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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the sole dissenter. She said the court was unwisely interfering in the long tradition of states’ regulating the practice of medicine and similar professions.

As usual Jackson is the one reliable voice who sees the bigger picture here. Shame on those two "liberal" justices who come in with the "uhmm actually according to this principle". None of that Constitutional logic matters as we have seen over the last 15 months. Lives or children and teens will be destroyed by this decision.

Just following mistaken orders... mhmmmh mmhmhmm

Reagan's political speech strawman of the black woman "welfare queen" was so memorable, it became a caricature of black women and black single mothers. Most people who recognize that stereotype have never listened to a word of Reagan's speeches. For his campaign and the ones before and after, the Republican Party launched ads showing a black man's mugshot and telling a tale of how this black man was let out due to Democrat rehabilitative prison policy, then went on to kill/rape white people.

The entire War on Drugs was a way to harass and suppress Civil Rights protestors (accused of storing heroin) and the anti-Vietnam War movement (for marijuana).

The Bush dynasty's core policy was ripping aid from USAmericans in need and using it to terrorize the Middle East; and to strip privacy away from folks in the USA... oh and terrorizing people of color.

And let's not forget the original Conservative insurrection in the USA - the Confederacy, who broke ranks over fears they might one day not be able to enslave black people. Did Trump Kill Conservatism? No more than a house is killed when its moldy ceiling crashes in on its rotten floor.

"Never waste a crisis" -- neoliberalism 101

ooh whoops! thanks "^^

A sick population is easier to control. I know our oligarchs and 95% of the Republican party are networked with the best science-following doctors around.

Thank you for bringing this up. I'm liking both this comment and the one above.

I think sometimes in an effort to mock MAGA, we may over-legitimize doctors. They're just people, just like us, and there is a looooong history of medical malpractice and systemic abuse—much by the same forces MAGA is allied with.

The autism "excuse" for Musk's actions is insane because 1) whatever the condition, our leaders shouldn't be acting like this; and 2) this has nothing to do with symptoms of autism. Okay, some autistic people are repulsed by some foods or sensory stimulation; default to "safe foods" they are comfortable with... and so autistic people wouldn't go to a sushi restaurant if they don't like sushi. Like... clearly Saxon is not too high-needs as to be unable to reason. He is a businessman.

I figured Saxon was the kid Musk had on his shoulders in the White House so my first response was a defensive "don't berate the kid, he's only copying his parents-" Then I looked up Saxon Musk. He's 20 years old. 20; but you'd never guess it from this description of his actions.

Edit: To prove this isn't satire ragebait -- https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/2035263787801174366

except your leader is dumber than a bag of rocks.

C'mon.. Our figurehead is dumber than a bag of rocks. Our leaders are average intelligence and also sadists who want to terrorize the USA population into death (for the techbros/fintech) and Christo-fascism (for the Heritage Foundation).

USAmerica - you are going to have a population of fundamentally broken people after this. High schoolers watched their friends disappear. Children in daycare saw their teachers dragged out. Relatives and neighbors were dragged out of their homes. Stores were raided. People are dead; And lives will forever be changed.

This chaos creates trauma, resentment, distrust, hatred. Because in the end -- we let it happen. The people of this nation let this terror happen. We let tens of thousands be massacred. We let our stores and community homes be raided.

And it was done through our core infrastructure. The people were trafficked through federal agencies. Our three branches of government worked together to make this happen. Our corporations and their technology let this happen. Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. They all have had a role. Our neighbors voted for this, cheered for this.

If the next candidate—be it Democrat or Republican—wants to close the book on all this and broadcast platitudes of Democracy and Compassion... whatever candidate(s) those are, I hope they fail.

haha I paused a bit as I wrote that, too; but yeah. W Bush was stupid, a bad public speaker, and a warmonger... but he knew when to listen to his advisors.