My hope for the SCOTUS in the future is that they stay conservative just long enough to strike all the worst gun control laws off the record... and then once we get there have the SCOTUS go neutral again with a fairly equal division between left and right wing ideology.
I feel like given the trajectory we are on that seems reasonable that by the time one of them dies a liberal president will be in place to nominate the replacement.
My thinking is, while im excited to see Gun Rights to be honored again, the other stuff they do can be very damaging and harmful. But thankfully gun rights are a bit harder to take back so my hope would be once the SCOTUS goes neutral again they will repair any damage done while leaving the reestablished gun rights in tact.
I am actually appalled and shocked that 1/3 of people thing porn is morally wrong. As a society I figured we got past this point...
I often find the best players, and the smartest people, rarely get involved in democratic groups unless there is something that just cant be done alone.
It is just too frustrating to be brought down by the average group IQ when arguing for and voting for better options.
So the end result is democratic groups tend to have their average skills/IQ fall below the population average.
This is just my personal experience though.
@Gina Hi, just realized I havent checked in a while. Wanted to see how you are doing. Hope all is well.
"A federal judge has granted an injunction blocking a California law that would force online businesses and social media platforms to estimate the ages of people visiting their sites and protect children from seeing content that might cause harm, stating that the law likely violates the First Amendment and would likely lead to online government-fueled censorship."
@trinsec Stop pollen my leg, we both know I was just winging it, and I didnt really mean bees-ness. Thats why I didnt charge for the joke, it was a free-bee.
@freemo @georgetakei Ukraine is fighting for all democracies.
This Neil Patrick Asshole thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he is Ryan Reynolds.... We arent buying it Neil, we know its you!
@freemo @Bradcopter @georgetakei I understand where you stand, we both have our lines defined by our lives and lines of work, and even if we agree to disagre, I wanted thank you for this very interesting debate. 🙂
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My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
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Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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