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Clarence Thomas takes aim at a new target: Eliminating OSHA
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Just remember guys, the supreme court isn't corrupted by billionaires they just happen to only want to do things that benefit the ultra wealthy. The gifts from mega rich people to Thomas mean nothing.
ItS jUsT a cOiNcIdEnCe...
Yes. But I am puzzled why the Ultras asked the supremes to end abortion. If I was an Ultra, I would have legalized public sex and drugs and tent cities. How does preventing abortion help the Ultras? Anyway, that's a piece of the puzzle that I can't understand well yet.
Eliminating the EPA, OSHA, animal protections, all these things fall under the Ultra "I'm loving it" package.
They eliminated abortion because the religious extremists wanted that.
The religious extremists are dumb as fuck as they learn and teach religion over science. That makes them useful gullible idiots that are easy to control. You want extremists behind you if you want to be a dictator as you can easily convince them with dumb obvious lies and they will be happy to have a scape goat group (it's the evildemocrats fault!! Or the progressives! Or the gays! Or the brown people! Or the )
Also, religious extremists are very useful when you want opponents murdered, they'll be happy to help in the name of
So yeah, they have been feeding and using religious extremists for their real cause: themselves, a few wealthy and rich assholes.
Sex and drugs are already very easy to get if you are rich.
Population growth on the other hand is an almost mandatory cornerstone of capitalism. And abortions too, will remain legal for the rich.
I think it's that more people that shouldn't have been born are born into positions that force them to accept absolutely horrible working conditions and depress wages by their accepting anything.
That an some of the ultra wealthy are extremely religious.
Well they have to believe they got their money for some reason and it's easier to think it was a sky daddy than their actual daddy for some reason.
Most likely argument for ending abortion is that it raises natality which means more workers/consumers. And I'm guessing tying it to religious beliefs reinforces the religion as well, which most agree that it's used to control the masses.
Just your daily reminder that literally no one but die hard catholics gave a single fuck about abortions until, what would today be called the right wing, made it an issue after losing the fight on desegregation and the civil rights act.
It was just the next evolution of the southern strategy. Inflaming hatred against "non-traditional" women instead of blacks (though trust me, there was still plenty of inflaming hatred against blacks, to this day), which extended into hatred against non-traditional things in general, Which was great cause it oh so conveniently covered pretty much everything liberal.
Oh, yeah, infighting is probably another good reason I had totally forgotten about. Give us something to fight over. You're right.
Ok! I smell the shit you're stepping on. ( I just coined this phrase!)
The Pope wanted it gone. This is the most Catholic Supreme Court in US history and they got rid of abortion. It really doesn't get any deeper than that.
Roberts in particular is really showing his age and is devout. It's highly likely they threatened to withhold communion from him just like they did with Biden unless he gave in. If you really thought hell was real and you could end up going there you would be willing to do anything to avoid that fate. Including murder.
Put yourself in his perspective for a moment. He kills say a million women because they are denied lifesaving treatments. Well all those women are probably going to go to heaven anyhow, and heaven is forever. If he saves those women from death he goes to hell, the women he saved still end up going where they are going but he personally gets a time period in hell that laughs at a billion eons.
Wouldn't you do the same? Would you really allow yourself to be tortured for fucking forever just to save people who are already saved? It makes no sense too. You might be the kinda person who would run into traffic to push a kid out of a way of a bus possibly killing yourself, but even if you were you wouldn't just run into random traffic.
The billionaire to "devout Christian" pipeline isn't really a secret.
Besides serving the ultra wealthy, the corrupt Supremes also have a Fundamentalist Christian agenda that arose from when the GOP reached out to the religious right for votes. Ending abortion is of no benefit to the ultra wealthy.
They wanted it banned. And they got it banned. They saw a chance to win, took it, and won. Simple as.