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Comment Re:Voting strategy from Scott Adams (Score 1) 138

The right to abortion is a downstream right of bodily autonomy, granted by the constitution under the word "liberty". It's right there in the preamble, not even an amendment. You don't have to get deep into the document to find it.

You have a right, as a citizen, to do what you want with your body, so long as it doesn't violate the rights of another citizen. The unborn are not citizens. They're not even people, as they have no long term memory capability or ability of rational thought.

It's pretty clear. It's the same reason you can't be forced to donate a kidney even though you have two, even to save the life of the President.

I guess I'm just real confused as to why you think it's not covered by the constitution. Do you really believe the only rights granted by the constitution are those specifically named? Because, oh buddy, you'd have a real bad time if that were truly the case.

Comment Re:New Tax Consensus (Score 1) 95

The end result is that it raised the price of foreign goods beyond the point at which people buy it without second thought.

The intent of tariffs is to promote the purchase of domestic product by making foreign product more expensive. This is sometimes necessary to prevent a foreign government dumping product so cheap that the domestic companies shut down, then the foreign governments stop subsidizing the product because there's no longer competition.

Tariffs are a defensive tactic to protect domestic industry, and in that regard that's what they're being used for here. You just have to do some serious mental gymnastics to justify this defense because it's pretty shitty. Our domestic companies should pay their fair share of taxes in the nations they operate, as well as here in the US.

Comment Re: Repeat after me (Score 1) 113

The 'proven' documents rudy refuses to allow to be better, despite him being known to currently be the deliberate target of Russian misinformation, that he could not get fox to believe, so he went to the paper with near zero journalistic integrity to release? That even with their abysmally low standards, 5 journalists there considered to so suspect they refused to give their name on the release? Those 'proven' things? Grow up.

Comment Blatent unconstitutionality (Score 1) 72

Supremes already decided location data is protected by the 4th amendment. If the cops go out and buy a key to my house from, say, the locksmith who installed my door or whatever, they still cannot enter my house without a warrant to search. Where you get the data _from_ is immaterial to the constitutional issues.

Comment Re: why the hurry? (Score 1) 180

Holy crap, you have no idea what you're talking about... The Republicans deliberately ignored the constitution and their oath of office to block Garland. They said it's not unconstitutional, explicitly, so it was fine to be corrupt. You don't get to say 'well, you don't get to fix the problem we created because your solution isn't explicitly allowed, it's just not prohibited' after that. Most Dems do not support lowering the voting age, but there are some cases where 16 is considered an adult, like sentencing, so it would be consistent to do it. Non citizens voting is not anything real. Felons being able to vote after they served their time is something that should never have been taken away. Don't be a moron. And biden pushed for civil forfeiture, while trump eliminated funding for the, at the time, biggest domestic terror threat, white supremacy. It's been overtaken by qanon for the top spot. Mail in voting does not inherently create chaos. If we had been doing the smart thing, we would have had this set up decades ago. And ballot harvesting isn't a problem. Illegal drop off boxes that are improperly secured, and Republican operatives deliberately harvesting illegally and ballot tampering, that might be an issue, but the corruption, as usual, is not on the liberal side primarily. And abolishing the electoral college so that one vote in wyoming does not count for 4 in california, with the added benefit of making voter fraud significantly harder, is something anyone who actually cares about democracy would support. So not Republicans. You are a seriously low information voter. Get out if your bubble (cruz? Really? Why not just go full Alex Jones already?) and learn something that has a basis in reality.

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