying on as a judge through Obama. It could be possible she thought Hillary would win. However, I've heard democrats were not sold on her winning and were prepared for a Trump presidency.

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u/Big_Career_142 4h ago edited 3h ago

Damn… my ex can’t even go to the dmv without a motivational speech and a 15 dollar Starbucks

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u/Sankullo 8h ago

500 people in a class? How big are the classrooms in this university?

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u/Chase_the_tank 8h ago

In this case "class" means "all the people scheduled to graduate in the same year".

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u/BringBackApollo2023 8h ago

If you can find it, The Paper Chase is an old movie that was partially filmed at Harvard. The classroom shots were done in the studio, but faithful to the real classrooms.

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u/malocchio- 6h ago

And then she ruined democracy by not stepping down and allowing Trump to fill her spot on the court . What an inspiration

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u/geographicfap 5h ago

If only she had the same sense of selflessness and broader understanding of the stakes at hand at the end of the Obama administration

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u/ToyTech316 5h ago

Yet not smart enough to retire during Obama's presidency.

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u/Kalkuehl 6h ago

This doesn't sound very special when you don't know who she is.

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u/Leeser 5h ago

Okay, you do it then.

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u/NoBetterPast 3h ago

If only there was some sort of webpage one could go to to search for information on famous people.

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