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United we stand, divided we fall. (files.sfba.social)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (20 children)

Call me radical if you want but, I don't think Subject A of our cause should be rights for a minority of our citizenry.

Those rights should be unspoken truths we uphold regardless.

The common man will walk by TRANS RIGHTS 4000 times before they walk by UNION STRIKE.

The left needs to go back to focusing on workers, unions, labor, taxes, fairness and sense. Trans rights are important, and topical, but I feel the sjw yelling pushes a lot of people away from what our side of politics is actually about.

There isn't a single person I work with that wouldn't toss a flier with 'trans rights' written on it in the trash the second it was handed to them.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This implies it's falling on its own.

There should be a mass of red hats trying to push it over.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Bet you they try to repeal Loving v. Virginia too. They'll "leave it up to the states" I'm sure, so that them and their rich buddies can keep their partners. Looking at you, Mitch.

I am emptied of all faith in their humanity or good sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“Leaving it up to the states” is how we ended up with gay marriage being legalized federally by the scotus….

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I'm sure this one will get right on that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Clarence Thomas rulling his own marriage illegal? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Privileged people like him will certainly expect there to be workaround and loopholes. He'd just get a marriage cert in a state that allows it. Depend on it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why are all basic civil rights not enshrined in laws, but instead resting on brittle law precedents in the US?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Because it’s all imaginary and I can’t believe people seek comfort in a piece of paper and the concept of rule of law.

A strongman, such as potentially trump but it could be any authoritarian in any country - will just wipe his ass with the constitution and do whatever the fuck he wants. It’s not like the law is going to stop him. He’s a convicted felon and he’s still going to be president despite that. And the J6 case (the only one with any real merit, IMO) that they had four years to prosecute is now dropped.

Laws don’t matter. Laws don’t protect you. Laws exist to protect the in group and punish the out group.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The simulation ran out of computational power and this is AI trying to use the last 0.1% of the Neural Processing Unit to continue generating a story...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the way English Common Law works contrary to French Civil Law

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That's not really an answer to their question. Canada (with the exception of Quebec), also operates on the English Common Law model, but we've passed specific laws that intentionally codify things like abortion and minority rights. Just recently we added "gender identity and gender expression" as specific categories on which it is illegal to discriminate.

So, unlike the US where the right to gay marriage is the result of a court case, in Canada gay marriage started out that way, but was then codified in law with the passage of the Civil Marriage Act in 2005. And speaking of English Common Law, the same is true in England, where gay marriage was legally enshrined in 2014.

So it's perfectly valid to ask why the US government has consistently failed to do this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Off topic but how does Canada square away their English system with the one province under the French system? They’re nearly opposite systems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Louisiana runs off French civil law. They work around it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Criminal law in Quebec is still based on the federal common law, it's just matters of provincial jurisdiction that are under civil law.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Same way the US squares away their federal system. Some areas of law are federal, some are provincial. Quebec's use of Napoleonic Law only applies to those areas covered by the Quebec Courts. Federal matters are handled in Federal Courts, so they're not subject to Quebecois legal principles.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe Canada was more proactive than the USA but it's still a result of the type of legal system they use, that wouldn't happen with Civil law.

There's still plenty of things in Canada that are left to precedence, we don't pass laws every time something comes up.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Because our legislature is dysfunctional in its very structuring.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago

If you don't stand for the rights of others, there'll be nobody left to stand for your's - so get standing!

[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 day ago (5 children)

“But Trump said he’d magically make eggs cheaper!!!!11!!”

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reduced demand. Dead and deported people prefer plain toast for breakfast

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Hey gas is cheaper now than it’s been in years. Trump did that!!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Bought some yesterday... The box we buy went up 3 dollars since the election.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Maybe he was speaking about trans people all along.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Ah, yes. ✨Slavery.✨

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, I'd love to be able to afford my own egg.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gotta gotta gotta go, true sounds, of a revolution,...

Was in my pyjama and haven't heard Agnost Front the last 20 years so thanks for reminding me of this song.

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