I share a flat with 9 people. We all have our own room and bathroom but share a kitchen.
The person in the room next to me at the end of the hallway has a very vibrant social life. I do not know them, as any effort to make contact was left unresponsive. Tonight, she decided, that she was gonna have a karaoke party or something as she and her friends were singing loudly in the kitchen, hallway, and her room (only I could hear through the wall).
In our building, there is to be no noise from 11pm to 7am. The party went on to 12:30am. Then she and her friends decided to loudly close the door as they were walking through the flat. It ended at 1am.
This is just to complain a bit. I am not a confrontational person, so I just waited till they quieted down but boy, did they piss me off.
ok, let me start with the fact that i am not an american. I am from an European country, where abortion has been legal since 1953 with restriction and fully legal since 1986. You can an abortion here freely to 12 weeks, and with a serious medical reason up to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Plus, if a doctor does not want to perform the abortion, which is his right under law, he HAS TO REFER you to a doctor, who will perform the abortion.
I also, as any european child/teenager does, idealized US as this land of freedom (mainly because we were a communist country and my protested during that time and he himslef idealized US, so he passed that onto me). I am long past that, because I realized I like Europe much more than the USA.
With this background in mind, I must say I am deeply appalled at the contents of the leak. It is very disgusting how little regard for women men actually have. And it’s not only men, that is the saddest part. I am ostencibly pro-choice, as is my father (i talk about this with my father because he can speak english, my mom cannot, but I translate as best as I can, but my father is actually the more opinionated on this topic). He thinks it is a womens choice and he will not talk me or my sister out of abortion, if we ever need one. He will even pay for it, ef neccessary.
It’s just so dissapointing and disgusting. I don’t know many things about the american legal system, but I sympathise with every women, whose life will be that much harder because of the possible ruling (my very good friend is Polish, so I am informed about how much harder it actually makes your life)
PS: the reason many things have been legal here longer than in the US, is because of communistic desire to be better than the dark, scary, religious west
The opinion apparently overturns Roe v. Wade by junking the implied constitutional right to privacy that it created. However, a bunch of other US legal precedents rely on the right to privacy.
These include Lawrence v. Texas, which determined it's unconstitutional to punish people for "sodomy." Overturning Lawrence v. Texas would make it legal for states to ban homosexuality and extramarital sex.
Griswold v. Connecticut, which protects the ability of married couples to buy contraceptives.
Loving v. Virginia, which allowed interracial marriage.
Stanley v. Georgia, which protects the personal possession of pornography.
Obergefell v. Hodges, which protects the legality of same-sex marriage.
Meyer v. Nebraska, which protects the rights of families to speak languages other than English at home.
Skinner v. Oklahoma, which found it unconstitutional to forcibly sterilize people.
Alito's leaked ruling, if adopted by the US Supreme Court, would turn the legal clock back to the 19th Century, Stross says.
Another point: it is unwise to underestimate the degree to which extreme white supremacism in the USA is enmeshed with a panic about "white" people being "out-bred" by other races: this also meshes in with extreme authoritarian patriarchal values, the weird folk religion that names itself "Christianity" and takes pride in its guns and hatred of others, homophobia, transphobia, an unhealthy obsession with eugenics (and a low-key desire to eliminate the disabled which plays into COVID19 denialism, anti-vaxx, and anti-mask sentiment), misogyny, incel culture, QAnon, classic anti-semitic Blood Libel, and Christian Dominionism (which latter holds that the USA is a Christian nation—and by Christian they mean that aforementioned weird folk religion derived from protestantism I mentioned earlier—and their religious beliefs must be enshrined in law).
I'm no Christian myself, but from what I've learned, Christianity is about peace, love, humility, and poverty. The Republican Party cult calling itself "Christianity" is about hate, violence, guns, hubris, and greed.
Your local Law PhD is going through the draft SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe / Casey and here are a few thoughts, if you want a quick overview of the thing as I get angrier with each new point, culminating in me loosing my absolute shit :
The main argument is basically "yeah, we are bound by Casey, but Casey relies on Roe, and Roe was wrong, so we can overturn all that"
This is not a drill, this is the actual, proper, end of Roe and federal protection of abortion, if this passes.
"this was not protected in the XIIIth century England, and there fore should not be protected now" is an actual legal argument that I had to read with my own two eyes
Quick reminder : overturning Roe/Casey does not ban abortion, but it says that there is no constitutional right to abortion at federal level, and therefore this is for each individual US state to decide
The draft basically says that this is State business, specifically, the legislative power of each states should decide.
but what worries me is that if a State wanted to actually criminalize abortion, the same reasoning could hold. Meaning that SCOTUS would not give any costitutional protection to the one being prosecuted, because historically the tradition is to criminalize rather than protect their right. Basically while this does not make abortion a crime, it lets the States decide up to an including criminalizing it
This would still be under the control of each State's own Supreme Court though.
I am pretty sure SCOTUS writing 100-pages long rulings is a self-defense mechanism where if you ever want to litigate to overturn a ruling, it is a dantesque effort
(more under the cut bc this got long oops)
The sheer clownery of assessing a scholarly article as not acceptable argument because it "advances ideological goal", as your entire reasoning is based on the originalist doctrine ????
SO MUCH OF THIS REASONING IS BASICALLY HISTORICAL DISCUSSION OF WHETHER, HOW MUCH AND HOW WOMEN HAD ABORTION IN THE XVIII CENTURY WHYYYYYY
"Looking into the legislative motives of legislator who are still alive and can give explanation to why they pass laws supporting abortion rights is too dodgy, let's stick to old XVIIIth century manuscript written by men telling us how women handled their preganancies"
I started sweating buckets when the draft also got into other precedents on the decriminalization of homosexuality, interracial marriage, other reproductive rights... but so far the draft says that "yeah, but abortion involved a potential life of another person, so it's different". Even though the draft goes "yeah, they also have no basis in history though". YERK.
The audacity of saying "oh and we treat pregnant women real well now !!" and supporting this by giving statistics on UNPAID FAMILY LEAVE ???
"Also the foster care system is doing great" BITCH SAY THAT AGAIN TO MY FACE
The audacity of invoking Brown v Board of Education, which ended the separate-but-equal doctrine, to support overturning Roe/Casey sent me to Hell to prep a cozy room for a few people there
( Alito discussing why Stare Decisis has the same energy as that GIF of BArbossa going "“The code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules.”" )
One argument is that the test of "undue burden" is too vague to be workable, but it follows the part where the draft whines about SCOTUS being way too specific on Roe and overtstepping its role by doing so ??!? Please make up your mind ??
Also, Alito, you are a jurist. A lawyer. You KNOW that legal standards are vague. That's what they are for. They are legal standards. They are MEANT to be vague while still giving sufficient visibility in the future. You are not convincing any single lawyer, here.
Even "necessary" abortion are not protected, because, really what does "necessary" even mean ? Who can say ? Would it include protecting a someone whose pregnancy places her life in danger ? Would it include a sexually assulted teenager who does not want the pregnancy resulting from this ? Who is to say ? Certain not Alito, according to him.
"Casey is bad because it gave people ideas and made it potentially easier for them to get their right constitutionnaly protected " is not the hot take I expected in the year of our lord 2022 yet here we are.
Who can say if abortion really helped women be trly equal citizen and facilitated their involvement in society as equal to men ? Who can ? that's a really tough empirical question, according to Alito. But that fine !! And like, they have the right to vote !!! So it's fine. If they are really mad about that, they can just vote at State level.
Quick question : have you talked to a woman who is NOT an upper class straight cis white woman, recently ?
"How dare you say that the ruling of the sCOTUS could be influenced by the public's reaction ?? I am a JUDGE. Appointed by a President elected based on political preferences, confirmed by a legislative body whose members are elected based on their political preferences, but the Court is TOTALLY ABOVE THAT" Bro I am from a Civil law country and even I will not defend my Supreme Court like that.
"We must now decide which standard will govern abortion" hold up I am going to need alcohol for that
Wait what
There is no standard
You mentioned a new standard where is the new standard
THERE IS NO STANDARD
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN WE NEED TO DECIDE ON THE STANDARD ??? YOU SPENT 30 PAGES PONTIFICATING ON THE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE ABORTION IN XIVTH CENTURY ENGLAND AND YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE THE ACTUAL ANSWER TO THE QUESTION AT HAND IN 3 PARAGRAPHS ?????
DON'T SAY TOY ARE GOING TO SET A STANDARD IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SET A STANDARD
"RATIONAL-BASIS REVIEW" IS BARELY A STANDARD IT'S BASICALLY JUST GOING "YEAH STATES CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY GIVE A REASON"
YOU DID NOT EVEN HAVE TO GO THAT FAR
BUT YOU DID ?!???!?!
YOU BASICALLY OPENED THE DOOR TO A TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE BAN ON ABORTION AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION WHEN EVEN THE LAW YOU WERE ASKED TO REVIEW DID NOT GO THAT FAR
BUT YEAH SURE WE WOULD N E V E R WANT THE SCOTUS TO OVERSTEP ITS POWER TO IMPLEMENT POLICY PREFERENCES
Just sitting in a mall, having lunch, when something comes through my earphones. Two women next to me are discussing Ukraine. And let me tell, I know of people, who believe russian propaganda in real life, but they are usually Russian themselves. But one of those women, who started going on and on about bio weapons and neonazis decidely was not Russian.
I am aware of those people. I spend time on the internet. I just never ever heard it form my native in real life. It was so sad, funny, terrifing and baffling at the same time.
She also complained that ukrainian refugees here get around 225 dollars and a free pass to the ZOO and that the citizens of our country are left to fend for themselves. I just cannot understand. They lost their homes, barel escaped with their lives and now they get this ONE TIME payment and thats it. And she appearently wants that.
Btw the other women was trying to gently nudge her in the right way, but it was basically completely fruitless.
PS The recent massacre in Bucha was, according to her AND the Russsian embassy faked, staged and a out by someone (Russia blames the US as usuall, she claims that youtubers did it..... and no, I am NOT kidding)
You know the feeling when you have like a class chat and you never write anything in it, but then you need something really bad and you write in the chat and then you regret it instantly and you don't get an answer and are ignored and it haunts you for the rest of your life?
I pretend to be complex and clever but in reality, nothing has ever made me laugh harder than those bad Chinese subtitles from the bootleg Lord of the Rings DVDs. Tears streaming down my face, core aching, slowly suffocating because I’m laughing too hard.
As someone, who's parents fought for democracy and freedom, I am appalled at how some of the Americans, especially younger ones, are treating what's happening on cuba. Saying it's because of covid (only partly and the main objective) or that it was organized by the CIA. It's just so very disgusting
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
A Hello you guys! Here’s a list of Classic Novels Turned Movies I’ve read and watched and I thought of sharing them with you. If you have any suggestions you can always drop a message on my dm’s. Here goes;
Anna Karenina (2012) // Leo Tolstoy
Atonement (2007) // Ian McEwan
Emma (1996) // Jane Austen
Frankenstein (1931) // Mary Shelley
Great Expectations (2012) // Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre (2011) // Charlote Brontë
Les Miserables (2012) // Victor Hugo
Little Women (1994) // Louisa M. Alcott
Lolita (1997) // Vladimir Nabokov
Lord Of The Flies (1990) // William Golding
Macbeth (2015) // William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary (2014) // Gustave Flaubert
Of Mice And Men (1992) // John Steinbeck
Persuasion (2007) // Jane Austen
Pride And Prejudice (2005) // Jane Austen
Romeo And Juliet (2013) // William Shakespeare
Tess Of The D’Urbervilles (1979) // Thomas Hardy
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1993) // Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) // Alexandre Dumas
The Grapes Of Wrath (1940) // John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby (2013) // F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Phantom Of The Opera (2004) // Gaston Leroux
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2017) // Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Letter (1995) // Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) // Harper Lee
Vanity Fair (2004) // William Makepeace Thackery
Wuthering Heights (2009) // Emily Brontë
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