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Originally posted by second:
Post-truth is pre-fascism.
Yeah.
Stop being a fascist.
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A concurring opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas on abortion explicitly cites as up for debate past Supreme Court decisions that gave Americans the right
to same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges);
to obtain contraceptives (Griswold v. Connecticut);
and to engage in private, consensual same-sex activities (Lawrence v. Texas).
"In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell."
(pdf, page 119) https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:6ix, you and half the Trump voters I know have said hundreds of times that Trump won. "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." - Joseph Goebbels
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Post-truth is pre-fascism.
Yeah.
Stop being a fascist.
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Maybe that name is familiar? The amusing part is that neither Goebbels nor Hitler ever admitted to lying, so even the quote is a lie, but now that they are dead, it is a fact they both did lie continuously, as did millions and millions of Germans. It didn't end well for those millions, did it? And not because the Germans lost a carefully reasoned series of debates on 'What is Truth?'
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-quot-big-l
ie-quot
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump did win.
Mail-in fraud election was fraud.
I'm not salty though. What a wonderful time for Democrats to steal an election. All the woke shit is falling apart, Democrats of all flavors are turning on each other, and it will be at least a generation until Democrats are in power again, if they even survive as a party until 2030.
Thanks Joe*! Keep that inflation coming baby!
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Quote:When I was a child, I asked my parents about why my father's relatives in Texas had so many problems. My father and his relatives blamed politics and particular politicians. My mother put the blame where it belonged, on my father's relatives. There were so many things wrong (and all the wrongs had right solutions that my father's relatives psychologically could never accept as right). A few examples of wrongs were adultery (causing divorce), drunkenness (causing job loss and car wrecks), tobacco chewing and smoking (causing cancer), spendthrift habits (causing bankruptcy), gluttony (causing heart attacks), the list goes on and on. My father's relatives hated, absolutely hated, Democrats as the cause all their problems. This is the 1960's, by the way.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trump did win.
Mail-in fraud election was fraud.
I'm not salty though. What a wonderful time for Democrats to steal an election. All the woke shit is falling apart, Democrats of all flavors are turning on each other, and it will be at least a generation until Democrats are in power again, if they even survive as a party until 2030.
Thanks Joe*! Keep that inflation coming baby!
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Jump forward 60 years to the present day. My grandparents are dead. Their children are dead. My cousins are dead. Half of their children are dead. But what they all have is the same belief they had in the 1960's -- their problems (and their low economic status) are still the fault of Democrats.
I wrote this before, but my parents worked at Burger King, so not a lot of money coming in, but my mother invested her money in the stock market. My father's relatives, being who they are, either refused to invest or took the most ridiculous gambles and lost. My mother's own father took the gambler's route and lost everything. My mother's estate was worth $2.3 million when she'd died in 2013. She knew what she was doing. You can add together the entire net worth of all my father's living relatives and the sum total is less than that. Those relatives, all Trump lovers angry at wokeness, are just psychologically unable to prosper in America, but they continue to blame the Democrats, not themselves.
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And just like the rest of your family, you're poor and stupid too.
Nobody cares.
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Quote:So, to sum up the Supreme Court's week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting. I checked with my Trump loving relatives. They are very pleased with the Supreme Court rulings this week for guns and against abortion, which is the perfect opposite of my positions. Funny thing about that, I'm the only one who is competent with guns for the intended purpose -- killing enemies and deer with one shot per kill. My relatives' competence extends as far as scaring away deer and killing themselves. Same dynamics on abortion: they have all been involved with abortion, secretly, but publicly they are opposed to abortion. That's the way it is when you're angry poor white trash -- you can't control yourself any better than Trump could control his sex life.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And just like the rest of your family, you're poor and stupid too.
Nobody cares.
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My Ne'er-do-well relatives identify with this part of Trump's life:
Trump Admits To Authorizing Stormy Daniels Payoff
Donald Trump sexual misconduct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegatio
ns
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Despite the South losing the Civil War, the Supreme Court was the dead hand of the Confederacy. Confederate sympathizers did not leave the Supreme Court. And in the aftermath, sympathizers were made new Supreme Court Justices.
In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the pro-slavery Supreme Court described Black people as “beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” Dred Scott went after the Missouri Compromise’s provisions limiting the scope of slavery in the territories.
Three constitutional amendments — the 13th, 14th, and 15th — eradicated Dred Scott and ensured that Black Americans would, in the 14th Amendment’s words, enjoy all of the “privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amen
dment-xv
But Confederate sympathizers on the Court spent the next three decades dismantling these three amendments.
Just 10 years after the Civil War, the Supreme Court handed down United States v. Cruikshank (1875), a decision favoring a white supremacist mob that armed itself with guns and cannons to kill a rival Black militia defending its right to self-governance. Black people, the Court held in Cruikshank, “must look to the States” to protect civil rights such as the right to peacefully assemble — a decision that should send a chill down the spine of anyone familiar with the history of the Jim Crow South. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/58/united-states-v-cruiks
hank
The culmination of this age of white supremacist jurisprudence was Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which blessed the idea of “separate but equal.” Plessy remained law for nearly six decades after it was decided.
Decisions like Plessy effectively dismantled the Reconstruction Amendments’ promise of racial equality. The Court spent the next 40 years transforming the 14th Amendment into a bludgeon to be used against labor. This was the age of decisions like Lochner v. New York (1905), which struck down a New York law preventing bakery owners from overworking their workers. It was also the age of decisions like Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923), which struck down minimum wage laws, and Adair v. United States (1908), which prohibited lawmakers from protecting the right to unionize.
One of the most striking things about the Court’s jurisprudence is how willing the justices were to manipulate legal doctrines — applying one doctrine in one case, then ignoring it when it was likely to benefit a party that they did not want to prevail.
The point is that decisions made this week are entirely consistent with the Court’s worst history. People who want to dismantle government programs can accomplish far more, when they control the courts, than people who want to build up those programs. And, as the Court’s history shows, when conservatives do control the Court, they use their power to devastating effect.
More at https://www.vox.com/2022/6/25/23181976/case-against-the-supreme-court-
of-the-united-states
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Decades Ago, Alito Laid Out Methodical Strategy to Eventually Overrule Roe v. Wade
A slow-burning hostility to constitutional abortion rights runs through the career of the author of the Supreme Court opinion overturning them.
In the spring of 1985, a 35-year-old lawyer in the Justice Department, Samuel A. Alito Jr., cautioned the Reagan administration against mounting a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that declared a constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court was not ready to overturn it, he said, so urging it to do so could backfire.
In a memo offering advice on two pending cases that challenged state laws regulating abortion, Mr. Alito advocated focusing on a more incremental argument: The court should uphold the state's regulations as reasonable. That strategy would “advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects.”
Years later, when those documents were disclosed during his Supreme Court confirmation, he assured senators that while that statement reflected his views in 1985, he would approach abortion cases with an open mind as a justice, with due respect for precedent and with no ideological agenda. (Ha-ha-ha! Can you believe the gall of this liar? But if he hadn't lied, he wouldn't have been able to write his predetermined anti-abortion decision.)
“When someone becomes a judge,” he said, “you really have to put aside the things that you did as a lawyer at prior points in your legal career and think about legal issues the way a judge thinks about legal issues.” (But once you have a lifetime judgeship, you can do whatever pleases yourself. Why? Because never has a Supreme Court Justice been impeached, even justices sympathetic to the Confederacy long after the Confederate defeat.)
More at https://web.archive.org/web/20220626013011/https://www.nytimes.com/202
2/06/25/us/politics/samuel-alito-abortion.html
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Originally posted by second:Quote:So, to sum up the Supreme Court's week: life begins at conception and ends in a mass shooting. I checked with my Trump loving relatives. They are very pleased with the Supreme Court rulings this week for guns and against abortion, which is the perfect opposite of my positions. Funny thing about that, I'm the only one who is competent with guns for the intended purpose -- killing enemies and deer with one shot per kill. My relatives' competence extends as far as scaring away deer and killing themselves. Same dynamics on abortion: they have all been involved with abortion, secretly, but publicly they are opposed to abortion. That's the way it is when you're angry poor white trash -- you can't control yourself any better than Trump could control his sex life.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And just like the rest of your family, you're poor and stupid too.
Nobody cares.
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My Ne'er-do-well relatives identify with this part of Trump's life:
Trump Admits To Authorizing Stormy Daniels Payoff
Donald Trump sexual misconduct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegatio
ns
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Quit talking about your make believe family and your made up life.
Nobody cares.
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