Recent comments in /f/massachusetts

BroccoliKnob t1_jdo8pcw wrote

Just here to echo what everyone else is saying. Any legislative backward movement on LGBTQ+ issues and Beacon Hill would burn to the ground within days.

Of course we have shitstick people too, but they’re generally self-confined to the kind of places you’d expect to find them. Any moderately sized population center is likely to be very welcoming, and politically, the fuckups have nowhere near the numbers needed to move the needle in the state house.

Also it really is expensive as fuck…like not-even-2 steps-behind-NYC-expensive.

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ItsMeTK t1_jdnqg0e wrote

Nah, it’s like when Roberts created the Obamacare mandate by saying it would be legal if they called it a tax. So they suddenly decided to call it a tax and bam we were saddled with unconstitutional extortion for decades.

Or when the House capped their number at 435 because it didn’t technically violate the text, while overlooking the whole spirit of representative government by population.

Or when SCOTUS created a right to abortion in Roe and later in Casey (which Dobbs has since stated was created, and thus struck down).

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