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Should be a wild four years.

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So, I guess i'm going to be the one getting the negative reacts.

Uhh.. what happens to the gay couples then? isn't it proven that conversion therapy rarely, if ever, works? their still going to be gay.
Maybe they're not doing it right. I suspect transcranial magnetic stimulation could be an effective cure for homosexuality and transsexuality.
 
There is a sweet spot age range that falls between mid Gen-X to mid Millennial where most people retain both the skill to figure things out on their own while being technologically literate and current enough to apply it to today's systems.

Too early, and you're a fucking retard on blood thinners. Too late, and you're a retard on Adderal and HRT.
This is so fuckin' real. The group that is between ~36-53 right now is going to basically be able to write their own ticket for the next 15 or so years, provided that they individually aren't a total fuck up.
 
Cross posted from article thread

Justice Kagan in 2022
“It just can’t be right,” Justice Elena Kagan said in remarks in 2022 at Northwestern University’s law school, “that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”

Justice Kagan today:
Kagan expressed concerns about the government’s ability to ignore lower court decisions. She questioned Solicitor General John Sauer about the implications of losing multiple lower court cases and the potential for widespread harm without universal injunctions.
 
This remark seems to have come from Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine.
that entire article is sourced from 3 anonymous people who heard a remark and a fourth briefed on them, and then some faggot democrat saying that they have things so deep a bunker buster can't reach them. why did they choose isfahen to claim that about? why not fordow?
 
thumbnail your shit

regime change in israel is a joke. who are you going to replace bibi with? Lapid is a retard, Bennet is a bigger hawk than Bibi, Gallant is a hawk, Gantz can't even hold his own party together, Smotrich/Ben Gvir are extremist hawks

this is something that sounds radical and smart to people who don't know anything about Israel, Netanyahu is the most moderate and patient player in Israel which is why he endured people calling him a pussy for 13 years for not striking Iran only to hit iran at the exact right moment
Considering Bannon's history of being an anti-Islam pro-"War in the Middle East" War Hawk, I'd argue he's subtlety hinting that he wants the latter options in charge/thinks Bibi should have glassed Gaza.
 
gay nigga story time case
6-3 Alito writing libcucks dissenting



The court first holds that the parents are likely to succeed on their claim that the policy of not allowing opt-outs unconstitutionally burdens their exercise of their religion.
“we have long recognized," Alito writes, "the rights of parents to direct 'the religious upbringing' of their children. And we have held that those rights are violated by government policies that substantially interfere with the religious development of children."

Sotomayor: The reverberations of the Court’s error will be felt, I fear,for generations. Unable to condone that grave misjudgment, I dissent.
The only people i hate more than muslims from shit hole counties are alphabet faggots.
 
This opinion still leaves open two broad avenues that can be manipulated to get nationwide injunctions: hastily certified class actions and states suing. It limits injunctions to those with standing, quite specifically. And both the majority and concurrences discuss class actions and third party standing in relation to that holding.

Here is the realistic scenario going forward: deep blue judges will hand wave certify nationwide classes to get the exact same thing. Democrat strategy will also be to have a bunch of states sue together, to get nationwide relief on behalf of their combined populations. This just punts the issue because these district judges don’t believe in the principles of the law, but in using the law as a tool to further their interests. This is quite obvious from Jackson’s concurrence, which straight up just says the quite part out loud.
They can't. Class actions are such an enormous pain in the ass for courts that getting them certified is extremely complex and extremely expensive specifically to discourage them. This is not something that can be pencil whipped.
 
what's the book! I want to read it!
It’s Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software and there’s a free pdf. It won’t so much teach you how to code as answer that nagging question—how did we take electricity and turn it into this. Maybe it’s weird but I don’t think Terry was so crazy for seeing God in the machine.
 
It’s Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software and there’s a free pdf. It won’t so much teach you how to code as answer that nagging question—how did we take electricity and metal and turn it into this. It’s beautiful. I’m serious, I don’t think Terry Davis was so crazy for seeing God in the machine.

wow thank you! I love good science and tech writing
 
Because the middle class gets fucked out of income-based benefits programs
While this is generally true, there are states that have "school choice programs" that will subsidize homeschooling or even private school tuition even if you're not dirt poor. I'm not saying this because I disagree with you (welfare leeches are a serious problem), but as a small whitepill for anyone starting a family and worried about the state of public education. It's absolutely worth the paperwork and headache of going through - you can easily shave over over half if not +80% of the total cost of tuition at a private school. As for homeschooling, they will literally write you a check as long as you spend it on stuff that's relatively schooling-related.

Again, not all states have this program, but you'd be doing yourself a great disservice if you didn't take advantage of it if it's available where you live.

 
While this is generally true, there are states that have "school choice programs" that will subsidize homeschooling or even private school tuition even if you're not dirt poor. I'm not saying this because I disagree with you (welfare leeches are a serious problem), but as a small whitepill for anyone starting a family and worried about the state of public education. It's absolutely worth the paperwork and headache of going through - you can easily shave over over half if not +80% of the total cost of tuition at a private school. As for homeschooling, they will literally write you a check as long as you spend it on stuff that's relatively schooling-related.

Again, not all states have this program, but you'd be doing yourself a great disservice if you didn't take advantage of it if it's available where you live.


knock yourself out looking for those programs but 1) the most populous states do not have them, these are programs primarily in rural states 2) they are nothing compared to SNAP, medical care, daycare subsidies, sec 8

and why are you calling working parents welfare leeches? the people who get these gibs are *working.* employers are able to pay them shit because of the gibs.
 
They can't. Class actions are such an enormous pain in the ass for courts that getting them certified is extremely complex and extremely expensive specifically to discourage them. This is not something that can be pencil whipped.
Rule 23 is pretty laborious, but they've never before had the same motive to try and cut corners. And its appealability in case of certification is up to a circuit judge or the district judge, which is not good for the First Circuit where their preferred forums are. And proceedings don't necessarily end upon appeal.

It will definitely slow things down for a bit, though.
 
Uhh.. what happens to the gay couples then? isn't it proven that conversion therapy rarely, if ever, works? their still going to be gay.
No, not much study was "permitted" by mainstream academia, and what little was published of course went with globohomo orthodoxy that it's all horrible and evil. Attempting to study it today from a "neutral" or even "hey maybe it does work" position gets you tossed out of academia and branded a "homophobe" for life.

Effective gay conversion therapy exists, and it's practically no different from traditional (and recognized) abuse therapy techniques -- it just focuses on a different kind of trauma. As it happens, practically all homosexually ultimately stems from early-life sexual abuse by a same-sex abuser. Gay people are made, not born. As it turns out, conversion therapy doesn't beat people over the head with bibles and encourage them to "pray the gay away." It provides legitimate therapy to help abuse victims identify and come to terms with their abuse, explore why they behave the way they do because of it, examine how their current behaviors put them at greater risk for an assortment of "poor outcomes," and finally figure out what they actually want for themselves (not just what the "queer community" cult surrounding them wants).

In other words, people turn gay because Uncle Bob touched them when they were young and it fucked up their idea of sexuality. Then hormones kick in, and the gay community -- always in search of fresh meat -- is all too happy to provide the young all the sexual debauchery they could ever ask for. "Conversion" therapy is really just "sexual trauma" therapy, with the uncomfortable conclusion that "you're likely straight, just fucked up because Uncle Bob touched you when you were younger and his friends then took turns railing your virgin ass repeatedly during your teenage years."
 
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