New Supreme Court Term Will Go All In On Anti-Trans Panic

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Democrat wins special election for seat held by slain Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman

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The only thing I have to say about Enron is that I remain amazed that Vinson & Elkins survived it.

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They are the canaries in the coal mine, the easier target; I think this is an attack on freedom generally, on everyone’s freedom. They are the easiest to target to get from over there to right here of removing freedom of our bodies for the other 90% of us.

Militarization of the country by an autocrat means that it is like being in the military, you have to obey orders, only worse of course because the autocrat can be “whimsical”. You have to obey any order.

Just to give an extreme case that seems over the top and at first does not make sense, let me give this example. Let’s suppose that Donald Trump liked my kidney, may be so he could have a new one, he could order me to give it up, or perhaps both. Of course, we are not at that stage now, and seems so invasive, and unlikely. But technically very possible under an autocrat. And I mention this because, no it is not just technical possibility that an autocrat might have an interest.

Welcome to the new Soylent Green landscape.

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Non-white woman.

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This is a plot point of Ira Levin(Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives) dystopian novel This Perfect Day:

UniComp. The long-lived men and women, in their underground hideaway, are the real but invisible world government. They live in absolute luxury and choose their own members through a form of meritocracy. In part, people who choose by evasion and modifying their own behavior to leave the main Family are subtly redirected to “nature preserves” of imperfect life on islands. They, however, have been put in place by the programmers as a place to isolate trouble-making Family members. The top minds in the outcasts are further manipulated into trying to overthrow the “Programmers” and the ones who nearly succeeded are forced to join the programmers to “help them maintain the equilibrium” in the “perfect” world of UniComp and “The Family.”

Despite the name, the “programmers” are not allowed to program Uni since Wei Li Chun, the person who started the Unification, reserves the privilege solely to himself. Instead, they do administrative work.

Only the programmers and their attendants know that Wei Li Chun remains alive as the leader of the programmers, extending his lifespan by having his head transplanted onto successive youthful bodies.

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