Must be nice for the states to ignore federal laws and at the same time take in federal money. WAY MORE then they pay in.
Biden should revoke federal dollars to any state that refuses to follow federal laws.
For being so red, you’d think they’d try not to be welfare queens huh?
That’s exactly what the “teeth” of federal regulations are. They can suspend anything from highway funding to tax breaks. “You want to go it alone? We’ll help it happen.”
No, Biden should send in the military and arrest politicians for treason for not following federal laws and encouraging and enabling others to not follow those laws.
And thus deliver the election to Republicans on a silver platter.
So we should go back to weed and shrooms being straight up illegal countrywide then?
You think people in California aren’t being arrested by the feds for weed?
Not that I agree with the person you’re responding to but this is unheard of so long as you’re simply possessing or growing it, and not doing so in amounts that would be considered intent to distribute. At which point the state government would get you first anyway because it’s ultimately their taxes.
The last Californian in prison for federal marijuana charges was released in 2023. I can’t even find an article referencing any federal arrests in California, or any data, that weren’t giant illegal grow ops or smuggling of ridiculous amounts of weed. The feds don’t give a shit and probably want it legalized so they can deal with shit that actually matters. After all 54% of Americans live in recreationally legal states, and 74% in medically legal states.
You can also just mail order hemp-derived delta 8 if you’re really concerned because that’s legal at the federal level.
It’s very nitpicky of me, but towards the end of the article, they discussed various factors hypothetisized to “cause transgender identity,” and I hate that framing. Being trans doesn’t need a root cause to justify treating us with respect and affording us human rights and access to health care that improves our lives. Nothing made me a woman. It’s just who I am.
From another publication I would have said, it’s the same recycled bigotry trying to paint LGBT identities as being something wrong that needs to be cured - either a (wrong) choice, or a medical condition, etc.
From this publication I would have expected greater care to avoid phrasing that makes this kind of categorisation.
That touches on a subject a lot of my gay friends talked about with me. Most didn’t want science to find “the gay gene.” They didn’t want there to be any reason for them to be who they are. They just are. They also didn’t want to have something tangible bigots to point to as to why they are “wrong.”
I agree with them, very much so. There is no benefit to this kind of research because it’s based on a false premise to begin with. Gender does not correlate with biology at all. It’s part of who we are as people. There is no cause of transgender identity, and even attempting to find one is flawed. The transgender experience is not universal, and there is a vast amount of differing feelings and experiences amongst even just binary trans people. Any attempts to find a “cause” are really just attempts to find new justifications for gatekeeping trans people or subjecting trans people to conversion therapy.
I am, by and large, against the further reduction of trans experience to a medical one. We aren’t diseased. We are fortunate to live in a time where we can access care that improves our lives tremendously. There is a very real medical component to treating dysphoria. But being transgender is not a disease.
But isn’t this the same situation with other discrimination like racism? There are genes creating the differences we call race, but does that change how we should treat people? Yes, it’s. Problem that’s not solved but at least we know what should happen
last i checked, the root cause for being trans was “being trans” but fuck if i know, i’m not a scientist lmao.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the “party of law and order”
“Rules for thee and none for me” the Republican party…
Yeah these states act soooo tough until something like Hurricane Katrina comes in and they’d begging for federal help.
Most these states are welfare states even without Natural disasters. If the federal government decided to stop giving out money most red states would be broke in a day
Exactly.
I’m thinking Mississippi would sink under 24 hours if it got it’s federal funding pulled. It’s already poor as fuck as it is.
Don’t let that stop them from voting no on federal disaster aid for other states at the very next fucking opportunity. Absolute trash.
Some even voted no for their own state’s aid and then subsequently took credit for the federal aid they had voted against
Louisiana tells trans students to make shit tons of money in lawsuits.
Just a quick reminder that the Democratic governor of LA term-limited out recently, and the batshit MAGAt morons are positively crapping themselves to enact the most fucked up laws they can possibly cram into one legislative session.
This isn’t an outlier, LA has been 100% befucked by republiQans. Being solid red isn’t new, but not having any decent reasonability or counter is relatively new. These fuckers aren’t just racist and cruel, they’re utter fucking morons.
Louisiana politicians are good at ignoring things. Like bad hygiene and incest with their siblings.
[t]he new rules likely conflict with the state’s…
Great, because it’s already settled law who wins that battle.
With a sane supreme court yes. But youre forgetting that we dont have that right now.
So what are the consequences for breaking this law and why aren’t they being given?
Federal investigation and lawsuits, per the article.
So… Nothing
These states get millions of dollars of funding for hundreds of programs from highways to business tax breaks. These can be cut immediately.
Will they be cut?
shake shake shake
Sources point to Yes
Seriously though, why wouldn’t they? There’s historical precedent for this going back a long way. For a long time the Federal highway Max speed was 55 and that was because feds threatened to pull highway funding if any state exceeded that. Any state exceeding it now is only doing so with the fed’s blessing. Money works.
These boil my blood. I just moved to La so my tax dollars fund them.
A tax payer putting money, involuntarily towards something they disagree with.
Oh, the horror…
First time being a US citizen?
How law and order of them.
ah sick, crimes, who could pay attention to those. No big deal.
Is that a dead body? I don’t even know her!
