My shoe provider, TJ Maxx, is claiming you’re daf.
There isn’t. It’s just that if you keep destabilizing the climate your practical right to keep your head and shoulders in the same place keeps deminishing
The whole point of the constitution is “to ensure domestic tranquility”, and “no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process…” but I guess we get to handwave that if the means of deprivation being legislated is a second order effect.
There was due process, didn’t you see the profits of big oil?
We need a sensible, omnipotent one world government under the care of a benevolent, charismatic potentate like Claus Schwab to reign in rogue emitters and punish carbon terrorists!
I’ll take AGI enslavement.
Given humanity’s track record at self governance, rolling the dice is preferable. We’re too cruel, too stupid, too hateful, way too selfish, and basically a danger to ourselves and all other terran life.
We need our keys taken away.
Most people aren’t that way I think, it’s just that the ones that are amass a ton of resources and get followers and become difficult to deal with by the time normal folks get pushed pass their timidity
Like, Fortune 500 CEOs are 12 times as likely to be diagnosable psychopaths, but a world run by janitors with the right rules to vote by and a free press to keep them honest totally can work imo
Like Santa Claus to give gifts to the carbon-neutral and coal to the polluters.
If more coal could not be given to the people already polluting, that’d be great
SCOTUS dropped that case in 2018.
Technically true, but supremely unhelpful.
Montana courts: certifies state constitutional environmental guarantees.
Federal government: LOL…no
States have different constitutions than the federal government, so different things are constitutionally guaranteed.
Yes, that was my poorly made point.
I suppose you could argue they are technically sort of rightish but uh, hey, what the fuck? We all have to live here you fucking assholes!
There’s also no constitutional right for the internal temperature of the White House not to exceed 950°F, but the fires are on their way anyway.
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Guess we just forget about the whole “promote the general welfare” part of the constitution when it gets in the way of profits?
Color me shocked.
That section of it had essentially no legal force, given that it can be construed to authorize literally anything.
For instance, one might argue that a eugenics program to eliminate all “inferior” genes from the population “promotes the general welfare” of the people. You don’t actually want language that incredibly vague to have legal force
While it has no legal force, it does show what the laws that govern our society should reflect. The DOJ has no problem following a suggested notion that “no sitting president can be charged with a crime”, why can’t it follow a clearly stated purpose of:
“establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”?
i.e the DOJ shouldn’t be attempting this at all. It should just stay silent and let one of the gas companies attempt this insane notion instead
You don’t actually want language that incredibly vague to have legal force
I don’t buy that, “The 8th amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment has no legal force because it can be construed to mean anything, someone could argue having to pay their taxes was cruel and unusual” makes about as much sense to me. Words mean things, especially when they’re in the context of the rest of the Constitution’s clauses that suggest certain things are or aren’t allowed, so I just don’t see how throwing General Welfare on to the table instantly greenlights a reign of terror.
Also, it’s not like the non-enforcement of General Welfare prevented eugenicist policies in the past
i like it when the prove how conservative they really are.
im convinced the current democrats are really the current conservatives. the current progressive left are the current democrats and the current conservatives are just unempathetic fascists.
maybe updating everyones nomenclature might solve for some identity issues the right seems to have.
if youre conservative, and dont think youre a fascist, guess what? youre still conservative. if youre a democratic whining that youd now be called conservative, own your shit. get over it. and the fascists? well they can fuck right off.
something something somethin overton window
I mean… People from actually democratic countries have known that for a very long time… Even compared to Canada, which is USA light in many ways, the Democrats would be our Conservative Party (although their current leader/members is moving them closer and closer to the Republican party).
The US Democrats would count as very conservative on most issues in Germany. The Republicans would mostly be in jail for hate crimes or just plain old regular crimes. The failure of the US justice system to hold the political class accountable is staggering.
Conserving capital while liberally destroying life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Ironic.
Gotta love it when politicians flop between literalist and pragmatic viewpoints depending on
where the money’s coming fromthe needs of society.I mean, there isn’t one. The Biden administration has been the most active on climate change in American history, but the constitution is silent on the subject.
what has him and his administration done?
Huge investments in renewable energy and the electrification of transportation.
The Department of Justice said this, not Joe Biden. Fuck this headline.
We should be mad at whoever picked out the garbage attorney general running DOJ
NO!!! it was the Bastard Biden all along! He also single-handedly made the gas prices go UP!!! It had NOTHING to do with OPEC, petroleum companies, and an unstable economy! I SAW THE EXECUTIVE ORDER IN MY DREAMS! (/¯ ಠ_ಠ)/¯
I’m sorry, I’m neurodivergent. Is this sarcasm?
It is absolutely sarcasm!
And this?
This is just a recipe for a 3-tier cake.
The aforementioned comment was not sarcasm!
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