What an asshole.
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ETA:
This was only a matter of time, what with Musk moving his company to Austin, Texas, that the Greed Community would shirt-tail its way in, even more than they already have been, which is a lot.
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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Finally Found a Religious Objection They Don’t Like
“ It turns out that these justices do think that courts can assess the authenticity of religious objections … but only when the objector is about to be killed by the state.”
I like beer guy;
“ Because that’s a very awkward thing for a judge to do, to say: ’I want to look into the sincerity of your claim.’ But our case law says we must do that.”
“ Which case law, exactly, is Kavanaugh talking about? Because in recent history, the Supreme Court has emphatically refused to apply the slightest scrutiny to religious objections. When Hobby Lobby claimed that allowing their employees to access IUDs and morning-after pills through their health insurance violated the company’s religious beliefs, SCOTUS did not question its sincerity. The conservative majority even adopted Hobby Lobby’s position that these forms of contraception cause abortions, which is empirically false. When a pharmacy asserted that selling Plan B violated its religious beliefs based on the same misunderstanding, the conservative justices didn’t blink. When religious employers said that filling out a form to exempt them from the contraceptive mandate would undermine their faith, SCOTUS nodded along. When a baker declared that providing a wedding cake to a same-sex couple infringed on his faith, these justices did not ask why, exactly, the sale of baked goods contravened the tenets of his creed. When a Catholic charity claimed that simply certifying LGBTQ people as fit foster parents clashed with the church’s principles, not a single justice probed its sincerity. And when health care workers protested the COVID vaccine on religious grounds, three conservative justices avidly embraced the validity of their objections.”
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The latest from the Sines v Kessler trial, where the defense is cross-examining plaintiff Reverend Seth Wispelwey:
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MAGA support for Three Percenters is no surprise.
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Coincidence, of course.
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Horst Rittenhouse is going to get his mistrial. The judge is doing his part to set it up.
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Further proof that Capitalist entrepreneurs should not hold public office…
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By Trump administration standards, though, he was probably overqualified.
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Not to mention Cicero was then cheerfully executed and dismembered in turn. They might wanna pick another historical figure to hold up, maybe…
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When his usefulness as a propagandist ran out and he became just another of the pawns in the game being played in the struggle at the top for who was going to be Emperor?
Sounds perfectly apropos.
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Look, it’s not racist, we just don’t want any black people in the jury. Or in the courtroom. Or on the streets complaining about how they keep getting shot by the police all the time— I mean “looting”.
The real racism is when you call us racists.
You racists.
/s
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Or…
not.
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Just so long as you get to laugh from your prison cell for the next 40 years.
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More likely they’ll get a couple of years at most in a minimum security prison where they can really sit down and concentrate on writing that book about their political theories.
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