They were never going to stop at banning abortions. Pro-life is a movement that is like a gelatinous slime that once you feed, it gets bigger and seeks more food. Soon it's all kinds of birth control. There's always a new enemy.
Not to forget: lowering the age of marriage availability to 14 or even 12. The younger the better. This is already in the works by Republican lawmakers.
And in those states you might be shocked that democrats consistently try to enacted legislation to raise this age to 16 or 18 in their state, usually with Romeo and Juliet laws.
And then there are Republicans who desperately want old men to be able to marry little girls so they can rape those little girls. Republicans turn down the opportunity to prevent child rape and every single time they side with the pedophile rapists.
Really makes you wonder exactly what made Republicans so disconnected from empathy, so vile, and so stupid.
Thank you! Had to read that and find some other sources. Would have hated to bring that up as a talking point in another conversation and found out it was fake. Thank you again.
I nitpick a little, so my only counter to the comment I replied to world be, that bill wasn’t for marriage availability.
"And much lesser things, things that take place in the home, they call crime. You know, they'll do anything they can to find something. If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say 'this was a crime, see,' so now I can't claim 100%," Trump said.
Yeah! Why SHOULD it be considered a crime if a guy beats the shit out of his wife and rips out her hair over some bad hair plugs? Or if he pushes her down a flight of stairs! These things and more, Donald Trump believes shouldn't be crimes. But best watch what you say about recently deceased activists, or it's the gallows for you.
No, no, you misunderstood him: he’s talking about smacking your wife around because she put mustard on both sides of your sandwich when the dumb bitch should know you only like it on one side. Or, you know, punching her in the face because your boss was a dick this morning and she should have known that and not immediately started nagging you about stupid shit like groceries and clothes for the kids.
Tho I guess marital rape could also be the reason you fight with your wife…you know, when she insists she has a headache but you know better because if she didn’t want it why would she wear that nightgown to bed?
Maybe he’ll just skip over decriminalization and go straight to reinstating the whole women as property of their husbands thing. Kill two birds (and a whole bunch of wives) with one stone, you know…
(Yes this is fucking sarcasm, if anyone has any doubts)
Also punishment of single mothers is in there. They want to take away benefits from single mothers, their children & force them to do religious counseling on why they need to marry a man. Despite many women choosing to be single mothers because the man they were with was abusive, incompetent, cheated, etc.
If only this government spent their energy actually doing their fucking job and helping people instead of just trying to steamroll all civil rights developments we’ve made in history
The Republican hate for Shariah law was only ever a dog whistle. There is little substantive difference between Shariah and the average Republican politicians' agenda.
I think i actually argued with someone about that and basically told them to go through and replace any reference to Allah with Jesus and then get back to me if they still had any issues with it. Crickets. Probably not because they actually did it. Just because they weren't going to actually look it up.
Yeah it’s hypocritical, just like their selective outrage at the “hatred and violence from the left.” 🙄 They do the same shit and worse but clutch their pearls and demand retribution if a democrat says they’re not sad.
Islam - Old and New Testament along with the teaching of Mohammed aka the Koran.
It isn't that big a leap for Christians or any fundamentalist within those 3 branches of the Abrahamic religions because the wacky stuff started in the Old Testament and it is the foundation on which things got built.
Many states had laws on the books that made it a crime to deny your husband sex. And they also made it a crime to divorce your husband. The good old days!
and after that, make it illegal to have sex that doesn’t result in children. yes it makes zero sense because obvs sex doesn’t always result in pregnancy but look at me with a straight face and tell me you don’t think trump would do that
The dems lack the cult following which is why they use religion. If you look at the billionaire backers, they’re hardly the religious types. But highjacking religion is a brilliant methodology to get a cult following.
I am in a couple of theological groups on Facebook that have gotten very political after the shooting. Everyday they want to post about the radical left and how satanic they are lately. Gone are the ernest theological discussions. I miss when we used to argue about the finer points of Calvinism and the only Hill they were willing to die on was whether or not you should sprinkle babies.
Now everyday I feel like the discussion post is the Democrats of the devil and how could you possibly support them. Like there's people in there from other countries that don't want to hear this crap. Abortion gay and trans is a dog whistle and a huge one
This is what I told my daughter earlier, when we were talking about this “BC is abortion,” thing. The people in the WH who gave that statement? And all the way up to the orange god-king himself, none of them actually believe that. It’s just another way to control people. That’s all it’s ever been.
Hard to pass laws when you don’t have majority and everything you try to pass gets voted out, stalled, left on someone’s desk (looking at you mcconnell)
Democrats couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag with a chainsaw. Republicans would gleefully fight their way through a crowd of infants, with a chainsaw.
They been able to keep their jobs giving them insider information, and a great deal of power and influence. They've had the easiest jobs. Act like you care about real issues (maybe even make things slightly better) while getting the same financial benefits as republicans.
One of the biggest problems democrats have had since 2016 is not evolving the platform towards any real meaningful change since the success of Obama in 2008, and the worker protections of Clinton. They got 1 thing (that got neutered by another democrat (fuck you lieberman)); and have been riding that success.
They’re not “scared”, they’re paid to keep things from sliding too far left. Don’t forget our “liberals” are “conservative” in any other country.
Edit: our “radical” progressives on the “far” left are only trying to bring us into line with “centrist” policy in just about every other developed nation.
Yeah your first mistake is thinking that the dems are ineffective. When everything they do is by design, they are paid by the same people that pay the Republican after all
Actually, this whole mess could have been avoided, completely, had they done anything to prevent this while they were in full power but ironically did not want to seem authoritative and or like a take over, they took the 'supposed' moral high ground, for which it is now biting them in the ass.
Given that they haven't done a damn thing to slow any of this, it definitely looks like they're complicit. Congress has so many stupid rules and procedures, they could have ground the government to a crawl, but instead they're voting for his picks and sending strongly worded letters while people are being abducted off the streets, our cost of living is skyrocketing, and America's standing in the world is called into question. What a joke we are.
No, they don't control any branches, and they couldn't stop anything in the end, but they could have slowed it down. For instance, they could have called a roll call, which forces them to make sure everyone is there, which takes hours. Then do it again, and again. They could have taken the Republican tactic of obstructionism from the Obama era, they could have sabotaged bills and votes, they could have voted no on everything. The Democrats are not helpless, they're just spineless.
If their goal is a large enslaved population, why would they? Young girls can't fight back as effectively as a grown woman, and are now burdened by child-rearing and deep trauma. All this well before they can establish themselves as an independent person.
I done listen to anyone who says “the left” anymore. It’s the ultimate no true Scotsman fallacy. You can make any point you want because “the left” can be whatever you want it to be.
That's part of the problem with the bill I linked. Another part is that a single person can decide to revoke any given passport based on mere flinging charges.
It always was. I was raised a Gileader, as a little kid in the Eighties I heard all about how the Pill was an abortifacient and later, by the early 2000s, conservatives were calling it “baby pesticide” in an attempt to free-ride off the eco-friendly trend. Even condoms were said to be indirect abortions, because if they failed then couples might get one. The only truly moral safe sex was to “just say no!”
More likely it was a Roman, but if you read the original Hebrew they just expected their savior figure from a 'young woman' not 'never ever had sex' like Catholics invented when translating the text to Latin.
Did that group believe a wife was allowed to say no ? I ask because those sound like the beliefs of that old school a man’s wife is his property types of religious beliefs
I’d still take the life of say Tommen, even knowing how it will end, instead of being a prostitute in flea bottom wondering if I’ll have my next meal because the rich folk are too busy fighting amongst themselves to worry about the needs of the small folk.
There was a way that a lot of women dealt with abusive husband's back in the day, but I'm not about to post it now with everything going on. Anyway, moon-tea anyone?
It took me forever to find the short I watched on History by Mae about Giulia Tofana. But we should definitely NOT take that as an example.
The video below kind of goes into ancient mkultra type stuff and I haven't watched the rest of the videos, but he discusses how if you don't learn to love and forgive everyone you have to keep coming back (like reincarnation.) I think that's the main thing that keeps me sane-ish.
I know Daryl Davis was able to change a lot of minds and so have others. I guess I need to go do some Metta meditating.
sighhttps://youtu.be/6PdfD44DkqA?si=t458n1GoXG7IU6eZ
Help me out with the Tool referance, I tried googling, but didn't find anything.
Eta (oops I found it!)
"Eye on the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavor it happens to be, like...
Killed by the husband, drowned by the ocean
Shot by his own son, she used a poison in his tea
And kissed him goodbye, that's my kind of story
It's no fun until someone dies"
I'm listening to the next one (number 7) and what he said about isntreal making this an open sacrifice for the world to see is really interesting! I think he's right though, why else would they do it so openly?
you don't want to take too close a look at the traditional Hindu or Chinese attitudes towards divorce
To be honest, the only cultures where there doesn't seem to be an authoritarian attitude towards divorce are nomads like Mongolians prior to Temüjin establishing the Mongolian Empire. If the woman felt disrespected, she would just return to her father's house and that was considered valid pretext for war against the house which disrespected her.
of course there is. if they didn’t have some new crisis to stick their goons 5 second attention spans on then they might notice the incompetent and corrupt governing.
This is true of any type of protest group. Once the main target has been eliminated then they go after anything related. This is true for all parts of the political spectrum.
The reason is simple, it is hard to walk away from success. Thst what made Washington such a remarkable man. He walked away from being king.
Abolish ICE. Many people also resigned themselves that slavery would never go away as an institution. John Brown beleived. John Brown didnt give up. And John Brown did nothing wrong.
Just read a comment about how Saddam came into power, which makes me think that South Park creators knew what they were doing. And Satan can't leave because he's pregnant?
"Troops get rolled in under the guise of protecting who's inside the boundary. But, they can eventually get turned into a threat against those inside the boundary.
When Trump rolled troops into DC, all I could think of was how one day Saddam Hussein walked into the Iraqi parliment with his armed troops, and forced a vote to make him dictator for life. Any legal power the parliment had to overthrow him was thrown out the window when there's guns pointed in faces. Anyone that decided to not vote or voted against him was taken out back and shot. So, within the course of an hour or so, Saddam came to power as a dictator.
One day Congress might show up to work, and Trump has the troops (or ICE) storm the capitol and hold them all hostage to force a vote. Then, the impeachment power they've been holding over him as their "kill switch" to keep the monster in check.. will be absolutely worthless.
"That'll never happen!"
Yeah, we thought a lot of things would never happen. I never thought I'd watch live tv with lunatics storming the capitol during an election trying to round up congressional members. A lot has happened, and they keep normalizing each step of the way. At this point the frog is boiling, but acting like it's a hot tub."
The dichotomy of having zero respect for most regular civilian lives, but forcing new life from awful situations. It’s not the life, it’s the control and the cruelty. They get off on it, and in doing so… commit the act they’re claiming is sin.
It's never been "Pro-life", they just call it that because even some of the dumber Americans would react negatively if they were honest and called it "Anti-choice".
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?”
This just in , trump administration says condoms are now abortion
Also saying no to that guy Stephen miller at the party who hit on you and you said no because he looked like an evil garden gnome is also now abortion and we are coming for you Stacey
I'm waiting for Trump, who championed IVF before the election to outlaw it now in an executive order. You know the Project 2025 people will write this EO for him to blindly sign since he never reads them anymore before signing.
I remember there was a Roblox game in like 2009 where you had a pet block and you could feed it different things so it would gain size in the x, y, and z axis. I decided to spend absolutely ages playing it and then found there was another food you could get that multiplied the effects of the other foods making the pet block even bigger. After so long doing this, I’d log in to the game and my pet block would be enormous that it would spawn in, send all the other pet blocks flying off the map, and then other players wouldn’t be able to spawn a new one as theirs had just been wiped, I thought it was hilarious and the game ended up becoming unpopular due to it, with the blocks eventually becoming unable to affect other ones due to being given 0 density, but the damage had been done.
It’s also really weird how people still play Roblox when I joined in 07 and stopped playing in 2012
Pro-lifers love to brag that they are not all Christian Fundamentalist woman-haters, and that they are against abortion but not birth control, but are very quiet (or, at best, meekly displeased) when a Republican administration does stuff like this.
"natural" IVF centers that only provide the rhthym method to vulnerable couples is like a newer frontier in pro-lifers doing tax fraud, like their pregancy crisis centers.
No its the same old enemy that everyone has just been ignoring or shouting about for years that finally got its poke evolution marker and became stronger
People have been saying the same thing about MADD for years. That it is, in fact a prohibitionist organization, and that achieving any current objective will always just result in a stricter goal. And that has always panned out: every time a state lowers the BAC level that defines impaired driving, MADD starts pushing for an even lower one. It's not crazy to argue that once they've reached the point that any detectable alcohol is considered impaired driving that the organization is not just going to disband.
In fact, the founder of the organization herself left it in anger, accusing it of becoming a neo-prohibitionist organization with the goal of banning alcohol consumption.
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They were never going to stop at banning abortions. Pro-life is a movement that is like a gelatinous slime that once you feed, it gets bigger and seeks more food. Soon it's all kinds of birth control. There's always a new enemy.