Can I convince you to expand that to the original 13 colonies....or at least 11 most northern?
As much as I love snow, I don't think I can live with New England levels of snow.
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Can I convince you to expand that to the original 13 colonies....or at least 11 most northern?
As much as I love snow, I don't think I can live with New England levels of snow.
Lobster Johnson
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So long America, you were alright for a while there.
haha, yea, that took a bit of getting used to!
Scarily tho, I've only lived in New England for 14 years and I've noticed that the winters are getting milder.
I've just switched my whole house from gas fired steam heat to electric heat pump mini splits and signed up for 100% renewable electricity. It will be interesting to see how they work next February. The state gave us a $10k grant towards the cost. The SC EPA decision is a slap in the face to millions of people who are trying to do the right thing.
The behaviour of this rogue, antidemocratic Supreme Court is imperilling us all.
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Given today’s decision - quite literally damaging the entire planet
“Pro-life” and “every life is precious” really seem to have some pretty big asterisks
It'd have to be porch tea this time
The contortions some people we go to rather than say “I got it wrong”
They can’t admit it when these same people are saying LGBTQ and contraceptive rights aren’t in jeopardy
Is it just me, or has this last couple of weeks really just shown the the US system is broken?
Regardless of what you think of the recent supreme court rulings, it must be clear that the body which has the final authority on all judgements regarding a document written 250 years ago, and is 33% hand picked by one single person with no checks or balances in place, is not a great system.
It's time you came up with a new constitution.
Regardless of what you think of the recent supreme court rulings, it must be clear that the body which has the final authority on all judgements regarding a document written 250 years ago, and is 33% hand picked by one single person with no checks or balances in place, is not a great system.
It's time you came up with a new constitution.
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It's not even that it's 33% hand picked by a single person. 5 of the 6 justices who voted to overturn Roe were appointed to the Court by a President who was elected to office while receiving fewer votes than his opponent.
There are obviously huge parts of the system that are entirely broken. Republicans are an ever-growing minority in this country, but continue to hold onto power by winning elections more or less on technicalities and then use that power to build even more technicalities into the system so they remain in power. It's becoming a vicious cycle that I'm not sure how we break out of. The framers of the Constitution probably didn't write it with a two party system in mind, and almost certainly didn't do so with a consideration that one of those two parties would be perpetually acting in complete bad faith.
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