• sawbuckplus

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  • rap-skullion

    Leaving aside the fact that this isn't how the amendment process works, why did he wait almost 60 years?

  • disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

    He's desperately wanting to take credit for something impressive since nearly his entire legacy is set to be undone.

  • beardedmrbean

    It should be the law of the land,

    I thought it met the threshold for ratification finally a few years back, or is there some roadblock I don't know about now.

  • vbf7

    I could have sworn it already was the law of the land.

    Then again, the democrats are nothing but the department of redundancy department.

  • arizonaconservativegal

    I have a headache from how ridiculous this is.

    First of all, I don't see anything in the constitution to suggest that women aren't guaranteed the same rights as men and I think it's rather insulting actually that some people still refuse to accept that women are humans and anything considered a human right would apply to us too by default.

    Whatever.

    More relevantly, this isn't even a little bit how constitutional changes work. The president has absolutely zero authority over this. None. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. This is just a statement. It's not a constitutional change, it's not a law, it's not even an executive order. This is completely meaningless. What the fuck is the point of this. Sometimes I think the people running that White House really do think the American people are stupid.

  • prolifeproliberty

    Yeah let’s not have the ERA, thanks.

    I happen to think it’s a good thing that women aren’t eligible for the draft and we can - in most states at least - have women-only bathrooms and changing rooms.

  • gettothedancing

    The ERA had a ratification deadline: June 30th, 1982. It is LONG since passed, and they did not make it to the 38 states required.

    A symbolic ratification by any state after that deadline means nothing constitutionally. People can whine and argue all they like, but the proposal of the ERA specifically included a deadline (which was even extended 3 extra years). They didn’t meet it. Either reintroduce it and have CURRENT state legislatures ratify it, or kick rocks.

    And obviously ACG is right, the president has no authority in this matter and even pretending to have any is (1) a sign of his mental decline and/or (2) yet another attempt at executive overreach which could only be excused by the disturbingly large number of Americans who have no civics education.

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    • Equal Rights AmendmentBiden administrationformer VP Bidenconstitutionalismpers comhuman rightsmodern feminismI don't talk a lotbut I am so insanely anti ERA and this really pissed me off todaygo retire in shame JRB
  • philosophicalconservatism

    The left wing premise that basically all unideal human conduct ought to be set right by force is objectionable for its denial  of human freedom, but it is also objectionable because it is destructive to human community. Learning how to organize and reconcile our own conduct is what makes us a community. There are many ways to rein in the undesirable behavior of both organizations and individuals: verbal persuasion, bad  publicity,  boycotting, the revoking of sponsors and funding, labor organization, ostracism etc.  It is by learning how to skillfully navigate these kinds of alternatives that a sound and functional community is produced. When on the other hand the state comes in and plays the role of moral arbiter it cripples the development of the community.   

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    annotated-dc: “ Speaking of characters with vastly different backstories, the DCAU version of Tim Drake, whose origin is covered in the Batman: the New Adventures episode Sins of the Father, is notable because… well… DCAU!Tim Drake isn’t Tim Drake,...
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    Speaking of characters with vastly different backstories, the DCAU version of Tim Drake, whose origin is covered in the Batman: the New Adventures episode Sins of the Father, is notable because… well… DCAU!Tim Drake isn’t Tim Drake, he’s Jason Todd.

    DCAU!Tim Drake is introduced as an extremely poor kid who is semi-homeless and whose father works as a goon for Two-Face, who eventually kills him, orphaning Tim… Which is also what Jason Todd’s comicbook origin is, albeit without the notable moment of Jason meeting Batman for the first time trying to steal the tires off the Batmobile.

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    Tim’s original comicbook origin was tied to Jason, but as a reaction to Jason’s eventual (albeit temporary) death at the hands of the Joker. In contrast to Jason, Tim was a throughly upper-middle class kid who deduced Batman’s secret identity, and noticing that he was beginning to become darker and more violent in the absence of a Robin, Tim effectively volunteers for the role in order to “save“ Batman.

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    When the Batman: the Animated Series was revamped following the release of Superman: the Animated Series, there was a rejigging of the cast, with the now 20-something Dick Grayson becoming Nightwing, and Tim adopting the role of Robin in the show on the basis that he was Robin in the comics at the time.

    However, as Tim’s origin involved Jason and his death, the creators appeared to instead opt to take Jason’s origin and apply it to Tim instead. This is somewhat ironic, as DCAU!Tim’s eventual forced retirement after his abduction by the Joker in the Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker backstory effectively held the same place in the animated canon that Jason’s death had in the comics.

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