The author assumes the Court doesn't understand the consequences of what it's doing, but I really don't think that's a reasonable assumption. It's entirely possible they know exactly what they're doing.

Because there couldn't be any legitimate reason to do the things they're banning, like cloud seeding, crop dusting, air dropping seeds for reforesting, I dunno, literally releasing anything as you fly over even like CO2 exhaust as mentioned by the other commentor.

Literally all matter is a chemical, chemical compound, or substance. IMO this law is going to be struck down super fast just for being overly broad. Not that that would stop Republicans from passing it and spending millions of dollars in public money defending it in court.

man who is able to think things out for himself

Otherwise known as a man who ignores people who have actually worked things out for realsies instead of just playing at mind exercises. A man who has "thought it out for for himself" that the earth is flat, modern medicine is poison, and immigrants are lazy criminals here to steal his job.

This is America, we don't go back and redo things just because they were done illegally! Trial results, elections, arrest records... Once they're done, they're done! Nothing to be done about it! Except taxes, they can always redo your taxes.

I wish I could add a /s I really really do

I think it’s pretty authoritarian to seek to stifle any speech.

Ohhhhh you're a free speech absolutist. Gotcha.

There's a fuckton of philosophy and case law behind why free speech absolutism is a bad idea. Maybe you can spend some time looking into that, you might gain some insight into why everyone is shooting you down.

Also, words mean things and while authoritarianism always shuts down free speech eventually, not all restrictions on free speech is authoritarianism. This would be the nuance that you claimed other people refuse to see, that you yourself have eschewed in this case.

So

Wait until you find out that ~~jet~~ non-turbine planes use leaded fuel.

FTFY?

because it will just give his GOP opponent ammo to claim "see he's radical too".

But they already do that, so why care?

The hundreds of thousands of dollars he's paying his right-wing buddies to post on Twitter are going to have a great ROI any day now, he's sure of it!

Read the WPATH Standards of Care. Decisions are made by the child, with the support and approval of the parents and a team of medical and mental health professionals.

You'll notice that on the list of things that are illegal to discriminate against, everything is either an immutable part of the person (national origin, race, gender) or is something that is unethical to ask a person to change about themselves (religion).

Political beliefs are nowhere on the list, because they're not immutable and it's not unethical to ask somebody to change them.

Discriminating against somebody for their political affiliation or political beliefs is legal and, in some cases, moral/ethical.

(As an aside, this is what makes all the people wanting to discriminate against LGBTQ people on religious grounds so egregious; they always had the right to discriminate against LGBTQ people on political grounds, but that wasn't enough for them. They had to do it "in the name of God.")

I'm a jeweler 🤷🏻‍♀️

You had me with the first half ngl