• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    So what I’m hearing is if Democrats had codified it, Republicans would have come along and got it struck down. But to fix the problem we need to elect more Democrats to get it codified?

    No one else sees the circular reasoning behind this?

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      26 days ago

      And if we have another 2016, Trump can appoint Thomas and Alito’s successors, and maybe some more, with more Federalist Society hacks.

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      26 days ago

      As a Canadian, I’d like to ask you a couple of things.

      What exactly does it mean to codify something? Two, why can’t the Federal Gov put out a set of standards and say, “If you want Federal money for your healthcare systems, you have to meet these standards. If you don’t want to, that’s fine, but in that case you get get nothing from us.”

      That’s essentially how it works in Canada between our Federal gov and the Provinces, granted Canadian Provinces are less powerful than American states, but the power of the purse should still be the same, yes?

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        25 days ago

        That’s how the minimum age for purchasing tobacco used to work in the US; if states wanted a specific chunk of federal funding, their minimum age had to be set to at least 18.

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      25 days ago

      Yeah, Dems had this crazy idea that Republicans wouldn’t just straight go against the will of most Americans. But it seems to be their MO now, so ya, more Dems would be better, because now we know we need to codidy everything because Republicans have no problem destroying the common man for a buck.

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          25 days ago

          Claiming you know what an entire group of peoples thoughts and morals, as well as declaring they knew the future is extremely stupid.

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            25 days ago

            It wasnt me that authored legislation codifying woman’s rights, it wasn’t me as president promising to protect it by signing that legislation.

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              25 days ago

              Yeah it wasn’t, no argument there. Doesn’t make the blanket assumptions and future telling claim any less stupid.