• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    Obergefell v. Hodges was decided based on the Equal Protection Clause. This is the second ruling in the last few days that seems to go directly against that idea. I am honestly worried they are going to use these rulings as an argument that you don’t have to treat people the same in every state and overturn equal marriage among other things.

    Similar terrible rulings regarding slaves and where they were legal and not legal were part of what led to the US civil war.

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    I say I say these wimmin best git back tuh a-fearin GAWD and thur MEN, git back in the kitchin, but also work full time, tend chaps, and hand thur pay over to the men so he can pay bills, pay the side dish and TITHE!

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    It’s way worse than that.

    They essentially crippled the standing for citizens to sue the states for violating their rights, so long as the states violate them the right way.

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    The filibuster is only used to block things republicans and centrist democrats don’t want to happen.

    It has been used once since trump took office, to block nothing.

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        It’s funny, I hate clinical people like you almost as much as the evil people doing this to us. Democrats are not complicit, especially when they don’t have any power.

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          Democrats are neoliberals. They believe in freedom of capital. They are for big corporations. They’re better than the Republicans, but they are not on your side. They are not the solution to the problem we’re in. They’re part of it. They’ve shown you time and time again they don’t care about you. This isn’t a party dispute. It’s a class dispute.

          The solution is to take the few politicians who are actually with us, Bernie Sanders, AOC, etc and push the rest of them out. All the others are on the same side.