It does, though.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws respecting an establishment of religion...
The difficulty is that our governments and voters are so polarized that an amendment banning the government from drowning puppies wouldn't have a chance in hell of getting passed.
Half of the country wants the supreme court ruling to stay.
The supreme court has nothing to do with constitutional amendments. To propose one you need a 2/3 majority vote in both the house and senate (or 2/3 of states calling a constitutional convention, but no amendment has gone through this process). Then, it requires that 75% of the states ratify it.
There's no chance the amendment will even get 2/3 of the congressional vote, much less 75% of states agreeing to it.
Yup, it was all about the taxes. If you look at basically any study on vapes that has come out of the US, the methodology is designed to produce negative results.
If the FDA cared about public health they would have actually regulated the market, instead of guaranteeing the market was flooded by sketchy Chinese disposables which generate a shit ton of dangerous and hazardous waste.
They would also ban cigarettes if they actually cared.
They need to side with the companies on this. The FDA fucked things up royally to crush the industry.
Edit: if anyone wants to know how they did this, it's because of the Premarket Tobacco Product Applicatios (PMTA) process.
Basically, for every single SKU you made, you had to submit the application which costs about $250k minimum. This means that if you have a line of 10 flavors in 4 different nicotine strengths, you'd need 40 applications. Their guidelines for the applications were also super vague, basically guaranteeing they could deny all of them.
And that's just the most egregious thing they did. They also labeled anything relating to vaping a tobacco product, including wire and batteries. Which would also be subject to the PMTA process.
Eh, it's better to communicate with your partner and give them a chance to get you there by other means.
You're right on most points, but in the south it's definitely more than 15 minutes a year. Those fuckers are even blinding in the daytime.
It would boost their ratings.
There's no point in thinking it's possible for it to get better without the entire system collapsing. Authoritarian regeims very rarely end through the democratic process.
The country will cease to exist before that ever happens.
Chickens would be a medium of exchange in this scenario.
Well, that's not a fun birthday fact for me.
Chickens would be the currency in this scenario.
It's a reference to the recent SC case that says that giving bribes after the fact isn't corruption.
He doesn't, though. They're appointed for life, so they have no reason to bow to him.
They're just awful people.
[Feature Request] Option to mark posts as read after voting on it.
It would be helpful, for those of us who have pictures load in our feed, to have the option to have those posts marked as read after voting.
This would eliminate the need to click on every picture to use other "marked as read" features.