The Dispossessed -
The classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust... and the man who risks everything to reunite them.
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Wednesday, 9 August 2017
quote [ Many Americans can’t remember anything other than an economy with skyrocketing inequality, in which living standards for most Americans are stagnating and the rich are pulling away. It feels inevitable.
But it’s not. ] But yeah, you should elect someone on the take from Wall Street. It'll work out alright.
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norok said @ 4:37pm GMT on 10th August
I'd rather talk about this in a dedicated thread but...
No, abortion is going to be legal until the end of the Republic. Period. That's a massive scare tactic of the Left. Where the fringes will be tested is at the state levels with the trimester or tax funds going towards it. That might reach the Supreme court but rest assured if a woman wants to kill her baby she'll be able to do it without legal repercussions.
Now, for my pet peeve reason... guns. Obama's choice was the very catalyst for District of Columbia v. Heller that affirmed personal rights to possession of firearms. "Doing something about guns" was the last thing on his agenda he did not get to do during his tenure and he made sure his SCOTUS appointment was addressed to that specific issue.
What's clearly going to be more important in the next several years is the First Amendment. It will come from anarcho-leftist rallies getting out of hand, the death throes of the old media, or corporate censorship of political speech online.... one or all of those. You should hope that people "wanting to change" things are not on the court when those come to pass.
norok said @ 4:44pm GMT on 10th August
I'd rather talk about this in a dedicated thread but...
No, abortion is going to be legal until the end of the Republic. Period. That's a massive scare tactic of the Left. Where the fringes will be tested is at the state levels with the trimester or tax funds going towards it. That might reach the Supreme court but rest assured if a woman wants to kill her baby she'll be able to do it without legal repercussions.
Now, for my pet peeve reason... guns. Obama's choice was the very catalyst for District of Columbia v. Heller that affirmed personal rights to possession of firearms. "Doing something about guns" was the last thing on his agenda he did not get to do during his tenure and he made sure his SCOTUS appointment was addressed to that specific issue.
What's clearly going to be more important in the next several years is the First Amendment. It will come from anarcho-leftist rallies getting out of hand, the death throes of the old media (and what the meaning of Press becomes), or corporate censorship of political speech online.... one or all of those. You should hope that people "wanting to change" things are not on the court when those come to pass.
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norok said @ 4:37pm GMT on 10th August
I'd rather talk about this in a dedicated thread but...
No, abortion is going to be legal until the end of the Republic. Period. That's a massive scare tactic of the Left. Where the fringes will be tested is at the state levels with the trimester or tax funds going towards it. That might reach the Supreme court but rest assured if a woman wants to kill her baby she'll be able to do it without legal repercussions.
Now, for my pet peeve reason... guns. Obama's choice was the very catalyst for District of Columbia v. Heller that affirmed personal rights to possession of firearms. "Doing something about guns" was the last thing on his agenda he did not get to do during his tenure and he made sure his SCOTUS appointment was addressed to that specific issue.
What's clearly going to be more important in the next several years is the First Amendment. It will come from anarcho-leftist rallies getting out of hand, the death throes of the old media (and what the meaning of Press becomes), or corporate censorship of political speech online.... one or all of those. You should hope that people "wanting to change" things are not on the court when those come to pass.
