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archive.today • What to Know About Biden's New Clean Cars Regulation - The New York Times

The quote is the very last paragraph. The media is so annoying. I often don't read articles from start to finish anymore. I scan them to find the bit that finally gets to the fucking point.

The other links are at the top of the homepage - https://www.nytimes.com/

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dems love to trumpet that they'll "restore Roe". It's all lies. There are only two ways to do that. Number one is highly unlikely. And number two is so out there for the dems - it's as likely as science fiction.

  1. Pack the court and then pass the law.

  2. Simply give the court the middle finger, do what they want and pretend the court doesn't exist.

 

If you're told USA #1 your whole life...

American exceptionalism and American civil religion are Americans' drugs of choice. And it's a heavy substance abuse problem that's bipartisan.

I'll leave this here.

American civil religion

Fourteen tenets

In a survey of more than fifty years of American civil religion scholarship, Squiers identifies fourteen principal tenets:

  1. Filial piety

  2. Reverence to certain sacred texts and symbols such as the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the flag

  3. The sanctity of American institutions

  4. The belief in God or a deity

  5. The idea that rights are divinely given

  6. The notion that freedom comes from God through government

  7. Governmental authority comes from God or a higher transcendent authority

  8. The conviction that God can be known through the American experience

  9. God is the supreme judge

  10. God is sovereign

  11. America's prosperity results from God's providence

  12. America is a "city on a hill" or a beacon of hope and righteousness

  13. The principle of sacrificial death and rebirth

  14. America serves a higher purpose than self-interests