"Implied right to privacy in the Constitution"

I wish we had a Supreme Court that would sign on to that.

holy **** guys, he was joking

Yeah if you really support a constitutional right to privacy, Gorsuch should be a non-starter.

Not so fast, sir. I didn't say anything about MURDER.

Am I missing a pun or something?

I mean maybe I'm reading it all wrong, but I don't think awval is seriously arguing the constitutional merits of a bill on masturbation that only existed to troll people. I assume it was a light hearted post about how awval would not like it if masturbation were banned.

Awval voted for Donald Trump to be POTUS.

What about people who jack off in public?

FREEDOM

I think he was attempting to make a reference to Griswald v Connecticut and its progeny.

So this Steve King guy is going full race war:

From here:

JFC......

Steve King 2024! https://altright.com/2017/03/13/long-live-the-king/

Yes, because who would know the hellscape and horror of multi-culturalism better than people in Iowa?

I still feel a little bad for the mom.

Check out @BBCWorld's Tweet: https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/...832869888?s=09

http://pilotonline.com/news/military...cff3da9e2.html

The police should beat them senseless.

70s NYC all over again

All these "I'm just talking about Western Civilization" people seem to also have a problem with Catholics and evangelicals who come from democracies if they happen to be brown, though theoretically they could just be anti Muslim.

I'd say that's true of most EPA and OSHA regulations

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/2...share&referer=

Nothing is off the table anymore.

Chiefsplanet wrestles with the question: "Can anything ever be racist?" Pt 344.

FDA, too.

Back on UBI for a second, regarding those charity-run UBI trials, I read the article and, well, sorry to say:


[x] Charity
[ ] UBI

Shocker.

Just a life lesson about success and complacency and that consensus always has to be built and can never be assumed.

Doctors are learning that with vaccinations: when vaccines rolled out and become popularized, the medical community and government spent a lot of time and resources to inform the public that vaccines were safe and a social good.





After decades of tremendous success where vaccines work their magic and we cure or manage tons of debilitating illness, we holistically got complacent and just people forget why they're even necessary in the first place and then all of the old fears and paranoia are introduced.

This came up a lot in discussions with ACists too -- Brad DeLong had a famous point / blog post about about it -- that Ayn Rand and right libertarians looking to dismantle the modern state and really, dismantle Westphalian sovereignty -- forget that the modern state emerged as a social response to dire problems. Once many of them are solved and enough time passes, and people forget that these aren't natural or intuitive ideas for people, all of the old bad ideas creep back.

Regulations strike me as hitting the exact same spot in the human psyche: only after we make mining and food and medicine and the workplace safer and mix in enough time, then growing numbers of people question where all the regulations came from and why they're even necessary and then conclude they're not.