Dvader said:

And now he is the "good one" compared to the last Republican president lol.

He always struck me as a bit clueless.  It was hard to see him as a president who was 'bad' per se as he didn't seem to know what exactly he was doing most of the time.

So there's this new kerfuffle about Embracer selling some of it's stock to the Saudi's.  About how they don't adhere to human rights and stuff, so people shouldn't be taking their money.

I think we often forget that our western point of view on politics and human rights isn't necessairy the predominant viewpoint globally.  The only thing we managed to succesfully export worldwide is the kapitalist system (when you ignore the communist minorities here and there).  And now we're faced with the fact that authocratic regimes that don't care for individual freedom are in fact better at it than democracies and are beating us at our own game.  Who are we to all of a sudden say 'oh, but you can't take their money', when all we've ever been told is 'money is money and the more of it the better'?

What an absolutely terrible decision.

SupremeAC said:

I'm all for women deciding themselved5 on the matter of abortion, but 24 weeks like how it was for the last 5 decades seems like a very long period. Surely it doesn't take that long to come to a decision?

If you're carrying it that long, you almost certainly intended to have the baby carried to term, but are forced into a situation where you can't continue. You will have put together a nursery, gone through names, told family and friends. Abortion isn't decided based on an arbitrary line, because an arbitrary line, is, well, arbitrary. Casey v Planned Parenthood established fetal viability as the standard line because at that point it's essentially a c-section -- the fetus can survive outside the womb. Prior to that the fetus is dependent on the host's body, and said host cannot be forced to provide such body in the same fashion that you cannot be forced to donate a kidney.

The problem is much broader than "simply" abortion, though we shouldn't downplay the importance of it. As I've said, abortion rights are foundational to gender equality. But to undermine the decisions in Roe and Casey is to undermine the basis of what we understand to be human rights. Since there is no coherency to the court's overturning of these precedents, it's going to be legal chaos. It's like if you try and do math, but 1 = 2.

I should have known things were more nuanced than what reaches our shores.  I think over here abortion is possible up to 12 weeks regardless, and further down the line if medical reasons justify it.

Anyhow, on to the topic of the day: SCOTUS killed the federal law that limits carbon emissions.  This basically boils down to every state being able to decide if they care about emissions by themselves?  That's the end of the fight against global warming then.  The days of the USA being the leader of the free western world are now far behind us.  They're more like the drunk uncle of the free western world now.  I hope this won't snowball in to a whole slew of countries deciding that they too then shouldn't care about climate issues.