LedRush

Roe undermined our institutions by ignoring the law and process to come to a desired conclusion. Overruling it, like Plessy and Dred Scott, starts on the path to reclaiming credibility. This is demonstrably false. Roe used BC authorities in its ahistorical attack on the Constitution. Actually reading and following the text of the document you are interpreting seems kinda important to me. But I guess it can be annoying when you only want a theocratic dictatorship to codify any rules you want regardless of the law. The unborn humans who will no longer be killed in some states, of course. Did you really not know that?

This is the really crazy thing. The US is in a small group of countries which allowed abortion until birth (with Vietnam, North Korea, and China). Striking down Roe and Casey doesn’t change that…it merely allows some states to choose to take a different approach which will put them more in line with the rest of the democracies in the world.

I’m sure this will be huge in China!

This statement. The ignorance and racism are just off the charts.

I agree, but I’d let the “break the influence of the NRA” bullet stand.

The Democrats? I don’t think it’s fair to lay this at their feet just because they support killing children, advocate for violence against political opponents, and stoke racist and identitarian hatred.

There are a few problems with this statement. First off, it is not a right to kill your child. Second, women make up half of the population, and about half of them are pro-life, so even if we were in bizarro world and killing your child was a right, only 25% of the population would be potentially effected. Also, recognizing that there is obviously not a right to kill unborn children in the Constitution won’t affect potential pro-abortionists in many states as many will allow it to remain legal to kill a fully formed human life even as it is being born, despite the opposition of about 90% of all Americans.

I think that many regularly use the facepalm and pissed off threads to drop in political attacks that are affirmed by echoes rather than try and make a supportable point in SOCN.

This is true, but of the people attacking Thomas, not Thomas’ responses to those attacks.

The shooter claimed to be a former communist who now described himself as a left-wing authoritarian (which is redundant), and a green nationalist.

The person who first posited this criticism (not you, I assume) is either extremely ignorant of the law or misrepresenting the argument for maximum frothing effect. Roe and Casey found that abortion was a fundamental unenumerated right by virtue of the 14th and 5th A’s due process clauses (i.e., substantive due process). This argument itself is of dubious legal quality, but even it is obviously not applicable for abortions. This is, partially, because in order to be a “fundamental right” the right has to be deeply rooted in American history and traditions, including in common law. The majority in Roe argued that it was, similarly doing a deep dive that went back not only to English common law, but to Hippocrates, Aristotle, and St. Augustine. To overrule the law, Alito must confront this reasoning from Roe. Alito’s opinion points out the obvious: the right to an abortion is not only not deeply rooted in American history or traditions, laws to outlaw abortion were. He brought up that example as one of many, many examples of how his argument is obviously right.

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I refer to her as her because she's a woman. To say otherwise is disrespectful, even in a joking manner. ... maybe especially in a joking manner. oh, I know why you did it. I'm just saying you'd get ridiculed for that if we weren't out here in the normie section of the forum. The normies who are a clear minority in America, and an overwhelming minority in the world? https://news.gallup....der-issues.aspx Good article, but did you notice how in the first paragraph they reference "birth gender" and then "gender identity?" For purposes of being clear, it should have said "biological sex" or just "sex" and then contrasted it with "gender Identity/." I don't know if the person who wrote this is as big a pedant as we ironically pride ourselves (or is it ridicule?) on being in SOCN. I even resisted using the term "birth sex" to replace "birth gender" because once you say "birth sex" you are tacitly implying that that was someone's condition at birth, but subject to change later, like "birth weight." The whole language of this movement is designed to obfuscate reality. Once you’ve accepted their unscientific, contradictory, self-referential, and poorly-defined terms it becomes difficult to engage them in disagreement or questioning. That is why I refuse to use the language of that cult. I know people do it to be polite, and if I meet someone in real life who wants to use reasonable pronouns I will be polite. But you give away the entire game if you accept the language, as the language assumes the premises you may be questioning or debating.

I dunno, when was the last time the Dolphins were in the AFC Championship game? I had to think about this for a second, and I think the Lions actually have them here. The Dolphins were last in in the mid 80's, I believe, Detroit was in the NFC Championship game in 1992 against the Redskins. Wrong. The Dolphins were in the AFC Championship Game at the end of the 1993 season (calendar year 1994), two years after the Lions were destroyed by Washington. Ironically, that was also the last time Washington was in the NFC Championship game. Do you mean the 1992 season (lost in yet another humiliating defeat to the Bills in 1993)? Yes, off by a year. Should have looked it up. I remember watching that game by myself in my dorm’s common room and just not believing that the defense still couldn’t figure out how to stop the run, Olivadatti still had a job, that we seemed to love to give the ball to the Bills, and we still couldn’t run at all. I wanted to stop watching in the third quarter and go play with my friends, but I couldn’t pull myself from the tragedy.

I dunno, when was the last time the Dolphins were in the AFC Championship game? I had to think about this for a second, and I think the Lions actually have them here. The Dolphins were last in in the mid 80's, I believe, Detroit was in the NFC Championship game in 1992 against the Redskins. Wrong. The Dolphins were in the AFC Championship Game at the end of the 1993 season (calendar year 1994), two years after the Lions were destroyed by Washington. Ironically, that was also the last time Washington was in the NFC Championship game. Do you mean the 1992 season (lost in yet another humiliating defeat to the Bills in 1993)?