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Showing content with the highest reputation on 05/03/22 in Posts

  1. Some people and posts above see this for the incredibly dangerous thing it is. See the whole forest, not just the tree. Roe is built on the bedrock of the 14th amendment and the inherent right to privacy. Alito's opinion doesn't void Roe -- it voids the entire bedrock, with one of the results of that being the demolition of the building of Roe. But all other buildings standing on that now shattered bedrock are destroyed as well. With no right to privacy (that is, a right that prevents the government from intruding into your private affairs), the following "buildings" now have no foundation at all (and these are just some examples; there are many more): 1 -- all decisions as to pregnancy/procreation, particularly birth control. How do we know? Because Griswold was specifically about this, and is specifically attacked. You have no right to the personal and private decision of birth control. That means that the government can regulate it as it wishes. 2 -- your ability to engage in certain sexual activities (do you like blowjobs? Cool, but you no longer have a right to get one in the privacy of your own home). Because Lawrence v. Texas was specifically about this, and is specifically attacked. You have no right to engage in ANY private sexual activity, the government can regulate it however the majority wishes. To those who would say "most of you don't have to worry about it, we're just gonna make gay blowjobs illegal," 1) what a shitty thing to say, and 2) that's not the point. The point is that 1) you no longer have a right to a blowjob at home, and 2) the government has the ability to criminalize blowjobs. That is the world in which you live now. 3 -- your ability to marry who you please. We know this applies to same-sex marriage, as Obergefell was specifically mentioned. If you are in a same-sex relationship and are contemplating getting married, you should probably speed that up. AND, even if you do, will your marriage in a state where it is legal be recognized in a state that bans it? Will your spouse be able to get benefits when your job transfers you to Texas? These are just the easy and obvious perils created by the elimination of a right that has been recognized for 60-ish years. Couple those with the functional voiding of the 4th amendment that has happened over the past few years, and you have all the ingredients required for a police state. "I received a report that defendants engaged in oral sex from a jealous neighbor. Based on that information, we conducted a tactical entry into the residence where we discovered defendants engaged in oral sex, evidenced by semen on female defendant's chin. Both defendants admitted that they have been engaged in the prohibited criminal activity, and we arrested them for that charge. Further affiant sayeth not." These are not "slippery" slope fears. They are citations to actual laws that actually existed that were actually found to be void because they violated a right....that no longer exists. Don't be distracted by the single (important) building that was just torn down. Observe the much greater issue of an entire slab of bedrock being turned to quicksand, when countless aspects of our lives have long-rested safely upon that bedrock. And for those who say "well, just vote for a government that won't enact such laws," that is sophistry. Rights transcend voting trends, that's their entire point. If such fundamental principles live or die at the whim of an elected government, then they are not rights. The entire point of a right is that it stands as a bulwark against the vagaries of a capricious government. I find it FASCINATING that many of the same people who rant like hell against an "authoritarian government," and stockpile weapons and ammo based on that fear....happily cheer on the removal of some of the most fundamental barriers to an actual authoritarian government.
    61 points
  2. The whole episode is pretty bad for the Court. The leak is embarrassing. But the decision is catastrophic. You've got a 5-4 decision to get rid of a something that has been settled as a constitutional right for 50 years, overturning a decision that at least three of them said in their confirmation hearings within the last five years was "settled law." Each of those five justices were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote. And now they have lifetime appointments. These are people who have no electoral legitimacy, no democratic legitimacy, and now no intellectual legitimacy. They are political hacks with lifetime tenure. And you know what that makes them? Tyrants.
    49 points
  3. Was just told the staff has been way ahead on this one thanks to Marion. We are in the mix boys.
    44 points
  4. Love to live my life according to the principles of two groups: nomadic desert dwellers from 2000 years ago and slave holding aristocrats from 300 years ago. And this makes perfect sense to me.
    33 points
  5. If there's one thing that people with autism like, it's being included in everything.
    28 points
  6. There wasn't a right to free speech by electronic communication. There wasn't a right to any weapon capable of firing 800 rounds per minute. There was no right to engage in oral sex with your spouse. There was not right to contraception. And we could go on, for pages. Foolish originalism is just that, pure folly. It presumes that humanity, our economies, and our social structures will not develop or advance in any way since 1789. And/or, only the most profound of advances (gee, after having a war that kills hundreds of thousands, MAYBE slavery is bad) can be acknowledged in terms of actual protections from government reach. "Reproductive freedom" is not a "deep historical" thing because women have functionally been slaves for most of human history. THAT'S why it isn't a "deep historical" thing -- because bitches do what they're told, especially what their husband tells them to do, right up to this last century. For millennia it was that way. And Alito says "so, let's side with the millenia of shitty history, and NOT the past century where we figured out that maybe women were equal human beings." It's so fucking terrifyingly retrograde as to defy full explanation or illustration.
    26 points
  7. These last twenty pages were a blast catching up on! Reminder: you can’t bitch about our donors not paying up if you’re not in burnt ends. We gave you the ability to do something about it for less than a whataburger, do it or stfu about it. Also for the bitch about the donors crowd, Worthy would be wearing red today if it wasn’t for them we also built a legitimate the very first IRS APPROVED 501c3 so donors can give their money legitimately while receiving a tax break, the players can do some good in their community and earn legit NIL money while doing it. We don’t need any faux NIL deals or a stupid bag game. We just need people to literally email me at rob@hornswithheart.org and tell me how much money you want to give, I’ll do the rest I guess what I’m really trying to say is…I should have made a petition
    25 points
  8. Posting here as to not give the Ewers thread a poorly-timed bump:
    24 points
  9. You can enjoy posting funny clips all you want, but I've spent more time writing documents, at meetings, lining up charities, on the phone and on fucking zoom calls in the last 6 months on this shit, for fucking free, than you can possibly know. And quite honestly probably an amount that I'd be embarrassed to publicly admit. And you know what that helped get us? The first of it's kind program in the country to compensate Texas athletes for supporting and bringing awareness to charitable endeavors. So yeah, maybe I get a little hangry what a bunch of guys on what is supposedly the most educated fan site around can't bother to read or understand NIL rules get critical of what we've accomplished when most of them won't even do the equivalent of wiping the cheeto dust off their fingers and onto their sweatpants to help Texas get out of this shitpile of fandom we're all enduring.
    23 points
  10. The US is fucked. We’re barreling full-speed towards regressive fascism. The antidote is an educated populace. But oops! The fascists convinced the rubes decades ago that a secular, objective education was the work of the devil. So now we’re stuck with a bunch of greedy, angry dummies who can’t see what’s coming and idiotically equate the equitable solution to capitalist fascism (democratic socialism) with absolute evil. Because commies or atheists or some shit. It’s going to take generations to recover from this sabotage of America.
    23 points
  11. The amount of men on this board blaming RBG, Susan Sarandon, Susan Collins, and suburban moms for this is telling. Maybe you could redirect your ire to Kavanaugh, Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Trump, Bush, McConnell, and the majority of men who vote GQP.
    22 points
  12. How many healthy term infants are aborted in this country every year because the life of the mother is at risk? I would guess close to zero. There are several instances where an abortion would be the only option to save the mother’s life after first trimester and prior to viability outside the womb other than in a level four NICU. Infants who require that level of ICU care cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to support and have greatly diminished quality of life due to cognitive issues, G.I. issues, and heart/lung issues. Even if you believe the rights of a fetus supersede the rights of a woman, it would be insane public health policy to try and deliver and care for them as extreme preterm infants When I was in medical school on the OB rotation, we had a 20 something-year-old woman who in the middle of her second trimester was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of breast cancer. The oncologist recommended immediate double mastectomy and beginning chemo and radiation right away. Delaying the radiation and chemo to the point of fetal viability outside the womb meant very high likelihood of stage IV metastatic disease. Chemo and radiation would’ve killed the baby. Guess what this mother chose to do? Actually, it doesn’t matter what she chose the point is she had a choice. You would take that choice away Abortions that occur past the point of viability that doesn’t require heroic measures are usually for anencephaly or another lethal defect that for whatever reason wasn’t picked up earlier. It is cruel to make a woman carry such a pregnancy to term against her will knowing it is going to die. Such a pregnancy has happened to two couples close to me. The choice to abort or carry to term was and should remain theirs.
    21 points
  13. For context: @Immaculate Vibesand @workswithseedand @clapclapclapwant all those Ukrainian women who were raped by russian soldiers to be forced to carry any fetuses to term. That's who's demanding to be taken seriously in this discussion.
    21 points
  14. Here’s the deal. The ideal democracy holds that all people should be treated equally. Fascists see themselves as superior to the non dominants in the society and have begun to sour on our form of government since it advances notions of equality fascists find increasingly unacceptable. It’s why they talk more about freedom than democracy, because freedom has come to represent a rejection of anything that compels them to acknowledge the humanity of those they judge to be inferior to them. This is Trucker Carlson’s shtick and he employs it brilliantly.
    21 points
  15. Uh, the peaceful transition of power, for one.
    20 points
  16. If I offered to fully fund your go fund me for your fucking wedding would you promise to stay off this website forever?
    19 points
  17. So I take it you have no opinion as to the veracity of the Bible, inasmuch as the events recited therein happened before you were a fetus?
    19 points
  18. Neither the framers nor drafters of the 14th amendment thought that women were full citizens.
    19 points
  19. I blame the Democrats for becoming slightly-less-mean-spirited Republicans. The Dems fucked over their former labor base and let the working class deteriorate into an angry populist mob.
    19 points
  20. 19 points
  21. For like 5 fucking minutes, can y'all stop blaming Hillary/RBG/Bill Clinton/the Democrats/Nancy Pelosi and actually direct your anger where it belongs? Because continuing the "Democrats are big pussies, thanks a lot Hillary!" bullshit is just giving the GOP a huge out. Direct blame and anger where it belongs. /goodbye
    18 points
  22. I sincerely am going to throw down. I would have said throw up but that would be too limiting. Judge or flame me how you would like (I overshare too much) but the first person I slept with I got knocked up. I was in law school and he wasn’t very supportive at all. I still regret my choice. But I had one. The insidious thing is women are the only ones left with the pain the scars and the blame. We are always the ones left with the blame. We are the only ones that bare the shame. And it’s bullshit. Stepping off my soapbox now.
    18 points
  23. It is stupid, in a way, that I feel profound sadness that after all we've been through, all the work put in, that we still earn about .80 cents to the male dollar and our profound right to our health and welfare is being dictated to. I'm not a real smart person so I can't express this as eloquently as I would like but I will try. My nieces and their daughters should have the only say in their well being in consultation with their doctor. PERIOD. If the men in our communities and in our government think their beliefs and feelings are more important than our need for self protection, then I think it only fair that I stop having to pay premiums to insurance companies to cover your boner pills. If my health and welfare isn't important enough for you then yours isn't to me. Pay for your own fucking erections and fuck yourselves while your at it. Well, that last part is about as eloquent as I get. Guess I'll go cry in some beer and think up ways to help those who need it. Something something abortion pills and telemedicine underground something.
    17 points
  24. SCOTUS “The government can NOT force people to wear a mask or get a vaccine.” Also SCOTUS “Ya gonna birth this baby no matter what. Shut up.”
    17 points
  25. Immigration Police brutality Vaccinations Self over society Party over country Conspiracy theories Voter suppression Book burning and banning Just for a few, not to mention devolving into an insane cult of personality around Trump. I voted GOP in 1996, 2000, 2004 and libertarian in 2012 and 2016 and Dem in 2008 and 2020.
    16 points
  26. @PenelopeWitherspoon @Bama Chick I am angry as fuck but my anger must pale in comparison to the women in my life and those on this board who awoke to this news this morning or heard it last night. I am sorry this country is so fucked and I stand with all women in support of reproductive rights. FUCK ALL REPUBLICANS AND ANYONE WHO STILL SUPPORTS THEM.
    16 points
  27. A straight cut-and-paste job from https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-americans-really-think-about-abortion/
    16 points
  28. I have very fluid and ambiguous feelings about the right to life/reproductive rights/abortion. I am always uncomfortable discussing it, because I am not confident in what I personally believe to be correct and true. But there is one aspect of the issue that I am highly confident in, and that is this: This should not be a legal debate dominated and decided upon by men.
    16 points
  29. We got the top QB, the top TE, a top CB and a couple top WRs. Those are all top proven, experienced talent at positions of need, where we largely got the best player in the portal at each position. Just because you have a fetish for some mythical OL portal player when we have 7 talented freshmen coming, doesn't mean Texas is behind the ball in NIL. Obviously they've decided that the OL they have coming in is the best bet. I can't imagine why Coach Flood didn't consult with Coelenterate Fuccboi before he made that decision. As for bitching about Texas fending off suitors... What a dumb fucking complaint We fended them off because we had our shit together. That's what you need to tell yourself. You're butthurt because Texas didn't tamper anybody into the portal at LB or Edge. That's on compliance. Texas missed out on the one decent edge in the portal, and the reason had nothing to do with NIL. Your post screams of entitlement. You feel entitled to answers (Explain to ME!!!). You feel entitled to every player in the portal. You feel entitled to players not even in the portal. You feel entitled to have a roster constructed that satisfies all of your idiotic notions, without having all of the facts on scholarships, player evaluations, NIL constraints, etc. It's pretty sad.
    16 points
  30. Hate that I refer to this about once every quarter
    15 points
  31. "undermine the integrity of our operations" lmao homeboy, the wife of your most senior Justice was conspiring to overthrow the government, the "integrity" is long gone.
    15 points
  32. Abortions should be legal whenever the pregnant lady wants one because it's literally happening inside her body. It is not your business. It is not the business of the people who answered that survey. It is definitely not the business of your priest/pastor/preacher. It is her business, and maybe her partner's. And if you think abortion is a sin, then that's between her and God. There's really no point in you having an opinion on this at all.
    15 points
  33. hi. for the record, I didn't send imma a message about any of this. I decided to dial back my participation by more than 99% because, well, this world is a shit show and I don't need to find refuge in an online version of it. The primary defense to being a raging asshole here is that we do it to everyone. That worked when I was, well like 28, but cruising toward 50 years old, that shit makes zero sense anymore. You know what make sense to me? Realizing people on this board have real lives, with pressures, hurts, sorrows, unmet expectations, losses, real fucking losses, the kind that could make you wish you were dead. There are people trying to make it in a world where divorce has them reeling, where alcohol calls their name every day, where mental illness is unrelenting, where kids break their hearts with drug abuse and failing grades, where spouses cheat, where parents die, where jobs are lost and dreams are broken. The folks I want to be around now are those that are self-aware, authentic, struggling and trying their best to be kind people. those folks are here, but they are mixed in with people like some on this thread that just aren't my kind anymore. I went on exactly one neg raid in 25 years and decided I'd had enough. I'm not going to nuke my persona here or permaban myself because truthfully there are actually people here that I care deeply about, even if I only know them on line. So without any message to imma I said my peace to my friends, I asked them to stay in touch, told them I would do the same, and I moved into the background where I will stay barring something that truly warrants my input. There's really nothing imma or anyone can do about it, too many people here think it's ok to make fun of others and I'm simply not down for that anymore. So if you think I'm a whiny bitch, have at it. you do you bro. I'm simply not down for hate, whether in the form of a joke or otherwise, not for anyone. be kind, have fun, the rest is background noise.
    14 points
  34. 14 points
  35. PREACH!!! Fuck all you goddamn idiots and assholes who pilloried Hillary by validating right-wing smears that came out of the very real and very vast right wing conspiracy against all things HRC. HILLARY WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING and the idiot Bernie Bros (and even Obamaites during the '08 primary war) did a ton of free work for the future Tea Party/GQP crazies. Hillary Clinton would have made an excellent president and was BY FAR the most qualified presidential candidate in my lifetime, yet those of us who supported her and voted for her were constantly arguing with asshole idealists on the left who didn't listen or learn from the very instructive Ralph Nader lesson most of us remember from 2000. Bernie Bros can go fuck alllllll the way off.
    14 points
  36. Lol, wut? Suburban moms are the aggy of voters. They go to their mega church who tells them to be subservient to they're husbands, close their legs, and pray for abbott and friends. This does zero to them, nothing whatsoever. If their little snowflake gets knocked up at 14 they'll find the funds to make it to the nearest blue state and continue judging all those pregnant teenage sluts as though it never happened to them. That's how the right works these days. It's about judging others in the name of your church and feeling superior while being a massive hypocrit. These are the people going to school boards to cry about crt and how the teachers had gay sex in front of the kindergarten class in the name of diversity. Absolute worse case scenario they'll see this and forget about it when an ad on tv for the local theocrat puts a photo of AOC and Nancy Pelosi on the screen. No context, no words, just their pictures, and the Karen in them will get all pissy and vote for the fuckstain candidate who says jesus a lot. We are a failed country, this is just the latest major shift towards complete theocracy. As soon as they get another majority in both houses and the white house, even blue states won't be safe, because they are all about state's rights, until they control the federal government.
    14 points
  37. Exciting series of tweets over the last 24 hrs from him:
    14 points
  38. Donors typically give a shit, compliance typically gives a shit, the AD typically give a shit. Can you remind me again of how the Texas OL class fared after announcing the pancake factory? You think getting a 501c3 approved collective is playing checkers? Guess that’s why we have only seen Ohio state, Texas tech, Arkansas etc etc etc all copy legitimately the exact same model. We aren’t playing chess or checkers, we invented a brand new game where if you lose the IRS sends you to fuck you in the butt prison
    14 points
  39. That is demonstrably not true.
    13 points
  40. 13 points
  41. Republicans always focus on decorum when horrific things are happening
    13 points
  42. Read Alito's reasoning. He simultaneously says that "abortion is different" while also saying that the reasoning of cases like Griswold is flawed in the same logical way ("none of these rights has any claim to being deeply rooted in history.") Just that quoted language is as chilling as it gets. Other rights that are not "deeply rooted in history": the right of women to own property, the right of women to refuse sex to their spouse, the right of non-property owners to vote, the right to use contraception, and a jillion other rights that have been recognized for decades or more, but do not meet Alito's arbitrary "deeply rooted in history" cutoff. The fucking gall to say one one hand that "nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion," while simultaneously pronouncing a standard that rights that are not "deeply rooted in history" are voidable is, well, a lie. Both of those things cannot be true, yet he says them both. When Alito writes this opinion, and then repeatedly says "but don't worry, we won't use this reasoning to take away any other rights," he's saying that because that's EXACTLY what they intend to do. It's the jurisprudential equivalent of saying "I won't come in your mouth." That's a 100% guarantee of a shot right down your gullet. Alito thinks we're stupid. The thing is, he's probably right enough about that. Suppress your gag reflex, folks....here it comes.
    13 points
  43. The ice officially went out on May 2 at 6:47 PM AST I didn’t win the official contest, but I won my company’s minute pool...$1200
    13 points
  44. I don't think they did. I don't think they thought about abortion one way or another in debating and drafting that document. Also, for over a century, many people, including incredibly bright federal judges, never thought the framers or the drafters of the 14th Amendment ever in their wildest dreams thought the Constitution prohibited racially segregated schools. This is the problem with originalism.
    13 points
  45. If the Dems/center doesn't pull their heads out of their asses, we are steam rolling to be a theocracy. Fucking Christians are the worse.
    13 points
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