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Yeah, we've been hearing the "alarmist" thing for 8 years now. "Roe is settled law, stop being hysterical".
by davidw 2y ago
Yeah, we've been hearing the "alarmist" thing for 8 years now. "Roe is settled law, stop being hysterical".
- bsimpson 2y agoPart of this is abdication and dysfunction of the government overall. As I remember it, the argument was that Roe was based on faulty caselaw. If so, I have no problem with it being overruled, but I then expect Congress to pass the correct law to take its place. The problem isn't that Roe was overturned - it's that our legislative system is so dysfunctional that law is being settled in the other branches of government.
- davidw 2y agoThe ruling was based on what we call "calvinball", where they just make shit up that suits their own views.
- citizen_friend 2y agoIf that’s your level of argumentative empathy I can see why you’re mad.
- davidw 2y agoI'm mad because authoritarianism and its supporters are bad, full stop.
- nickburns 2y agoclearly you have a hard time distinguishing between who supports what.
- davidw 2y agoI believe in freedom and democracy. I don't believe in mobs attacking the Capitol or "find me some votes" or minority rule or massive roundups and detention camps or any of that.
- citizen_friend 2y agoAuthoritarianism is when the appointed judges vote 6-4 for an interpretation which at worst is an extension of existing principle.
- davidw 2y ago> Authoritarianism is when the appointed judges vote 6-4 for an interpretation which at worst is an extension of existing principle. Comrade, in the United States, we have 9 supreme court justices.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoRoe itself was far more of a "calvinball" ruling than overturning it was.