What's the point of approaching questions like this in a forum? Your effort is better spent on the phone with your Congress Critter or on the street protesting. Keyboard warror'ing is a waste of your time.
> You seemed to say (implicitly) that this isn't too dire because the judiciary stopped it.
Do not /ass/ume what other's mean, and don't put words in my mouth.
The existence of content doesn't mean you need to engage with it. If these types of questions or discussion are superfluous in your mind you can always choose to ignore them instead of jumping in. Conversations and questions about the article and its impact seems on-topic in this context, joining the discussion simply to chastise people for participating in the discourse does not feel on-topic to me.
I personally think there is value in discussion around first-in-my-lifetime events like this.
> You seemed to say (implicitly) that this isn't too dire because the judiciary stopped it.
Do not /ass/ume what other's mean, and don't put words in my mouth.