But the constitution only says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…
Nobody is making any law to establish any religion nor prohibit any. So I don’t think your arguement applies here.
Well it’s literally impossible (without being evil) to argue against the moral principal that killing babies is bad. That’s because killing babies is bad.
So according to this new baby accounting morality, the hamas attack on Israel killed only 37 children, 2 of which were babies. So that’s good. But according to oxfam, more than 11,000 children were killed by Israeli military in the last year, that’s bad. Of course many women were killed also, likely some pregnant ones, that’s bad.
According to UNICEF, 2000 children have been killed in Ukraine, that’s bad. I can’t find any record or report of Ukraininan military killing any Russian children, so that’s good.
So I’d like to see as much effort put into reducing the deaths of Palestinian babies and Ukrainian babies instead of encouraging those baby murdering israelis and baby murdering ruzzians.
Edit: Oh, nobody agrees with me? Huh. Maybe it never was about the babies, but about control, subjugation and punishment.
Edit 2: Ah so someone does agree with me. It’s pretty clear, from a strictly anti-child-killing standpoint who the good guys and bad guys are: hamas and Ukraine are the good guys, Israel and ruzzia are the bad guys.
Interestingly, abortion has been legal in Israel since 1977, but but under Palestinian law, abortion is illegal. So why support the baby killers and supply bombs to be dropped on the baby protectors?
We are going to need real grassroots political organizing to protect each other and civil disobedience in large numbers to slow the fascists in their persecution and environmental damage. Of course this will be harder than ever but we need to stop waiting for electoral politics to fix things and take action together.
The fact that I am not the only one thinking this is encouraging. The fact that I had to scroll this far to see such a correct comment is very discouraging and worrisome.
Here’s my advice on how to really and actually quit: make the decision to quit, and keep making that decision. Every time you feel yourself thinking “just one more…” remake that decision to quit. This was the only way I was successful. Keep making that decision and keep reminding yourself about your decision. You can do it.
The basis of prison abolition is not the idea that we should replace prision with something else. We start by understanding that it is the structure of our society that creates and perpetuates systems of crime and punishment. The emphasis on punishment does little or nothing to address the safety, health and property rights of the public. So it can be seen that it is a public problem that requires a public solution: the vast resources spent on catching and punishing people would be better spent on prevention by making mental health, substance abuse and addiction treatment affordable and available to everyone.
Rather than punish, a greater effort could be made to help rehabilitate people who have lost control of themselves and their lives, to restore them to living in harmony within their communities. Of course there will always be a small proportion of the population that are unable to healthy lives, unable to resist resorting to theft, violence, and desperate attempts at self-medication. Such persons do not benefit from punishment.
According to a 2000 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Tucker wrote for publications of the League of the South, a group the SPLC considers neo-Confederate and white supremacist. The SPLC report said Tucker was listed as a founding member on the league’s website
League of the South? Bad guys. These are bad guys and if he’s friends with or even only does business with them he is a bad guy.
Talking politics in church tho? I mean I also agree with the sentiment but what happened to being citizens of the kingdom that is not of this earth? I understand lots of religious leaders are advocating for the other side, but it seems wrong to me either way.
Can you believe this guy? I never admit when I’m wrong, I just insist I’m right and say several things even more wrong than the first thing, but with confidence and conviction. This inspires respect and admiration from stupid people.
Who is answering these polls though? I suspect it’s a lot of old people who have alienated their kids, and have plenty of time to answer their land lines, desperate to chat with someone about anything.
I could be wrong, but when I get these calls and texts asking me who I’ll vote for or did I know senator Jeff Merkley worships thr devil and wears pink underwear or whatever, I never answer, I delete em and I suspect most other people do too.
It’s funny that many actual leftists are saying they hate Harris because she leans right and if the dems lose, they have only themselves to blame.
Yeah, slaves of the corporate overlords are attacking her because she’s a new Brandeis.
Its funny that people say reddit is such a leftist hell hole, meanwhile more than one lemmy instance has actual leftists who seem to hate Harris so much they’d rather see Trump in the Whitehouse.
I mean not funny haha, but funny weird.
Well, a little bit funny haha.
Is PBS an acceptable news source around here?
Anyway it’s interesting that tougher knife laws have been passed in Germany following the attack. This is misguided in my opinion because when knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives. How do people not recognize that the only way to stop a bad guy with a knife is with a good guy with a knife?
Thank God Americans have the right to carry our knives to festivals, playgrounds, kindergarten classes, and wherever Americans go, to keep our nation safe and free.
Mi ne pensas ke numero du estas stranga.
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When I moved north, I realized there are only two seasons here: looking forward to summer, and dreading winter.
Well that’s something I suppose.
How many times over the last 4 years have I been told “Oh, they really got him now!” Do any wealthy politicians face consequences for the shady stuff they do( I include democrats in this category)?
And then I think about George Floyd who tried to buy a pack of smokes with a phony $20, and possibly didn’t even know it was counterfeit, but was killed shortly thereafter.
This is not the America I want
Hmm so you didn’t. Perhaps it does tho, cuz check this out: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/374/203.html
Although I don’t know if judges care about precedent anymore.