Straw Man Mass Shooter Thread

That’s what happens when you buy votes.

Show your work.

Student loan debt cancellation that just got struck down.

Republicans signing popular legislation = "serving the nation".
Democrats signing popular legislation = "buying votes".

There was no legislation involved, Biden tried to do it by fiat. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

The Republican plan of opposing student loan reform was so much more palatable?

trying to find the split in the hair between a "fiat" and an "executive order" in this context?

So the same thing that happened when Republican justices tried buying anti-choice votes by overturning Roe v. Wade?

Even if it’s an executive order, Nancy Pelosi even said the president can’t do this without the approval of congress. Guess who holds the purse strings in congress and also guess what chamber republicans just took control of?

That's right. FF holds a purse.

Remember when FF was trying recently to argue that Biden should just be able to make big changes by fiat while overruling the usual systems of checks?

I just found it a curious word choice given the association with crypto bros trying to discredit the traditional monetary system as "fiat" currency.

Sure, sure. It's just convenient coincidence that the low-effort "I'm right by default and explaining it is beneath me " option is your favorite by far.

What brilliant chessmaster argument out of FF's face do you think I left behind?

so lessee...

Fed lays out a bunch of "left" talking points for the purpse of disqualifying them before discussion starts, then proceeds to trot out the same old (constructed) ambiguities of enumerated rights (misrepresented as natural rights, I should add), gets called for it, and Aunti All here comes charging in to cry about how calling those misrepresentations out requires a 500 word rebuttal.

Talk about lazy and low effort...

Enumerated rights are the same as enumerated powers, they are specifically mentioned in the constitution. Obviously other rights exist that aren’t specifically mentioned in the constitution, that’s the purpose of the ninth and tenth amendment. It’s up to the people of the respective states to hash that out.
Someone in NH could proclaim that healthcare is a right. Well, someone in SC may not agree with that. Just because you proclaim something is a right, that doesn’t suddenly make it true.
Instead of all of these legal battles in court that results in vague definitions from cowardly justices that refuse to make a definitive decision, it’s better if the people of each state to decide for themselves whether they think healthcare is a right. There’s a huge difference between natural rights and a social contract with social safety nets.

"Natural right" to own a tool.

Nature didn't give you guns. Or militias.

yeah, I'm not sure that works unless you wanna start arguing for the second to mean the gov't owes you a gun, and that every citizen is guaranteed a comparable supply of ammo.

on the other hand, self preservation is the basis of a natural right, while a duty to render aid is pretty much a universal constant.

A natural right to defend yourself.

A natural right to Charleston Chew.

what if I want Chattanooga Choo Choo instead

sorry not in the constitution, get fucked

and that's how I met your mother

Fair, no-one knows when they might need the ability to quickly take down 20-30 people in self defence.