The cruelty is the point.
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As is being an asshole. Yet they still get voted into office.
But we can’t let the Trans Cult of Black Lesbian Gayness win or Jesus will cry!!!!
I would support the Trans Cult of Black Lesbian Gayness. However my support is tied up with the Non-Binary Indigenous and Asian Peoples Alliance.
They get enough support!
Join a real alliance! :p
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A Democrat suffered? I'm sure they consider this an absolute win.
She added that, if GOP lawmakers are unwilling to respond to the reproductive health care needs of women, she hopes that voters will get a chance later this year. A push to enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution is well on its way to qualifying for the November ballot.
The GOP is running on a platform of hate and misery. Sadly too many people are fully behind that.
Too many, but not a majority. Important to remember that.
Specifically, remember that coming up to the election.
And remind your friends to get off their asses and vote.
They're also quite loud, and violent too.
What a bullshit country. Absolutely embarrassing.
Their plan is working. We're too busy talking about basic rights while they fuck us over on shit like climate change and education.
Yes, but I'm not going to let them lynch, deport or force birth on any of my homies. If they want to burn the planet down they're in the same shit we are, but they aren't being effected by the changes to basic rights that they're proposing.
If they want to burn the planet down they're in the same shit we are.
They have considerably more wealth. If/when food and water get scarce they'll have a considerable advantage, if the current system continues as it is.
If/when food and water get scarce their money won't mean shit, and the people with nothing left to lose will start looking at the people with a whole to lose.
The cost of living is already going up and people are already dying unnecessarily, the rich aren't nearly as affected by it.
Stop talking about the "apocalypse" as if they have no way to prepare for it.
Hell, they are attacking from all sides. Fucked by bills, groceries, income, taxes, every-fucking-thing. I struggle to grasp if there is a side that isn't being attacked.
If there is, don't mention it out loud, or it will be next.
Divide and conquer. The only ones not under attack are the rich who instigate all of this.
We need to find them and introduce head removing machinery in their immediate vicinity. But everyone's like nooo, violence is not the answer, think of the property owners who have to pay for their interior redecorating.
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Conservative voters clearly want some sort of change but aren't articulate enough to know what it is or eloquent enough to ask. They want someone to get into the government and fuck up the process as an act of protest. But they don't know how to ask for that. Instead they vote in the loud, viscous remains of a person with a fragile ego to be the damage they want done to those who they think wronged them.
Cruelty is the point.
The issue is that a lot of people have every good reason to be pissed at the state of the world and to be angry that it isn't changing for the better. The Republicans sure aren't ever going to make things better, but their entire marketing technique is based on harnessing that anger. Democrats, on the other hand, seem to mostly be afraid of even acknowledging that the anger and its causes even exist, and that's one of their biggest weaknesses.
"We're the Democrats we can't possibly be responsible for any of this frustration and anger. Also have you heard those young people talking about workers rights and not supporting genocide? Ah to be young and naive."
Why do we allow our politicians to refuse to do their job and just leave when they don't want to deal with something?
Fucking make them go, listen, debate or kick their ass out.
I was extremely angry when whatever dipshit was photographed playing angry birds or some shit from behind during a legislative session. My mother (a conservative apologist) tried to excuse the behavior. I told her that if I'd done the same at any number of menial-labor jobs that I'd had, I'd lose my job. Fuck these people.
Fuck the system that enables them. Those conservative cunts want a civil war. I say let's go, and finish them off properly this time, instead of letting them go back to their homes with their weapons and let them continue the last war behind the scenes for over a hundred years without anyone catching on again.
Look at Germany pre- and post 2nd World War.
Night and day.
Because we didn't fuck around that time around.
It's like when the government refuses to comment on something. Motherfucker you are a servant of the state, you are under our mandate. We tell you to speak, you fucking speak you dancing fucking monkey.
We need a new system. We can't be running shit the same way in the AI age and a global population of, what, 9 billion?
Our old systems of governance did NOT scale.
Consider the population of the US in the 1700's. We have about a hundred times that now, but the same amount of representatives.
That means that every representative today has power over a hundred times more people than originally when the constitution was written.
That changes everything.
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Because it's what their constituents want them to do. The voters aren't holding them to a higher standard and will re-elect.
Their constituents are completely unaware because they're uneducated and struggling with keeping their homes and pay off astronomical medical debts due to that one ingrown toenail a decade ago.
All they know is that their eternal rulers since a hundred years blame someone else, and the power of the church cements their inclination not to rock the boat and "stick together".
Who can blame them in a two party state? We have one alternative party more than Russia, or China.
cant wait until someone proposes a gun ban, on the precedent of the abortion ban. Will be a funny day.
But that doesn't really make sense, there is no federal law about abortion, the constitution protects gun ownership.ax
yeah, that's my point.
There was a federal law about abortion. We dont have it anymore.
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Technically, both gun ownership rights and abortion rights were based on supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd and 14th amendments (respectively). Given the reversal of the right to abortion under the 14th amendment, an argument could be made that a similar reversal is due for the 2nd amendment as well. The 2nd amendment could simply be interpreted to mean that gun ownership is only a right as part of a "well regulated militia.'. In my opinion, that is the plain meaning of the provision anyway, but I'm just a gun toting liberal that doesn't get sexually aroused or validated by the size of my firearm.
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A single Republican even bothered to stay to listen to her. Kudos to Sen. Ken Bennett for that, albeit small, act.
urging GOP lawmakers to consider the harm caused by the restrictive laws they support.
The cruelty is the point. This just tells them it's working.
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