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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by robonerd on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:04PM (#31936182)
If recent SCOTUS decisions are a dead generation reaching out of the grave to get their way in the end against the united consensus of the living, then the living should have no trouble sorting Congress out and getting the right laws and amendments passed the proper way.

Of course, the truth is that living generations are not nearly so united against this as you seem to be suggesting. There certainly isn't enough consensus to pass any amendments. It's not really the dead hand of a bygone generation doing this, it's people who are still very much alive and relevant who disagree with you.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by iostream24 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:01PM (#31936996)
The whole concept of a corporate fourth estate informing a populace how to vote contrary to their own interests is surely a major problem our founders weren’t considering very heavily, given the media of the time.

I can’t imagine the World War generations silently watching Tucker give aid and comfort to Putin either…

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by robonerd on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:18PM (#31937227)
I can see how corporate influence might play a role in this EPA decision, but most of the ire being thrown at SCOTUS recently is about abortion and I don't see any clear corporate pro-life consensus. On the contrary, I expect most corporations want to keep abortion legal to protect their workforce.

> I can’t imagine the World War generations silently watching Tucker give aid and comfort to Putin either…

Yes, the world war generations had trouble with the principle of free speech; for instance, arresting people for protesting the draft during the first world war: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States And do I need to remind you of the mass internment of Japanese Americans, convicted of no crimes, during the second world war?

I like to think we've made some progress since then.

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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by Spooky23 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @09:14PM (#31940906)
Abortion is about keeping the base engaged and eroding the right to privacy. Lots of people have an interest in making money by making that happen.
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Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions by Spooky23 on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:16PM (#31939377)
The more reactionary elements are very concerned and talk openly about things like replacement theory as a call to action.

It’s a prime motivation for some of the more extreme positions and differentiates the 2020 right winger from a 1980 conservative.

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