HenchmanNumber3

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This is a misleading perspective. Why would you need to codify "settled law?" SCOTUS had ruled that it was a constitutional right already so you wouldn't need a separate law.

You're also ignoring Casey. It wasn't just Roe.

They also don't typically say they're "pro-abortion."

The infographic states "facts" that weren't relevant at the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd suggest maybe we don't let kids give each other chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the occasional death, for our entertainment, but George, the rage-filled authoritarian boomer, played high school football, and he turned out great!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Malice and arrogant ignorance can have the same functional result and at least malice would involve them being honest with themselves. Arrogant ignorance is worse because they're judging and harassing you with their ignorance but think they're saving your soul.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

A democratic republic is a representative democracy.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

Some of the universities mentioned in the article are public institutions. SCOTUS held in Healy v James that the 1st Amendment applies to public universities. So some of the actions could be considered 1st Amendment violations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Except these restrictions prevent speech, not harm.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a false dilemma. There's a middle ground between allowing only approved speech and allowing any speech whatsoever. And we already make that distinction. Fascists don't believe in free speech and threaten the rights of others through threats of violence, which isn't protected speech. Likewise fraud, libel, slander, blackmail, false advertising, and CSAM aren't protected and are considered harmful.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Driving predictably. Millions of people do it every day and it prevents accidents, which saves lives.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The people who could have possibly predicted that were also fired.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago (9 children)

If I have to wait for an employee to unlock an item, I'm just buying it somewhere else, whether it's online or another brick and mortar that doesn't make me beg to spend money there. Same with stores that have passcode locks on their bathroom doors. I'm not asking a retail worker for permission to pee.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Referencing people whose communication styles are notoriously difficult to understand for average people is not great support for your point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Are you there, god? It's me, government-sanctioned christofascist book banning.

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