I honestly didn't like the idea of Texas leaving United States, but I do understand and respect their right too. I have members of my family in Texas.

Precedent doesn't super-secede the agreement between Texas and United States.

Be like United States can't be a nation because it became a normal thing that illegal immigrants are flooding into our borders, that we must break up our borders to follow precedent.

It does. The Supreme Court ruled that states don't have that option in Texas vs White.

Only precedent matters when it comes to a law ruled on by supreme court.

A LAW

Constitution Law to be exact.

Right now free movement between US states is about as problematic for the US as Schengen for the EU.

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You can argue that Texas by law has the right to secede, but we already tried doing that by the books and the US said no.

Shots... um so what. Just means your immunity would be poor against future infections.

What was the country which made a 3foot fence in their borders and reduced illegal immigration by 95%?

That is your choice.

Shots like

Cinnamon alcohol

Maybe if something changed that made the US not want to own Texas, but that isn't a likely scenario

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it’s actually a generic brand

Man my phone is so nice for spelling things

You were told by Democrats who consistently disregard the constitution of our nation, why do you think they would care for the Texas law that allows them to secede.

Hungary stopped illegal migration by building a wall, more or less.

Democrat congress.

Nah, it was a fence

Just a fence

It was a physical barrier.

Think about the emotional barriers

I found that to be a poor ruling by the Democrats congress and Democrat leaning Supreme court.

That infringed upon Texas right.

I remember Tim bringing it up on a live stream months ago

Why not create a dome that we put all immigrants into

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8d-apDo98Q

Then we turn it into a human hamster ball

I like how he just pulls out his old and worn constitution.

XD

I actually really like Kavanaugh from what I've seen

He's a nice guy

I actually like him because he is a constitutionalist.

Aren't most conservatives constitutionalists?

Most are.

Reason I am a Atheist, independent constitutionalist... I get along great with them.

As long as they don't attack me for being a Atheist.

I don't call myself an atheist anymore because most atheists aren't atheist

They're anti theist

And I don't like that

Constitutionalism is meaningless to me when it revolves entirely around the whims of federal judges.

Atheist was a term for pegans back then, but non-believers were then lumped in it.

I like Hitchens and Dawkins and I agree with them a lot

So I am like eh.. whatever, I will embrace the name.

But they're wrong when they claim religion can only do harm

Every human and type of ideology can cause harm.

An Atheist is someone like Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson

To what degree the harm is caused depends on the person who follows that ideology.

Or Jonathan Haidt

It depends on the people who are a part of that ideology or religion.

An anti theist is Matt Dilahunty

I don't believe in God/gods so I call myself atheist because it is descriptive of that. Doesn't really bother me if there are assholes or idiots who use the same title.

That is why people seem to misunderstand us Atheists.

They try to think of us as a collective.

When we are individuals.

Think of it this way, imagine the KKK call themselves feminists

And you call yourself a feminist

When you say you're a feminist, you're automatically lumped in with the KKK

And the person you're talking to, goes immediately on the offensive

I tell people I am a Atheist, they automatically think I am a Liberal left.

I am like woah woah, I am a independent.

I think a lot of younger and some older atheists are super edgy because they feel betrayed by the upbringing, and the ones who got over it or never felt that way just don't feel the need to bring it up much.

I don't give a crap for the left, hell I don't want to be associated with them.

I just want them to call themselves anti thesists and not pollute the term atheist

Because I want to be an atheist. I want to study and analyse religions

I believe it can do a ton of good

To me... religion is just a primitive way of understanding the world. Best way to describe it... a lot of unknowns were associated to deities.

That's how I see it as well for the most part.

And that's what I disagree with.

The more we learn about the world around us, the more we kill off these so called deities.

Think about it.

More than that, though

I think philosophy is at odds with nature.

Let's take the Abrahamic story

Why is god such a hypocrite?

The fact that we can have a civil discussion and not rip each other's throats out

And why have these stories stayed the same for thousands of years?

That's not natural, but I'd consider it as good.

Atleast that element of it

Religion is also a way of creating social codes and cohesion. A way of controlling people, and I don't mean that in a bad way, it was one that I think probably did a lot of good for our ancestors. Same way modern laws are a way of controlling people.

There is a small grain of truth to most religious stories, but those who written them down took a lot of creative liberties to them.

i think religion has a variety of good and bad aspects

The entire point of Religion is to put a person beholden to a consistent higher power.

I don't think religious stories were ever intended to be a way of understanding the world as we think of it

Because being beholden to your fellow man and your own legacy beyond your own life is a MUCH HARDER thing to ask.

I think they were designed to impart values that were easily impressed upon people through stories than complicated philosophy

Some were. Like Zeus throwing lightning bolts. "well how else could you explain that? No human could ever understand where those come from so it MUST be Zeus"

and yeah the fear of going to hell is a good way to get people to effectively police themselves, which is kind of important in a world with very primitive investigatory methods

Well, yes. But that explanation branches off of 'being beholden to a higher power'.

Especially during the times when most civilizations used word of mouth

I love the example of Hinduism. People mistake it for a pagan religion like the Greek and Roman religions

It's anything but that

I believe it can be said that Christianity makes for good policy, but bad politics.

I doubt it was ever meant as political advice

Mmm... I'd argue with you on that.