Virus Busting | Mega Man Battle Network 2  Original Soundtrack

"omit the word target from effects that would normally use it just to bypass hexproof" seems like a bad road to go down. reminds me of the whole thing with not wanting exile to become a second graveyard

Hey it's me explaining the joke. This gets infinitely funnier when you realize that this is the art for a magic the gathering card named homicidal seclusion.

after roe v wade got overturned under biden (a constitutional right we had for FIFTY years) i don’t believe any of the goofy “biden is better for domestic issues” rhetoric . you are lying to me and you are lying to yourself

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this is really ignoring how the three branches interact. Was it SCOTUS who overturned it? Yes but Congress and the Executive branch had their own checks and balances that they could have stepped in. But the threat to abortion was a huge selling point for the Democratic party, so they didn't because if it was codified, they'd lose that.

what checks are there for the supreme court? shooting a justice?

source: https://nccs.net/blogs/our-ageless-constitution/checks-and-balances#:~:text=LEGISLATIVE%20(Congress)%20has%20restraining%20power,power%20to%20nominate%20new%20judges.

And if you think that’s a rebuttal to the previous poster, then you don’t understand the thing you’re quoting here.

Here’s what those checks look like IRL:

-The legislature has the power to pass laws that limit the power of the judiciary, but they don’t currently have the ability to do that as the House of Representatives is controlled by Republicans and the Senate is controlled by the narrowest of Dem majorities which includes a Dem and one ex-Dem independent who repeatedly gum up any progressive legislation. They have been able to pass other stuff to head off potential future SCOTUS challenges — like passing a national gay marriage law — but don’t yet have the votes to do that with abortion. The way to fix this is to vote for more Democrats, especially progressive ones, in the House and Senate.

-The legislature can impeach SCOTUS judges but they need actual grounds that they’ve done things that are illegal in order to do so. “A ruling we don’t like” is not illegal. There is possibly a case to impeach some of them now because of the evidence of people like Thomas and Alito taking financial bribes from conservative activists and politicians, but again, you need votes for that. And Republicans aren’t going to impeach nor remove from office the people who handed them what they wanted on a silver platter over the screams of the populace. The way to fix this is, again, to vote for Democrats and tell them this is what you want them to do. Keep in mind that we need a supermajority in the Senate to actually remove justices from office.

-The key word there is new judges. Biden appoints people when someone resigns or dies (and the Senate plays ball with confirming them, apparently, as they stalled Obama’s appointment after Scalia’s death because… what’s that? Right, they were controlled by Republicans. It’s that pesky voting again!). Unless he decides to pack the court, a thing I personally would love for him to do, but which is unpopular to the extent that it likely lost Dems a few Senate seats in the 2020 election. The way to fix this? 1. Vote for Dems, particularly Joe Biden, because you want a Democrat packing that court, not Trump; 2. tell Biden and those Dem politicians running for Congress that you support court packing and why (directly, as in phone calls and letters, not on social media); 3. Talk to the squishy moderates in your life who just feel some kind of way about Biden having that much power but also are mad about Dobbs or worried about voting rights or sick of gun violence or whatever it is for them, about how if they truly care about the second thing they need to get over their discomfort with the first thing and why. How if things stay as they are because they don’t like the optics of a Democratic president packing the court, the reality is that the SCOTUS is the one that instead has nearly dictatorial power over a public that overwhelmingly disagrees with them. Once again, this is a thing you should be saying to them probably one-on-one, in person or texts or DMs or whatever, tailored to whatever will best convince each individual — not to your entire Twitter feed or Tumblr dash.

So yeah, “Biden can’t stop the Supreme Court as things are now” remains accurate, and you still have to fucking vote. And the OP’s takes would still fail any civics class.

The Judicial Branch has to interpret the law. The check on overturning Roe v Wade would have been simply passing a law legalizing abortion rather than upholding it as it was previously as an interpreted constitutional right. It should be but that’s not the point.

The Democrats controlled the executive and both houses at the time Roe v Wade was overturned. They had the ability to simply codify and legalize abortion. They chose not to. Biden is a catholic first and president second, as evidenced by our current disastrous foreign policy.

This is not a problem solved purely by voting democrats. But they are, unfortunately, still better than the alternative, until more options arise.

The idea that Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Gorsuch would have voted to uphold Roe if only it had been "codified" before the Dobbs decision is so comically naive it should honestly preclude you from being allowed to vote.

They are ideologues, they do not care about jurisprudence, they do not care what their role is supposed to be, they do not care about checks and balances. Their only goal is to advance the cause of evangelical Christian control of every aspect of government and the subjugation of women's bodies. The moment those three were appointed, overturning Roe became inevitable no matter what the law said, what precedent said, what human decency said, which is exactly what we were fucking telling you in 2016 before the election.

The fucking "firebomb a Walmart" crowd out here acting like there's one weird trick to make a fucking christofascist with the opportunity to accomplish the pinnacle of their life's work change their mind by passing a law that would, SURPRISE, also be subject to judicial review would be funny if it wasn't so tragically fucking stupid.

I think "codify" is a word that people see so rarely that they saw a few people use it on Twitter, thought they seemed smart, and then turned it into magic. The Supreme Court has the ability to say a law passed by Congress and signed into law by the president is unconstitutional and invalidated. "Codifying Roe" doesn't protect abortion if you have a Supreme Court that doesn't want abortion protected. The originalist arguments that the current court is using to take away rights is what they based Dobbs on and they'd do the same thing if abortion rights are codified. All they do is say "I did a CTRL+F on the Constitution and the word abortion didn't show up, so no one has that right. Here's a free gun."

If you really want to get biden to fix this shit based on what you posted as checks and balances, you need to go get rid of 3 justices instead of firebombing walmart. Firebombing Walmart hurts none of the people that make Walmart a problem, but does hurt the ordinary people working there. Its not direct action its terrorism. If you don't have the balls to do direct action by assassination, shut the fuck up and vote for someone who will ACTUALLY go work on fixing it. Bidens doing what he can while you bitch on a dying website. Of the two, grandpas 10x as effective as your whiny ass.

Had Hilary won in 2016, this would not have been a problem. The Republicans would not have been able to steal two Supreme Court seats and appoint a third justice. Those seats would have instead been filled by Liberal picks.

People not voting and/or voting third party gave us this outcome. Full stop.

We also used to be able to pass amendments to the constitution, and thus make things constitutional. That's a pretty big piece of the puzzle of "how do we make the Supreme Court change their mind".

you wake up in the dead of night and she's sorting your balls alphabetically

my fucken ablls

revisiting my favorite torrent on nyaa

the torrent comes with an mkv of audio from the episode, but if you just want the subtitle file, they also uploaded the subtitle file on its own

it's over a terabyte in size

oh my god. op left out a bunch of the description, which has even more hilarity. first off: they couldn't even play the 1080p version besides manually rendering a couple of individual frames. second: they managed to play the 360p version, but

not for long

me to the cashier: -and i'll do a soda, too! what flavors do you have? cashier: lemonade, orange, cherry, root beer, grape, and green. me: sorry, what was that last one? green? what flavor is it? cashier: chemicals me: wh- huh? cashier: i can't explain it. it just tastes like green! me [just finished a ten hour shift at work, barely processing words]: i don't think i'm strong enough for that today, sorry. grape. guy behind me in line, silent until this exact moment: i am. get me a green.

Genuinely foul

Kitchen designs made by cats

Virgin Economists: You need a diverse multi-sectoral export economy to fully integrate into the global supply chain and *adjusts glasses* reduces risks from shocks-

Chad Botswana: You are like little baby

heartbreaking: this article that otherwise makes good points makes an absolutely nonsensical linguistic claim in favor of its central argument that wasn't even necessary

I was gonna make a post a week or two ago like "if there was a chinese napoleon he would have conquered like half the world" but it wasn't good enough. but I just now realized that was genghis khan and he did

when he wishes they all could be California girls is he dreaming of territorial expansion or genocide, is he advocating a revanchist war or a brutal policy of so-called ethnic cleansing

I'm... pretty sure you're talking about a different song, but I was inspired.

I have been a sheep caretaker for like two days and already I'm like. Wow. I get it.

I get why these were some of the earliest mammals to ever be domesticated. They look up to humans with this sort of dumb but all at once innocent and pure and trusting expression. They're happy to see you. They follow you around. They like to be rubbed under their chins. Maybe its just some latent Scottish highland shepherd DNA I still have in me but I look at my sheep charges and suddenly I see why the love of God for humanity is so often described as a shepherd and his sheep. I'd fight a wolf for these guys. I'd go way the Hell out of my way for them. I'd carry their young for miles on my own back.

nearly 80k reblogs and how many of you eat lamb

The ancient shepherds I'm referencing also ate lamb lol

Elden Ring + Homestar Runner Quotes

"I'm a weird, weird snake, everybody. My name is Weird Snake Joe."

"You look like a man of many arms." "Yeah, I'm like an octopus."

"Hey, loincloth! Please to be putting on more clothes. Ugh, like five or six... more clothes."

"TOO MANY FOLDS! TOO MANY FOLDS!"

"Sever your leg please. It's the greatest day."

"Not only did I murder Pom Pom, but now it's on record that I ate fifteen hundred pounds of crap."

"Throttling you down?! That's not one of the ninety-nine ways I rip you off!"

"Oh, vomit-inducing! My favorite!"

"Get out of here, Nebulon. No one likes your style."

"My blood hurts."

to defeat the stock market we simply have to turn off all computers

Unused enemy found in the code of Super Paper Mario that appears as a circle of four rapidly rotating Marios. The Marios are in fact copies of the playable Mario - they mimic all of his animations, and attempting to Tattle them gives the same information as Tattling the playable Mario. Jumping onto the Marios hurts Mario - although whether this is due to the circle’s status as an enemy or due to Mario’s jumping hurting the rotating Marios, hurting him in turn since they are copies of him, is unclear. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source

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