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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:38 PM, Sbbruin said:

Well if the goal is to limit unplanned pregnancy, shouldn't we be promoting anal?

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As far as I know, Texas still hasn't repealed its anti-sodomy laws.  So they have front and back door covered.  No getting laid anyway anyhow without consequences.  Unless, of course, you're a Republican fucking little boys.  They're all down w/ that. 

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:40 PM, Fudge Nuggets said:

Nothing will change until big corporations pull up shop and GTFO.  But that ain't happening because taxes and shit.

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Will see if that changes after gay marriage is banned and homosexuality is criminalized.

Lol it won't

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:30 PM, Skipper said:

Late 20's early 30's?  Fuck if I know.   I just know that if I'm making a bet on the leaker, I'm betting on a clerk vs. justice or long term permanent staff.

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Fair enough

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:41 PM, Foosters said:

Love to live my life according to the principles of two groups: nomadic desert dwellers from 2000 years ago and slave holding aristocrats from 300 years ago.

And this makes perfect sense to me.

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You are free to start your own message board following with a new philosophy and codified set of moral laws and behaviors.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:35 PM, Johnny Sack said:

I don't think upholding a ban at 15 weeks is going to be unpopular. Most Americans agree with that. And that puts us right in line with the rest of the developed world. 37 of the 40 European countries have laws that are this restrictive or more.

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what about outright banning it regardless of time?  do you think that will be unpopular?

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=HB1280

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Posted
  On 5/3/2022 at 3:39 PM, wildcat09 said:

Neither the framers nor drafters of the 14th amendment thought that women were full citizens.

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He’s not engaging in good faith. He knows the opinion strikes at the heart of constitutional rights including prior decisions on contraception and marriage. Framing the decision as limited in scope to a 15 week ban on abortion is intentional. 

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:46 PM, Pig Bellmont said:

He’s not engaging in good faith. He knows the opinion strikes at the heart of constitutional rights including prior decisions on contraception and marriage. Framing the decision as limited in scope to a 15 week ban on abortion is intentional. 

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My understanding is that is the holding.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:25 PM, Skipper said:

What I was thinking about was from March, not last summer. 

Harvard Law 2L Walks Away From Summer Associate Position to Protest Law Firm's Work in Russia | Law.com

You have a lot more faith than I do that one of these twenty-something ivy league elites isn't self important enough to leak this.  Most obviously would not but it only takes one.

 

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That kid has his head on straight. I am a civil rights absolutist but lawyers can wring themselves into knots to justify their behavior. They’re helping to keep Putin’s rattleclap war machine puffing along so it can bomb hospitals. Kremlin-tied oligarchs don’t have a right to BigLaw representation.

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if anybody think that a SCOTUS clerk's career is over if he/she is identified as the leaker, think again.

Eddie Lazarus wrote a tell-all book about the inner workings of SCOTUS, which was very controversial (and a really good read).  but his career has not suffered.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lazarus

note one of the revelations from the book (which is likely the desired end game of this leak, if it came from Roberts):

"Lazarus's book was the first to reveal many formerly unknown facts about Supreme Court's decision-making, such as the fact that Justice Anthony Kennedy changed his vote during consideration of the 1992 abortion case Planned Parenthood v. Casey."

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  On 5/3/2022 at 1:37 PM, South Austin said:

I hope some member of the minority in a dissenting opinion calls out those three justices for overturning a case they declared as settled law when they were advocating their nominations to the Court.  Maybe it's considered out of line under unwritten Supreme Court etiquette, but those justices and their bullshit before Congress should be expressly part of a published dissenting opinion.

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Man, that will show 'em.

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Posted
  On 5/3/2022 at 3:29 PM, BrickHorn said:

Counter-counterpoint: economic hardship is a Petri dish for racism. The more secure people feel in their jobs and income, the less likely they are to scapegoat and fear out-groups. 

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Bullshit.  Unions were some of the most racist institutions in America.  Several of the most important DOJ enforcement actions were against unions.  Those union members were plenty secure in their jobs and incomes; they just opposed sharing a workplace with . . . well, we both know the term they'd have used.

  On 5/3/2022 at 3:35 PM, Johnny Sack said:

I don't think upholding a ban at 15 weeks is going to be unpopular. Most Americans agree with that. And that puts us right in line with the rest of the developed world. 37 of the 40 European countries have laws that are this restrictive or more.

I never thought the framers or the drafters of the 14th amendment ever in their wildest dream thought the Constitution prohibited states regulating abortions.

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One wonders what the Framers thought about the 4th Amendment.

Yeah--that's what I thought.  You can take your originalism and shove it up your ass.

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fuck the framers.  They were cool with humans being bought and sold.  They need to be looked at through that lens 100% of the time. 

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so it sounds like the decision will be left to the states? so each state will decide how fascist they want to be? i'm ok with this. i'm already moving the fuck out of texas when i retire. my daughters want to leave this state. this will deepen the 2 americas which we have been trending towards for awhile.

also, this puts an exclamation point on the assholes who didn't vote and watched from the sidelines. want change? VOTE.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 1:41 PM, Nivek said:

Maybe we can go back to the old standard of making the rapist marry the rape victim.  That'll learn them!

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Is the going rate still fifty shekels of silver?

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

28 If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are caught in the act, 29 the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.

 

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:59 PM, crash_davis said:

so it sounds like the decision will be left to the states? so each state will decide how fascist they want to be? i'm ok with this. i'm already moving the fuck out of texas when i retire. my daughters want to leave this state. this will deepen the 2 americas which we have been trending towards for awhile.

also, this puts an exclamation point on the assholes who didn't vote and watched from the sidelines. want change? VOTE.

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It'll be left to the states for maybe four years, at most. Alito's opinion already reveals that he thinks a fetus is person. Fetal personhood is on their to do list.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:00 PM, WhatTheBuck said:

Is the going rate still fifty shekels of silver?

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

28 If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are caught in the act, 29 the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.

 

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Posted
  On 5/3/2022 at 4:00 PM, wildcat09 said:

It'll be left to the states for maybe four years, at most. Alito's opinion already reveals that he thinks a fetus is person. Fetal personhood is on their to do list.

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I understand this is a political discussion and as such, there are some assumptions being made philosophically and morally (to which your post I quoted alludes to one)-- is there a more appropriate or different forum or thread to discuss this stuff from a different angle? Asking because I think that would be an interesting conversation as well as one that would yield different forecasting and determinations.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:59 PM, crash_davis said:

so it sounds like the decision will be left to the states? so each state will decide how fascist they want to be? i'm ok with this. i'm already moving the fuck out of texas when i retire. my daughters want to leave this state. this will deepen the 2 americas which we have been trending towards for awhile.

also, this puts an exclamation point on the assholes who didn't vote and watched from the sidelines. want change? VOTE.

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To me, this is Susan Sarandon day. In 2016 she was a Bernie supporter who hated Hillary. She said we would be worse off with Hillary than Trump. People like her earned this day. 

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christians/all book clubs and their fucking bible/holy book. what bullshit to take literally and live verbatim to the words vs what bullshit to completely ignore must keep them up at night. oh wait...it's easier to pick and choose to your hearts content while dismissing the other parts.

it's a choose your own adventure book club.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:05 PM, Vegas64 said:

I understand this is a political discussion and as such, there are some assumptions being made philosophically and morally (to which your post I quoted alludes to one)-- is there a more appropriate or different forum or thread to discuss this stuff from a different angle? Asking because I think that would be an interesting conversation as well as one that would yield different forecasting and determinations.

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I don't see any way that conversation doesn't end up coming right back to a political conversation within like, ten posts. I don't think it's really possible to disentangle the philosophical or moral angle from the political angle here.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:06 PM, JFKFC said:

To me, this is Susan Sarandon day. In 2016 she was a Bernie supporter who hated Hillary. She said we would be worse off with Hillary than Trump. People like her earned this day. 

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With a whole lot of help from the Clinton campaign.

They lost to Donald Trump. 

Good grief.

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Posted
  On 5/3/2022 at 3:35 PM, Johnny Sack said:

I never thought the framers or the drafters of the 14th amendment ever in their wildest dream thought the Constitution prohibited states regulating abortions.

The framers didn’t consider black people to be full human beings. The drafters of the 14th amendment did not consider women to be full citizens.
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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:10 PM, gmr548 said:


The framers didn’t consider black people to be full human beings. The drafters of the 14th amendment did not consider women to be full citizens.

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you mean the framers were smart enough to write in a mechanism to allow for modification. you mean a 200 or 2000 year old document shouldn't be the end all be all of everything? that's forward thinking!!!!!

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:09 PM, wildcat09 said:

I don't see any way that conversation doesn't end up coming right back to a political conversation within like, ten posts. I don't think it's really possible to disentangle the philosophical or moral angle from the political angle here.

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I see your point. It seems to me that there is a binary, black and white, decision-tree-esque divide that cannot be compromised or met in the middle from a moral or spiritual place: Do you believe a human fetus is a person with a "soul" endowed by a creator ergo abortion is murder or do you believe a human isn't a human until some other point in time?

I find it very difficult to believe that in modern America as we sit here today in 2022 that we have gotten more spiritually conscious and aware and in-touch and that the tide has shifted. From what I have seen of society, the pro-lifers are a minority and one that has been shrinking.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 3:54 PM, Brisketexan said:

And for those who say "well, just vote for a government that won't enact such laws," that is sophistry.  Rights transcend voting trends, that's their entire point.  If such fundamental principles live or die at the whim of an elected government, then they are not rights.  The entire point of a right is that it stands as a bulwark against the vagaries of a capricious government.  

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Thank you for this.  I always had a problem with the 'just vote' responses but I couldn't adequately elaborate quite why.  You put it in an eloquent manner I can use. 

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:13 PM, Vegas64 said:

I see your point. It seems to me that there is a binary, black and white, decision-tree-esque divide that cannot be compromised or met in the middle from a moral or spiritual place: Do you believe a human fetus is a person with a "soul" endowed by a creator ergo abortion is murder or do you believe a human isn't a human until some other point in time?

I find it very difficult to believe that in modern America as we sit here today in 2022 that we have gotten more spiritually conscious and aware and in-touch and that the tide has shifted. From what I have seen of society, the pro-lifers are a minority and one that has been shrinking.

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It's been pretty flat for 25 years.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 2:48 PM, Gil Bang said:


Particularly, women that like anal.

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"gosh honey you know i would because i love it oh so much but you never know when an officer might bust down the door so i'm afraid we can't," she said, completely deadpan.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:13 PM, crash_davis said:

you mean the framers were smart enough to write in a mechanism to allow for modification. you mean a 200 or 2000 year old document shouldn't be the end all be all of everything? that's forward thinking!!!!!

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It's like buying a house with a foundation then deciding you don't need walls.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:13 PM, Vegas64 said:

I see your point. It seems to me that there is a binary, black and white, decision-tree-esque divide that cannot be compromised or met in the middle from a moral or spiritual place: Do you believe a human fetus is a person with a "soul" endowed by a creator ergo abortion is murder or do you believe a human isn't a human until some other point in time?

I find it very difficult to believe that in modern America as we sit here today in 2022 that we have gotten more spiritually conscious and aware and in-touch and that the tide has shifted. From what I have seen of society, the pro-lifers are a minority and one that has been shrinking.

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it's the greatest sham ever. republicans have convinced their idiot followers that Jesus was a pull yourself up by the bootstraps, hate people of color, loves guns, loves freedom, and loves capitalism kind of guy.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:07 PM, crash_davis said:

christians/all book clubs and their fucking bible/holy book. what bullshit to take literally and live verbatim to the words vs what bullshit to completely ignore must keep them up at night. oh wait...it's easier to pick and choose to your hearts content while dismissing the other parts.

it's a choose your own adventure book club.

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The thing is that nowhere in the Bible is an unborn child viewed as a person with any rights at all. Even after they’re born they were viewed as property. These pro-lifers are barely educated enough in both science and their own scripture to be making intelligent decisions regarding the so-called “right to life.” As if they really give a shit about the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on the part of actual living, breathing persons. 

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:13 PM, pyrohornIII said:

And they had to invoke superdelegates to get that chance.  Should have been Bern all along.  

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Hillary would have been one of the best Presidents ever.  Sure she's unlikeable as fuck, but who fucking cares?  She would kick ass and if you didn't get in line, you'd get Vince Foster'ed.

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The Democratic Party has always been a bunch of pussies. Even if you vote for them, you know this is true. 

They need to tie a National Abortion Legalization Bill to the next round of government funding. Shut everything down for months, years if necessary. No Compromise. Let the red states who hate the government feel the pain. Don't pay our troops.

Don't blink.

The Dems need to die on this sword. 

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Glad I live in NYC.  NY enshrined abortion rights into state law in the 2019 Reproductive Health Act.  

Get out of places like Texas, Florida, and anywhere in the South while you can.  New York and California are not bad states to live in (I have lived in both).

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:20 PM, JFKFC said:

The Democratic Party has always been a bunch of pussies. Even if you vote for them, you know this is true. 

They need to tie a National Abortion Legalization Bill to the next round of government funding. Shut everything down for months, years if necessary. No Compromise. Let the red states who hate the government feel the pain. Don't pay our troops.

Don't blink.

The Dems need to die on this sword. 

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This is simply not true of a party that included FDR, LBJ, and Tip O'Neill.

I blame Bill Clinton for the pussification of the Democratic Party. Triangulation my ass.

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  On 5/3/2022 at 4:21 PM, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

 

Glad I live in NYC.  NY enshrined abortion rights into state law in the 2019 Reproductive Health Act.  

Get out of places like Texas, Florida, and anywhere in the South while you can.  New York and California are not states to live in.  

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