#surpreme court

[stormyblankets]

[drachenmagier]

[skymoonandstardust]

I’m sick to my stomach

the supreme court just overturned Roe V Wade. Nothing can express my deep horror, sadness and fury. 

This cannot stand

[mentally-ill-simp]

I'd just like to weed out the people that need to fuck off from my page. If you are prolife or homophobic in anyway and you're agreeing with everyone in America's Supreme Court right now I want you to get the fuck off my page and get the fuck out of my life before I find you. I don't give two shits what your reasoning is for all of it, I couldn't care less if a gay person killed your fucking mom or you feel like a Zygote is a baby I need you to walk yourself out before I walk you out myself. Honestly NO ONE should have an opinion over someone else's body and NO ONE should threaten the lives of another person for the way that they are. So if you feel you are one of those initialed asshats leave.

[bee-dot-exe]

If y'all wanna cry or be angry along with me then feel free to vent in my ask box I actually feel sick

[ingek73]

US supreme court justice Samuel Alito has mocked prominent figures around the world who have criticised last month’s ruling that overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion rights decision.

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Alito, a conservative justice, also took aim at Prince Harry who referenced the abortion ruling in a speech at the United Nation’s last week.

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“But what really wounded me - what really wounded me - was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare the decision whose name may not be spoken with the Russian attack on Ukraine,” Alito added in a sarcastic tone, referring to his ruling overturning the Roe decision that had legalised abortion nationwide in the United States and recognized a woman’s constitutional right to terminate her pregnancy.

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Prince Harry had spoken of 2022 as “a painful year in a painful decade” in his speech on 18 July, before citing the war in Ukraine and “the rolling back of constitutional rights here in the United States”, which appeared to reference the abortion ruling.

[professionaldumdum]

me rn during roe v wade

[potuzzz]

Republican Christofacists applaud your support.

I assume this is about my abortion post.

It is ridiculous to me to suggest me saying “don’t support neoliberal capitalists, support socialism, the only thing that stops fascism” is the same thing as saying “support fascism.” However, I understand the frame of thinking that leads to this. I am an American and I know full well how Americans (and many others who consume our media and culture) believe that Democrats and Republicans are worlds apart. Allow me to try and convince you otherwise, and explain how going the VBNMW route does nothing but ensure more fascist policy such as banning abortion:

Democrats and Republicans both serve the same capitalist masters. The entire point of the duopoly is to take revolutionary potential--both from the Left (socialism) and the Right (fascism)--and funnel it into elections controlled by the capitalist ruling class, from a crop of candidates who all fit neatly within the system as it exists. In this system, the average person has absolutely no effect on policy. The Democrats and the Republicans might have small differences in a few social domestic policies--a little pro/anti gay marriage here, a little pro/anti abortion there--but ultimately they will not do anything that interrupts the capitalist hegemony, their imperial machine, or their profits, and ultimately even these social domestic policies all slowly fall rightward towards fascism.

Proper capitalists are a little torn on their comfort level with fascism, but NONE of them want socialism. To them, fascism will ALWAYS be the prettier alternative to socialism. You can see this with how the judicial system, the alphabet agencies, and the war machine treats the Left vs the Right; people even remotely on the Left are teargassed, blackbagged, sabotaged, infiltrated, assassinated, etc., whereas as often as possible people on the Right are given a slap on the wrist for similar behavior (protests, violence, disobedience, belligerence, etc.).

Republicans, despite often being the minority in American politics, are the only ones ever permitted by their capitalist masters to enact their preferred policies. Fascism has slowly been creeping in America for the last hundred years, gaining and consolidating power, entrenching itself.

Democrats, on the other hand, hardly ever do ANYTHING they claim to be in favor of, even when they enjoy supermajorities in multiple branches of government. They deflect blame onto Republicans for obstructionism, and yet when the tables are turned the Republicans never seem to run into this same problem. This is no mere coincidence--the Democrats are snakes, they know full well what they are doing. It's not even a matter of them being spineless cowards, they are filling their assigned niche quite well.

So what is their niche? To be a blackhole that sucks and nullifies all leftward potential. The average person isn't an idiot, so they give us small concessions--politicians who were vehemently anti-gay just years ago come out as in favor of gay marriage and get it passed for a short time, state legislatures legalize marijuana, closet racists reluctantly swirl around a BLM flag. But they don't DO anything substantively that would threaten their capitalist masters. They only are pro-gay as long as the LGBTQ community is a profitable market to exploit. They are only pro-weed as long as they can still populate the prisons with non-violent offenders for slave labor. They are only pro-BLM as long as black people will remain a second-class citizen to be exploited and sucked dry for money--ask the Black Panthers, who wanted to actually change the system and help black people, who were all assassinated and jailed and tortured (some of whom are still alive and in jail!), ask them how pro-BLM the Democrats who joined the Republicans in destroying them are.

The Democrats are merely the cozy, friendly face of the duopoly. They support all the same wars, they support the same real-life oppression and abysmal living standards of the vulnerable, they support the same imperialization of vulnerable countries, the endless boosts to the budgets of the military for enemies of capitalism abroad and the police for enemies of capitalism at home. They give the good-hearted and well-meaning American liberal an outlet that doesn't challenge the status quo, nullifying any potential for change that they represent.

So, you might say, "Sure, the Democrats aren't perfect, but they're better than Republicans! What about the small victories, such as securing the right to have an abortion?"

But this is missing the point. The "battle" between Democrats and Republicans isn't a tug-of-war between opposing factions, they are willing puppets of the same masters. Democrats don't stop or even slow the rise of fascism (which only mildly inconveniences them), in fact they destroy the only thing that CAN stop fascism: socialism. Abortion would have been made illegal no matter how many Democrats you voted into office. Democrats hold your hand and promise they too are outraged by police brutality, until they get elected, and then they dump money onto militarizing the police. Democrats claim they are in favor of gay marriage when 51% of the populace says they are in order to get a vote, but when (not if, but when) Republicans come after gay marriage again they will do NOTHING to stop it, because using any of their arsenal of powers for social justice will get people thinking dangerous things: "Hey, if they used an executive action for X, why don't they use it for Y?" "Hey, if the Democrats managed to push through X bill, why can't they do Y bill next?"

Democrats keep your expectations low. They condition you to expect a grim, futile world where nothing changes but everything slowly gets worse. They train us to internalize things like, "Well, that's just politics for ya," or, "Well, the world's not supposed to be perfect." It is no coincidence that a 1/3-1/2 of Americans DON’T EVEN VOTE AT ALL! It’s not because they’re “lazy” or “stupid,” but because they see the truth: that it does NOTHING to help them at all, that NOTHING ever changes for the things that matter MOST, no matter who is in office.

The Democrats paint a world where the good is just not strong enough, outnumbered and outgunned by evil, for those not completely taken by apathy. If only you would donate a LITTLE more, if only you could get a LITTLE more of your friends to vote, maybe THEN things would change!

They knew full well the Supreme Court was quietly working on stripping away abortion rights, so what did they do?

Did they organize massive protests? Did they fight tooth and nail in the legislative bodies to save it? Did they codify it into law during the DOZENS of opportunities they had to do so for DECADES, when they enjoyed majority seats, presidents, Supreme Court justice majorities, etc.?

No, no, and NO.

Here's what they DID do: they drafted up stirring, passionate, well-worded emails and text messages to send to all of their mailing lists the moment the news dropped. They leaped on an opportunity to milk their fanbase. They know this would help convince suckers to dump their hard-earned cash bankrolling their elections, bankrolling their golfing vacations and champagne-clinking dinner parties. Something brimming with outrage, something for the suckers to FEEL like the Democrats represented them, that they were on their side, that they were the good guys that were taking a stand against the bad guys...

They don't represent you, they represent capitalist corporations. They're not on your side, they're on the side of making money and preserving the system as is. They aren't the "good guys" and they aren't "taking a stand" against the Republicans. They might not be quite as psychopathic as Republicans at a cursory glance, but look closer. They squash all leftward movement. They enable fascism. And they have done nothing but those two things for a century now.

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If anybody would like to cut down and condense these arguments into something more easily readable, by all means please steal and make your own, in part or in whole.

[longlostfeelings]

if i see one more person talking about “if your parents believed in abortion rights you wouldn’t be here.” istg

because that’s just wrong and stupid. you can believe in the right to abortion and not abort every time you get pregnant. it is a personal choice you get to make based on how it could affect you in that time. obviously i’m still here and wasn’t aborted, because my parents wanted a child. why would they have gotten an abortion?

[profgandalf]

In America Tolerance of World Views Must Go Both Ways

The following is the AP headline describing the June 30th Supreme Court ruling concerning the web designer: “The supreme court rules for a designer who doesn’t want to make wedding websites for gay couples“ Does anyone else see how biased and opinionated this headline is? The editors make it sound as if her personal opinion is the cause. And they strongly infer that it is a kind of prejudice. However, the headline actually reveals the bias of the authors and how much they do not understand us. 

This is not a question of an individual’s personal likes or dislikes; this has to do with fundamental world beliefs built on scripture that shape lives and it is ad odds with the state trying to coerce speech. Ms Smith has said she has no problem serving the gay community in various ways as a designer, but she cannot create art which supports claims fundamentally at odds with her world view--i.e. celebrating the union of two people of the same gender in what the state calls “a marriage” when her faith says that marriage is the union of only a man and a woman. Her belief that homosexuality is not the will of God is not a fringe position.  Not only has it been held for thousands of years by most cultures and faiths in the world, today it is still held as true by the Catholic Church, Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and many Protestant Christian denominations.   The secular state, via a different supreme court, has declared otherwise.  Whom should a person of good faith follow?

Should her art be forced to celebrate something counter to her core beliefs? No.  An artist should not be forced to shape his or her work to fit the parameters of the culture around her.   A work of art cannot be shaped by some cultural assumption of acceptability.  Art is covered by the fundamental right of free speech.

Liberals for years told society this truth when flags were used as a means to protest or images of Christ were immersed in urine.    Many were deeply offended but the courts sided with the artist. And they were right to do so here.

Some may doubt that web design is not a work of art.  But artwork in photography and sculpture in design have all been accepted for a long time. Meanwhile others may think Ms Smith should not be making money from her art is controversial.  However "The laborer is worth his hire" (1 Tim 5:18).  Art and money are connected.  Knowing what I do about how Dickens made money with his art, or Mark Twain, both of whom did not fit into what their culture claimed was acceptable, there is no reason to seek her end of business.

If activists come after her, as they did with the baker, I will not be surprised. She may indeed lose income but that is her choice and she should not be hounded because others don't like her beliefs. Tolerance goes both ways, 

I side with the artist. Some talk about some slippery slope in which various religious orders have rules not shared by culture.  But our culture has always been able to move to accommodate.  A shop is closed on the Hebrew sabbath, goes elsewhere.  A Muslim restaurant does not serve pork, eat somewhere else or try the lamb.  if you don’t like the fundamental artistic principles of a particular artist. or craft-person, go find another to make your celebratory web design: go find another baker to bake your cake   There are plenty of others. Be what liberals were supposed to be, tolerant.

[ar1mas]

to all my bruhs living in Wisconsin, usa

yeah so. watch this. i guess, i mean. if you want. seems like a good idea

[no-no-no-ahhhh]

Fuck celebrity's avoiding whole states just because of politicians. (They honestly felt bad because it's not the people's fault so wouldn't even)

They should honestly just avoid the city and capitals that make these political decisions.

It would make these places seem more undesirable

Honestly just have the concert super close to that city just not at the city

[7evenarmedsun]

Republican dreamworld Christianity 😒

[stup1d-em0]

Losing rights to my own body is something I thought I didnt have to worry about but ig I was wrong.

Fuck this shit. Fuck america.

[bee-dot-exe]

You already fucking know that this isn't just about women or anyone who is able to reproduce, it's about control. The government could give a goddamn about what happens to those able to have children, and then once they're born they care even less. You're too young, don't have the funds, and we're already low on formula? Yeah that's great, but what about the piece of tissue and cells we made you save beforehand?

[thepopoptic]

This 6-3 ruling limits government from infringing on an individuals natural right to defend one's self.