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[–] [email protected] 92 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion MORE and Cut LGBT Rights MORE Starting Next January

Fixed that for you, newrepublic. D'ya see how you missed that? Almost, like, intentionally? Isn't that weird? That you would sort of paper over the hate like that? Like, "oh in the future the republiQans will surely be wack, yo" wtf.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

While you're head's in the right place, using the word "more" in that manner actually undermines the severity of the headline. If people are living fairly comfortably, and you say MORE of a bad thing is headed their way, they'll think "well, I'm doing okay so far, I think it'll be fine".

[–] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago (2 children)

LGBTQ Republicans be like: "but we're the good ones right? Right??"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

'Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. "

[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's no hate like Christian love.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Especially when it comes to women, My god the level of vitriol they have towards smart, independent women who want to control their own destiny and not be a house slave to some man 30+ years their senior utterly astonishing, especially since show it so openly and publicly.

But conservatives have long since abandoned the coded language and quiet talk, so i guess the openness shouldnt shock me anymore.. yet it still does.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lets double down on our highly unpopular opinions - hey you middle of the road conservatives how are you going to justify voting republican to your LGBTQ friends and family this time?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

They don't need to, that's what propaganda is for! They even get LGBTQ people confused/angry enough to vote against their own best interests!

Source: Gay cousin voting for Trump because he's mad about Palestine.... (This was before the recent genocide) literally nothing to do with him, happening on the other side of the world, but yeah be mad about that and let wolves into the coup... You're not a tasty chicken to them if you vote for them... That's how that works right?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Getting people to vote against their best interest is like the only successful thing Republicans have ever really done on a large scale.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Something something taxes something tough on crime

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives will complain about broken families rasing kids then vote for wage cuts, force people to have kids and erode public education.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Will?

They are actively doing that right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Always have.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

Christo-fascists be Christo-fascing

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Learn how to shoot a handgun and a rifle while you still can.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

And vote like someone less fortunate depends on it. They do.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They'll have to win the presidency, both houses of Congress and end the filibuster if they want to implement any of these plans. I guess it's possible but unlikely. They could have done that in the first two years of Trump's presidency if it really mattered to them. But all they really want is corporate tax cuts.

It's important to keep news about these plans circulating though. Having a large anti-Trump turnout is the one thing that ensures they never get a chance to implement their agenda.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Project 2025 details exactly how they intend to do all of that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They’ll have to win the presidency, both houses of Congress and end the filibuster if they want to implement any of these plans.

No they won't. Trump will do as much as he can through executive orders, backed by a cabinet full of sycophants, a Supreme Court willing to back him up, and various state governments (Most notably, states like Florida and Texas) gleefully willing to march in lockstep. Anything that has to be done through Congress will be done via a pressure campaign of essentially grinding the government to a halt until the Democrats cave in and give them what they want (see the now-shuttered immigration bill that almost got passed as an example), which has been a strategy that has been proven effective for decades.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Good luck on trying to enforce those orders in Blue states.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They won't have to.

Their plan is to shutter things at the federal level. Blue states won't have a say in the matter. Their goal is to shutter agencies like the Department of Education. Their goal is to close DE&I programs at the federal level.

Sure, states can still do things like run a Head Start or fund their school meals programs if they want to. But how many states would be able to without the federal funds that currently support those programs? How many states would be willing to go through the effort? Or even able to?

None of this would need the support of blue states. They can just gut the funding and watch the state level programs shrivel up on their own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, they the want the blue states to secede.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Yes. Because then they can turn the army’s guns on the blue states with impunity. I’m pretty sure it’s why they float the idea among their base; so we hear it too, and it stays in our minds.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

police in california are already brazenly violating California state law by sending license plate tracking info to red states. expect more and worse.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

This shouldn't surprise anyone, they've been shouting it from the rooftops for decades

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives love to hate everything and everyone. They love to make life miserable as much as possible, especially when it has no impact on their normal day to day life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

To be clear they love to make your life worse to enrich those and have convinced a massive voter base that their lives are getting worse because of you and not them.

If they owned a glass factory they would be hiring thugs to go around town breaking windows.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is a shocking headline.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But you can stop them with this one weird trick.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Republicans don't want you to know this one weird trick.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm bi. I'm pretty sure I'm bi. Hold on let me ask my wife... Hold on I need to get this dick out of...I'll just text her. She said yes.

Anyway 😉, are they going to come for us too? How about swingers? What about the naked people who burn art every year out I. The desert in one big "city" bs they just want to be naked and watch others be naked...are they coming for those folks too?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They're going to come for anyone that disagrees with them or anyone that they don't like.

Which if you disagree with them means you are included

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The uncomfortable answer here is that they’ll likely try to force y’all into exclusively hetero relationships through overwhelming force on those of us who are unwilling to do that. And yeah they’ll definitely come for swingers and such but it’ll be like enforcement of marijuana laws under bush.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

I mean, if it works, we'll just ignore their rules. States that have enshrined abortion access into their constitution aren't going to just lay down and take it.

We will raise hell over this stuff if it actually happens.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Let's raise a little preliminary hell just as a prophylactic measure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I mean, if it works, we’ll just ignore their rules. States that have enshrined abortion access into their constitution aren’t going to just lay down and take it.

If they get their way and make it federal law, the fact that it's enshrined in their state constitutions won't matter. Just like it didn't matter that some states had "trigger laws" already on the books long before Roe was overturned. Federal law supersedes state law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

They've made their bed by showing that nothing will happen if states choose to ignore federal laws- or SCROTUS rulings even.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Federal law supersedes state law.

*Greg Abbott disliked that reality check.*

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

And continued to ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Laws mean nothing unless they're enforced.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

...and other dog whistles.

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