• @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
        43•4 days ago

        Another 5-10 years in power and they’ll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it “parental rights”.

        • @anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2•3 days ago

          It’ll be anyone with it a red hat on being chased down by then. Trump will be a full vegetable if not dead by then, and the Vance/Miller/Heritage crowd will have found a way to take absolute power. Otherwise the whole thing will collapse and we might have a shot at reclaiming the country.

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        18•4 days ago

        Time for the Sartre quote:

        Never believe that anti-Semites fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

      • Maeve
        1•3 days ago

        They’re all about protecting their own wealth and their own “supremacy.”

    • @ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
      22•4 days ago

      Irony & Stephen being an arch-ghoul notwithstanding, federal law does supercede state law (Art 6 Sec 2). Like, Nebraska couldn’t just legalize murder. They could stop enforcing that law, but it’d still be illegal and the federal gov’t could take action.

        • vortic
          12•4 days ago

          And to the extent that they are actually following the federal law, regardless of its constitutionality.

            • @ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
              3•3 days ago

              Yeah, the courts being captured is possibly the biggest problem facing the US right now. They’re what makes all the bad stuff the current regime is doing possible.

          • @thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
            4•4 days ago

            Mmm, maybe, I’m pretty sure there’s pretty solid case law precedent on this. It’s been heavily litigated over the centuries.

            The parameters around what is within the jurisdiction of the US Federal govt is pretty clear. Fundamentally Article I, Section 8 of US Constitution although there’s a few other loose ends (implied powers).

            “The enumerated powers listed in Article One include both exclusive federal powers, as well as concurrent powers that are shared with the states, and all of those powers are to be contrasted with reserved powers that only the states possess”