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Bernardo de La Paz
Bernardo de La Paz's Journal
Bernardo de La Paz's Journal
June 29, 2022
Outlaws threaten judges. Incarcerate outlaws. Remove them from the streets and social media. . . nt
June 29, 2022
The Dred Scott decision failed monumentally. The point was driven home in 2008 when Obama won the Presidency.
We are so close to a bright progressive future but egoistic jerks like DeSatanis & Putin in the way
Not to forget Big Money that won't pay the poor and middle class decent wages.
So close to embracing diversity and plurality and PLURality for such a more powerful dynamic civilization.
It's coming.
The question is how many tragedies have to happen while reactionary forces fight losing rearguard actions, like the Perjurous Three on the Court. They thought birth slavery would save America. In time they will be reversed, like slavery was reversed after the Dred Scott decision.
Although Taney and several other justices hoped the decision would permanently settle the slavery controversy, which was increasingly dividing the American public, the decision's effect was the opposite.[9] Taney's majority opinion suited the slaveholding states, but was intensely decried in all the other states.[4] The decision inflamed the national debate over slavery and deepened the divide that led ultimately to the American Civil War.
In 1865, after the Union's victory, the Court's ruling in Dred Scott was superseded by the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, and the Fourteenth Amendment, whose first section guaranteed citizenship for "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
In 1865, after the Union's victory, the Court's ruling in Dred Scott was superseded by the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery, and the Fourteenth Amendment, whose first section guaranteed citizenship for "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
The Dred Scott decision failed monumentally. The point was driven home in 2008 when Obama won the Presidency.
June 15, 2022
A woman prevented by force of law from an abortion is a birther (mother) who was forced: a "forced birther".
Boebert wants to prevent abortions by law (not by social engineering because that would mean actually helping people).
Boebert wants to force births, in other people (the hypocrite). She wants to be a forcer (creating the force by voting legislation) and leave the enforcement up to law enforcement officers. She is a "birth forcer" and a "birth enforcer", the latter via proxies.
Hmm, I'm thinking say "birth forcer"
A woman prevented by force of law from an abortion is a birther (mother) who was forced: a "forced birther".
Boebert wants to prevent abortions by law (not by social engineering because that would mean actually helping people).
Boebert wants to force births, in other people (the hypocrite). She wants to be a forcer (creating the force by voting legislation) and leave the enforcement up to law enforcement officers. She is a "birth forcer" and a "birth enforcer", the latter via proxies.
June 12, 2022
It is logical and highly effective and very peaceful. It works in so many wonderful ways.
Just like high intelligence is an emergent feature that resulted from perfecting bipedal locomotion, a burgeoning diverse culture is a logical emergence. The more creativity and intelligence are rewarded in society (and they are), the more diversity in all its manifestations is allowed and flourishes.
It particularly irks the tRump base that they realize they are losing and they don't get why. They are not Moses parting the water for a return to the promised land. They are idiots drowning because they went jet skiing without a life jacket.
If they won't or can't get on board with inevitable reality, leave them in our dust. Full rights and access to services, but not much interaction. Let them become like Amish, like some sect but stuck in the 1950s. Not much else we can do.
I too believe "The evolution of culture, society, and humanity is simply inexorable."
It is logical and highly effective and very peaceful. It works in so many wonderful ways.
Just like high intelligence is an emergent feature that resulted from perfecting bipedal locomotion, a burgeoning diverse culture is a logical emergence. The more creativity and intelligence are rewarded in society (and they are), the more diversity in all its manifestations is allowed and flourishes.
It particularly irks the tRump base that they realize they are losing and they don't get why. They are not Moses parting the water for a return to the promised land. They are idiots drowning because they went jet skiing without a life jacket.
If they won't or can't get on board with inevitable reality, leave them in our dust. Full rights and access to services, but not much interaction. Let them become like Amish, like some sect but stuck in the 1950s. Not much else we can do.
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