I hope we can give women their bodily autonomy back soon.
Unlikely. Your political system is broken. One side wants to take it away and the other keeps saying they will prevent it, but when they get in power they do absolutely nothing.
EDIT: Just to clarify. I'm not on Republicans side, but I'm also willing to callout Democrats for their failures. I just hate money in politics and 95% of politicians are on corporate side not idealogical one.
Examples of the Democrats getting "in power they do absolutely nothing"?
Critics responded to Obama's tweets by arguing he had had the ability to codify Roe into federal law during his time as president but failed to do so despite Democrats controlling the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives from 2009 to 2011.
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-blasted-not-codifying-roe-v-wade-democrat-failure-1719156
Look why don't we just point this out, which is a pretty obvious hole in all this.
Do you really think the Affordable Care Act would be the way it is if they ever had the majority needed to codify Roe?
They spent literal years getting filibustered.
The facts don't support your contention: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/debunking-the-myth-obamas_b_1929869
Is the ACA period the only time period y'all know how to cite? If that's your only example you've got, then it's 100% true that there haven't been any other opportunities. And getting the ACA through and properly implemented was its own massive battle.
Wtf do you think they could have done? Plenty of states have had voter initiatives and legislation protecting abortion rights.
I really get sick of the "both sides" garbage.
At this point the both sides people are actively supporting the GOP. All they do is try and stop progress while simultaneously complaining that the Democrats don't get anything done. They care more about being an enlightened centrist than they do helping people and it shows.
I'm worried you're right, but I'm still hopeful. My daughter deserves a better country.
Yes she does.
They need more than 49.5 votes with some of them coming from Georgia and West Virginia in order to do much.
It's easier to stop things in government than to pass them. Why do the Republicans get so much credit for just stopping things, but the Dems get none?
Even when they have full power the Democrats always have someone that will play the bad guy and vote with the Republicans.
To me Republicans always stick together Democrats can't get their people to do the same.
It only took 15 attempts for McCarthy to get his speakership, first time in over a century it took more than one
Democrats haven't been in power in congress except that one brief time in 2009 when we passed the biggest expansion of the health care system ever.
Imagine what we could do with 8 years of democratic power instead of just a few months.
The laws I read the USA enacting in their states are sickening. Why is your conservative party so extremely regressive? Its influencing politics over an entire ocean too.
wait, what the fuck did I just read?
this case is way more traumatic and disturbed than a breach of user data from a company that will gladly sell its users to the highest bidder, which is honestly unsurprising at this point.
but the living hell that family is experiencing... and being punished for? they need to get these people some healthcare, not incarceration. damn.
Your response is problematic because you wrote it with a healthy state of mind. And that will soon be punishable @[email protected]
This is the kind of thing riots should come from.
I keep asking myself at what point we'll rise up. Sadly, my conclusion is that it's not until it's too late.
i mean, the australian government is trampling on our rights on an almost daily occurrence, and we just sit back like "yeah, this is fine"
Police raided the family’s home and...
Sweet fucking Jesus...
this is just fucked up.
This is just sickening! I'm not sure if I want to vomit or rage.
Sooo no digital, what about phone calls? Are judges signing wiretap warrants for abortion investigations? What the fuck.
If you use an app with E2E (end-to-end encryption) then you are good, but Facebook even though it offers it, it's not on by default and they still collect a lot of metadata. Signal would be recommenation to any non tech savvy person who just wants to keep their private messages private.
Is WhatsApp no longer an option now that it's owned my meta?
WhatsApp does offer end-to-end encryption, so it should be safe in theory, but... it's facebook. Personally, I would steer clear anyway.
George Orwell was 39 years late. Or so we think we know...
Soon people will be making up ridiculous code words to make spying harder.
"Mom, I wanna go to that spicy food restaurant because I heard their chefs are very good"
"Okay honey, I am available at 6PM, we can go there together."
Spicy food restaurant = Abortion clinic
Chef = Medical professionals
3 hours are added the time so the time is actually 3PM
Of course, end to end encryption is still the best, but adding code words can provide plausible deniability in case the phone is seized.
That doesn't really help you if you have your phone with you that tracks your location and can be corelated to the messages sent.
Oh no worries, I'm gonna open both a spicy food restaurant and an abortion clinic at the same location. Double the income!
But seriously tho, maybe we need Graphene OS on airplane mode. Anyone know how to train pigeons?
If they have to use code words they're not going to be getting care in their state, not legally anyway. That's part of how they can even be charged with something.
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