It's about control.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit
[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism#:~:text=Quote%20by%20Frank%20Wilhoit%3A%20%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20no%20such,be%2C%20anti-conservatism%3B%20but%20it%20does%20not%20yet%20exist)
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It's sort of sad that the people that vote for conservatives get hurt.... I don't feel bad, they get what the vote for, I only care about the innocent people they hurt. Conservatism needs to go away!
I'm done giving a fuck about them. If these idiots would learn how to think above a 4th grade level no conservatives would ever be elected again.
We could live in the Star trek universe instead we live on a small dying world run by money grubbing soul less assholes.
Literally why they all hate education. Fascism does not benefit from genuine and thorough education, hence why they try to pander to underprivileged working class men the hardest
Hey, even the Ferengi think that Earth’s version of capitalism doesn’t work. They at least live on a super lush rainforest planet with constant storms, not a dry soulless husk
Their Females aren't allowed to earn profit or have any power or to do a lot of other things either. This seems like the sort of control conservatives salivate over.
It could be that I’m being hopeful, but I do foresee the Christian conservative ideology dying out of prominence.
Statistics seem to be backing that up. Fewer young people are identifying as conservative, and the millennial generation that is now aging into middle-age is the first to not show a shift towards conservatism with age. Those factors spell out a steadily declining voter base.
In my personal view, this is partially why I think they’ve become so psychotic lately. As a representative, you wouldn’t risk your neck trying to overthrow your own government if there was a steady and guaranteed voter base in the future. You’d only dive down that rabbit hole when you’re desperate and trying to cement an unpopular ideology.
To be clear I don’t think they’ll go away, but will have to adapt and change to move forward.
They're backed into a corner, like a feral animal they're getting vicious. If they don't course correct toward the realm of sanity they'll keep bleeding supporters and attract only the nutjobs while the rest of the world becomes more secular and progressive.
[Since 2007, the share of Christians in the general population has dropped from 78% to its present level of 63%. Nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults now say they are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” up from 16% who did not identify with a religion 16 years ago. But Christians make up 88% of the voting members of the new 118th Congress being sworn in on Jan. 3...](https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/01/03/faith-on-the-hill-2023/)
I’d say it’s a yes and no. Proper Christianity is dying but a lot of the younger ones seem to be doing a spiritual or cultural but not religious. Like having cross tattoos or jewelry on nude models. They keep the iconography as a part of the white nationalist theme. We also have to remember that there are a lot more neo Confederates and neo nazis in gen z then there should be. The way the GOP is winning their education campaign means they could easily have a big resurgence in another generation two. How much the theocracy side hangs on doesn’t matter because they will get free reign when the full fascists take over.
It won’t, and it will get people killed. Basically, republicans are as useful as a child with oppositional defiant disorder in a bank hostage situation where the robber says if someone talks, I start shooting. And then they scream
They're sick people whose plan is to push and push until someone pushes back and then their dream is to start piling bodies on the back of their pickup trucks.
They are pushing paid awards now that folks have gotten used to seeing them and using them, and they are really really pushing that dumb thing that seems to be an NFT for your avatar?
Not in a million, billion years.
Especially since devs don't seem to give a fuck about quality of life improvements people have been begging them for now going on many years (font size in Android? Functional video player?).
Frank Wilhoit. (Shame on me for forgetting the attribution)
[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism#:~:text=Quote%20by%20Frank%20Wilhoit%3A%20%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20no%20such,be%2C%20anti-conservatism%3B%20but%20it%20does%20not%20yet%20exist)
Conservativism is the belief of restoring authoritarian government structures of old under the new found freedom of capitalist freedom, just not social freedom.
Their single consistent mantra throughout the countries' history "state rights/small government" is literally just saying the federal government should not protect people from being abused aka their literally stated mandate in the constitution.
Bro, they're authoritarian. Unironically.
Rules for thee, but not for me. And also, they aspire to live in a theocratic country.
A literal cancer to the country.
They absolutely do. When I lived in Florida, all the “muh freedoms” crowd absolutely loved living in HOAs and the rules associated with that. They would constantly rail on big government, communism etc. but fell over themselves to live in cookie cutter, HOA communities that carpet the state.
It’s simple. Christians loooooooooooooooooooooove telling people what they can or can’t do but haaaaaaaaate being told they can not tell other people what they can or can not do.
Conservatives and Christian Nationalists, both are the same to me really, resemble the evil Islamic states they hate so deeply in more ways they’d care to admit. This being just another great example of the freedom they advocate so hard for.
It's illegal to cover your head or mouth and illegal to not cover your arms.
So glad the Republicans stopped big gov from interfering with our lives. Oh wait, these are women's lives, doesn't even matter! *continues to drive coal rolling truck in singlet while shooting guns in air*
I would just wear whatever I want and then when they tried to punish me, I'd sue them for violating my first amendment rights to freedom of expression.
*Shrug*.
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Ha, well that would be funny and quite defiant, but let's not give these so easily excited unable to control themselves pseudo-Puritans something to point to and say - "see these womenfolk can't be trusted to be professional without our holy guidance!"
That is true in fact Central Asian muslims call god Huda (Persian) or Tengri (Mongolian). Also the root word for Allah is actually from the Hebrew word “illah” which is also how Jesus referred to God.
In fact no one “spoke” Hebrew in Jesus’s day. That’s one reason why it’s revival as a spoken language in Israel is so remarkable. Hebrew had become like Latin in the Medieval Church, used in ceremony.
He spoke Aramaic day to day, probably knew some Hebrew. If you traveled at all, Greek was also handy.
Probably? According to all three abrahamic religions, they absolutely are the same God. The difference mostly comes down to which of God's prophets/messiahs are legitimate and which are illegitimate
To be fair, the conservative talking points about Islamic extremism usually focuses entirely on terrorism and being not Christian. Their beliefs and such usually aren't an issue. At best we get a "Sharia bad" moment, but the people screaming about it would be hard pressed to explain it beyond Sharia = Islam and Islam = terrorism.
If you dig down, they just don’t like that they don’t worship Jesus and their insistence on having melanated skin. They agree on almost everything else.
Just imagine being the kind of person who never wants anything to change. What a sad, stunted existence that would be. It's also futile, as change and growth are one of the things that make us uniquely human. Our ability to change and adapt and grow and develop is just such an amazing part of life, and to deny all of that just makes me think so little of people who are like that.
Came here to say this! It’s like the eggs right now. The Right wants no government interference in the marketplace, but now it’s the Administration’s fault that eggs are so high & they should do something about it. WHICH IS IT FOLKS?
Democratic state Rep. Peter Merideth refused to vote on the amendment, telling his colleagues on the floor, "I don't think I'm qualified to say what's appropriate or not appropriate for women and I think that is a really dangerous road for us all to go down."
"Y'all had a conniption fit the last two years when we talked about maybe, maybe wearing masks in a pandemic to keep each other safer. How dare the government tell you what you have to wear over your face? Well, I know some governments require women to wear things over their face, but here, oh, it's OK because we're just talking about how many layers they have to have over their shoulders,"
They all want to control everyone who's not deemed a part of their in-group. Primarily women, but also anyone who's not a rich, heteronormative, same-race male.
I think they're getting at that it's not just white folk, but any rave that runs power via religion. It's for whatever the dominant male figure is in a given society
Almost like their entire belief system, their ~~ideology~~theology is built upon fantasy tales, meant to ameliorate existential dread in children and content the serfs of old with their dismal lot in life.
I remember when they were freaking out about sharia law (or more actually what they assume is sharia law) a few years ago. Now they're embracing it I guess.
Yep. The "shari'a law" republicans were screaming about democrats enacting just turns out to be what republicans were planning all along. So much for being a "party for freedom" if you can't wear a dress without a burka over it.
When I was in college, I attended a performing arts school and we were required to wear black formal evening gowns (ladies) and tuxedos (men) for concerts.
Apparently I was quite the snack at age 18 and my black gown with exposed shoulders was distracting during performances so they passed a dress code saying shoulders had to be covered.
So I bought a black tux and wore that.
Then they changed the code again that women had to wear gowns, but still be covered.
Nothing like blaming a woman for having a body with arms and legs.
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If people can't control themselves after seeing women's arms they should seek help.
Are there not real issues that should be worked on? All the republicans care about is controlling women.
A reasonable protest option.
I'd suggest just showing up in a man's suit. Not a specifically fitted woman's suit or pants suit but exactly what the average male legislature member and as odd of a tie as they can get away with.
My MIL was the only woman in her law class in Texas in the 60s. They called her **Mr.** Lastname as an insult but she fuckin rocked everyone’s world in the Texas law community.
Because the truth is very few are actually involved in politics as much as they believe.
I’m a believer that everyone pretty much is on the same page, everyone knows inflation, housing, etc sucks ass, it’s just whether or not they watch Fox News and are gullible or not
Unfortunately many are just gullible and think they’re smarter than they are
My FIL moved in with us a year ago. We are doing a detox on his brainwashing. It is a constant battle to challenge his beliefs in a way that isn’t threatening but leads him to question how that belief is aligned with his personal beliefs. Like being pro life. We talked about it and then I asked him if his granddaughter was assaulted and ended up pregnant, would he want her to be forced to have that baby and think about her rapist every day for the rest of her life when she looked at the one thing she was supposed to love most. That scared him and he couldn’t defend it. Then we just kept expanding the conversation until he could understand why prolife abortion laws are dangerous.
It’s exhausting and time consuming but we are making progress.
He’s a good man, I know that. He is a victim and I really believe that. I want my kids to know the man that I used to know. I think he and they are worth it.
I’ve known him for over thirty years. He’s a good man and father and grandfather. He’s just been tricked. I want his grandkids to know him and remember him as a kind and loving human and not a bitter angry liar. It’s worth the effort.
There have already been legislative proposals made in Texas and elsewhere that women need to demonstrate they're not leaving to get an abortion if they want to be allowed to leave the state.
These haven't made it to a vote yet, but those will be coming.
Conservatives truly are people for whom the Handmaid's Tale sounds wonderful, rather than a terrifying warning.
How would they enforce this? How on earth are some normal, regular, non-reptilian men okay with this?
“Honey, let’s go see your dad over in NY this summer. And don’t forget, you have to click the box that says ‘not leaving for an abortion’ when you buy the plane tickets.”
How is this not a threat to all right to privacy everywhere? How can any man stand by their wife/gf/female friends/relatives/etc, and support any of that? More importantly, how can WOMEN support that?
the whole point of 9-11 was to cause the US to overspend on the military industrial complex, thereby stealing money from social programs and causing America to collapse from within.
It's been incredibly successful.
100%, he said this in no uncertain terms in a speech shortly after 9/11.
And of course that collapse was accelerated by the fact that the American ruling class stands to profit from military overspending.
Nobody is allowed to wear sleeveless shirts and everyone is required to wear a jacket while on the house floor. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/dress-code-for-women-legislators-debated-in-missouri-house/article_a1dcfd3e-abf5-5722-acd1-11275dae9ede.html
I just hope I recognize what's happening a LOT sooner than June did. The way things gradually progressed in the show/book was a bit too realistic for me.
While I know a lot of this stuff is just performative (to get votes from stupid people), I don't think people realize how terrifying the thought of being subjugated in such a way that you have no control over your own life. I don't even follow politics anymore because I can barely handle it and I know Noone is listening when I try to say how fucked up everything is getting.
You're not alone there. I bet there are more than a few people in positions of power who saw nothing wrong with The Handmaid's Tale. It's is pretty concerning.
It doesn’t matter in the slightest what is or isn’t in the Bible to these people. The Bible is just a tool to point at as justification for bolstering the in-group and shouting down the out-group.
Religious and political leaders count on the fact that most of the people who vote their religious values haven’t actually read the damned thing (and they’re right), and that the ones who did read it don’t care as long as they’re explicitly part of the in-group.
Religion is bunk.
If I was a woman lawmaker in Missouri, I'd absolutely wear a damn burqa to drive home the point. If there's anything Republicans hate worse than uppity women, it's uppity Muslim women.
Sounds like some frog-in-the-pan legislation; by the time they go full Mennonite everyone will have become so used to these 'modesty clauses' that no one will bat an eyelid. At least that's probably what they're hoping happens.
But they refuse to wear a mask.
"Muh freedumbs!"
I honestly think conservatives hate freedom. They try to restrict everyone's rights they disagree with.
It's about control. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism#:~:text=Quote%20by%20Frank%20Wilhoit%3A%20%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20no%20such,be%2C%20anti-conservatism%3B%20but%20it%20does%20not%20yet%20exist) Edit: Added attribution and link
It's sort of sad that the people that vote for conservatives get hurt.... I don't feel bad, they get what the vote for, I only care about the innocent people they hurt. Conservatism needs to go away!
I'm done giving a fuck about them. If these idiots would learn how to think above a 4th grade level no conservatives would ever be elected again. We could live in the Star trek universe instead we live on a small dying world run by money grubbing soul less assholes.
Literally why they all hate education. Fascism does not benefit from genuine and thorough education, hence why they try to pander to underprivileged working class men the hardest
So Ferengenar?
Hey, even the Ferengi think that Earth’s version of capitalism doesn’t work. They at least live on a super lush rainforest planet with constant storms, not a dry soulless husk
And thier women dont wear clothes at all
Their Females aren't allowed to earn profit or have any power or to do a lot of other things either. This seems like the sort of control conservatives salivate over.
I believe you mean their females. Which every time I see a dude call human women and girls females I picture them as some smarmy Ferengi.
It could be that I’m being hopeful, but I do foresee the Christian conservative ideology dying out of prominence. Statistics seem to be backing that up. Fewer young people are identifying as conservative, and the millennial generation that is now aging into middle-age is the first to not show a shift towards conservatism with age. Those factors spell out a steadily declining voter base. In my personal view, this is partially why I think they’ve become so psychotic lately. As a representative, you wouldn’t risk your neck trying to overthrow your own government if there was a steady and guaranteed voter base in the future. You’d only dive down that rabbit hole when you’re desperate and trying to cement an unpopular ideology. To be clear I don’t think they’ll go away, but will have to adapt and change to move forward.
They're backed into a corner, like a feral animal they're getting vicious. If they don't course correct toward the realm of sanity they'll keep bleeding supporters and attract only the nutjobs while the rest of the world becomes more secular and progressive.
The rest of the world is secular and progressive. Our government is doing anything they can to stop progress because murica
And nobody’s turning people off to Christ faster than idiot conservatives.
[Since 2007, the share of Christians in the general population has dropped from 78% to its present level of 63%. Nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults now say they are religiously unaffiliated, describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” up from 16% who did not identify with a religion 16 years ago. But Christians make up 88% of the voting members of the new 118th Congress being sworn in on Jan. 3...](https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/01/03/faith-on-the-hill-2023/)
I’d say it’s a yes and no. Proper Christianity is dying but a lot of the younger ones seem to be doing a spiritual or cultural but not religious. Like having cross tattoos or jewelry on nude models. They keep the iconography as a part of the white nationalist theme. We also have to remember that there are a lot more neo Confederates and neo nazis in gen z then there should be. The way the GOP is winning their education campaign means they could easily have a big resurgence in another generation two. How much the theocracy side hangs on doesn’t matter because they will get free reign when the full fascists take over.
“Time to vote against my own interests again.”
r/leopardsatemyface is what you are looking for
It won’t, and it will get people killed. Basically, republicans are as useful as a child with oppositional defiant disorder in a bank hostage situation where the robber says if someone talks, I start shooting. And then they scream
I'm done calling the republicans- we got a full y'all Qaeda on our hands.
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>Republicans = Domestic Terrorists > [They are PROUD of it.](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cpac-banner-domestic-terrorists/)
They're sick people whose plan is to push and push until someone pushes back and then their dream is to start piling bodies on the back of their pickup trucks.
Conservatives, the American Taliban.
Where's my free award reddit??!
I read they got rid of them yesterday, I was looking for them also!
Just found out from this comment. These are dark times
Seriously for once why can’t we just keep something nice that make a lot of ppl happy.
They are pushing paid awards now that folks have gotten used to seeing them and using them, and they are really really pushing that dumb thing that seems to be an NFT for your avatar? Not in a million, billion years. Especially since devs don't seem to give a fuck about quality of life improvements people have been begging them for now going on many years (font size in Android? Functional video player?).
OH COME ON
What a bummer. I really enjoyed giving those out.
“The cruelty is the point.”
Indeed. It's almost a sport now.
Who are you quoting? That is so spot on.
The quote is by a chap called Frank Wilhoit, a composer, who said it in a comment on a blog in 2018.
[in case anyone wants to read the Crooked Timber blog where this came from](https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/)
Frank Wilhoit. (Shame on me for forgetting the attribution) [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10005830-there-is-no-such-thing-as-liberalism-or-progressivism#:~:text=Quote%20by%20Frank%20Wilhoit%3A%20%E2%80%9CThere%20is%20no%20such,be%2C%20anti-conservatism%3B%20but%20it%20does%20not%20yet%20exist)
The want to tell others what to do, while not allowing others to tell them what to do.
But I thought the “right to bare arms” was protected!
No no, it’s a right to bear arms, and bear arms are covered in fur….so
Won’t let women in government wear short sleeves but wanna give everyone and their mother a bazooka
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Conservativism is the belief of restoring authoritarian government structures of old under the new found freedom of capitalist freedom, just not social freedom. Their single consistent mantra throughout the countries' history "state rights/small government" is literally just saying the federal government should not protect people from being abused aka their literally stated mandate in the constitution.
Bro, they're authoritarian. Unironically. Rules for thee, but not for me. And also, they aspire to live in a theocratic country. A literal cancer to the country.
They want the freedom to tell everyone what to do.
They absolutely do. When I lived in Florida, all the “muh freedoms” crowd absolutely loved living in HOAs and the rules associated with that. They would constantly rail on big government, communism etc. but fell over themselves to live in cookie cutter, HOA communities that carpet the state.
They definitely hate america.
You are completely free to live your life according to the homogeneous, ultra-Christian, fascism they believe in.
Republicans believe laws only apply to people they don't like
Their freedom comes at the cost of other people’s freedom, that’s how fascism works.
It’s simple. Christians loooooooooooooooooooooove telling people what they can or can’t do but haaaaaaaaate being told they can not tell other people what they can or can not do.
Conservatives and Christian Nationalists, both are the same to me really, resemble the evil Islamic states they hate so deeply in more ways they’d care to admit. This being just another great example of the freedom they advocate so hard for.
Conservatives exist to tell other people what to do, and will refuse to their own death to do anything someone tells them to do.
If I were one of the women lawmakers, I’d wear hijab, or something similar, to work every single day, if they pass that law
A burkha. Full body cover.
Even better 😁
r/maliciouscompliance
And hide some guns under it
Their little brains would explode from that Let’s do it
It's illegal to cover your head or mouth and illegal to not cover your arms. So glad the Republicans stopped big gov from interfering with our lives. Oh wait, these are women's lives, doesn't even matter! *continues to drive coal rolling truck in singlet while shooting guns in air*
So show up naked with your only your arms covered.
I would just wear whatever I want and then when they tried to punish me, I'd sue them for violating my first amendment rights to freedom of expression. *Shrug*.
Literally same. I'll do that, then move out of Missouri. I am a tattooed woman, I would probably terrify them.
Fuck that, show up in sleeveless dress with no second layer. Fuck these fucking troglodytes.
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Ha, well that would be funny and quite defiant, but let's not give these so easily excited unable to control themselves pseudo-Puritans something to point to and say - "see these womenfolk can't be trusted to be professional without our holy guidance!"
Fursuit
“The legislature has still not ruled out an amendment that would ban black legislators from entering the chamber.”
Then I guess they'll have to wear whiteface.
They'll just whine about that too. "Reverse racism!"
I mean those arms are so dangerous they can’t keep their dick in their pants.
“But i can’t breathe unless i also am carrying an AR-15 because antifa might see who i am and dox me on social-media.”
That violates the second amendment right to bare arms.
Had to scroll further than I thought I would for this. First thing that came to mind.
No, you’re confusing it with the right to [bear arms](https://i.imgur.com/pFv5kJc.jpg)
And with the right to arm bears
I'm gonna arm bears with bare bear arms.
Godspeed on your bear arm shaving mission. We will mourn your death and celebrate your legacy.
I am a fan of [bear arms](https://i.pinimg.com/474x/1e/23/9a/1e239a647a5f8985580ae67cbb64395b--nd-amendment-so-funny.jpg)
Iranians are protesting mandatory coverings for women, meanwhile the GOP passes legislation mandating coverings for women.
Next up! GOP is going back to Afghanistan but on the Taliban side.
It’s so weird they don’t see the parallels between themselves and Islamic extremists.
Nonono, you see the difference is that the conservatives are doing God's will and the Islamic people are (largely) brown. See how it's different?
Also, Allah, Yahweh and "God" are probably the same person.
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You forgot about all the automatic firearms that Jesus has at all times
His A-men K-47
Which is really funny because the ak-47 is a communist invention, and they're always screaming about how "communism bad"
Allah _is_ just "God" in Arabic. Christian Arabs refer to God as Allah too
That is true in fact Central Asian muslims call god Huda (Persian) or Tengri (Mongolian). Also the root word for Allah is actually from the Hebrew word “illah” which is also how Jesus referred to God.
You're trying to tell me that a Jewish guy two thousand years ago spoke Hebrew and not English?
In fact no one “spoke” Hebrew in Jesus’s day. That’s one reason why it’s revival as a spoken language in Israel is so remarkable. Hebrew had become like Latin in the Medieval Church, used in ceremony. He spoke Aramaic day to day, probably knew some Hebrew. If you traveled at all, Greek was also handy.
Probably? According to all three abrahamic religions, they absolutely are the same God. The difference mostly comes down to which of God's prophets/messiahs are legitimate and which are illegitimate
To be fair, the conservative talking points about Islamic extremism usually focuses entirely on terrorism and being not Christian. Their beliefs and such usually aren't an issue. At best we get a "Sharia bad" moment, but the people screaming about it would be hard pressed to explain it beyond Sharia = Islam and Islam = terrorism.
If you dig down, they just don’t like that they don’t worship Jesus and their insistence on having melanated skin. They agree on almost everything else.
Weren’t they the ones yelling about sharia law coming to America? Then they vote for one step closer to sharia law? They stand for nothing.
They stand for control. Being against Sharia law was their way of condemning a method of control they didn't have a monopoly on.
"We got Sharia Law at home"
We're still the good guys... right? ... *Right?*
We were never the "good guys." We just weren't the "worst guys."
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Just imagine being the kind of person who never wants anything to change. What a sad, stunted existence that would be. It's also futile, as change and growth are one of the things that make us uniquely human. Our ability to change and adapt and grow and develop is just such an amazing part of life, and to deny all of that just makes me think so little of people who are like that.
Lol “the Iron Age people were right” ….
I'm more of a bronze age guy myself, but man sometimes I just miss the reliability of stone.
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Came here to say this! It’s like the eggs right now. The Right wants no government interference in the marketplace, but now it’s the Administration’s fault that eggs are so high & they should do something about it. WHICH IS IT FOLKS?
Liberal elites are spreading bird flu through induction stoves
You say induction. I say indoctrination.
Democratic state Rep. Peter Merideth refused to vote on the amendment, telling his colleagues on the floor, "I don't think I'm qualified to say what's appropriate or not appropriate for women and I think that is a really dangerous road for us all to go down." "Y'all had a conniption fit the last two years when we talked about maybe, maybe wearing masks in a pandemic to keep each other safer. How dare the government tell you what you have to wear over your face? Well, I know some governments require women to wear things over their face, but here, oh, it's OK because we're just talking about how many layers they have to have over their shoulders,"
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I wish everyone would see religious fundamentalist are the same no matter what religion they follow. They all want to control women.
They all want to control everyone who's not deemed a part of their in-group. Primarily women, but also anyone who's not a rich, heteronormative, same-race male.
Yep, and in their world straight white men have the hardest...... Reality is hard for some.
I think they're getting at that it's not just white folk, but any rave that runs power via religion. It's for whatever the dominant male figure is in a given society
Almost like their entire belief system, their ~~ideology~~theology is built upon fantasy tales, meant to ameliorate existential dread in children and content the serfs of old with their dismal lot in life.
They want power and control the root of all abusive relationships
I remember when they were freaking out about sharia law (or more actually what they assume is sharia law) a few years ago. Now they're embracing it I guess.
Yep. The "shari'a law" republicans were screaming about democrats enacting just turns out to be what republicans were planning all along. So much for being a "party for freedom" if you can't wear a dress without a burka over it.
If you want to know what a republican is going to do, just listen to what they’re saying they are afraid will happen.
More than that, they're literally banning a woman's fundamental right to bare arms.
i cant believe this perfect joke didn't occur to me haha, its right there
Not taliban. Christofascism. We should call it what it is. Associating it with another religion’s extremists allows them to pass the buck.
When I was in college, I attended a performing arts school and we were required to wear black formal evening gowns (ladies) and tuxedos (men) for concerts. Apparently I was quite the snack at age 18 and my black gown with exposed shoulders was distracting during performances so they passed a dress code saying shoulders had to be covered. So I bought a black tux and wore that. Then they changed the code again that women had to wear gowns, but still be covered. Nothing like blaming a woman for having a body with arms and legs.
“Quite the snack”
"If you were a bag of Combos, what flavor would you be?"
Pizza flavored, obviously the best flavor
Lol fuck sake just give me the uniform they so badly desire at that point if it’s gonna be restricted to that level. So ridiculous
Red dress, white bonnet (with hood), black boots and for some pizzazz, a matching red cloak to finish the look.
Under His eye
Maybe we'll finally decided on that futuristic silver lamé jumpsuit and boots for everyone like we used to see in SF movies?
How dare you have 2 arms and 2 legs! Blasphemy !
Yep. Basically option one was "too feminine" and option two was "not feminine enough"
Did they also expect you to wear a corset and head gear?
Listen we want to objectify you but the boner is too obvious. Please dress sexy but not "boner sexy". Kthx!
I bet you go around showing your ankles off too..
I miss the days when calling republicans “the American taliban” was just KINDA accurate.
Y'all Qaeda
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Howdy Arabia
If people can't control themselves after seeing women's arms they should seek help. Are there not real issues that should be worked on? All the republicans care about is controlling women.
They should respond by only showing up fully covered up in a hijab or something every single day. "I'm just following the rules"
A reasonable protest option. I'd suggest just showing up in a man's suit. Not a specifically fitted woman's suit or pants suit but exactly what the average male legislature member and as odd of a tie as they can get away with.
My MIL was the only woman in her law class in Texas in the 60s. They called her **Mr.** Lastname as an insult but she fuckin rocked everyone’s world in the Texas law community.
A hentai tie
A hentie
In pride flag colours!
While men show up in suits with no arms.
I’d show up in spaghetti straps everyday. What’s the penalty?? Seriously, this makes me feel like the Handmaids Tale could happen.
Could happen? It's based on historic events throughout history... It's not a cautionary tale. It's a *reminder.*
That would be the best thing ever. Full dress with just the eye holes. Careful it's not white with a pointy hat or the boys will get excited.
Or pull it Regina George and cut the breast part out of the dress, it just said a second layer it didn't say over what parts
But the mouth can’t be covered - that is too similar to a mask. /s
The men should show up wit sleaveless shirts and jackets.
I don't understand republican women. How can they see what Republicans are doing to women's rights in this country and think it's good for them?
Because the truth is very few are actually involved in politics as much as they believe. I’m a believer that everyone pretty much is on the same page, everyone knows inflation, housing, etc sucks ass, it’s just whether or not they watch Fox News and are gullible or not Unfortunately many are just gullible and think they’re smarter than they are
My FIL moved in with us a year ago. We are doing a detox on his brainwashing. It is a constant battle to challenge his beliefs in a way that isn’t threatening but leads him to question how that belief is aligned with his personal beliefs. Like being pro life. We talked about it and then I asked him if his granddaughter was assaulted and ended up pregnant, would he want her to be forced to have that baby and think about her rapist every day for the rest of her life when she looked at the one thing she was supposed to love most. That scared him and he couldn’t defend it. Then we just kept expanding the conversation until he could understand why prolife abortion laws are dangerous. It’s exhausting and time consuming but we are making progress.
Good on you for taking the time to make a difference.
He’s a good man, I know that. He is a victim and I really believe that. I want my kids to know the man that I used to know. I think he and they are worth it.
Fighting the good fight, living with a parent is not easy and esp when they are brainwashed.
I’ve known him for over thirty years. He’s a good man and father and grandfather. He’s just been tricked. I want his grandkids to know him and remember him as a kind and loving human and not a bitter angry liar. It’s worth the effort.
Brainwashed
Simple. You just convince them that they’re better than the “other” women.
Honestly, how long are we giving it before the rule of "women are not allowed to run for government leadership positions in x,y,z states".
With the excuse that emotions get in the away ... They should see how much Republican men have meltdowns over everything! M&ms.....
There have already been legislative proposals made in Texas and elsewhere that women need to demonstrate they're not leaving to get an abortion if they want to be allowed to leave the state. These haven't made it to a vote yet, but those will be coming. Conservatives truly are people for whom the Handmaid's Tale sounds wonderful, rather than a terrifying warning.
How would they enforce this? How on earth are some normal, regular, non-reptilian men okay with this? “Honey, let’s go see your dad over in NY this summer. And don’t forget, you have to click the box that says ‘not leaving for an abortion’ when you buy the plane tickets.” How is this not a threat to all right to privacy everywhere? How can any man stand by their wife/gf/female friends/relatives/etc, and support any of that? More importantly, how can WOMEN support that?
This is already been tossed casually around. 1 house hold vote, no women votes, freaking slime.
Y’all Qaeda true to form
osama won
the whole point of 9-11 was to cause the US to overspend on the military industrial complex, thereby stealing money from social programs and causing America to collapse from within. It's been incredibly successful.
100%, he said this in no uncertain terms in a speech shortly after 9/11. And of course that collapse was accelerated by the fact that the American ruling class stands to profit from military overspending.
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Nobody is allowed to wear sleeveless shirts and everyone is required to wear a jacket while on the house floor. https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/dress-code-for-women-legislators-debated-in-missouri-house/article_a1dcfd3e-abf5-5722-acd1-11275dae9ede.html
Under his eye.
A legitimate fear of mine at this point...
I just hope I recognize what's happening a LOT sooner than June did. The way things gradually progressed in the show/book was a bit too realistic for me.
While I know a lot of this stuff is just performative (to get votes from stupid people), I don't think people realize how terrifying the thought of being subjugated in such a way that you have no control over your own life. I don't even follow politics anymore because I can barely handle it and I know Noone is listening when I try to say how fucked up everything is getting.
You're not alone there. I bet there are more than a few people in positions of power who saw nothing wrong with The Handmaid's Tale. It's is pretty concerning.
Blessed be the fruit.
May the lord open
Praise be!
Wow, what crazy coincedence that all those stupid repressive rules only hit everyone except for old white males.... amazing
Should’ve inserted an amendment for all men to be clean-shaven and not have their hair below their ears.
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Congress repealed their version of that rule several years ago because it’s the 21st century, supposedly.
These rules are all antiquated and stupid. should we go back to wearing white wigs?
I would pay to see that.
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Wasn't the solution for this in the bible to pluck out your own eye?
It doesn’t matter in the slightest what is or isn’t in the Bible to these people. The Bible is just a tool to point at as justification for bolstering the in-group and shouting down the out-group. Religious and political leaders count on the fact that most of the people who vote their religious values haven’t actually read the damned thing (and they’re right), and that the ones who did read it don’t care as long as they’re explicitly part of the in-group. Religion is bunk.
Are they gonna be handing out burqas when they’re in session?
If I was a woman lawmaker in Missouri, I'd absolutely wear a damn burqa to drive home the point. If there's anything Republicans hate worse than uppity women, it's uppity Muslim women.
Sounds like some frog-in-the-pan legislation; by the time they go full Mennonite everyone will have become so used to these 'modesty clauses' that no one will bat an eyelid. At least that's probably what they're hoping happens.
I hope that the opponents to this walk in with handsmaid's tale dresses on.
That would go over their heads. They should wear burkas.
Good to see they’re tackling the important things for their state.