Christian Conservatives in America will never be satisfied until they have the ethno-state of their dreams.
sad but true
Christian Conservatives in America will never be satisfied until they have the ethno-state of their dreams.
sad but true
In a few weeks, we'll all be placated by the next nextflix/videogame/meme/social media outrage/etc.
This is a vicious cycle that is only enabled by people who only shout "Vote!".
We don't live in a democracy. If we did this wouldn't have slid through the system as effortlessly as it had.
This is a vicious cycle that is only enabled by people who only shout "Vote!".
We don't live in a democracy. If we did this wouldn't have slid through the system as effortlessly as it had.
Obviously voting is not the be all end all
But again real talk, the atmosphere is often that staying home is a better idea, that's what's being pushed back against
Bluntly, Roe only lasted this long because Reagan and H.W. Bush bungled 3 of their 5 Supreme Court appointments from 1981 to 1991. But for that, there would have been an anti-Roe majority as a result of the conservatives realignment of the electorate after the 1970s and the precedent wouldn't have seen its 20th birthday.
As to why it's happening now, because certain people died at certain times and lots of people didn't vote at the right times.
exactly. I am trying to find the right words here but not voting because "what's the point" just pushes us to the extreme right at an accelerated pace. I mean we are at 40k slowly dying as is but it is possible to pull back. Not getting involved because "what's the point" or it "doesn't affect me...yet" is what got us in this place we are at.
Because they don't do everything they could to prevent evil (get rid of the filibuster)or the once in awhile democrat voter who feels like going to vote(oh Hilary is just as bad as Trump so fuck her mentality).
Yeah it's almost silly to quote this yet again, but it's just so perfect. The "voting changes nothing" mentality is so infuriating and depressing. Everyone should read this post.
I'm just seething with rage at the people that sat out the 2016 election with a Supreme Court vacancy because Hillary wasn't perfect enough. It's not a productive emotion, but man, tough to get over it.
I wouldnt be surprised if Red States are going to sue these companies for this.
I would not be surprised if they remove the separation of Church and State thingy later on
That will never pass judicial review when Kavanaugh calls it out here as blatantly unconstitutional, those laws will never be implemented.
They've successfully radicalized their party. Meanwhile the left of the Democratic party gets instantly shit on whenever it attempts to even poke its head above the parapet.
separation of church and state hasn't actually existed as long as i've been alive, yet another lie they've told to school children for decades
Absolute shitshow. So glad I got out of the country, literally nothing since made me want to entertain the thought of coming back.
The question becomes will people vote specifically for abortion
You can support something but still vote Republican because hey taxes or some dumb shit
Knew this was coming since at least 2016 and it doesn't make it any easier to stomach.
Hopefully this galvanizes Democrats to — at the very very least — vote like hell this year in the midterms. If not: this backwards slide is going to get much worse.
Hopefully this galvanizes Democrats to — at the very very least — vote like hell this year in the midterms. If not: this backwards slide is going to get much worse.
What's the point of discussing how Republicans are evil? They are, end of. You're not winning them over, there's no magic debate that will mean they change their views, all it comes down to is aesthetic resistance.
Whereas there are actual problems to solve in how ineffective democratic strategy (and Centrist liberalism in general) is at resisting fascism, to the point where Roe Vs Wade just got overturned and was visible from miles away. I promise you, discussing that as a problem isn't going to increase apathy.
I agree not voting is fucking pointless. I agree 'Both sides are the same' is a fucking pointless and lazy view. Discussing how ineffective so called 'political leaders' isn't going to make anyone turn on them that weren't already apathetic. You need to accept that those ineffective leaders are part of the problem. And that apathy has grown because in the last 20 years, the few charismatic leftist figures who could bring change a broad audience could get excited about were kneecapped by those same ineffective leaders who have achieved the sum of Jack Shit.
Many many many of us have been voting for dens for our entire voting lives, I've been voting in primaries and every local election for decades… voting can't fix this (and neither can not voting) while the dems at the federal level do nothing but punch left at people who want things to be better.
The right wins not just because they vote, but because they actually want this evil shit to happen. The center doesn't win because they don't really believe in anything that would rock the boat.
This isn't an argument for not voting, I always vote in every election, but we have to get past the "please vote even harder!" as the only message we hear from democrats, it feels at best pathetic and at worst deeply cynical.
People tout out this whole 'it took Republicans 50 years' to do this shit as if one day conservatives all hunkered down and decided they were going to pull up their boot straps and one day in the far future all their dreams would come true.
That's not what happened.
What happened is that very power and rich people lost a small amount of power and decided they were going to get that power back and more no longer how long it took and they did it the way the rich and powerful have always done it: using their vast wealth and resources to power to do everything they could to redirect the course of power back to them and the easiest way to do that was by using the racism, sexism, queer phobia and religious obsession to radicalize conservatives/Republicans and pursuing ways that conservatives will have more voting power, which they now do by a significant margin.
Like Christ, even when some of you can recognize part of the problem, it's like you're walking on the right road with a massive blindfold.
That's not what happened.
What happened is that very power and rich people lost a small amount of power and decided they were going to get that power back and more no longer how long it took and they did it the way the rich and powerful have always done it: using their vast wealth and resources to power to do everything they could to redirect the course of power back to them and the easiest way to do that was by using the racism, sexism, queer phobia and religious obsession to radicalize conservatives/Republicans and pursuing ways that conservatives will have more voting power, which they now do by a significant margin.
Like Christ, even when some of you can recognize part of the problem, it's like you're walking on the right road with a massive blindfold.
unless you're rich, white, straight, and claim to be a christian
This is such a dark time in American history and, as much I want to think positively, it's hard to not see things becoming much worse.
Everyone will be negatively affected by this, whether they can become pregnant or not, but right now being a woman in this country is brutal. So sorry to those losing bodily autonomy. I stand with you and will do what I can to support the right to control your own body.
Everyone will be negatively affected by this, whether they can become pregnant or not, but right now being a woman in this country is brutal. So sorry to those losing bodily autonomy. I stand with you and will do what I can to support the right to control your own body.
why is the supreme court even politically nominated? Why no checks and balances to try and ensure its relatively neutral and not too left or right?
The simple fact of the matter is that the GOP fear and respect their voter base and Dems don't.
Did I not acknowledge that the systems are broken? Yet electing Dems instead of GOP at ANY level can prevent harm. City, county, state, federal. We're stuck living within this system for the time being, so we just have to do the best we can with it while we work to change it. There is no logical or moral argument to submitting to more suffering and hell for vulnerable populations when voting takes a few hours per year (at most) and is not mutually exclusive with literally any other type of action.
This hyper focus on one tiny, footnote of a response by the dems in one specific comittee has a real "bitch eating crackers" energy about it.
Like the Dems suck for a whole bunch of reasons but come on y'all, this is nothing.
I wake up every single day now and ask; Which freedoms will the Republicans take away from me today?
This means Lawrence and Obergefell are on their way to tumbling down. Time to plan my emigration.
Was that ever officially a thing anyway? I always thought it just came from same random letter Jefferson wrote and was never actually codified into law.
It's too bad that the utter garbage fire that this decision actually is won't sink in for these religious fruit cake psychopaths across the country until their daughters start showing up dead af in back room attempts to abort a "mistake" those same families would disown them for.
If i'm ever given a chance to deface a grave - i know four that will be at the top of my list.
Staying in Oregon that's for fucking sure.
If i'm ever given a chance to deface a grave - i know four that will be at the top of my list.
Staying in Oregon that's for fucking sure.
Any right that doesnt benefit Straight White Males in the U.S.
As terrible as democrats are at governing...it continues to be vitally important to get out and vote in every election from local to state to federal level. It's better to have an inefficient party running things than a party that ACTIVELY is trying to hurt people. I don't think some people seem to understand how much more you fuck things up by staying home and not voting at all.
Thomas is interesting because he believes that America will never work for Black people so he might as well make things worse until they rise up. Never depend on him to be the voice of reason.
"Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hardly the quietest member of the bench. In hundreds of opinions authored during his tenure — longer than any of his present colleagues' — Thomas has elaborated upon a vision first instilled in him by a stern, business-minded grandfather and later cemented during a turbulent undergraduate education, spent protesting racial injustice, debating Black nationalist principles, and memorizing passages of Malcolm X. And despite a deliberate post-college turn toward capitalism and political futilitarianism, his original comprehensive view of America persists: our national government is incapable of bettering the lives of Black Americans, just as white Americans are forever incapable of dismantling their own racism."
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/supreme-court-justice-most-say-repeat
I guarantee I've done more than you've ever even thought about. So take your 5 year old , 100 post account and shove it up your ass
How about you encourage people in the states that matter to vote instead of discouraging them?
Just quite tweeting so more people read them.
The first amendment has been interpreted to mean that numerous times
By the Supreme Court, of course, so... you know...
Thanks. Everything I'd read about this so far mostly discussed the leak and potential outcomes. I hadn't seen any mention of it being tied to a new case.
I don't know about this; seems like the studios will only cover mid level-executive management (see Netflix's rounds of layoffs).
