• Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well, after all it couldn’t POSSIBLY their horrific policies, or their proud racism, or thier proud nationalism, or their hate for the LGBTQIA+, or their stance of abortion, or birth control, or wanting to outlaw divorce, or them wanting to leave people starving in the streets.
    No, it must be some other thing causing their losses.

    • UnspecificGravity@discuss.tchncs.de
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      Sadly, while abortion is a losing issue for them, their racist politicians are often winning in the same ballots that abortion is being protected on. Conservative women will protect their right to abortions but still happily vote for racism at the same time.

      That’s what these guys are missing. They are losing on abortion because enough Republicans care more about their own rights than about racism. Lucky for them, the ballot measures mean they don’t have to choose. They can protect abortion back home and keep on sending fascists to Washington.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        always remember: the cruelty is the point.

        Apologies for being straightforward, but emotional hyperbole like this does not help anything.

        Did you ever just stop to consider that in their belief system they believe that a child in a womb is a living being, and not just a clump of cells, and that they see it as murder to abort it?

        Not saying that’s true or not, just that’s how they see it. And if you want to change their minds, you need to attack that philosophy, and not just brand them as cruel persons to be shunned/destroyed.

        Finally, I get you’re going to want to just attack me personally for calling you out on the hyperbole, but please, consider the words I’ve said here. I’m not just saying that for my own gratification, but hopefully to help you help change the world.

        • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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          I reject the premise that being pro-life is about a moral conviction regarding the sanctity of life. If that is in fact the moral underpinning that informs the pro-life position, then we would expect to see a similar consistency with regard to all other issues relating to the protection of human life, but we don’t.

          What it’s really about is controlling women and maintaining a hierarchy by ensuring that sex without reproductive consequences is impossible.

          Pro-lifers tell themselves that it’s about the sanctity of life because by the rules of cognitive dissonance they have to rationalize a way to see themselves as the good guys, but again, all of that is belied by the fact that they don’t seem to believe in the primacy of human life in any other context.

          Unfortunately, this kind of cognitive trick is a very human and very common thing. We all do it to one extent or another.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I’d love to see the Republican party outlaw divorce. Over half of them will be prissy 10 years on being stuck with a wife they hate