5:4, of course

[james_davis_nicoll]

Bare majority of US Supreme drags US kicking and screaming into the Century of the Anchovy.

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[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

It's desperately important to pretend everyone involved is reasonable, fair, and kind. If you stop pretending that you have to admit what's actually going on, who it benefits, and that the pile of corpses isn't an accidental side effect of vague impersonal forces.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

That is an awesome comment. Are you by any chance familiar with Ian Welsh? He says stuff like this frequently. Y'all are both absolutely correct.