• themeatbridge
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    825 months ago

    Just a reminder that he, and your local representatives all have offices where they can receive letters, emails, and phone calls from their constituents. If you don’t like that your rep wants to murder babies, you should probably let them know.

    • @Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      What’s that going to do? I mean, I’m all for telling off the politicians that represent me (fucking Mike Johnson can eat a dick) but the GOP genuinely doesn’t care what their voters have to say. They locked down their vote by making it us vs them. Their own voters could tell them they’re doing horrible and they’d still get those votes without changing anything because conservatives have been successfully brainwashed into thinking democrats are all evil.

      GOP politicians are in a position where they can literally just laugh in your face about a complaint like this…

      • @taanegl@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I’ll tell you what, if his office is overrun by mail and phonecalls of angry people saying killing babies is not okay, he’s probably going to lose some staffers.

        You might be able to take a punch, but you don’t want death by a thousand cuts.

      • Carighan Maconar
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        35 months ago

        What’s that going to do?

        It makes them happy, as clearly their propaganda is working.

      • themeatbridge
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        65 months ago

        I’m not going to condone sending prank bomb packages to representatives. That’s how you end up on a list.

        Also, glitter is basically a war crime. Shiny microplastics you can never remove from every crevice, it’s like party herpes. Which, I suppose is also regular herpes.

    • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      355 months ago

      They don’t give a fuck about abortion, they just use that as a tool to be cruel to women.

      Once you acknowledge that the cruelty is the point, a lot of their hypocrisy and self-contradiction suddenly makes sense.

      • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        45 months ago

        Once you acknowledge that the cruelty is the point, a lot of their hypocrisy and self-contradiction suddenly makes sense.

        And people should be shouting from the rooftops pointing that out. Loudly and consistently.

    • @Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      265 months ago

      “Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don’t wanna know about you. They don’t wanna hear from you. No nothing! No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine, if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.” — George Carlin

  • Maeve
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    385 months ago

    If someone were systematically treating us the way we treat others, what are the odds survivors would become “terrorists?”

  • @BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
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    295 months ago

    At least he’s honest. More than can be said about most people defending the genocide in Gaza. Most are too ashamed to say outright they don’t see Arabs as human.

    • gregorum
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      5 months ago

      We don’t need them to be honest to know that they’re garbage humans. We need them to stop being garbage humans. More importantly, we need a way to stop them from doing harm.

      Don’t get distracted by praising them just because they took the mask off. They don’t deserve praise for that, praise for being openly monstrous. If anything, this is the time to call them out more loudly for not even making the effort to hide it.

      • Carighan Maconar
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        We need them to stop being garbage humans.

        Not very likely, short of sending them on a one-way trip to Mars. Then they become human garbage instead.

  • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    255 months ago

    “I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of ‘innocent Palestinian civilians,’ as is frequently said,” he said on the House floor.

    “I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”

    I’m not saying we should go back to representatives getting into physical brawls and duels, in fact it is a terrible idea. But some people clearly have just never faced consequences in the form of getting their ass kicked and it really shows.

    • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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      205 months ago

      I’ll say it over and over again. The founding fathers wrote the Constitution assuming duels would keep lawmakers accountable.

    • DigitalTraveler42
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      35 months ago

      First we need to do something about all the guns, now rather than brawl weak pieces of shit will pull out their guns to do a bit of mass shooting.