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alilbee , 16 days ago to The Onion in Guy Who Hates Taylor Swift Finally Hears One of Her Songs

Michael Jackson, Elvis, George Michael, Madonna. Solo artists on that level always generate a fair bit of... extreme fandom, you could say.

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

hasn't done really any good.

My partner was able to have a surgery this year she would not have been able to otherwise. She got medications she never would have been able to afford. Sure looks like a bunch of good from over here, but maybe I'm biased. Maybe we can ask them?

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

Almost everything listed is an executive order. Democrats cannot stop those (other than at the ballot box). Try again. L-A-W. It's a bill, passed by both chambers of Congress, signed by the president. Like the Affordable Care Act, the Inflation Reduction Act? Can you give me a single one? Hell, I even left the doors wide open to give me the fucking omnibus from each year and you couldn't even do that. Know why? Because you have no idea how your government works.

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

Right so you have no idea how our government works. I ask for laws and I get SCOTUS. You view it that way because it is all one big number in your head shifting back and forth, because you have no civics education. It's sad.

alilbee , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

Can you give me an example of a law steam rolled into place by Republicans in the way you describe? Should be easy.

Edit: Any of the downvoting cowards can feel free to chime in with the republican-passed laws that they shoved past the democratic attempts to stop them. I'll wait!

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

They had 4 months. And they passed the ACA.

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

And I hate guns and would happily amend the second out of the constitution. I'm sure we both have our reasons behind our beliefs and I respect yours, truly (I only bring this up to illustrate our differences btw, not trying to start a spat). I have my own objections to some Dem candidates and policies, certainly. I love you all though, because we are allies in a much more critical endeavor than any wedge issue: the continuation of our freedom and basic democratic norms. I just don't feel that it's hard to compromise this way and it's the clear path to victory, even for the more divisive issues you care about.

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Many in Trump’s Orbit Back Mandatory Military or National Service Conscription

You should stop thinking anything they implement is going to be fair and hurt them in any way. They don't mind being hypocrites at all.

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

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alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

I'm really, really worried about it. The FDA is going to lose powers it uses to ensure our food and medicine isn't killing us. The EPA is going to effectively be an advisory agency after this. The FTC looked like it might be back in business this admin, and it's going to be neutered. I'm not even explicitly opposed to this if our legislative branch wasn't inept and/or captured, but... we all know it is and it's not getting better soon.

Hopefully they kill the FDA and all drink raw milk to death, idk.

alilbee , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

They. Cannot. Do. This. Legislators cannot just wake up really motivated one day and enshrine reproductive rights. They need numbers, and we have to give it to them for that to happen. There's no alternative, no magical ideal route just waiting for the perfect congress person. Republicans will pull out all the stops on this, so you need a filibuster-proof majority. Give the Dems that and you'll get reproductive rights.

4 months (with a flimsy proper majority due to Lieberman) gave us the ACA, one of the most impactful pieces of legislation regarding healthcare the country has ever seen. We need to vote in large numbers to achieve our political ends.

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

A perfect candidate for you is an imperfect candidate for others in the democratic coalition. There is no perfect democratic candidate and we will all have to compromise on as least some levels. Biden has delivered a lot of stellar wins for most democrats and even the side of the party further to the left. Our largest unifying belief right now is in defeating fascism at home. We cannot pursue purity at the expense of progress.

alilbee , 16 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

Not a lawyer either, to be clear. I think your general description holds, but the example wouldn't. Individual drugs would still fall under the explicit granted ability to regulate "drugs" as a whole. I think the injunction power referenced in today's NLRB ruling might be a good example actually, even if they didn't explicitly reject it via this mechanism today.

alilbee , 17 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

I'm just wondering what the supposed benefit of a protest vote even is and how it stacks up against what we lost as a result of 2016? On one hand there's Dobbs, weakening of every federal agency, millions dead from a fumbled pandemic response. On the other, there's... Wait, what is there?

alilbee , 17 days ago to politics in Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone

The National Labor Relations Board is the federal agency that is responsible for regulating labor and workers' rights. 15-20 times a year, they use a court injunction to force a company to rehire employees that were fired due to attempted unionization (usually hidden under a BS other reason). The court made it much harder for those injunctions to be granted, meaning unionization efforts are going to be chilled.

The Chevron deference principle refers to a principle stemming from a prior case that effectively defers to federal agencies over courts when there are questions on implicit powers of those agencies. Weakening or destroying this effectively means any power for a federal agency must be explicitly granted in the text of a law, which republicans will never, ever do or allow. This is going to severely undercut the powers of every federal agency we have in varying degrees. Another conservative wet dream.