The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term amidst a collapse of legitimacy, historic corruption and scandal, conflict of interest, and efforts to obstruct investigations into right-wing billionaire purchasing of influence over the High Court.

[above image] : Abortion rights advocates protested the Supreme Court’s attack on women’s rights when it ended Roe. The Court is expected to intensify its attacks on democracy in the new term. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

  • betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    9 months ago

    You’re going to need a source on the claim that most violent crime is in the furtherance of other profitable crime? You ever heard a phrase such as “if weed were legal then people wouldn’t kill each other selling weed”? I thought this was settled science. Is it so outlandish an idea that most people who kill do it because it is profitable for them to do so that you want me to google it for you?

    Alright, so let me ask you, what does “common sense” gun control look like?