Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@Zincy
The idea that a state legislature can do anything that isn’t constrained by the state constitution that defines their very existence is just… asinine.

So yeah, it’ll probably happen.

@Background Human
I pray it’s used against those who want to abuse it if it goes through.

@Dustcan
Specifically, conscripting people outside the standards of conscription, ie. old, overweight, bad eyesight, flatfooted, etc.

@Meanlucario
It won’t be. The Democrats are lawful stupid, and even if they tried being as ruthless as their opponents, the GOP-led SCOTUS would just smack them down because reasons.

Unironically yes. Hell, even a few of the Founding Fathers would be on your side about that. Just make sure you’re better armed than the Q[exceptional-individuals] and the people who want to make The Purge a reality (libertarians), and you remake America as a much better country by codifying abortion rights and making gerrymandering an executable offence.

@Ebalosus
Because there’s a clear difference between Republicans and Democrats. The former is pushing violence and white patriarchy, whereas the other is rejecting that but at the same time not stepping up their game. Besides, what option would you have preferred? If 81 million Americans had voted third party we’d most likely still be stuck with Trump in 2022.

@Ebalosus
>The Purge becoming a reality.

Not gonna lie, there’s a part of me that kinda wants that to happen at this point.

@Goku Black
We know the rich would just hire mercs to kill anyone who looks their way funny.

Wtf American Enragés?

They already do that. They just call it “union busting”.

@Dustcan
I mean with guns instead of unemployment.

Equitable polygons or death.

@Meanlucario
True. But the smart ones will also be armed to the teeth on Purge night.

Why not both at once?

Ever heard of the Pinkertons?

@Meanlucario
The SCotUS’s job isn’t to decide whether a law is stupid or unreasonable; it’s to decide whether anything specifically prevents the government from making it.

@Background Pony #C70F
Either way, corporations and their political parties have more rights than the people and nation in their eyes.

Speaking of SCOTUS, Kentanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in now.

This will be the last good news coming from the rogue court for a while.

@Dustcan
And watch as nothing comes out of it.

@Dustcan
And reportedly, Russia is trying to recruit troops in Transnistria.

This is all because Russia is facing severe manpower shortage, but they don’t want to announce general mobilization for political reasons.

@Meanlucario
Meanwhile the Dems and their voters are in a perpetual state of learned helplessness. At least that’s what I’m getting.

Vasectomy consultations are up over 900% after the overturning of Roe.

NGL, I wasn’t expecting that outcome.

@Dustcan
What/Who?

@Meanlucario
TLDR a lotta guys are going out trying to make themselves sterile in order to try and not accidently get their partner pregnant in case they are unable to get an abortion, it seems.

The number of men talking to their doctors about getting “The Snip” so they can’t impregnate women has gone up over 900%.

Since women can’t abort the baby after the fact, men just won’t make the baby in the first place.

Teamwork!

In the latest “Far-Right are butthurt at Disney” news, they are now getting mad at the new Baymax series for…
Mentioning that girls get periods and that transgender people exist.

Becuase we all know that trying to teach young girls about something that happens to almost all the girls on earth and how to deal with said issue is “harmful”