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[–] TheBat 68 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Waiting for 'BoTh sIdEs! GeNoCiDe jOe!' shitheads to show up

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're in the next story about sending weapons to Israel. 🤷

[–] TheBat 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yes, yes US-Israel relations are solely because of Joe Biden. Not like there's history between those two countries that goes back decades or anything.

You are very intelligent.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I didn't say that. At all. I don't like Joe's handling of the crisis, but I'm not a Biden hater. I'm a keep Trump out of office at any fucking cost voter.

[–] capital_sniff 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think a fair few of these people don't see the very fine line that Biden is stuck walking. He really doesn't want to see that lobby money head to Trump's campaign. And the people pissed at Biden not doing more for the people in Gaza seem to ignore that the alternative is Trump, who will likely just not care.

[–] FlyingSquid 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There's also a significant contingent of pro-Israel Democrats whose votes he needs. He's walking a tightrope walk. I don't know that he's doing it well either, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

He has been a very enthusiastic supporter of Israel for a long time. He believes in zionist colonialism.

Not that he doesn't have to consider voters whatsoever, just saying that he's certainly not reluctant to support Israel out of any ideological disagreement with Zionism.

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 11 months ago

I'm not really talking about his personal feelings on the matter, which aren't really as relevant right now as what he thinks will get him re-elected. So far, he seems to think lip service toward the Palestinian cause plus the maritime-based food distribution while militarily supporting Israel is enough for people supporting Palestine to support him and not going too far to upset the pro-Israel people. Like I said, I don't think he's doing the balancing act well.

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[–] SquirtleHermit 12 points 11 months ago

Lol, you're so ready to fight you are taking swings at people who agree with you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheBat 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah there goes verdantbanana, right on schedule.

[–] Got_Bent 59 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Death for abortions and IVF.

The latter surprises me since it's generally affluent white people doing it, and this group definitely wants more of those babies.

Up next, death for miscarriage.

Coworkers who don't have daughters mock me when I say I don't want my adult daughter living here because it's dangerous. They think I'm overblowing it. They're taking the standard, "if it didn't affect me personally, it's not real or important," stance.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One fucked up thing a fertility doctor mentioned to me for embryo disposal seemed to be targeted toward forced birth states wherein the embryo would be transferred to someone who did not have a womb that could carry the embryo to term and would almost certainly miscarry called a compassionate transfer.

[–] rdyoung 17 points 11 months ago

That has to be the most fucked up thing I've read in awhile.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I won't mock you. I have daughters as well. We live in a solid blue state but out an abundance of caution me and my wife are working on getting them dual citizenship in my wife's homeland. Still have some more paperwork to go through but it is happening.

You should always have a backup plan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There was a time when people tried to get US citizenship as a backup plan.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There was a time when people tried to get US citizenship as a backup plan.

[–] Ekybio 55 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So pro-life they kill you.

[–] Everythingispenguins 13 points 11 months ago

It is a very finely threaded needle. A loophole so small only they can see it.

[–] FlyingSquid 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do they tell the difference between an abortion and a natural miscarriage?

I'm joking, they don't care and are willing to kill the woman either way just to be sure.

[–] Etterra 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tell them that the Taliban just brought back stoning. And mandatory full-body coverings for women. Then watch them somehow actively justify their views to void out the cognitive dissonance.

[–] FlyingSquid 18 points 11 months ago

It's okay when Christians do it.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Texas, you’re really wanting to find out, huh

[–] verdantbanana 8 points 11 months ago

you mean the citizens there that did not want this too right?

the disenfranchised voters, the voters whose information on the news and elsewhere is corporate owned

blaming the citizens for the wrongs of the elites who keep the populace suppressed is how we got here to begin with

what about the fact that many of the adults who did vote in favor of all this were indoctrinated from birth to be this way

huge multifaceted issue that voting a religious catholic or a pussy grabber in will not solve

[–] tired_n_bored 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's preserve life by killing people

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Well, we could always kill nazis for that

[–] MrMeanJavaBean 23 points 11 months ago

The American Taliban

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Truly pro life

[–] RatBin 10 points 11 months ago

Protecting life uh, protecting life my ass. A virus has better chances at respecting life than these things...

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