crystalmerchant

joined 2 years ago
[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Lmao when the "anonymous" online forum requires de-anonymizing, I want to hope everyone leaves

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Can't wait to keep not paying for Peacock

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Fuck yeah! Checking in from Portland where 3 of our 12 city councillors are democratic socialist. Love this shit, go Zohran

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (6 children)

What is the logic behind voting No? (Yes I understand any such logic would be twisted and flawed)

Other than "my name's on the list so I would prefer the list stay secret"

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The fact any of these bozos use digital comms (email, whatever) for anything sensitive is mind-boggling.

Maybe it's cause I'm a "digital native" (sort of?) or whatever they call it. Old enough to have a childhood without widespread internet, but young enough to learn it easily. Do these dudes just not have the internal switch that realizes "email is forever"???

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Jesus fuckin christ are these people seriously asking that question??

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Yee, unquestionably IMO. There is of course plenty of fucked up shit but we are doubtless better off in America, on the whole, than in 1995.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

All four of my siblings (I'm pretty confident) faked their vaccine cards at the time.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 58 points 6 days ago (2 children)

concentration camp

CONCENTRATION CAMP

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

What's the CGI? The attack scene itself is way longer than that

 

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a group of Maryland parents have a right to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with the parents – who are Muslim, Catholic, and Ukrainian Orthodox – that the Montgomery County school board’s refusal to provide them with that option violates their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.

Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged that “courts are not school boards or legislatures, and are ill-equipped to determine the ‘necessity’ of discrete aspects of a State’s program of compulsory education.” But he emphasized that “what the parents seek here is not the right to micromanage the public school curriculum, but rather to have their children opt out of a particular educational requirement that burdens their well-established right ‘to direct ‘the religious upbringing’ of their children’” under the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, in an opinion joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Sotomayor warned that Friday’s decision “threatens the very essence of a public education” because it “strikes at the core premise of public schools: that children may come together to learn not the teachings of a particular faith, but a range of concepts and views that reflect our entire society.”

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