Sorry to have so many short posts but using mobile to write on is less than ideal.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyAs a possibly-relevant example, the US Constitution does not contain equal rights for women. But it clearly should.

Quoting: TherinSEverything not specifically enumerated in the Constitution (and its amendments)

You are correct. As I remember, individual voting was only at a state level when the nation was new, and then limited to land holders They were the ones paying the taxes, so they were allowed a voice/vote.

Something something no taxation without representation...

Numerous amendments and bills and stuff afforded ownership rights, rightfully, to all citizens. Among these were the expanded right to vote, even if you didn't pay into a system.

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Quoting: CyborgZetaThe most I can say is that I am not a fan of states picking which freedoms/rights they want to defend, and which ones they want to disregard as lesser (or just show disdain for altogether); any freedom/right should not end at the border to another state.

That's exactly what is going on and I'll refer you to my previous post.

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Quoting: GBGamesAnd yet the rhetoric keeps getting repeated, and it sounds so innocent and earnestly about freedom when in fact it is often double-speak for driving the opposite outcome.

In a country that claims to value freedom as a whole, it makes no sense to say "And we'll turn it to the states to let the people decide if YOU get to have the same freedoms." We, in fact, tried that, and it turned out to be a terrible idea.

Unfortunately, that is the POINT of free states allowing its citizens to vote how they want thier state run, within the confines of some basic rules set in place at a Federal level. No one is being forced to remain in thier state (there's 48 easy to travel to) or being prevented from traveling to another state.

If one city decides jaywalking is legal and another decides its punishable by jail time, then don't jaywalk in the illegal areas. Nothing is keeping you from walking all you want, but jaywalking is viewed differently in the two cities. If the population of one city wants to make jaywalking legal, then vote into office the officials who will make that legal.

This decision is, in SPIRIT, no different than the example of jaywalking. The people can now vote for/against it as they wish and majority rules.

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Jeez, there are so many good posts to quote back at people but I'll just do this one for now.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyI think freedom looks like actual people being free, as in for instance having the right to do things that they want and have strong reason to do. This ruling takes that away from a lot of people. It makes them less free.

You mean, this ruling takes a law you cannot change away from the federal government and returns it to the people to vote in thier state as they see fit, right? Isn't that freedom? To change what you want as you see fit? The argument about big money pushing public opinion is valid, but voting is what separates some countries from others that choose to assassinate someone they didn't vote for (if the vote was valid at all, like in totalitarian - run countries).

Getting to the base of it is the belief of when life begins. Is it at conception? Is it only when that baby becomes self-sufficient? I could argue that I have some relatives who have still not reached that point after 30 years.

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Let's just agree that murdering a human life is a Bad Thing. If no restrictions are in place, then why don't we make the decision fine for as long as we want? How about that 36-week point? Why not 88 weeks? Heck, let's just go for broke and say the mother can choose to end her baby's life up to 971 weeks? It's clearly not a legal human at that point yet. It has no rights, can't drink alcohol, vote, or own guns so it's clearly not viable at that point.
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Illustrating absurdity by being absurd.

The US laws do give instances when murder is legal. Among those are defending your life, liberty and property, or to put to death an individual who has committed a crime so terrible that it must be administered as a warning to others that whatever act was perpetrated will not be tolerated.

I would vote in favor of baby murder in cases of incest/rape, when the mothers' life is in jeparody, or when the baby is shown without doubts that it is no longer viable. Should one of those examples happen to me or a loved one, I would want the options available.

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(responding to purple).

You've always seemed like a voice of reason so I'll be kind to you in my response. It seems like many people are not aware of how the Colonies (er, US Constitution) determines what rights the citizenry has. The Constitution is a document detailing the LIMITS of the federal government. Everything not specifically enumerated in the Constitution (and its amendments) is the right of the individual States to decide. The overturned decision is not and was never defined in the founding documents or subsequent articles, and until 1973 was left to individual states (the voting citizens) to decide for themselves how they wish to address the subject matter and that right has now been restored.

How other way than to return the power to the people could Democracy be defined?

If complaints of "Freedom" and "our Democracy is being destroyed" are what you are referring to, then perhaps a good long think about what freedom looks like is necessary.

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With the decision, Democracy in the USA is shown to be stepping in the correct direction! Removing the choice from the people is something governments, at a national level, have done for thousands (?) of years. Now the choice of forging our own future on this matter has been rightfully returned to individual states where the citizens get to decide for themselves how they wish to be governed. This bundle SHOULD be raising money promoting the freedom to choose our own paths, instead of going to organizations/efforts that wish to strip away the rights of the people to Democratically vote for their own rulers who represent THEM.

If a bundle comes along that supports the rights of citizens to make their voices heard in the democratically way our founders intended, then it will be a bundle worth supporting.

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If you are in need of reprogramming various buttons on your mouse and especially for any random controller, gameboard, or other peripheral, I ran across an effective program called key-mapper

https://github.com/sezanzeb/key-mapper/ [External Link]

I've been using it for my Delux T9 (similar to the Logitech G13), my Razer Orbweaver and other previous Razer/Belkin gameboards. It works really well! I've not tried it with a mouse but the "Issues" pages refer to using it for mouse keybindings alot, with alot of closed issues. I'm using it instead of Keyboarding Master because its not written in Java, and works really well for my uses.

Hope you like it as much as I do!

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The art style is such that near the very end of that trailer where the car is parked in a Japanese roadway, I half expected Samurai Jack to peek out of a window of the building or run by in the background chasing some baddie!

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