@bi4smooth said in US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is hospitalized: I agree @hubrys was a little hyperbolic in his depiction of Justice Thomas believing that the US should have a religion (after all, he is an originalist) - but he certainly DOES think religion (and specifically christian beliefs) should play a larger role in US law and policy. Justice Thomas notoriously does not believe in the Incorporation Doctrine, i.e., the judicially created legal framework that interprets the 5th and 14th Amendments as having incorporated the Bill of Rights against the states. In Thomas's judicial philosophy, the First Amendment applies only and exclusively to the Federal Government, not state governments. If Georgia wants to make Baptist its official religion, then it can do so under Thomas's interpretation of the Constitution. If Utah wants to make Mormonism its official religion, then it can do so. You can Google and read for yourself his dissent in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. As an attorney that has both studied Constitutional law as well as practiced it, I have no doubts about what Thomas's judicial philosophy is. You can Google it yourself. It shouldn't be hard to find explanations. His perspective is unique amongst his fellow justices. It is why he so often concurs with the results reached by the Conservative majority, but does not agree with their reasoning. As for believing gay should be illegal, he dissented in Lawrence v. Texas which struck down anti-gay sodomy laws (previously upheld by the SCOTUS in Bowers v. Hardwick).

@bi4smooth It's a pattern. I have posted about the others, as well.

@bi4smooth If you need to believe that.

@raphjd said in Twitter Suspends Account of Female Swimmer Who Said ‘Biological Male’ Lia Thomas ‘Stole’ Her Finals Spot: @bi4smooth Twitter didn't stop there. They suspended accounts of anyone who retweeted it. Again: As with others... I do not agree with their decision, but as a private company (e.g.: NOT a Governmental body), they are entitled to "police" their forum in their own way... just as @raphjd is free to police THIS forum as he sees fit

@bi4smooth Never thought I'd see the champion of the little guy give in so easily to bog gubmint.

While I applaud the decision, I have no illusions that the Conservative super-majority on the SCOTUS will overturn it if they take up the case.

@bi4smooth said in Trans serial killer strikes again in NYC: I assumed that the earlier convictions had also been for murder.. and my own personal belief is that 1st-degree murder convicts should not - ever - be eligible for parole. Even those "liberals" down in Texas allow parole for murder. For example, if she'd been given the maximum sentence (non-capital and non-"without parole" that is) according to TX guidelines for murder, she'd have only spend another decade in prison compared to New York. I don't think NY's criminal justice system was as "liberal" here as you think it was.

Curiously, CNN (a left-leaning news source, I think all would agree) is now "fact checking" their own "liberal sources"... https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/03/17/marjorie-taylor-greene-zelensky-speech-mh-orig.cnn

Q.E.D. I don't think anything more needs to be said.

@bi4smooth OK, dearie

@bi4smooth The fact that you see gender studies as apolitical says everything about you.

@raphjd said in Portland antifa riot bomber sentenced to 90 days in halfway house: From Andy Ngo; Portland antifa riot bomber sentenced to 90 days in halfway house Gabriel Agard-Berryhill, the convicted rioter who threw a bomb at the Portland federal courthouse besieged by antifa in July 2020, has been sentenced to only 90 days in a halfway house and 2-years probation. When he was originally released bail-free soon after arrest, he violated those release conditions by returning to a riot. I previously interviewed his grandmother in an exclusive report for the New York Post. She was the one who accidentally outed her grandson through a review she posted online for the protective vest she bought him. Gabriel had a tragic and dysfunctional upbringing. He said in court that he was handed the explosive by an unknown person. I witnessed myself at riots in Portland how antifa members would hand out explosives and weapons to random people. The goal was for these random protesters to take the fall if there was ever any prosecution. Read: https://nypost.com/2020/08/01/trump-loving-grandma-outs-her-own-grandson-as-portland-bomber/ ++++ You guys might remember that this guy was outed by his grandma when she reviewed the fake bulletproof vest she bought him so he could go LARPing. Have you seen the ugly old men who fuck those boys in the halfway house? 90-days of having to fuck them is cruel and unusual punishment! LOL You're always smarter than the educated people, aren't you? In this case, you (and in this case, I mean Andy Ngo) - by virtue of your Russian News Media Feeds - know more about this case than the judge who sat through the trial! And this is the guy you (@raphjd) post about today, and not the nut-job Jussie Smollett (fake hate-crime victim) who got himself an actual "Get out of Jail Free** card today?

@bi4smooth I have admitted to mistakes. Just because you claim I'm wrong about something, doesn't mean I am.

@lololulu19 said in Black middle school students are charged with a hate crime for 'beating up white students in revenge for slavery': oh.. their punishment will be a 30 minute detention, and be hailed as heroes. Maybe in your twisted world... As I've suggested you should do in these cases, look for the LOCAL COVERAGE Per local channel 10: (https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/03/11/bullying-over-race-at-coconut-creek-middle-school-gets-5-arrested-police-say/) The attack happened in a Florida Rec Center - an after school program near their Middle School (not in the school) 2 of the 5 children who were arrested were actually white the attack was clearly and obviously racially motivated, but contrary to some reports, there was no specific mention of "slavery" or "1700" - instead, it was shouted "this is opposite day" and "you're white" and "brown power" all 5 children are between the ages of 11 and 15 (15 would be rather old for a Middle School in Florida - but only by about a year or two) all 5 do attend a nearby Middle School - and parents from both sets (victims and perpetrators in this instance) report that bullying is common in the school, and that the school does little to nothing to stop it. Contrary to other reports, all 5 were charged with misdemeanors (common for "scuffles" between children), but the local DA is reviewing the case - there is a potential that they could still be labeled "hate crimes", which would make the charges felonies. In Fla, this is the normal course of action - arresting officers do not make the decision on whether to charge as a "hate crime". The whole event lasted only a few seconds & no one was seriously injured (at least not physically). The 5 children charged have been prohibited from returning to school pending a separate school investigation. BTW: At least as-of today, the video of the reporter (who interviewed 1 parent of an attacker and 1 parent of a victim) is followed online by a story about a dude who whipped out his junk in a Starbucks in Miami and started following these girls around....literally beating off while walking behind them! The girls took videos while the store called 9-1-1... Florida Man is alive and well! I live in one CRAZY-ASS State! (People used to think if CA as the "land of fruits and nuts" - we've got more nuts in FL, I believe!)

@raphjd said in Proof that black privilege is real: @bi4smooth You being the good liberal that you are, believe that only whites can be racist. Actually, me being the scientist that I am believes that the whole construct of race has been proven to be invalid. We are - genetically, and scientifically speaking - one "race": the Human Race. "In the biological and social sciences, the consensus is clear: race is a social construct, not a biological attribute." - https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/science-genetics-reshaping-race-debate-21st-century/ Oh, but you were taught about the 3 (or 5) different races as a small child - this destroys your "world view", so it must be false... never-mind that the DNA of humans hadn't even begun to be studied when you were "taught" about races 150 years ago (joking - 40 years ago? 30? even 20!)... ANY idea that one person's ancestry gives them innate power over others is genetically absurd, and proven to be so... And, as I've pointed out in these forums before, the American "idea" of race as being principally tied to skin color is unheard of in most other parts of the World - where White Christians and White Jews very much believe they are of different races! Not only that, but White Jews and Darker-Skinned Jews - even Black Jews - very much believe that they are of the same race: the Jewish race! And again - it's all in our collective heads... there is NO biological difference ... and basing decisions - pro-White, pro-Black, or otherwise based on outdated concepts of "race" is wrong. While that is scientifically true, it is of little value to ignore the social constructs and ancestral histories that have provided "race-based" advantages and disadvantages to people of certain skin colors based on these outdated and dis-proven concepts of "differences"... While there is no scientific basis for race differentiation, there certainly are social and societal bases... it will take generations for us - as a society - to tear down these now discredited social belief systems. And it will take a concerted effort - among all - to accelerate the path to a "one race" society... but that won't be my generation, nor even my grandchildren's... and so each generation must do its part to move us (societally) to a more honest and just acceptance of people - all people - as "racially" equals... Sounds "pie in the sky" - but 400 years ago, it was a popular belief that Black people were "inherently inferior" to other races - and were incapable of being educated to the same degree as Whites! (That's historical fact, not my belief!) Take a look at any college campus today and you'll see proof that those beliefs were wrong - and while considerable progress has been made, there is much more to be done...

@cloreal said in Trudeau gives BLM money while seizing the bank accounts of peaceful protesters: I wouldn't call fascists, antivaxxers and covidiots as peaceful How many buildings did they burn? How many mothers holding their toddler sons did they shoot in the face? How many people did they murder for wearing a hat?

@bi4smooth You really are a clown. You have a pathological need to derail every conversation.