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[–] [email protected] 137 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To wit: there’s a NY state law that makes it illegal for state officials to help shit-ass states like Texas follow through on legal threats like this within the context of the NY legal system. This is that law working as intended.

Or more succinctly: lick my taint, Ken Paxton, you fucking imbecilic psychopath.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

it's only a matter of time before the supreme court forces new york to comply; i hope that the doctor is prepared for this and finds another way to help with protecting themself.

when slavery was a thing, the shitty laws from shitty states to reclaim escaped slaves took primacy over laws from abolitionist states that would have protected them due to the supreme court and it took a war to overcome it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

i hope that the doctor is prepared for this and finds another way to help with protecting themself.

The airport code is YYZ but driving up from Buffalo is cool too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The US Supreme Court can't currently do what you say without a law change at the federal level.

Also, the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery (mostly) was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865 after the end of the US Civil War.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do you think the actual law matters to the Supreme Court? They act more like priests now.

[–] Deathray5 2 points 3 days ago

The supreme court wants some pretence of law otherwise their cushy jobs might be at risk. It's why the somewhat push back on Trump

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I didn't think about what matters to SCOTUS at all.

The law still matters to people and that's what's important. Only after we, abandon the rule of law will there be a complete breakdown of society and a descent into chaos and anarchy.

I know from all the doom posting I see on Lemmy that many don't, but I still have hope.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We’ve been literally dismantling the first amendment (Establishment clause particularly). And the fourteenth (the whole fucking thing by EO).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I know from all the doom posting I see on Lemmy that many don't, but I still have hope.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Regarding your second paragraph:

Uh, yeah, that doesn't contradict what they said. They were referring to free states which had abolished slavery at the state level, which were forced by federal law to help southern states reclaim slaves that escaped north. It has nothing to do with the 13th Amendment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And the Supreme Court of the United States rules based on federal law which, prior to the 13th, meant that under federal law slavery was not illegal and slaves were still considered property.

It's why the civil war was fought and then the amendment was passed. The victor makes the rules and since the United States beat the Confederate States, they made the rules.

It's not even an equal comparison, particularly because of the precedent set in Dobbs by SCOTUS establishing abortion protections as a state issue.

the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding Mississippi’s law and overturning Roe v. Wade. With that ruling, the Court returned lawmaking decisions about abortion to the states.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You'd think a world-class corporate news organiztion like Associated Press would be able to shoehorn that into the title somehow. And yet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's literally the second paragraph of the article. You'd think a literate person with time to write inane comments would be able to read the article. And yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

FYI, it seems like you are marked as a bot. You might want to change that (assuming you aren’t a bot)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks I'm fairly certain that I'm a human.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No, but there's something with your profile on your instance server, where clients that can indicate bots with an icon cause your account to show that icon. So people will think you're a bot

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We’re gonna do this again?

Hey! THE HEADLINE and THE BODY OF THE ARTICLE are two different things. Can you grasp the concept?? Does your inanity know no bounds?! Have you, at long last, no sense of decency, sir?!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Hey! THE HEADLINE and THE BODY OF THE ARTICLE are part of the same body of work. If you want all the context, read all of the work.

If they put all the context in the title, the title would just be the article and would need its own summary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Indeed. The Title of the book and the Entirety of the Book are part of the same work! If you want to comment on the title of the book you MUST read the entirety of the book!

The trailer for the movie and the entire movie are part of the same body of work. If you want to comment on the trailer for the movie you must see the entire movie first.

The appetizer and the dinner are part of the same body of work if you want to comment on the appetizer you must eat the entire dinner first.

Etc, Etc.

If they put all the context in the title, the title would just be the article and would need its own summary.

The title HAS a context without anything else being done. That is the point. The title (while being part of the same body of work) is alone. And here's the thing: most people don't see the whole movie before taking something away from the trailer. (Super-seekrit PRO TIP: The people who create the trailers know this and use it to their advantage.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Comparing a movie that takes an hour+ to watch to an article that it would take you 5 minutes to read tops to get enough context to not make dumb comments. Yeah, totally comparable.

People like you are why I have to send multiple work emails after I've already mentioned all the relevant details in the first message, all because I didn't put the whole gods damned message in the subject line.

Take a hooked on phonics course if reading is that hard for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

FFS I’m not talking about the article for a reason. How (or why) you refuse to understand that is beyond me.

Yeah yeah hooked on phonics, ace repartee. Anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

If you’re not going to read the article or have any interest in it, why bother interacting on the subject at all? The fuck are you even talking about then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you are ignoring point they are making. If the headline and article tell two different stories, those who just read the headline can come away with a different impression of what's happening. You can argue people that just read the headline shouldn't exist, but they do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No, I get that that’s their point. I’m definitely making the argument that if all you’re going to read is the headline, then maybe don’t complain about missing out on the full context.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What are you talking about???

In journalism, headlines have always been used to try to entice people into reading the article. Not to give the entire story so that people won't need to read the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's a lot of information the shoe horn into the title when it seems perfectly reasonable just put it in the article itself. That's what articles are for after all, the context.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"as per NY law" ?

four words? none longer than three letters? That's a lot? Really?

No.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Man I don't think you understand what the point of a title is. It's not to give you all the information you need. That's what the article is for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Does a title affect people? Just reading one sentence about something "newsworthy"? Do you think titles alone can have an effect on the political nature of a country, or a social group?

I don't think you understand what the point of a title is. Or what I'm talking about. Despite it being painfully obvious.