Just bought the Pathfinder 2e PHB equivalent and the starter box. Really cool stuff so far!

Not that I know of - they could file an injunction I suppose to buy time, but that would only delay the inevitable.

Biden’s only option would be to whip up legislation that would codify Roe as the law of the land (as he and Obama both promised to do). I would say that’s unlikely to happen, especially because it couldn’t pass the Senate. So people in blue states will likely continue as if nothing has happened and people in red states will see abortion prohibited or access greatly reduced.

Well, it won’t be nationwide. They’ll return these issues to the states. So liberal states, or states with strong liberal majorities, will likely not be impacted as they’ll be able to use whatever laws they had prior to Roe, or invent new ones with relative ease. But for people (like me) in deep red states, it will open the way for an absolute prohibition on abortion.

It’s possible. Alito, in the leaked opinion, states that the reasoning behind striking down Roe does not apply to other recently recognized rights (that goes all the way back to interracial marriage laws). But some arch-conservative’s like my own Senator (Indiana’s) Mike Braun would take you back to the original ruling on interracial marriage being unconstitutional.

Not yet, it’s a draft opinion - so they were planning to overturn it, but then somebody leaked it. Chances are even if they are going to overturn it after the reaction that comes from this leak, it won’t be official for another few months, then it’ll be down to state law.

Let us not forget too, that VM Molotov caused a major incident in the USA when he was “informed” of the atomic bomb, and he, off the cuff, informed his American counterpart that the USSR had such bombs and other weapons of a similarly destructive scale. There was a general panic in anti-communist circles in the American government for a good long time.

One thing to keep in mind here though is (at the time) for various reasons, casualty reports relating to bombing civilian targets were massively overstated. Obviously, the victim wants to portray their opponent as monstrous, but particularly in the early phases of World War 2 (especially in Poland) you had major news media carrying reports of aerial bombardment killing tens of thousands of people a day. Ultimately, many military planners came to really believe that such things were occurring/possible. A good example in the WW2 context is Oslo surrendering after being threatened with aerial bombardment. Our hindsight lets us know that bombing civilian targets isn’t that useful militarily (and is generally counterproductive), but at the time plenty of people thought it was super effective, not least the voting public.

I got banned for suggesting that China doesn’t use the labor theory of value when doing basic day to day economic planning. I felt like it was pretty niche, but life goes on.

I’m from a super Republican area in the US - we haven’t had a Democrat in office here since 1972, so basically everyone is a Republican or Tea Party Republican. I was no different until around age 15 when I started to try to get out of all of that - went from shitlib to Marxist to Marxist-Leninist.

There have been a number of quite popular left-wing socialist forums over the years. In general, there have always been pretty active discussion groups any time a larger forum popped up - I remember yahoo politics having some lively debate as well as Myspace having a lot of communist groups - I wouldn’t be surprised if some were still active using that platform since it operated so far under the radar after facebook killed it. There were also the RevLeft forums, RedMarx, and a few other forums (mostly spawned off of RevLeft whenever the moderators there upset people). It was a useful tool for organizing I met a lot of great folks on the RevLeft forums and met a few IRL at different protests and other actions particularly around the time of OWS. This is a really interesting platform here, and I’m glad its getting some more attention now, and hopefully people like it enough to keep it alive.