Roundcat 11mo ago • 87%
(Bashes child's head in)
"Nah it's alright, he was homophobic!"
-OP
Roundcat 11mo ago • 33%
More like this site. This is stuff my aunt posts on facebook.
Roundcat 11mo ago • 28%
A baby Yoda meme, really?
Roundcat 11mo ago • 100%
Stop using the damn bird site. Twitter/X is live proof that people will glad trade their principles for a large enough follower count.
Roundcat 11mo ago • 94%
So many machines, yet I'm working more hours than my ancestors.
Roundcat 11mo ago • 100%
"How dare you not fall for misinformation!"
Roundcat 12mo ago • 100%
Several Ohio Republican lawmakers are proposing to strip courts of the authority to review cases related to implementing the newly passed Issue 1 abortion amendment.
In a statement released Thursday, four GOP lawmakers claimed without evidence that there was “foreign election interference” in the vote to pass Issue 1, and threatened to block the ability of courts to interpret the new constitutional amendment.
“To prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative,” the lawmakers said. “The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.”
Issue 1 passed Tuesday with 57 percent of the vote. It creates a constitutional right to reproductive freedom in the state, which protects decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing a pregnancy, miscarriage care and abortion up to the point of fetal viability.
It allows the state to prohibit abortion after fetal viability, which is generally between 22 and 24 weeks into pregnancy, except when necessary to protect the life or health of the mother.
But Republicans in the General Assembly have vowed to fight the measure.
“Issue 1 doesn’t repeal a single Ohio law, in fact, it doesn’t even mention one,” state Rep. Bill Dean said in Thursday’s statement. “The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.”
Ohio’s six-week abortion ban that was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine (R) in 2019 contains no exceptions for rape or incest. It is currently tied up in court but could have taken effect if Issue 1 failed.
In a separate statement, Senate President Matt Huffman (R) said the measure’s passage was “just the beginning of a revolving door of ballot campaigns to repeal or replace Issue 1.”
Issue 1 will take effect in December, but it won’t be implemented until courts apply the new constitutional standard to abortion-related lawsuits, most notably the one challenging the current ban.
The Republican-majority Ohio Supreme Court is the ultimate authority in reviewing laws to determine if they align with the state constitution.
“It is very important that we see the new constitution be upheld,” said Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights. “So all of us who have been continuing to fight litigation … will continue to work together to ensure that the restrictions and bans that are currently in place are no longer in place.”
On the other side, Ohio House Democrats announced Thursday a law to repeal various existing laws that directly or indirectly restrict abortion care in Ohio. But Republicans hold strong majorities in both chambers of the General Assembly, so passage is an uphill fight.
Roundcat 12mo ago • 100%
All they need now is to promise VR and self driving cars, and they'll have a hype-tech bingo.
Roundcat 12mo ago • 100%
When authoritarians don't fear consequences, there's is no limit to what they are willing to commit.
Roundcat 12mo ago • 96%
Dr. King was killed so people could put words in his mouth.
Roundcat 1y ago • 91%
ew fox
Roundcat 1y ago • 80%
For example?
Roundcat 1y ago • 76%
Given the extremism I've seen allowed on lemmy, I don't blame them for wanting to bail. It's definitely been killing my enjoyment here.
Roundcat 1y ago • 100%
My mental health was actually beginning to improve in 2018 and 19, with the pandemic decimating any progress I had made up to that point.
Roundcat 1y ago • 82%
Bethesda ruined Starfield for me.
Roundcat 1y ago • 100%
Make the job as easy as you can for yourself, and TELL NO ONE!
Roundcat 1y ago • 100%
Take me I'm yours!
Roundcat 1y ago • 100%
What if I presented my poem as a football field prayer?
Please watch until the end, especially if you are intending to comment.
I'm literally having to work around kbin's errors to post from this account.
I'm starting to get really tired of "should" posting, especially about [#climatechange](https://kbin.social/tag/climatechange). I saw a post recently saying that personal responsibility was pointless, and that we should try to end capitalism, we should take the fight to the governments, armies and companies who cause the most pollution, and we should start a revolution to save the planet. I see lots of calls to action, but no action. I'm just doing what I can as an ordinary person to reduce my impact on the environment. I know it isn't going to save the world, but at this point, what else can I do? Honestly, I;m not ready to go to jail, die, or kill in order to fight climate change, and I doubt most people are at that point either. Most of us are just trying to survive. If you want to start the revolution, be my guest, but you shouldn't shame people for the little they can do, and you certainly shouldn't post expecting others to fight your battles for you. Be the change you want to see in the world, because if people's actions had the same passion and gumption behind them as their posts on [#Mastodon](https://kbin.social/tag/Mastodon), the world would be very different now. [\#climatecrisis](https://kbin.social/tag/climatecrisis) [#globalwarming](https://kbin.social/tag/globalwarming) [#activism](https://kbin.social/tag/activism) [#anarchism](https://kbin.social/tag/anarchism)
Btw, this is me testing the limits of kbin's microblog feature, so the following post will be long. I will post a TLDR at the end. It has been nearly a month since I've first joined [#fediverse](https://kbin.social/tag/fediverse). Even before the [#reddit](https://kbin.social/tag/reddit) exodus, I was already growing tired of the site for the fact that despite how large the communities were, they were very cold and impersonal. There was also the fact that for the [#queer](https://kbin.social/tag/queer) community at least, we had been siloed off from the rest of reddit, because nearly every topic involving [#LGBTQ](https://kbin.social/tag/LGBTQ) issues were very often met with hostility by a good amount of users, often followed by a locked topic. It was even getting to the point where I didn't even feel safe in the some of the more socially liberal spaces. The fact that mods were being stripped of some of the few tools they had to keep their communities hospitable, I knew the writing was on the wall. I tried many reddit alternatives during the blackout, including [#raddle](https://kbin.social/tag/raddle) and [#tildes](https://kbin.social/tag/tildes). But once I figured out how [#kbin](https://kbin.social/tag/kbin), [#mastodon](https://kbin.social/tag/mastodon), and [#lemmy](https://kbin.social/tag/lemmy) worked, I found myself feeling right at home on the fediverse. I think the main reason why is because many of the people here are misfits from other platforms. Many of the users on mastodon are former twitter users who were driven off by the corporate culture of twitter, and later by Elon Musk and the poisoning of the platform. Others are former redditors like me who found platforms like lemmy, and are in the midst of trying to rebuild the community they once had on thier former platform. Fediverse definitely doesn't feel "mainstream" like the sites that many of us come from , but perhaps that is part of the appeal, and why I have taken to it far quicker than any other social platform I have tried in the past. I'm just hoping as the fediverse continues to grow and attract new users, that it doesn't lose it's quirky and experimental spirit. TLDR: I like fediverse. It's weird, quirky, and I feel more open here than I was ever able to be on reddit. Don't ever change.