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rayiner 7 days ago

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tptacek 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Her "parting rant" didn't appear in SciAm, a point even the article makes clear, but which you obscure here.

rayiner 6 days ago | parent [-]

It’s probative of state of mind.

tptacek 6 days ago | parent [-]

It would have been if you'd described it as such, rather than misleading about it (deliberately or not).

rayiner 6 days ago | parent [-]

The context of the rant is clear in the article we all presumptively read.

tptacek 6 days ago | parent [-]

As I just said, the article itself contradicts the claim you made here. At some length.

rayiner 6 days ago | parent [-]

How could the article “contradict” my statement when I didn’t say anything about where the rant appeared? I didn’t reproduce the content of the rant either. The article provided both the content and context of her parting rant; my post simply referred back to it.

You seem to be assuming my point somehow turns on Helmuth’a statements appearing in SciAm. It does not. Her words are ipso facto indicative of religious and moral fervor, not rationality.

sofixa 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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tiahura 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

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yamazakiwi 7 days ago | parent [-]

Huh?

forgingahead 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Did you vote for or do you support the "opposite team"? Because if your standard is "easy to accuse of 'ism' based on association", you might be in for a rude shock.

sofixa 7 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not American nor do I live in the US. The mere fact that there are only two teams, and everything has to be the opposite (oh, you don't support X? you must be from party Z because they hate X, and if they hate it, I love it!) even if it's basic scientific facts is infuriating.

And one of the teams is actively racist and sexist, has shown a blatant disregard for rules, norms laws and ethics, and now has full power over all branches of government. There's no scenario this ends well in the long term, and it's sad to look at from across the pond.

GoblinSlayer 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

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rayiner 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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sofixa 6 days ago | parent [-]

> For example, you call (presumably Trump) “sexist.”

"Grab ’em by the pussy."

Convicted of sexual assault. Friends with famous pedophile ringleader.

When asked about what he has in common with his teenage daughter, he said sex.

Yeah, I'm calling him sexist.

Trump's position on abortion was obvious from his actions in the past, regardless of what he actually blabbed.

> Not a single EU country recognizes a judicially-imposed constitutional right to abortion. The only constitutional abortion decision runs the other way: the German constitutional court has declared that abortion violates the Basic Law’s right to life. France is the only country with a constitutional right to abortion, and it adopted that right by amending the constitution.

What is this weird strawman? Most EU countries have laws in place that allow abortions up to a certain point. It doesn't have to be a constitutional right for it to be a right. No EU countries have a constitutional right to get emergency medical treatment or to be allowed to be vaccinated either, so this is aggressively irrelevant. Exact healthcare procedures are between a patient, their medical professional(s), and potentially family in some cases.

On Roe, the US legal system is weird and broken. Courts effectively legislate by trying to pretend to understand what vague words from centuries ago mean and how they could relate to today and things that sometimes they couldn't even imagine back then (not abortion of course, there is plenty of written advice from centuries ago about them). In normal law countries, legislators legislate. And thus abortions are legal because legislators decides so, based on popular demand.

Trump getting away with literal treason is also symptomatic of the broken American legal system, where judges and prosecutors are political entities more interested in their careers and ideology than the actual law they should be upholding.

rayiner 6 days ago | parent [-]

What do you think Roe actually did? And what do you think overturning it did?