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The writing has been on the wall my entire adult life, but it's sad to see the end of America. Confirmed shit hole country.
Your country going to open up free immigration for US citizens then? I'm thinking no?
What a stupid thing to say.
LGBTQ+; then Religion in schools; then textbooks teaching science; then evolution being taught at all
The list goes on and on.
But the vote margin is close enough for there to at least be some hope that the state can be flipped.
There is no hope for people in places like Arkansas, such as my family and I.
But see, if the 13 year old had a gun, they wouldn't have been raped.
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I would say that 2016 was when it went into a nose dive vertically. It was on a decline for years before.
Continuing to haggle over 2016 doesn't fix this and no one's mind is being changed in this thread because y'all have had the same damn arguments for years, probably with the same people. Put that energy into doing anything. Anything at all.
The forever ironic thing is that "the left" really is so much less interested in running into the capitol and killing people. If this were somehow an issue the right was the opposite way on, SC justices would probably have already been killed.
Already see people pissed at democrats, so job done I suppose. Democrats are in this position because they do.not.vote. in midterms and local elections. This moment in time is 50 years of republican gamesmanship coming to a head. Thousands of small victories.
Meanwhile the only thing democrats ever care about is absolutist wins. Nothing matters more than that.
And here we are now. I just had a friend almost die from an ectopic pregnancy. I had a close friend get an abortion at 15 after she was raped.
Now democrats will eat themselves because the only thing that can change ANGTHING is to keep voting democrats. Which is the one thing democrats hate doing.
Meanwhile the only thing democrats ever care about is absolutist wins. Nothing matters more than that.
And here we are now. I just had a friend almost die from an ectopic pregnancy. I had a close friend get an abortion at 15 after she was raped.
Now democrats will eat themselves because the only thing that can change ANGTHING is to keep voting democrats. Which is the one thing democrats hate doing.
If we can't even manage a basic coalition because we turn on each other the second we don't get what we want, we will NEVER take power back from the right wing. At the end of the day, that is the problem - the right wing coalition is completely unshakeable, whereas the left wing collapses in on itself like a black hole with infighting whenever it matters most for us to be unified.
Don't vote for Democrats. Vote for whatever stops Republicans from having a majority. And in a two-party system, that means voting for Democrats to vote AGAINST Republicans. A third party is not going to ever build enough of a coalition to break the Republican wall.
Flipped how? For the presidential election? How does that make abortion legal? The Legislature is solidly red.
I'm out of here as soon as I can be.
Obama had 60 senators caucusing with Democrats for 4 months. He never had 60 pro-choice senators. At least 2 Dems were openly pro-life and there were others from red/purple states that probably wouldn't have supported changing the status quo on abortion.
Wouldn't these initiatives need to be approved by said republicans to even be on yearly ballots?
Except we just had 4 years of a President who used the bully pulpit quite literally as a BULLY pulpit, and he didn't get even half his agenda passed.
So no, that's not how it's always been done.
From NewRepublic. There was absolutely a way for Obama to make an appointment. He chose not to because decorum and all that. And yeah, I have been plugged into politics since 2004 and over time my cynicism grew over democrats wanting to play by the rules, while gop abuse them whenever given the chance.
Fuck this court and this country. The obsession with taking people's rights away under the guise of reverting all authority to the states is sickening and a gallingly intentional misread of the constitution in service of blanketing the country with as much conservative regression as possible as quickly as possible. Progress, equality, and the will of the people be damned.
The GoP are a horror show of motivated monsters and the Dems are feckless and more interested in corralling the progressives than anything else. The cynic in me thinks a ton of establishment Dems are rubbing thier hands together at this ruling because of how much money they can raise off it.
No the margin is not close at all at the state level. It's not even really that close in federal elections
No, for a lot of states they get on the ballot by just having enough signatures
"Stop making me feel guilty for being too lazy to get off my ass and cast a ballot!"
Specifically for those who can't afford to fly somewhere to get it done. I guarantee every single one of these conservatives that supported this ban would try to obtain an abortion if their teenage daughter got pregnant.
I'm talking about assassination attempts on Republicans.
I remember this BS.Guys stop being mean to Thomas. Don't you know that he knows every employees' name?
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Opinion | Notable & Quotable: Justice Sotomayor on Justice Thomas
‘He is a man who keeps cares deeply about the court as an institution, about the people who work there.’www.google.com
Unfortunately it depends on the state. I believe in Tennessee it's illegal to do so, for example.
The Senate and governor hold power. You can't change the law without the lower legislature, which won't flip in the near future. But flipping the state at the federal and governor level would definitely help
What is your actionable plan for changing this, beyond posting "JuSt VoTe"?
Id argue that acceptance doesn't translate to actual political impact. Local sure, but only so much can be done local.
Like no one wants to admit this because we've all been brainwashed, but perhaps keeping America to 'diet evil' is the best you can hope for. It was an aparthied state for most of its existence with majority support. We are by any and all metrics, the baddies
I keep hearing they are also trying to repeal the voting rights act of 1965. So let me get this straight. They integrated my people and segregation is no longer a thing. The end result of that is black business is almost none existent when even in the 60's black people had infrastructure like owning city bus companies. In 2022 we hardly have barbershops. It's like they integrated us just to take our wealth and now they going back to they bullshit with voting, no more interracial marriage either is what I keep hearing they are working on.
If circumstances turn out right for me in the coming months, I will be starting to process to move out of this country permanently in a few years. I need to live in a country that exists in the same century as I do.
I'm a relatively wealthy, cis-, straight, neurotypical white male. I think I'll stick around and do my best to improve the situation for those less fortunate and those that cannot flee.
No shame to you or others that bail, but those of us that can stick around should do so and do the best we can to fix things, even if it's just at a local level.
It's 100% coming though. The question is if they'll hold off till Thomas retires.