Archive for conservatism
project 2025 in [brute] force
Posted in Books, Travel, University life with tags @ScientistTrump, burner, climate science, Columbia University, conservatism, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Harvard University, Heritage Foundation, HIV, immigration, immigration crackdown, Nature, Project 2025, renewable energy, Trump administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, United States of America on April 29, 2025 by xi'an
1984 or 2025 [newspeak]
Posted in Books, pictures, Travel with tags 1984, AfD, anti-abortion organisations, Chornobyl, conservatism, democracy, Чорнобиль, far-right, George Orwell, JD Vance, Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, MSC 2025, Munich, Munich Security Conference, Newspeak, nuclear power plant, reproductive rights, safety zones, Scotland, Solidarity with Ukraine, Stand Up To Trump, The Guardian, Trump administration, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, welcome to Scotland on February 28, 2025 by xi'an
[Quotes from J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, on 14 Feb 2025, a perfect Orwellian achievement in newspeak!]
“It looks more and more like old entrenched interests hiding behind ugly Soviet era words like misinformation and disinformation, who simply don’t like the idea that somebody with an alternative viewpoint might express a different opinion, or, God forbid, vote a different way, or, even worse, win an election”
“…when we see European courts cancelling elections and senior officials threatening to cancel others, we ought to ask whether we’re holding ourselves to an appropriately high standard. (…) If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with”
“There is no room for firewalls [against the far-right AfD] People dismissing voters’ concerns, shutting down their media, protects nothing. It is the most surefire way to destroy democracy.”
“I look to Brussels, where E.U. Commission commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they judge to be ‘hateful content,’ or to [Germany], where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of ‘combating misogyny.’”
“in Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat (…) the United Kingdom backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons in particular in the crosshairs”
“The Scottish government has begun distributing letters to citizens whose houses lay within so-called safe access zones, warning them that even private prayer within their own homes may amount to breaking the law. The government urged readers to report any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime in Britain and across Europe.”
send off the clowns!
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Britain, clownomics, conservatism, economics, Labour, Lizz Truss, political advertising, The Guardian, Tories, UK, UK politics, United Kingdom on October 19, 2022 by xi'an
a forecasted end to Roe v. Wade
Posted in Kids with tags ACLU, conservatism, legalisation of abortion, Protect Abortion, reproductive rights, Roe v. Wade, SOTUS, Supreme Court, The Guardian, The New York Times, US Constitution on June 25, 2022 by xi'an
“After today, young women will come of age with fewer rights than their mothers and grandmothers had. The majority [of the Supreme Court] accomplishes that result without so much as considering how women have relied on the right to choose or what it means to take that right away. The majority’s refusal even to consider the life-altering consequences of reversing Roe and Casey is a stunning indictment of its decision (…) Now a new and bare majority of this court – acting at practically the first moment possible – overrules Roe and Casey. It converts a series of dissenting opinions expressing antipathy toward Roe and Casey into a decision greenlighting even total abortion bans. It eliminates a 50-year-old constitutional right that safeguards women’s freedom and equal station. It breaches a core rule-of-law principle, designed to promote constancy in the law. In doing all of that, it places in jeopardy other rights, from contraception to same-sex intimacy and marriage. And finally, it undermines the court’s legitimacy.” Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, June 24, 2022
“Judge Thomas noted that in its rationale, the court’s majority found that a right to abortion was not a form of “liberty” protected by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution — as the court had said in Roe. Then, he took aim at three other landmark cases that relied on that same legal reasoning: Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 decision that declared married couples had a right to contraception; Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 case invalidating sodomy laws and making same-sex sexual activity legal across the country; and Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 case establishing the right of gay couples to marry.” The New York Times, June 24, 2022
news from the theocrazy [Uwolnić Elę]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags blasphemy law, conservatism, Czestochowa, Elżbieta Podlesna, end blasphemy laws, EU, iconoclasts, Jasna Góra, Justice and Order party, LGBT rights, Poland, religious beliefs on May 11, 2019 by xi'an
