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US Politics
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 7, 2022, 4:18 pm
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Robert-SF
"The Republicans really have been getting away for with
preposterously pretending to be some kind of “populist” working
people’s party."
Well, they get away with it because they are allowed to get away
with it. And at least the Republicans pretend to like the
"poorly educated." The Democrats couldn't make their contempt
for them more obvious.
Calgacus > Robert-SF
"The Democrats couldn't make their contempt for them more
obvious."
Yup, the mainstream Dems, many lefties quite literally do not
know how to talk to ordinary people without insulting them. One
illustration is that there is a fairly good, well-meaning site
doing Gods work - that tries to edumucate pipples to NOT do
this.
But I pointed out how they were unintentionally doing what they
thought they were avoiding - by calling others beliefs "beliefs"
and their own beliefs "facts" or "truth". They were trying, but
they couldn't get rid of their superciliousness. Super-silly.
I'm often supercilious too, but by intent. :-)
They never posted my comment. :-(
Agelbert > Calgacus
🤔 I understand you are talking about religion. It is
mission impossible to tell anyone, from any monotheistic
religion, that their religious beliefs "are no more truthful"
than the different religious beliefs of others.
Yeah, I get that that is what you believe, as most here at Class
Struggle, but good luck convincing those at that web site that
you are right and they are "superciliousness" and "Super-silly".
Religious folks have a very poor sense of humor. Your attempt to
make them reason out of their errors with a lighthearted comment
was probably perceived as mockery. Religious folks don't handle
mockery with aplomb, to put it mildly.
As a Christian, I am grateful for your comment about the good
work they are doing. It is good to see evidence that some
religious folks out there urge others to practice the Benevolent
Compassion that only Anti-Christians posing as Christians (i.e.
MOST "😈 Church" attending American Christo-fascist,
Capitalism Worshipping Greedballs) feel "justified" in going
full Orwell on.
As to TRUTH, perhaps it was Pontius Pilate that started the
"What is Truth"
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/>👉 "It's all relative" 🙄 ball rolling, but it
didn't really take among the "educated" until about 150 years
ago.
IMHO, not popular among my fellow Progressives (to put it
mlldly), TRUTH is not now, or ever will be, "relative". There is
only ONE Truth. Yeah, I firmly believe Jesus Christ was not
engaging in semantic hyperbole when He said He is the Truth, or
when He said,"Before Abraham was, I AM".
That said, the (certainly NOT "relative") subcategories of Truth
that do not involve religion or a Deity, such as physical
constants, atomic weights of elements, the refraction index of
water at a given temperature and atmospheric pressure, the speed
of light in a vacuum, prima facie evidence of a crime,
scientific measurements, etc. are based on the FACT that there
is ONE TRUTH, not some "situational ethics" sliding scale of
"truth".
The moment you put Truth on a sliding scale, you left Truth AND
ETHICS behind. For human societies to go the "it's all
relative", "I'm okay, you're okay" route, as ours is obviously
DOING, is certainly not "superciliousness" and "Super-silly".
But, that morally bankrupt route IS irrefutably regressive,
though Progressives will argue till the cows come home that
"doin' yer own Libertine thing is Progressive". NO WAY!
Just as science CANNOT function with relative "truths" about
what something is made of, our society is not viable with no
IMMUTABLE ETHICAL STANDARD. In fact, though Progressives get
hives every time it is brought up, the progress of SCIENCE BY
the formulation of the Scientific Method came DIRECTLY from the
monotheistic religious belief that there is ONE GOD and ONE
TRUTH, NOT from the "Enlightenment", so often erroneously given
FULL credit for human advances in scientific knowledge.
All this goes back to the EMBRACE of Social Darwinism by the
most educated and influential segments of our morally bankrupt
civilization. Thus, as long as TPTB, and too many out there
believe, as they do, that "might equals right", then the belief
that "we are a viable species" is a Sick Joke.
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Mary Landrieu and Tim Ryan paid to happy talk 😈 LIE
about methane fuel that is helping make the Earth uninhabitable.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 5, 2023, 12:57 pm
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CleanTechnica
February 4, 2023 By [glow=green,2,300]Steve Hanley[/glow]
[center]Democrats Sell Their Souls To The
[shadow=maroon,left]🦕 Methane 👿
Mob[/shadow][/center]
[center]The [glow=maroon,2,300]🦕 methane 👿
industry[/glow] has created a new political action campaign that
targets Democratic voters in blue states.[/center]
SNIPPET:
[glow=maroon,2,300]🦕 Natural 😈 Allies[/glow]
doesn’t need to target reactionaries. Twenty states with
🐘 [glow=red,2,300]GOP[/glow] controlled legislatures
have already passed “😈 [glow=red,2,300]preemption
laws[/glow]” that prohibit cities from banning gas. And this
week, Florida’s arch 🐘😈
[glow=red,2,300]conservative governor[/glow], who is vying for
the title of “most despicable human being,” suggested his state
should exempt gas stoves from the state sales tax to encourage
more people to buy one.
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AGelbert:
Thank you Steve Hanley for this article. It is high time people
faced the hard truth that our government has been thoroughly
corrupted by the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn and their Banker partners
in profit over people and planet. I will add some graphics to
illustrate how this insanity came about. 👉 Pictures can,
as shown below, often reveal a lot more 😱 than a
"thousand words".
The last 75 years, and the next 25 years or so, of American
Government History for reality based people:
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If you hold ANY stock in a bank that finances hydrocarbon fuels
infrastructure or ANY stock in a corporation that profits from
upstream or downstream exploration, exploitation of and/or
refining of hydrocarbons, you will be very sorry, very, very
soon, that you did. For the sake of everything and everyone you
hold dear, SELL NOW!
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AGelbert:
The trend, not only is not our friend, but is most definitively
our DOOM.
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Land counts MORE than People in the 🐘😈 USA.
😪
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 14, 2023, 9:28 pm
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Here is the "voting" and 🐘😈 Representation
PROBLEM with our so-called "Democracy":
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"Perhaps Carter could have staved this off had he been more
politically cunning, but I doubt it. ...
DIR By: AGelbert
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"Perhaps Carter could have staved this off had he been more
politically cunning, but I doubt it. After 45 years playing
defense,
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paved the way for
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/>[glow=red,2,300]Ronald Reagan[/glow] —
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dominated the nation before the 🥵 Great Depression and
[glow=green,2,300]Franklin D. Roosevelt[/glow] 🗽." --
February 20, 2023 Robert Reich
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😕 Rethinking Capitalism — What Can It Mean For
Cleantech? 🙄
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: March 4, 2023, 2:22 pm
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CleanTechnica
March 1, 2023 By Carolyn Fortuna
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AGelbert COMMENT: The "isms" are not the PROBLEM. The PROBLEM is
the [glow=red,2,300]SOCIAL DARWINIST IDEOLOGY[/glow] they (e.g.
[glow=red,2,300]Capitalism[/glow],
[glow=red,2,300]Fascism[/glow],
[glow=red,2,300]Communism[/glow]) are based on.
Social Darwinists, thanks to [glow=brown,2,300]Darwin's racist
pseudo-science[/glow], believe that ethics based principles are
'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are
'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our
species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is
irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who
are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated
from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our
species.
Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day,
used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the
growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many
differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation
they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere
trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any
alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that
businessmen and others who are economically and socially
successful are so because they are biologically and socially
“naturally” 🙄🤔 the fittest.
Conversely, they reason that the poor are “naturally” weak and
unfit and it would be an error to allow the weak of the species
to continue to breed.
The ideology of the [glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinist[/glow] is
indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of
[glow=red,2,300]NAZI Germany[/glow], clearly exemplified in
their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law:
“Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
This heinous "Apex Predators have a DARWINIAN RESPONSIBILITY to
BE as PREDATORILY EVOLVED (SEE: Steal everything that is not
nailed down.) as possible" ATHEIST WORLDVIEW is the socially
destructive tsunami now engulfing human society. What all the
entrenched insiders among the parasitic, predatory (i.e. Social
Darwinist) elites and institutions don't dare admit publicly,
though they celebrate that privately, is that to protect
themselves from consequence, making the rest of us sacrifice
everything else is what they-the-Apex-Predators have a DARWINIAN
DUTY to DO. After all, Homo sapiens is "just the result of
random undirected processes", so the more you can "enlightened
self interest" DO to get MORE POWER by causing, directly or
indirectly, the death of human competitors for the species gene
pool high ground, "the better".
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This is how America [glow=red,2,300]works[/glow] now:
[glow=red,2,300]in-your-face corruption[/glow] is not just
💵🎩🍌 accepted,
[glow=red,2,300]it's[/glow] 😈🍾 glorified.
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Let's score America's [glow=red,2,300]wealth and power
elites[/glow], regardless of party or political persuasion:
Integrity: zero.
Austerity: zero.
Restraint: zero.
Humility: zero.
Responsibility: zero.
Accountability: zero.
Sacrifice for the common good: zero.
Thrift: zero.
ALL the above scores are perfectly descriptive of the
[glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinist modus operandi/vivendi[/glow].
[glow=teal,2,300]Frugality and prudence[/glow], once accepted by
all human cultures as sine qua non, has given way to
[glow=red,2,300]massive excess by TPTB[/glow] (and too many of
the, brainwashed by the "education system", non-rich populace)
and a level of 🐗👿🐊🦍🐉
craziness in culture [glow=teal,2,300]ethical humans[/glow]
never imagined they would
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Re: US Politics
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 9, 2023, 5:04 pm
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June 9, 2023
AGelbert NOTE:
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/>[glow=red,2,300]Trump[/glow] was FINALLY indicted, as
everybody
that doesn't live under a rock now knows. I am not holding my
breath waiting for justice to be done and that
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/>imprisoned for several years. There is far too much
corruptiton
in our government and the courts at present. AND, things are
getting worse, not better. God help us because
[glow=red,2,300]TPTB[/glow] are sworn enemies of the
[glow=blue,2,300]righteous[/glow] and fast friends with the
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doth keep his soul shall be far from them. ~ Proverbs
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" please prove you really support physicians, who are the
perfect foil for all resentments and vitriol from all
sides."
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: June 13, 2023, 1:04 pm
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The Class Struggle
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
[center]🐘 [glow=red,2,300]States[/glow] Must Stop
[glow=red,2,300]Criminalizing[/glow]
[glow=teal,2,300]Medicine[/glow], AMA Delegates Say ~~ — "This
is unacceptable...and it's time for us to push back" ~~ Joyce
Frieden
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AGelbert COMMENT: There is too much Right Wing Pseudo-Christian
GREED out there.
Selected Comments by MDs on the above article:
David_L_Pogge
If off label prescription becomes a criminal activity then the
practice of psychiatry will come to a halt.
Keith_J_Kassabian
Finally, some official push back against all the crap physicians
have had to endure for decades. I just hope it is more than
talk.
Teri_EMT_RN_CCM
Last I knew, practicing medicine without a license was illegal.
And that is what these legislators are doing......
DB_MD
a day ago edited
"A doctor who can't get in trouble for malpractice because no
patient has been harmed can end up in federal prison for 20-plus
years, because they prescribed off-guidelines," said Stuart
Gitlow, MD, MPH, MBA, of New York City, a delegate for the
American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). "This is
unacceptable. It's been unacceptable for more than 2 decades
now. And it's time for us to push back."
This is horrofying! AMA must send a no-nonsense opinion; please
prove you really support physicians, who are the perfect foil
for all resentments and vitriol from all sides. To us doctors,
it may help if we stop trooping out in residents' white jackets
as televised backdrop for political messages.
Am2PmRN
The AMA also needs to speak up again (but more loudly this
time), regarding how pain patients are treated and why! It's not
just the DEA now. Of course they continue to cut production
quota's but now, despite the shortage of opioids, plus they just
pulled one of the largest drug distributor's DEA registration!
Plus, there are a few others filing bankruptsy and another one
who has stopped producing 2 of the most prescribed generic
opioids and this is all due to misinformation that has been
pushed and making people believe that opioids are causing all of
the addiction and OD's! All manufacturers, distributors and
wholesalers are afraid of lawsuits from the states so they are
trying to avoid opioids. It's hard enough to find a doctor that
will treat pain (plus insurance companies have policies limiting
amounts prescribed and states have limits), but NOW, it is
becoming very difficult to even find a pharmacy that will fill
opioids, even if they do have them in stock or can get enough
supply (they are also at risk of red flags that will cause their
order to be cancelled so they receive NO opioids to dispense)!
This is due to the lawsuit settlement that Walgreens, Walmart
and CVS agreed to (hidden far down in the agreement), which says
they will significantly reduce the amount of opioids they
dispense. So Walgreens (and I've heard CVS is also doing this),
is sending long, narrative questionnaires to all prescribers of
opioids that make it clear to anyone with common sense, they are
refusing to fill ANY medications from those doctors who don't
pass their new prescribing requirements (no, they aren't written
anywhere but if you've seen the questions, then you
understand).So instead of these pharmacies looking at individual
patients, they aren't taking any chances and are just refusing
to fill all Rx's by doctors who prescribe "too many" opioids,
"high dosages", and a long list of other criteria that only
Walgreens knows about (and possibly CVS). These are NOT pill
mill doctors either!!! Maybe the AMA isn't aware of how
difficult it is for patients to fill their pain meds? It's going
to take an act of Congress to fix all of these problems because
there are just too many, but they don't know the truth so
believe the propaganda! There is so much more that most people
don't know about and I sure wish they did! Pain patients are
treated worse than those addicted to street drugs and even worse
than prisoners who must have their pain treated according to the
8th amendment (the ACLU fought for them).It is not okay to allow
patients with intractable pain to just suffer, which is forcing
many to the streets for their pain relief or to suicide!!
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As a Christian, I have stated here more than once that the
Supreme Court has NO RIGHT to criminalize abortion.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 9, 2023, 6:01 pm
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CLASS STRUGGLE
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
The Ohio Vote on Issue 1, August 8, 2023
1). “You did it, Ohio!: Republican efforts to raise ballot
measure standards FAILS”, Aug 8, 2023, Jessica Valenti, Abortion
Every Day, at
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2). “Abortion Rights Get Lift in Ohio as G.O.P. Bid Fails.”,
Aug. 9, 2023, Michael Wines, 1,203 words, New York Times.
SNIPPET:
The contest was seen as a test of efforts by Republicans
nationwide to curb voters' use of ballot initiatives.
Ohio voters rejected a bid on Tuesday to make it harder to amend
the State Constitution, according to The Associated Press, a
significant victory for abortion-rights supporters trying to
stop the Republican-controlled State Legislature from severely
restricting the procedure.
The abortion question turned what would normally be a sleepy
summer election in an off year into a highly visible dogfight
that took on national importance and drew an unprecedented
number of Ohio voters for an August election.
Late results showed the measure losing by 13 percentage points,
56.5 percent to 43.5 percent. The roughly 2.8 million votes cast
dwarfed the 1.66 million ballots counted in the state's 2022
primary elections, in which races for governor, the U.S. Senate
and the U.S. House were up for grabs.
The contest was widely seen as a test of Republicans' efforts
nationwide to curb the use of ballot initiatives, and a
potential barometer of the political climate going into the 2024
elections.
Organizations that opposed the proposal called the vote a
decisive rebuff of the State Legislature, which had ordered the
referendum in an attempt to derail a November vote on a
constitutional amendment that would guarantee abortion rights.
''It was about a direct connection with the abortion issue for
many voters,'' said Kelly Hall, the executive director of the
Fairness Project, one of the leaders of the Ohio campaign
against the proposal. ''But there were many others who saw it as
a power grab by some legislators.
''The resounding rejection of their attempt means that voters
know what's up when they're being asked to vote their rights
away.''
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AGelbert COMMENT:
A long time ago I took a college course in labor management
relations (~1976). One the interesting things I learned was that
the Supreme Court has a legal thing called "Preemption".
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> The preemption doctrine refers to the idea that a higher
authority of law will displace the law of a lower authority of
law when the two authorities come into conflict.
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The 😈 fun starts when the descriptive adjective,
"Federal" is tacked on (I am guilty of adding irreverent
😁 emojies):
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> Federal Preemption
> When state law and federal law 😉 conflict, federal law
displaces, or preempts, state law, due to the 💵🎩
Supremacy Clause of the 🍌 Constitution.
> law.cornell.edu/wex/preemption
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🤔 What does all the above have to do with the price of
abortion peaches in Denmark or any place else, you might ask
🤷‍♂️?
🧐 Well, though the issue of abortion is actually a side
issue, not a central issue here, the current fight to tell the
Supreme Court, now ruled by "Christian" (see Orwell) Fascists,
what they can do with their right wing fascist legerdemain IS
CENTRAL to this discussion.
You see, gobbledegook legerdemain language lovers have always
cursed the legal "profession", These men (and now women) of
"Letters" make it their "business" to serve TPTB by narrowing,
or broadening, the definition of a word or phrase used in law to
make sure TPTB always get the upper (i.e. 😈 selectively
enforced) hand.
It has been the ethically bankrupt norm in Law and political
"professions" (i.e. 😒 Sophist = A sophist is someone who
makes good points about an issue — until you realize those
points aren't entirely true, like a political candidate who
twists an opponent's words or gives misleading facts during a
speech.) even before Roman Law was a thing.
🤦‍♂️
So, it is not surprizing that this "😇 skill 😈"
was thoroughly entrenched in the worldview of those who wrote
the Constitution of the
USA.
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Which brings us to the "Originalists" on the Supremely Fascist
Court who have used this "😇 skill 😈" to overturn
Roe v. Wade.
Of course, as I explained above, these "Originalists" ARE
SOPHISTS. That is, they never gave a tinker's damn about ethics,
truth, morallity and so on. Their MO is SERVE TPTB, PERIOD. They
use all the huge amount of doubletalk word games they are well
practiced in to deny that, but anyone with a lick of sense can
see what serial liars these reprobates are.
As a Christian, I have stated here more than once that the
Supreme Court has NO RIGHT to criminalize abortion. I don't see
it as a "my body, my right" thing. I see it as an example of
mind boggling hypocrisy in the light of such "legal precedents"
as "qualified immunity" for cops that break every law in the
book. Picking on pregnant women is UNJUST AND IMMORAL, PERIOD.
Rather than punishing women for seeking an abortion, an ethics
based Supreme Court (one this country has NEVER HAD!) would Rule
that WIC, SNAP, COLA and Poverty level amount formulas are 25%
OR LESS of what they MUST BE to reflect economic REALITY in the
USA.
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/>WHERE is the QUALIFIED IMMUNITY for a pregant mother who feels
forced to abort her child because of economic hardship? GO TO
HELL, you BASTARDS on the Supreme Court! HYPOCRITES!. LIARS!
Prison is too good for you SCUM. Pregnant women who abort are
VICTIMS of the unjust, abusive system YOU support for the Social
Darwinist Rich Hellspawn BASTARDS that bought you SNAKES!
😡
🗽 Rant over.
📢 The Lord's eyes are on the rghteous and His ears are
open to their cry. The Lord's face is against them that do evil,
to cut off the remembrance of them from the Earth.
It is my studied opinon that, even though the Supreme Fascists
think they have pulled a fast one (i.e. they cynically expect
the States to nullify their ruling on Abortion while leaving the
other outrages against democracy untouched) on we-the-people
(SEE: Old Totalitarian Government Techinque of "two steps
forward, one step back" = 😈 FORWARD) by getting
Christians and non-Christians to argue and fight each other in
the ballot box INSTEAD of Christians and non-Christians joining
together to force Congress and/or said Fascist Corrupted Court
to correct the gutting of Voting Rights Laws and totally fascist
"money is speech" decisions, this abortion issue was the straw
that told the we-the-people "camel" that our democracy "Back" IS
BROKEN and we need to fix it PRONTO.
I may be being overly optimistic, but I do believe that the
"💣 States Rights" baloney that caused the Civil War way
back then, will now 💥 explode 👍 in the Fascist
Faces of the "🐍 Originalist" water carriers for
💵🎩🍌 TPTB. Women CAN VOTE. Women,
Republican or Democrat or Independent WILL NOT stand for the
criminalization of abortion. They have now become thoroughly
incensed with the Supreme Court. Thus, the voting rights and
campaign finance injustice this Court has legislated from the
bench will now be front and center to every woman (and man) that
is fighting the criminalization of abortion.
The Supreme Court, AND Congress, by the way, now finds
themselves between a Federal Preemption ROCK and a HARD PLACE.
Originalists ALWAYS talk out of both sides of their mouth on
Federal Preemption. They defend Federal Preemption whenever they
want to "pre-empt" (i.e. knock down) Just we-the-people Laws
passed by States. BUT, now the Supreme Fascists are going to
play dead while States all make abortion as legal as it was
before by playing the SOPHIST game of saying "States Rights" is
"good and proper". Sophists ALWAYS want to have it both ways.
The American public has been quite deliberately thoroughly
dumbed down for at least a century, but I don't think this
current Orwellian mindfork will fly. It is time to bring
democracy to the USA. This requires a total nullification of any
and all Laws that limit voter participation, a Senate that is
proportional to population size AND a House of Representatives
that is NOT limited in size, but allows for one Rep PER 30,000
to 60,000 population. With modern tech, this huge, truly
representative Congress could meet via computer, as the Pentagon
has done for decades now. There is NO NEED for them to travel to
Washington D.C. Secure communications are old hat. So many Reps
and Senators would be harder to buy. Unjust Laws favoring the
Rich Parasites would be legislated out of existence. It would
not be utopia, but it, unlike the dystopia we labor under now,
would work for MOST of the people.
Finally let me advise my socialist comrades in arms to try to
prioritize the issues of these sad times by the number of people
impacted by them. Getting on your high horse about the rights of
your body must be tempered by comparing that issue with the
massive abuse of the rights of every voting age person in the
USA by the Fascist Supreme Court. IF we get a DEMOCRACY, the
abortion issue would disappear, right along with "qualified
immunity", racist voting laws, gerrymandering, deliberate
hurdles in election regulations to keep independents off the
ballot, corporation rights they have no business having,
hydrocarbon fuel producing corporate "subsidies", tax breaks for
the rich and the shaft for everyone else, and many other
examples of disguised tyranny that have to be dealt with within
a decade or less or we are 🎩🦍 TOAST.
THIS 😖 is our REALITY NOW:
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THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE! Do your part to fix ALL OF IT, not just
the parts you think impact you. Please put the highest priority
(i.e. [glow=teal,2,300]🗽 TRUE Voting Rights
Representation in Congress and the Senate[/glow]) on the top of
your list.
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😒 "Abortion as an election winner"
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Date: August 23, 2023, 3:24 pm
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The Class Struggle
Monday, August 21, 2023
[center]Abortion as an election winner[/center]
“Abortion Wins Elections: The fight to make reproductive rights
the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s 2024 agenda”, “The
Body Politic”, Mar. 27, 2023, Rebecca Traister, (writer-at-large
for New York Magazine and The Cut), The Cut,
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Selected COMMENTS:
AGelbert
"Abortion Wins Elections." 😕
👉 I totally, but respectfully, disagree.
📢 Advocating for the DECRIMINALIZATION of Abortion Wins
Elections.
🤠There, fixed that fer ya.
🤔 Before you pro-abortion readers out there get
😠🗽 triggered, please consider your PRESENT view
of 🥵 traumatic experiences on the human condition.
😠 WHAT does my view of traumatic experiences on the
human condition have to do with being PRO-ABORTION because it is
a RIGHT❓, you might ask.
Yes, it is true that, as a rule, abortion is technically not
considered by most people as a traumatic experience, such as
obviously traumatic experiences like being the victim of
physical abuse OR self mutilation due to despair, depression
and/or mental disease.
While it is a criminal act in the U.S. legal code to physically
abuse another person, no one gets prosecuted for self
multilation. It is LEGAL to self mutilate. Yeah, loved ones
and/or a doctor might scold you for cutting yourself (or worse:
amputating an "offensive" part of your body), but there is no
law against it, as long as you are not attempting suicide. Even
then, people who made unsuccessful suicide attempts are never
prosecuted, but sent to a shrink. And certainly no one in their
right mind would call self mutilation a "right" (i.e. 'My body,
my RIGHT to cut myself as much as I want as long as it don't
kill me, eh? I'm a Masochist. What's yer problem with that? I
have a RIGHT to be a Masochist!'
👀🤦‍♂️).
NO, I am NOT making a 'false equivalence' (i.e. abortion
'apples' versus self mutilation 'peaches'). As I said before,
while it is true that abortion is technically not considered by
most people as a traumatic experience, it certainly cannot be
considered a "self esteem enhancing experience", which is
normally the effect of exercising a legal right. The fact is
that ANY NON-CHRISTIAN psychiatrist or psychologist will explain
to objective listeners WHY abortion is, FAR more often than not,
a traumatic experience.
I get it. You are using buzzwords and slogans to win elections.
Be careful of what precedent you are setting by broadening the
definition of a "Human Right" to something you will be VERY
uncomfortable with, to put it mildly.
My advice to all you pro-abortion folks out there is to modify
your slogans so you can get more right wingers to abandon the
👿 pseudo-Christian fascist crazies destroying this
country:
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/>🔊 DECRIMINALIZE Abortion NOW! 🗽
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/>Money as "Speech" NOW! 🗽
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ozarkmichael > AGelbert
The smart thing to do would be to win over the moderate voters
by proposing moderate gains for abortion rights. Going too far
by demanding an absolute is the mistake that those of us against
abortion have made in the last year.
AGelbert > ozarkmichael
I will never agree that killing a fetus is a "right". If that
makes me unsmart (i.e. stupid), then so be it. I must do the
Will of God, not the will of anyone that opposes the Will of
God.
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I agree with Jim Wallis. Do you?
September 10 2020
A MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR WHITE CHRISTIANITY By JIM WALLIS
SNIPPETS:
It might seem like a bold idea that the word “Christian” could
become more important than the word “white” when the opposite
has been true for a long time. Especially since the rise of the
Religious Right, white evangelicalism in particular has been
successfully tied to right-wing politics indifferent or actively
hostile to racial equity, which is a fundamentally religious
issue. The Religious Right, in fact, was poisoned from its
beginnings with white race, white identity, and white power
being prominent among its organizing purposes.
As an evangelical Christian, I believe that issues such as
abortion and religious liberty are important — but I’ve also
lived the history and seen how those issues have been skewed and
politicized by the Religious Right to paper over clear biblical
imperatives surrounding poverty and race.
Until white Christians understand that loving their neighbors as
themselves means fighting unrelentingly for justice for Black
and brown people and dismantling the oppressive structures of
white supremacy, white American Christian claims to understand
the heart of the gospel ring exceedingly hollow.
FULL ARTICLE: 👍
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dreamjoehill2
I stopped reading the 1st article at "When you’re choosing
Michigan’s next attorney general, ask yourself this: Who can you
trust most not to show you their **** in a professional setting?
Is it the candidate who doesn’t have a ****?"
This is fault out anti-male bigotry and demonization of male
sexuality.
"Spending time with Michigan’s newly elected governing majority
is a little like landing on a planet where no white men are in
charge. "
This is bigotry as well.
This misandry is the reason I refuse to lift a finger to support
abortion rights. I will do nothing to aid these man hating
bigots.
AGelbert > dreamjoehill2
Friend, please keep in mind that the worst bigots in US politics
are men.
My point is that, like it or not, men have to get it through
their heads that women are the majority of the voting public in
this country and their views MUST be respected if we are to
function (for a change since the Founding Fathers' Fix was IN at
the beginning) as a democracy.
That said, women are every bit as corruptible as men. SO, I
would hope that these women advocates for the decriminalization
of abortion would use this opportunity to rally their base
against the "Money is Speech" Fascist Enabling Cornerstone
destroying this country:
I recommend these two slogans:
🔊 DECRIMINALIZE Abortion NOW! 🗽
🔊 CRIMINALIZE Money as "Speech" NOW! 🗽
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dreamjoehill2 > AGelbert
"Friend, please keep in mind that the worst bigots in US
politics are men."
I don't think so.
Sarah Palin, Loren Boebart, Margarie Taylor Greene, Anne
Coulter, Moms For liberty. Overseas, two of Europe's largest far
right parties are led by woman in Italy and France.
Money as speech is one of the biggest cons ever pulled on USAns.
AGelbert > dreamjoehill2
"Money as speech is one of the biggest cons ever pulled on
USAns."
📢 Exactly right! It was overwhelmingly evil MEN who
pulled that fascism enabling injustice, was it not❓
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I agree with Jim Wallis. Do you?
September 10 2020
A MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR WHITE CHRISTIANITY By JIM WALLIS
SNIPPET:
As an evangelical Christian, I believe that issues such as
abortion and religious liberty are important — but I’ve also
lived the history and seen how those issues have been skewed and
politicized by the Religious Right to paper over clear biblical
imperatives surrounding poverty and race.
Until white Christians understand that loving their neighbors as
themselves means fighting unrelentingly for justice for Black
and brown people and dismantling the oppressive structures of
white supremacy, white American Christian claims to understand
the heart of the gospel ring exceedingly hollow.
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dreamjoehill2 > AGelbert
Good quote, but what's it got to do with the fact that feminism
is man hating movement that demonizes men and their sexuality?
AGelbert > dreamjoehill2
Dreamjoehill2: "... what's it got to do with the fact that
feminism is man hating movement that demonizes men and their
sexuality?"
Well, quite a bit, actually. Feminists lack objectivity, to put
it mildly. I hear ya on that. However, 100% of the Long Train of
Abuses We-The-People (men and women together) have been
tyrannically subjected to that triggered the 1776 American
Revolution OF, BY and FOR Landed White Men
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/>with clever "inclusive 😇" 😈 rhetoric about all
men (i.e. all humans) being Created "equal", before, AND AFTER
(for 200 plus years and counting 😡) the founding of the
USA are BECAUSE OF WEALTHY WHITE PRIVILEGED MEN.
Sure, feminists go out of their way to emasculate men any way
they can. SO? I've been subject to that demonization. It's no
fun. BUT, I have never had any Legal Right taken from me by a
feminist.
My RIGHT to Representative Government was STOLEN from me by
bought and paid for 😈 MEN in Congress who, around 1913,
corked the amount of Reps in the House so Greedball Corporations
(almost exclusively run, to this day, by MEN) could CONTINUE TO
EXPLOIT We-The-People "for the 😇 good of the
💵🎩😈 country".
The 👹👿 Supreme Court of THAT TIME, the one that
Justice Oliver Wendell Homes 🗽 was a member of, had no
women on it.
Holmes was known as The Great Dissenter because he strongly
objected to all the "business 💰🐘😈
friendly" cruel abuses that Court defended with every "Decision"
defending child 😞 labor, lack of a safe work
environment, firing people (and children!) injured on the job
WITHOUT any compensation, high accident rates due to 12 hour
work days AND employee (INCLUDING CHILDREN!) deaths from
accidents higher in the USA at that time than in ANY other
industrialized country!
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It wasn't until FDR came along that Justice Holmes got some
traction on addressing the inexcusable gratuitous cruelty for
PROFIT said Supreme Court BASTARDS defended.
The Feminist reaction to all the CRAP those empathy deficit
disordered GREEDBALLS (Rich Men and some Rich Women, by the way,
though Feminists don't want to talk about that 😉) in
Government engineered to PERMANENTLY fleece BOTH men and women
good and proper on behalf of "St" John (Capitalism is
🦍💰 IT) 💵 Adams is a logical and
reasonable reaction to centuries of being treated like golden
geese. I cannot get all upset about Feminists wanting to tell
all men to get lost simply because, as the Bible says, MEN are
NOT to EVER abuse women! And YEAH, RICH WHITE MEN are MOSTLY the
ones that TARGET ANYONE (of ANY GENDER who is not wealthy} for
abusive exploitation.
"[glow=maroon,2,300]It ain't poisonal, jes Capitalist
bidness[/glow]" IS NOT AN EXCUSE.
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Now let us take this discussion of who's conduct is acceptable
and who's conduct is not to this forum.
As you are probably aware, NB and I are at odds about the
Abortion issue. Some might even say that she is a "Feminist".
I'm a male of this sad species and a Christian.
SO, many Christians might say I have to "battle" NB's worldview.
I disagree with ANY Christian that says that. My job as a
Christian is to BATTLE EVIL, not humans.
I will add that I would not be concerned for my physical welfare
or my Legal Rights if NB was in charge, along with all the
Feminsists you are so bothered by, of the United States
Government, including the Supreme Court! 🌞😁
WHY? Because, unlike people who worship at the altar of power
and riches, whether they claim to be "Christian" or not. NB has
a HEART FOR JUSTICE. She, IMHO, HUNGERS AND THIRSTS FOR
JUSTICE!
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6
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the
"Do unto others as you would have the do unto you." COMMAND that
Christ gave all of us.
In this way, she is more Christian than most people I have known
who claim the label.
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and
filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are
needful to the body; what doth it profit? ~ James 2:16
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Dreamjoehill2: "...feminism is a man hating movement that
demonizes men and their sexuality."
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Feminism is a man hating movement that rightfully demonizes
EVIL men and their perverse lust orientated sexuality.
There, fixed that for ya. 🤠
I am of the studied opinion that Feminism is the logical and
reasonable result of [glow=teal,2,300]women of good will
[/glow]being exploited and physically
[glow=red,2,300]abused[/glow] for generations BY 🦍
UNGODLY MEN. 😡
God ☝🏻 Bless the 🕊️ Feminists! May
they prevail in removing from power Evil (= 👿 Social
Darwinist) Rich Men AND Evil (= 👿 Social Darwinist) Rich
Women along the way. Feminists CARE about other people. Evil
Rich people, mostly, but not exclusively, MEN, DON'T.
The trouble with the U.S. being ruled by Social Darwinists is
that they don’t care about other people. They are actually
incapable of imagining the lives of others, especially the fact
that these others care about each other, and what happens to
them.
It REALLY IS the [glow=red,2,300]Social Darwinism![/glow]
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