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The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators...
Just a little reminder of who is responsible for protecting your voting rights (and of who is failing to do so). Feel free to resume your regular blame game
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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2022, @05:59AM (9 children)
Might as well go Reddit, which is a much bigger board soystain can't possibly compete with that. Like soystain, it also uses the throwaway handle model, but it doesn't have strange things like spam bombs. Modding is easier with a simple +1 agree / -1 disagree model.
Buck feta! Everyone jump ship for /u/fusty on old.reddit.com!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2022, @06:14AM (8 children)
I heard Reddit is terminally woke, and dissident groups will be cancelled.
Gab may be a good alternative. They have computer groups too.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2022, @09:18AM (7 children)
See? The problem on SN has always been the unreconstructed racist conservatives, the ones who are asleep, and use "woke" as a derogatory term, and somehow think that Social Justice is not something one should war for, like WWII. If SN shuts down, these poor bastards will have no where to go. Runaway got hisself banned from Gab in a week or so, same for khallow. And neither lasted more than a couple days on Reddit. We need to keep SN running as kind of a refuge and safe-space for the lesser racist conservatives, the kind that cannot survive in the normal rough-and-tumble free speech debate that takes place elsewhere on the internets, and also cannot live in the contained bubbles that believe movies by D'nesh D'Souzie. A kind of a limbo, a no-person's land, the Purgatorio of Dante's Divine Comedy. "Abandon humor, all who enter here!" And what is it about some computer types, that makes them all incel fascists? Maybe they should try Free Software, like Linux.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday July 03 2022, @09:32AM (6 children)
And you are doing exactly the opposite.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2022, @06:42PM (5 children)
So just gonna go all protective of the alt-right and persecute ari for being a snarky troll? It is that type of hypocrisy that gives away your game.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday July 03 2022, @06:49PM (4 children)
I am equally protective of all of our membership. This is our community. Even you.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2022, @09:43PM (3 children)
Except for ari! Not that guy! You perma-banned him, you insult him on a regular basis, and you have spam modded posts that even vaguely sound like ari, and now you have banned all ACs from posting comments, under the cover of spam, just to get ari to shut up. This is not being protective of all our members.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday July 04 2022, @04:16AM
Aristarchus published doxing material. That is why he was banned.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Monday July 04 2022, @04:40AM (1 child)
Aristarchus chose his target for doxing, not us. We decided to protect the member of our community being targetted. He was given plenty of opportunity to stop. He declined those offers. That user account is closed
Now he wishes to pass the blame for his actions onto us? He has been harassing people on this site for years, and he has continued to do so after being banned. The ad hominem attacks, the doxing, the disruption of other stories by off-topic and insincere declarations of his innocence (but no expression of regret or apology), are part of the reason that ACs are having to suffer this temporary block on their participation to the site. Forgive me if I do not shed a tear for the situation in which he now finds himself.
The spamming and the personal abuse must stop before we open up the site again to all of our community. We are protecting as many of them as possible by our current actions. And he is responsible, along with others, for what he has caused.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 04 2022, @09:49AM
Offtopic, janrinok! You are disrupting the discussion. Stop with your spamming!
"Bad Posting"? Is there any other kind on SoylentNews?
(This comment is not brought to you by aristarchus, but it could have been, if he wasn't banned. At least ari stayed on topic. )
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday July 03 2022, @01:39PM (21 children)
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 03 2022, @06:48PM (20 children)
Deny the problem, then reference history for assurance, then appear shocked when the bad things happen. All we need now is wait for their hands in the air shrug of "woops well what ya gonna do it is law now teehee."
Interesting how fusty switches track now that the GOP evil plan is unfolding. Maybe he should have focused more on the evil plan than the various tales of what the evil henchman did on their lunch breaks..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday July 03 2022, @10:24PM (19 children)
Here's the model I'm working off of: Ignore the non-problem, then nothing happens because it's a non-problem. fusty falls in that category.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Sunday July 03 2022, @11:18PM (18 children)
You all are very amusing, but I'm just mocking the democrats for all their pissing and moaning about voting restrictions in various states when congress has the constitutional authority and the obligation to put a quick end to it, just like with abortion and everything else. The feds are supposed to settle the disputes amongst the states, not escalate them for profit
But.. you know.. carry on...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Monday July 04 2022, @04:59AM (6 children)
(Score: 0, Redundant) by fustakrakich on Monday July 04 2022, @04:40PM (5 children)
To rational unbiased people with decent reading comprehension it would be redundant
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 04 2022, @10:36PM (4 children)
Two things: 1) they don't exist. 2) Non sequitur.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 05 2022, @06:47PM (3 children)
:-) in your case, that's understood
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 05 2022, @10:36PM (2 children)
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 05 2022, @11:32PM (1 child)
No, you are.. exceptional
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday July 05 2022, @11:33PM
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 05 2022, @03:43PM (4 children)
Hahahaha, it would be funny if you though this Supreme Court will uphold any of those rights!
But I know you're lying to play the both sides card of lameness and redundancy.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 05 2022, @06:07PM (2 children)
Reminder:
There is no "both sides".
"lying"? about what? You just continue to make the same lame and redundant excuses for the Party
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 06 2022, @02:20PM (1 child)
Tiresome
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 07 2022, @02:17AM
Yeah, the excuses and blame games certainly are, but that's all they cough up
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday July 10 2022, @11:15PM
Why? The ruling was more a loss for conservatives than it was for democrats. Conservatives only gain In that they don't have to pay taxes at their state level for abortion, they won't be able to stop anyone wanting one from leaving state and getting one elsewhere, endless numbers of companies have said they will people seeking abortion. They might try to block abortion tourism, but that would bump into interstate commerce and fail.
Texas now gets its heartbeat bill, without row to block them Oregon/Cali/Colorado/Virginia can allow abortion until the moment of birth. So either live in the state that matches your personal beliefs or save up money as a backup plan. Perhaps the best thing is this will make people think about Plan B and vasectomies
instead of Abortion as birth control.
The real losers in the whole situation are republicans who failed to realize that by getting the ability to block abortions at the state level before the first trimester they allow them in two and three everywhere else. The biggest reason to overturn Roe was not because its a long term win, because its not, but because Roe was bad law.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 07 2022, @07:29PM (5 children)
Don't ignore the current fillibuster rules, as that's disingenuous.
Except the 'D's passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and after that was reject, proposed a less sweeping law in order to protect voting rights. Which was rejected (via the fillibuster) as well.
They also proposed legislation (in light of the recent SCOTUS ruling) to codify abortion rights as well. Again, rejected because the 'R's *could*.
But none of that was passed because one party needs to have those issues to motivate their base.
And that's bad for Americans and bad for our consititutional form of government.
And more's the pity.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday July 07 2022, @09:21PM (2 children)
I haven't, it takes a simple majority to kill the filibuster, it is disingenuous to ignore that...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 08 2022, @12:44AM (1 child)
Speaking of disingenuous, how about you always ignoring that there are a handful of conservative democrats mire alugned with republicans, Machin and Sinema being the blatant ones. Just because pols are in the same party doesn't mean they have to agree on everything, only the excessively corrupt rethugnicans have locked down their party so hard and their tactics simply don't work on a liberals who are rarely single issue voters. Why not squeal about how zero republicans support fixing the country? Why not whine to the conservatives around here to get their representatives to break party lines? Because you are a dedicated rightwing shill and part of the problem here on SN.
SERIES OF CONTRACTS!! Heh
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday July 08 2022, @01:00AM
Old news, already discussed that. The Party is pleased
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Sulla on Sunday July 10 2022, @11:38PM (1 child)
Lol democrats.
Its bad for constitutional government to be stopped from violating the constitution!
If you want abortion to be a right then pass a constitutional amendment instead of pretending its a different right. The rights of the unborn have been common law for centuries, with rights being bestowed to the baby inside of a woman who had missed her period immediately for inheritance.
I prefer a pure property rights stance on this issue, which could be federally legal based on current constitutional grounds, without taking into account any emotion.
The mother has the right to terminate the pregnancy at any point she wants, but cannot choose to terminate unless the pregnancy will kill her OR if the fetus is viable through medical incubation. The mother does not have the right to terminate the pregnancy in a way that would intentionally kill the fetus. Under this the fetus has a right to life, and only has a right to stay in the womb until the point of medical viability, which at this point is 21 weeks and 5 days. Ectopic fetus' have no rights because there is no known point of viability, fetus' rights cannot override mothers rights to life in other situations that would cause perminant harm to mother (eg preeclampsia). The fetus trades rights to life if ectopic for right to womb domicile until external medical viability at around 5mo. Further, while the mother does not have the right to kill the fetus, she reserves the right to refuse its ability to be covered by her healthcare.
There you go, maximum rights preserved. Only disagreements are either "muh god" or "muh Moloch".
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Friday July 15 2022, @09:15AM
If you want a pure property rights solution the fetus could simply be evicted at any time for failure to pay rent.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday July 05 2022, @03:39PM (1 child)
The Republican anointed Supreme Court will happily ignore that part of the Constitution in favor of some dude who believed in witches.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 05 2022, @06:02PM
Well, we won't know until congress tries.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..