Seconded. Extinction Rebellion has been going nuts over here in London, and while I applaud their goals, the whole shutting-down-roads thing is counterproductive. If you make someone late for work or keep their pregnant wife from getting to the hospital, they’ll donate to the opposing cause just for spite.

I wasn’t planning on watching it until your comment. I scrolled back up and HOLY SHIT!!

Aside from being an egomaniac asshole, dude is just weird. Very weird.

“Who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off? And what public policy problems do you get up in the morning thinking about how to solve?”

I went in with low expectations, but goddamn wtf was that video

I still maintain my original belief, that he bought the app to wrestle control over a large platform of people online, is responding to fawning bigots and autocrats by turning it into a safe space for him, is trying to leverage it for power by doing things like “trying” to launch Ron DeSantis’ campaign, and is doing…

Of course we know he has lied entirely about the reasoning, since what he did is not how you solve those things.

Yup. In every election you can, right down to the local school board...ESPECIALLY the local school board, because that’s where they’re plotting to create more assholes just like them.

The whole premise of the case is BS. Religious freedom to discriminate is NOT in the constitution, unless you are a not-for-profit religious organization. (See Catholics an no women priests.)

I am not advocating anything but I hope she has robust security on the websites she builds. Someone may decide to hack into her customer’s websites to express their free speech. Chad and Stacy may find some questionable gifts in their registry. “Hey Uncle Ray....What? We did not ask for a double ended strap on dildo!!”

They’ve always been able to discriminate, but now they can sermonize and do it openly.

And I’m getting pretty fucking tired of their incessant “If Congress had intended this they’d have said it specifically” act, when the entire purpose of the GOP since at least 1994 has been to obstruct, slow, and break Congress to the point where it does nothing.  In this case the act in question specifically…

We are living in a very cruel period of American history.

This is what they where put on the court for. Pave the way for white supremacy. 

“The result here is that the Court substitutes itself for Congress and the Executive Branch in making national policy about student-loan forgiveness.”

Cool, so basically fuck everyone not a Christian, I guess. See how they’d rule if it were a Muslim baker refusing to do a wedding cake for a Catholic wedding.

As long as you couch it as a religious belief.  E.g., it’s against my religion to serve bigots.

Sotomayor’s dissent is a work of art. Good, decent people will ignore this ruling. Bad people will immediately start discriminating against queer people today. And that’s a big problem for a nation that has freedom and quality baked into its constitution. Adding insult to injury, the plaintiffs here had no standing…

This also means we can discriminate against religions we don’t agree with too right? RIGHT? 

Once again, freedom of religion does not mean you are free to force your religion on other people.