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Let’s Thank the Alabama Supreme Court (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world

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I never thought I’d be grateful to the Alabama Supreme Court for anything, but now I am. With its decision deeming frozen embryos to be children under state law, that all-Republican court has done the impossible. It has awakened the American public, finally, to the peril of the theocratic future toward which the country has been hurtling.

Actually stopping that means both volunteering and, if you can afford it, donating

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

Let’s thank the bullet that killed your father for showing us how much bullets can kill.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net -1 points 9 months ago

That's the NYT for you

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

So, newspapers shouldn't print opinion pieces you don't agree with?

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 7 points 9 months ago

I didn't say that at all. Just that the NYT has a tendency to put a right-wing spin on everything

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

lol! I've heard Trump scream a million times that it was a Left wing rag.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/12/media/donald-trump-new-york-times-legal-fees/index.html

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

That's because Trump thinks any media that doesn't praise him as the smartest, richest, handsomest, and most powerful man in the world is a "Left wing rag". I'm sure now that Faux News was forced to add fact checkers to avoid another devastating lawsuit he thinks they're "liberal" and "woke" now as well.

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 6 points 9 months ago

That's called working the ref.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

They printed a list of all his lies since taking office.

Working that ref pretty damn hard, wouldn't you say?

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-times-used-full-page-to-print-all-trump-lies-since-taking-office-2017-6

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 months ago

Given the frequency that you see stories in the form " something good happened, here's why that's bad for Biden" I'd say it's succeeded

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago

So, you're saying their secret agenda is to report both sides of the issues?

Shocking!!!

[-] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

Not in the least; they prioritize access over truth, and tend to spin things in a fairly conservative way.

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