Originally Posted by prex8390 (Post 2424569)

Shesh, people wishing death on others and what not. My point was Straight forward, act like an adult and stop asking elderly people for photographs because you saw them on TV. A person whether you support them or not was a paying customer just trying to from A to B. Leave them alone, end of story. I nominate you all for TOTD for taking a simple message and turning it into a political soapbox

Originally Posted by flensr (Post 2424584)

...Taunt them a second time-ah...

:p

Originally Posted by prex8390 (Post 2424353)

For the love of god people, if you're gonna non rev and get the privilege of getting first class, act like you've been there before. Especially when you're sitting someone you recognize or is famous. No less than 3 people kept bothering Ruth Bader Ginsburg on a flight this afternoon for pictures. An AA employee sitting next to me even tried to give her his business card. Let them be especually when she's head down in a book.

Originally Posted by flensr (Post 2424519)

While any rational person will appreciate the sentiment... I spent quite a few years wishing, and helping accomplish, the death of human beings. Completely different circumstances of course, but language is important and distinctions are sometimes VERY important.
I went human hunting at work every day for years, because it needed doing for reasons I don't need to justify or defend to anyone. I don't regret one day of it even though I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life. I don't think any of it was childish in any way.

Clarifications aside, you're of course correct. In spite of the massive long-term impacts a radical supreme court justice can have (from any point of the political/social spectrum), wishing one dead comes across as a wish for the destruction of the entire concept of American lawful society. In spite of supreme court decisions that I think are utterly destructive to the US and against the constitution that those judges are supposed to uphold, I strongly prefer our current system to having a king, religious oligarchy, military "protectorship", etc etc.

ISIS has a court system too, and I prefer ours in spite of our system's bitterly divided nature.

Originally Posted by deadseal (Post 2424629)

Cool story bro

Originally Posted by lnl76 (Post 2424373)

yep, you just use copious amounts of alcohol to sedate yourselves! 😜

Originally Posted by WhistlePig (Post 2424547)

Pilots vehemently defend what they BELIEVE is in the Constitution every day to captive audiences. I'd rather teach pigs to sing then to explain what the holdings in certain cases really mean, how limited the USC jurisdiction really is, how no one who means a damn, except other liked minded pilots, is impressed by quoting random dicta like bible verses to "prove" their point about whatever. Bless their hearts.